Armand Mestral
Acting
Biography
Armand Mestral (born Armand Serge Zelikson; 25 November 1917 - 17 September 2000) was a French actor and singer. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1945 to 1992. Source: Article "Armand Mestral" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born: November 25, 1917
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Le Grand Échiquier
L'Homme de Suez
The plan to build a large shipping canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea had been around for a long time. But it took a man with the drive of Ferdinand de Lesseps to make it happen.
The Reluctant Saint
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
The Roundup is for Tonight
Three sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle, who bamboozled the impresario Mortimer so well that he made her his wife; the story of the sad little Simon, deprived of a father and unable to stand the mockery of his friends; and the story of the daughter of an ex-convict who - by golly - steals a statue on the day of her First Communion.
Two Men in Town
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Mandrin
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Highway Pick-Up
An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.
Gervaise
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
At Theatre Tonight
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
Filmography
as Freddy Ambrosi
as Archibald
as Self
as Napoléon III
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as General advocate
as Freddy Ambrosi
as Self
as Le commissaire Dambier
as Fronsac
as Louis Antoine Ranvier
as Harris
as Director of the Pontoise prison
as Commissioner Crenoy
as Bonneville
as Self
as Le mari
as Machecourt
as Jouin
as Claude Peroux
as Capitaine Hans Fell
as Le mari
as Administration Officer
as Inspector Duval
as Capitaine Hans Fell
as Corenne
as Barón des Aubrais
as Sigismond de Moret
as Rocco Gravina
as Clairac
as Calico Jack
as Bassompierre
as Francois L'Olonnais
as Pierre
as Armand, the driver
as Louis, le mari de Simone
as Jean
as Ortiz
as Robert
as Jacques Gaucher
as Frenchman
as Lucky
as Mr. Stève
as Lantier, l'amant de Gervaise
as Robert Lanier
as Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
as Daniel Courtois
as Robert Bertoli aka 'Bébert le Balafré'
as Lieutenant Blancard
as Armand Mestral
as Self
as Emigrant