Charles Denner
Acting
Biography
Charles Denner (29 May 1926 – 10 September 1995) was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut who gave him two of his most memorable roles, as Fergus in The Bride Wore Black (1968) and Bertrand Morane in The Man Who Loved Women (1977). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Denner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: May 29, 1926
Place of Birth: Tarnow, Poland
Known For
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A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth. But, a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
Elevator to the Gallows
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
The Two of Us
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.
The Night Caller
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
The Man Who Loved Women
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
The Bride Wore Black
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
The Crook
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
Le Grand Escroc
Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter-philanthropist. Based on a real story which Chaplin had already thought to adapt into a film.
A Thousand Billion Dollars
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.
The Sleeping Car Murder
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as M. Schwartz
as Vox
as Self / Bertrand (archive footage)
as Richard
as Joseph Stern
as Maître Gillard
as Walter, private detective
as Guillaume
as Lepprince
as Robert Goldman
as Bertrand Morane
as Father
as Reynald Manecca
as L'avocat
as Nicolas
as Inspector Moissac
as Self
as Sarah's Father / Operator / Sarah's Grandfather
as Ministre des travaux public
as Jean Ravier
as Deputy Police Officer Serge Monnier
as David Loweinstein
as Arthur
as Simon Duroc
as Graziani
as Traveller
as Monsieur Gallois
as Julien Keller
as Manuel
as Fergus
as Julien
as Récitant (voice)
as Claude's Father
as Jean-François Cannonier
as The European engineer
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
as Bob, l'amant sincère de Georgette Thomas
as Johnson
as Scapin
as Filochard
as Jacques Valin
as the Con Man
as Counterfeiter (segment "Le Grand escroc")
as Soldier #1
as Henri Landru
as Krougel
as L'Adjoint du Commissaire Cherrier
as An assistant engineer
as Un interne