Claire Gérard
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 12, 1889
Place of Birth: Saint-Gilles, Belgique
Known For
Retour au bonheur
Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her little boy runs away. We find him ill in the Alps. He is saved by his father and the parents' union is sealed again.
The Rules of the Game
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
La Belle Équipe
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
The Fleeing Dead
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to kill Trignol, who will temporarily disappear then reappear, as if by magic, during the trial. But things don't go according to plan.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?
Holiday for Henrietta
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.
La Bête Humaine
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
The Magic of the Kite
Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.
Crime and Punishment
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Si j'étais le patron
An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were the boss, we would see what we would see. One of the main shareholders of the factory takes him at his word for twenty-four hours.
Filmography
as gossip
as Hotel Owner in Valval
as La buraliste
as Honoré's mother
as Charlotte
as La femme de Borgo
as The Belgian (segment "La Paresse") (uncredited)
as Mme Tassote
as The owner of the restaurant (uncredited)
as Bouchon
as Judge's wife
as Ms Bibost
as Grandmother
as Concierge (uncredited)
as The princess
as A Guest at the Reception
as Madame Lieusaint
as Madame Marguerite
as Mrs. Mouche, landlady
as La propriétaire
as Concierge
as Madame de la Bruyère
as une invitée
as Catherine
as Station master's wife
as Voyager
as La veuve Rabas
as Cyprien's wife (uncredited)
as Georges Leclerc
as La Dame au Café (uncredited)
as Widow Tribou
as Mannered lady
as Madame Bijou
as The nanny
as The seamstress
as Childminder
as Une bourgeoise dans la rue
as Landlady (Uncredited)
as Prostitute (uncredited)
as Madame Irma
as Mme Berthier
as Nastassia
as Mme Vallée
as Mrs. Gageret
as Mother Barberin
as Mme Villiers