Claude Mansard
Acting
Biography
Claude Mansard was born on September 20, 1922 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for The 400 Blows (1959), Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Bluebeard (1963). He died on June 29, 1967 in Paris, France.
Born: February 20, 1922
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Breathless
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Shoot the Piano Player
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.
Head Against the Wall
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
The Lovers
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
Bluebeard
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Un américain
An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The New York Herald Tribune, at night, to his compatriots. A look at the bohemian Parisian life of the fifties.
Order of the Daisy
Matou is an innocuous, gentle-looking man. He is married to a formidable, even a frightening woman, who is as dissatisfied with him as he is with her. He knows everything there is to know about restoring and authenticating manuscripts, particularly ancient ones, through his job at the museum. One day, it occurs to him that his skills could be put to use in a more personal way, and he embarks on a private career of re-arranging the documents of people who have had the misfortune to be married to the wrong people.
Your Money or Your Life
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
Filmography
as Léon
as Le directeur du journal
as Gambler
as Smirnoff - un agent russe
as Commissioner (uncredited)
as Le directeur de l'Alcazar (uncredited)
as Grocer
as Hotelier
as Landru's Attorney
as Manager of the cabarets
as Mr. Tousseur
as L'Homme à la Pipe (segment "La colère") (uncredited)
as Musician
as Momo
as Claudius Mansard
as The Judge
as Babs, le noctambule ivre
as Marcelot