Daniel Mendaille
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 17, 1885
Place of Birth: Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
Known For
Maria Chapdelaine
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
El sueño de Andalucía
Juanillo is in love with Dolores, the daughter of the owner of an inn. He likes to sing, she likes dancing. After the village festivals, where Juanillo has acted as a bullfighter and Dolores has performed, he has been hired as bullfighter for a tour in America. They exchange vows, but their letters will be intercepted.
Napoleon
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Rififi
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
The Earrings of Madame de...
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Verdun: Visions of History
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
Under the Paris Sky
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
Comradeship
At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
Verdun, memories of history
A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.
The Bread Peddler
A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
Filmography
as Petit
as (uncredited)
as Un ami du Fondu
as Boss of the bistro
as Captain
as Lookout
as Peddler
as (uncredited)
as Un passant (uncredited)
as Un gardien
as Examiner (uncredited)
as Le médecin (uncredited)
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Head of the plantation
as Le directeur de la P.J.
as The director of the prison
as Le garde
as Le directeur du bureau de navigation
as (uncredited)
as Le confesseur
as L'amiral
as Le capitaine Lacoumé
as Baron de Brandoz
as Georges Parry
as Clémenceau
as Palihan
as Kellermann
as Martial
as Old Pauliac
as Charlin
as Micheletto, chief henchman
as Deschamps
as Rémondy
as Le curé
as Soliveau
as Galloway
as Jeff
as Jean Leclerc
as Jim
as Diamond Joe
as Uncle
as Second
as Lord Talbot
as Agostin
as The husband
as Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron
as Le juge d'instruction
as Akmet le bandit