Gaston Modot
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Gaston Modot.
Born: December 31, 1887
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Ceux De Demain
Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute where he studies and becomes the protégé of an opera singer at whose house, one day, he surprises a thief who blesses him. His parents reconcile at the foot of his hospital bed.
Final Accord
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
Grand Illusion
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
The Rules of the Game
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
Casque d'Or
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
Truant School
1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to radically change the methods employed by his predecessor. He listens to the children, draws inspiration from their discoveries and takes them out into nature. The pupils will rediscover the pleasure of learning, and he will rediscover the pleasure of teaching. But some parents and notables don't take kindly to this little revolution.
Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
The Beauty of the Devil
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...
French Cancan
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
Filmography
as Le grand-père
as Blaise, Gardener
as Coudray
as Le chef des bohèmiens
as Sandro's new tenant
as The concierge at the Temple (uncredited)
as Justin Benoit
as Le valet de Danglard (uncredited)
as Street violinist
as L'inspecteur #1
as (uncredited)
as le patron du café
as The caretaker
as Gypsy
as Professor
as Mathieu
as Arthur
as French examiner
as Tiberghien
as Gangster
as The huckster
as Augustin
as Le caissier de la loterie « Les Geules cassées »
as Marcel
as Gustave, le caméraman
as Fil de Soie
as Vinto, the mute
as Terriblo
as Teddy
as Le garçon d'étage
as Toni Amanito
as The head waiter
as Edouard Schumacher, le garde-chasse
as Monsieur Martin, owner of the bistro
as Le colonel mexicain
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Stoker
as Raymond
as Un volontaire
as Gaston Ravaux
as L'ingénieur
as Boss
as Alvarez
as Jimmy
as (voice)
as Philippe - le neveu des Lecocq
as Le chef des gangsters
as Fracassa
as Legionnaire Muller
as Domestic
as Bookmaker
as Agent Matra
as (uncredited)
as Sandegg
as Firmin
as Jeremiah Peachum
as Baumann, detective
as The Man
as Fred
as Captain
as Morain - the escaped convict
as Fernand Mondego / Comte de Morcerf
as Lord Glasdall
as Prince Hussein
as García 'El Tuerto'
as Lieutenant de vaisseau Brambourg
as Docteur Belphégor
as Topinelli
as Réal
as Kadjar
as Messenger (uncredited)
as Un spectateur
as Un Indien
as The diver