Georges Marchal
Acting
Biography
Georges Marchal was one of the most important lead actors in French cinema in the '50s, together with Jean Marais. He was the lead in various costume dramas and swashbuckling films before taking part in some of the films of Luis Buñuel, a close friend of his
Born: January 10, 1920
Place of Birth: Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Known For
The Seventh Door
An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the sea" says the young lad" No use, you'd dive to get it back". The young man is curious and he cannot resist temptation: he opens the forbidden door. A strange world is waiting for him where a girl, Leila, will be his guide .
Blondine
Blondine, the daughter of a poor fisherman, marries the Prince of the Mountain. Brune, her sister, envies Blondine her happiness and tells her that a secret lies hidden in her husband's name. Blondine tries to discover it but, before she does, the Prince is imprisoned by an ogre. Blondine must face goblins, imps, and the water djinni before she can deliver her captive Prince.
The Man Who Laughs
A three part film, based on the novel of the same title by Victor Hugo, telling of the adventures of two children, a blind girl and a badly scared boy, who are rescued and looked after by a vagabond.
The Accursed Kings
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...
Cinépanorama
L'Île aux trente cercueils
The Island of Thirty Coffins is a 1979 French television series based on Maurice Leblanc's novel L'île aux trente cercueils, directed by Marcel Cravenne. It stars Claude Jade as Véronique d'Hergemont, a female protagonist, who is on the run and on searching for her father and her son, involved in horrible adventures on a terrific island. The story proceeds in 1917. Veronique d' Hergemont is a 35-year-old nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns the assassination of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Its research will also lead it on the track of her father and her son whom she believed dead in a shipwreck, it is already a long time.
Vautrin the Thief
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, when he is dismissed, collapses. Moved by this fragility, he takes him under his wing, and will do everything possible to ensure that his creature reaches happiness, even if it means imagining the worst shenanigans and other scams, with the help of a band of clever villains.
The Dacians
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.
Le lys dans la vallée
Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.
Belle de Jour
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Filmography
as Gilbert Bossis
as General Keller
as Self
as Cardinal de Richelieu
as Commandant Le Kerlec
as Antoine d'Hergemont
as Antoine d'Hergemont
as Corbeyran
as Renaud
as Marquis of Bois-Doré
as le gouverneur
as Oger de Talleyrac
as Philippe IV le Bel, roi de France
as Julien
as Lord David
as Crèvecoeur
as M. de Mortsauf
as Jesuit
as Fuscus, General Romano
as Graf
as Serge
as Robinson Crusoe
as Herzog von Montserrat
as Ulysses
as General Gustav von Neipperg
as Peliocles
as Le maréchal Jean Lannes
as John Bell
as Fred Hersant
as Marc' Antonio
as Georges Terdier
as Maurice Mont-Bret
as Marcus Valerius, Roman Consul
as Asclepio
as Michel Dumartin
as Charly
as Mister John
as Chark
as Doctor Valerio
as Gil Blas de Santillane
as Self
as Paul Mercier
as L'inspecteur Bério
as Frank Keany
as Raoul de Bragelonne
as Lucio Falengo
as Giustiniano
as Louis XIV young
as D'Artagnan
as Didier Guéret
as Jupiter' L'inconnu, escapee from the psychiatric asylum
as Caio Silvio
as The Black Prince
as Marceau Le Guen
as Jacques Lebreton
as Sergeant Léon Bouvard
as Lysias
as Marc Lanson
as Jean Fabien
as Pierre Kerjean
as Alain Fontenay
as François Martineau
as Yann Getersen
as Le capitaine Georges Dubreuil
as Ali
as Lieutenant Claude Legrand
as Prince 'A' / Astara
as Le vicomte Pierre d'Haussy de Villefort
as René Bergerin
as Lucien de Rubempré (jeune)
as Julien
as Bernard
as Olivier de Verrières
as Jean de Vaugelas (uncredited)
as Jean de Vaugelas
as Bernard Dalban