Guy Decomble
Acting
Biography
Guy Decomble (1910–1964) was a French film and television actor. A character actor he played in a number of supporting parts in postwar cinema. One of his better known roles is as the teacher in The 400 Blows by François Truffaut.
Born: November 12, 1910
Place of Birth: Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, 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.
Florence is Crazy
Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly that she will become a chanteuse and her husband the impresario.
Bob le Flambeur
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.
First in Line
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.
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?
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
Jour de Fête
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel account of rapid transportation methods used by the United States postal system, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed the delivery of mail while aboard his bicycle.
The Magnificent Tramp
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
Unusual Tales
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
Maigret Sets a Trap
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
Filmography
as Guest released from prison
as l'inspecteur Lognon
as Sir Basile
as Jean
as Lofting
as Coach driver
as Pageot
as French Teacher
as Le chef de station de la R.A.T.P.
as Le libraire
as Rothlisberger
as Mazet
as Inspector Mercier
as Police Commissary Ledru
as Gustave, alcoolique, gardien de l'école communale
as Ll'inspecteur Leroy
as Mr. Léon
as Le père Mascle
as Jacques 'le Dingue'
as Emile Kortenwirth
as (voice)
as Le concierge
as Un inspecteur
as Jossip
as Émile
as The Obsessed Killer
as Roger
as Pascaud
as Justin
as Jean Pétrat
as Lucien
as Poulain
as Hurau
as un échevin
as Operator
as Richard
as Bénoni
as Denisot
as Me Frouas
as (uncredited)
as Warfield
as Knife-grinder
as Robert (uncredited)
as Aspirant
as Un joueur
as le maquereau (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Typesetter (uncredited)
as Le pasteur (uncredited)