Jean Marchat
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 8, 1902
Known For
Mademoiselle from Paris
Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also in trouble. Her crazy-headed sister is about to steal her fiancé away from her. At the suggestion of singer Jacqueline François, Micheline goes on tour as an accompanist, and meets up with Darnal in Nice, full of projects he wants to involve her in. Micheline, who arrives in time to save her sister from a suicide attempt, will know how to run the new fashion house.
Climates of Love
The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Philippe's jealousy drive the couple apart. Philippe, manager of the family printing business, finds solace in Isabelle, a long-time employee at the paper mill. Isabelle's routine life, entirely devoted to her work, leads Philippe to strike up a romantic relationship with the playful young Misa. But, faced with Isabelle's grief, Philippe puts an end to the romance. When Odile, inconsolable since their break-up, finally commits suicide, Philippe realizes that she was his true love.
Sideral Cruises
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.
In the Name of the Law
The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen of him until his body is found floating in the Seine several days later. The only clue is a woman's glove. The dead man's friends on the force vow to avenge him, and receive information leading them to suspect one Sandra, a beautiful foreigner, played by the stunning Marcelle Chantal.
Stormy Waters
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
At Theatre Tonight
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
Tomorrow Is My Turn
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers.
The Ambitious One
This Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger and Reg Lye. Basehart is the black sheep of a wealthy family of mining financiers based in France. He dumps the family life style and heads to Tahiti to make it on his own. His wife, Andrea Parisy, is less than amused with Basehart's choice.
Filmography
as Le père
as Prosecutor (uncredited)
as Robert's lawyer
as Don Sacramento
as L'évêque
as Félix
as Jules César
as Delmas
as Dom Bazile
as Albert Rancourt
as Mr. Van Looren
as Mollison
as General Bertrand (uncredited)
as Mr. Pounet
as General District Attorney
as The inspector
as Fredo - un patron de cabaret louche
as Shurman
as Berger
as Me. Darbel
as Narrator (voice)
as The Baron
as Me Lebondit
as Olivier
as Georges Dourville
as M. Tritonel
as Morgat
as Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu
as Jacques
as Fred Petersen
as The Regent
as The intellectual
as Pierre Moreuil
as Robert Monier, Françoise's husband
as Hubert de Rozans
as Engineer Risay
as Marc, le capitaine du « Mirva »
as Ramon
as Doctor Carl Brenner
as Alfred
as Marcel
as Jacques Largy