Léon Larive
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 28, 1886
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Known For
The Aviator
Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against José in an airplane.
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.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Television adaptation of the comedy by Eugène Labiche and Edouard Martin, written in 1860. On the Buttes Chaumont plateau, transformed into the Gare de Lyon, Monsieur Perrichon, who has all the makings of an honest bourgeois, sets off on a pleasure trip with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He has no idea that his daughter's two official suitors will give this trip a fantastic turn.
Yoshiwara
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Voyage Without Hope
Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo ship is willing to smuggle him out out France for a price but Gohelle has no money. His mistress, Marie-Angel tries to charm the money out of wealthy Alain Ginestier who seems the ideal pigeon but Marie-Angel falls in love with Ginestier.
The Rules of the Game
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
The Lower Depths
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
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.
Filmography
as L'aurbegiste de Chamonix
as Left-luggage employee
as Le concierge de Saint-Beuve, collège pour filles (uncredited)
as Le directeur du théâtre (uncredited)
as Clerk
as Paillard
as Un révolutionnaire (uncredited)
as The big industrialist
as Guest
as Le caissier
as Walker
as Un client (uncredited)
as Le gros client du taxi (uncredited)
as Molo (uncredited)
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
as Le suisse
as Hotel Director
as (uncredited)
as Publisher
as Jules (segment "Le retour de Louis")
as Director of the circus Rémi
as Un médecin
as (uncredited)
as Vetusto (uncredited)
as Le colonel
as Commander Ludovic Midol
as A taxidermist (uncredited)
as The shipowner
as Stamp dealer
as (uncredited)
as Un échevin (uncredited)
as Big sick man (uncredited)
as Un villageois
as Janitor
as Turgis
as Clerk (uncredited)
as Le concierge des Funambules (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Chauffeur
as Un membre d'équipage (uncredited)
as Big customer
as Le patron du restaurant (uncredited)
as Commissioner (uncredited)
as Mr. Albert (uncredited)
as Marcenac
as The notary
as Bear
as Cook (uncredited)
as Le cuisinier
as Marcel
as Le cafetier (uncredited)
as Civil servant
as Un joueur de billard (uncredited)
as A beggar
as (uncredited)
as Picard, le valet du roi
as (uncredited)
as Rabastens
as Un marin
as Félix, le valet de chambre du baron
as The innkeeper
as Un client à la vente aux enchères
as Koch
as Prefect
as Teacher
as Monsieur Jeunhomme
as Monsieur Pantouille
as le client de la pharmacie
as Sam Otis
as Etchenoga
as Judge