Mag-Avril
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Mag-Avril.
Born: March 9, 1899
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Known For
La séparation
Unexpected
An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman.
Le Huguenot récalcitrant
A historical and tragic backdrop: the dragonnades, the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. And a comic situation: an insubordinate singer who taunts Louis XIV's soldiers from the top of his rock, driving Marshal Boutre half mad.
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Fortunate
During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
The Secret of Mayerling
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary is hastily thrown into the depths of a tomb.
The Case of Dr. Laurent
A Paris-based doctor tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Little Claus and Big Claus
Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only one horse, so, by way of distinguishing them from each other, the proprietor of four horses was called "Great Claus," and he who owned but one horse was known as "Little Claus"...
The Wild Oat
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.
Filmography
as Marka
as Marie
as Voisinne
as Elderly Tenant
as 'La Perrine'
as La femme à l'entorse
as Mac Failane
as Mrs. Rose
as (uncredited)
as Elise
as Una vicina
as The Concierge
as la vieille Joséphine
as La dame dans le cimetière
as Un professeur
as Grandmother
as Une postière
as Haberdasher
as La générale
as Monsieur Madeleine's servant
as Marchioness of Botarin
as Céline
as Nathalie
as First gossip
as Cashier
as Miss Negret, old maid
as Postwoman
as Cousin
as Mademoiselle Janvier
as (uncredited)
as A mother
as Esther
as Marie Robin
as Car Lady (uncredited)
as Someone crazy
as Lady with the fake thousand bill
as A gossip
as Mme Aldonza
as L'habilleuse
as Middle-class person
as Adélaïde
as Mme. Vincet
as (uncredited)
as Jeanne
as Gossip
as The landlady
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as La dame du rendez-vous (uncredited)