Marcel Delaître
Acting
Biography
Marcel Delaître was a French film actor.
Born: January 25, 1888
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
The Truth
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Le Corbeau
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.
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 Darling of Paris
In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit.
Valley of Hell
Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he despises, was sentenced to six months in prison for theft. Noël goes to see a dying friend, Romieux, who asks him to take care of his daughter Marthe, who has settled in Paris (Batignolles district). Noël goes there and discovers that Marthe is destitute (her lover Gaston being an incarcerated mobster): he then offers her to come and live with him and soon, marries her.
Father Goriot
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Return at Dawn
Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital.
Happy Hearts
A silent film theater projectionist is kidnapped by a gangster group, so he can show them footage of a Dutch jewel dealer they want to steal from. The head gangster's sister helps foil their plan.
Wooden Crosses
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
Crime and Punishment
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Filmography
as Un journaliste
as Grandfather
as Photographer
as Le bistrot de Romainville
as Maillard
as Le commissaire
as Acolyte of Maurice
as Un homme au café (uncredited)
as Police commissioner
as Professor Roméo Verger, a doctor (uncredited)
as Monsieur Kerneis
as General
as Un inspecteur de police
as Inspector
as Count Martin
as Inspector
as Jean Chandos
as Father Farina
as Docteur Blanche
as Le docteur Blanche
as Maître Moreau
as Rondelot
as Kappel
as Doniol
as Doctor Morizot
as Maître Target
as Charrat, resentful neighbor
as Colonel Kleider
as Lépinglard
as Monsieur Sulnac
as Le policier
as Ravanat dit « Le Rouge »
as Le dominicain
as Investigating judge (uncredited)
as Léon (uncredited)
as Austerlitz
as Tour Director
as Le capitaine
as Le commissaire
as Police Inspector
as François Laurin
as Le prêtre
as Domingo
as Maubert
as Marmeladov
as M. Laroque
as Johannieu
as Anthonin Rémy
as Jules
as Soldat Berthier
as Mr Darny