Marcel Lévesque
Acting
Biography
Marcel Lévesque (6 December 1877 – 16 February 1962) was a French film actor best known for his silent film work with Louis Feuillade. Born Joseph Marcel Lévesque in Paris, he died in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames.
Born: December 6, 1877
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
The New Mission of Judex
A continuation of the film series "Judex" the masked fighter for justice.
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?
Summer Light
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid journalist Philippe Guérande and his partner embark on a long crusade to put an end to the crimes of the Great Vampire and Irma Vep, his dangerous accomplice. (A ten episode movie serial.)
Judex
When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengeance, punishes the crooks and protects the innocents. (Originally a twelve-part epic serial.)
Let's Make a Dream
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.
My Father Was Right
After being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women. Years later, such an education is bearing fruit.
Fantastic Night
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful girl in white, Irène, with whom he falls in love.
La Malibran
On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted to her art.
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist.
Filmography
as Mr Brunel-Lacaze, le banquier
as 'Le Pat'
as (uncredited)
as General (uncredited)
as Le directeur de l'Agence Internationale
as Old music lover
as Doctor Le Tellier
as Un Invité (Prologue)
as Mourier - son médecin
as Concierge
as Pépin-Mounette
as Jules Renaudin
as Baron Gingleux
as Pigeon
as Nazir
as Cocantin
as Cocantin
as Narcisse
as Mazamette
as Oscar Mazamette