Maurice Biraud
Acting
Biography
Maurice Biraud (3 March 1922 – 24 December 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1951 and 1982. Biraud was born on 3 March 1922 in Paris. He married actress Françoise Soulié in 1956. He suffered a heart attack at a red light while driving his car on Avenue Marceau in Paris and was taken to the Ambroise-Paré-Hospital in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, where he was certified dead on 24 December 1982. Source: Article "Maurice Biraud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born: March 3, 1922
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Arsène Lupin Joue et Perd "813"
An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
On August 28, 2017, Mireille Darc passed away at the age of 79. She was Audiard and Lautner's favorite actress, the sex symbol of the pop years, a photographer, a woman in love, and a documentary filmmaker. The artist was also the patron of La Chaîne de l'espoir, an association that helps disadvantaged children. Mireille Darc tells her story through a selection of her most intimate interviews. Her loved ones also talk about her: her husband, Pascal Desprez; Anthony Delon; Véronique de Villèle, her personal assistant and friend; writer Lionel Duroy; Professor Deloche; and photographers Richard Melloul and Francis Giacobetti, who made her their model...
Cinépanorama
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and whom films such as "Les Tontons Flingueurs" immortalized.
Any Number Can Win
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Taxi for Tobruk
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
The Counterfeiters of Paris
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
The Seventh Juror
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
Good Enough to Eat
Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
Bartleby
Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Fred
as le docteur Moreau
as Maxime Terrien
as le père
as le camionneur, témoin de l'accident
as M. Simon, le patron
as Inspecteur Weber
as Inspecteur Weber
as Commissioner Raoul Fleury
as Crouia-Bey et Voussois
as Donatien Poutreux dit Fatalitas
as Marcel
as Stéphane Perreau
as Le Père
as Félix Pyat
as Dindon
as Self
as Pierrot the Naive
as Owner of the Saint-Appoline hotel
as Self
as Monsieur Chotard
as Jean-Claude
as Leroy
as Charly
as Le premier moniteur d'auto-école
as Maurice
as Lamarie
as M. Massoulier
as Brunet
as Herbert
as Georges-André Constant
as Jérôme Nimo
as Self
as Taxi driver
as Self - The Interviewer
as Commissaire Verdier
as Self
as Le garagiste peu scrupuleux
as Alfred
as Arthur aka 'Le Mou'
as Self
as Louis Salavin
as Francis
as Denis, hotelier
as Jo Arengeot, un petit truand sortant de prison
as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
as Inspector Morel
as Louis Naudin
as Martigue
as Adolphe Ferrie
as Doctor Hess, veterinarian
as (uncredited)
as Robert Mideau, aka 'le Cave'
as François Gensac
as Le résident hollandais (uncredited)
as Maternati
as Blanchot
as Commentator (voice)
as Un employé de Gilbert
as Self
as Lawyer
as Le vendeur du bazar
as A reservist
as Laurent
as Didier, le snob, prétentieux, parasite
as Photographer
as The young lawyer
as Vicar
as A student (uncredited)
as A colleague of Léon (uncredited)
as Le mari violent (uncredited)