Maurice Escande
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 14, 1892
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertaining tourists in Breton garb, lands up appearing in a Paris show ,and meets another property owning lady, this one of dubious reputation.
Cinderella
An unemployed maid is hired in a music hall to wash the floors. The whim of a screenwriter makes her go on stage in the most basic outfit. A revelation, success is at his doorstep! However, the young woman would prefer a virtuous life and a serious marriage to the easy but immoral existence offered to her by the world of entertainment.
La Renégate
In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
The Woman I Loved the Most
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.
Café de Paris
This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
Paris - New-York
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Father Goriot
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
The Messenger
Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife. When Gilbert takes sick and returns to Paris, he begins to fall in love with Marie.
Life of Pleasure
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
La Marseillaise
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
Filmography
as Louis XV vieux
as Grandbourg
as Récitant (voice)
as Le Baron de Grimm
as Louis XV (uncredited)
as Duke
as le comte
as Enguerrand de Marigny
as Me Jacques Lion
as M. Orgon
as Jacques Voisin-Larive
as Mr. Lecourtois
as The Duke of Saint Germain
as Jérôme de Lormel
as Randall
as The kingpin Tahmar
as Industrialist Pierre Vairon
as Louis de Rohan
as le prince de Condé
as Alvarez
as Le roi Louis XIV
as Monsieur de Restaud
as Prosecutor
as Count Roger de Boëldieu
as Marquis des Bruyères
as André Vernon
as Gaëtan
as Count of Neipperg
as Guy de Fresnoy
as Colorado
as Conrad
as Jacques Dorcel
as Le marquis de Pireli
as Le seigneur du village
as Géo
as Gilbert
as Ursac
as Julien de Suberceaux
as Bizulier
as Lucien Vigneret
as Henri Bruquier, an art critic
as Jean Borgia, Duke of Gandie
as Santini
as Desbonnières
as Count Symoff
as Hector de Montmeyran