Max Desrau
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Max Desrau.
Born: March 21, 1918
Place of Birth: Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Known For
La Poupée sanglante
Paris, 1925. Bénédict Masson, bookbinder and poet, is secretly in love with his neighbor, Christine. Christine works at the strange Coulteray mansion where the marquise accuses her husband of being a vampire. But Bénédict has other preoccupations: six of his apprentices have disappeared without a trace.
La Coquine
La Bonne Planque
Émile and Fredo are two crooks who have just committed an armed robbery in a Paris bank. To escape the police, Émile, accompanied by his friend Lulu, takes refuge in the apartment of Antoine Perrin, a peaceful civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture and amateur musician with the group Les Joyeux Colibris. Lulu offers to seduce him in order to prevent him from getting hit on the coffee pot.
Last Known Address
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
En bordée
The two merrymakers Cartahu and Bailladrisse sail together on a cargo ship. When customs officers come aboard to conduct a search, Cartahu is unaware of a drug dealer's accomplice, who hides the box of narcotics in Cartahu's bag, which has already been visited. Unsuspecting, the two comrades go ashore, taking the precious box with them. At the hotel, by mistake, their luggage is given to another person. To recover the merchandise, the traffickers pursue the two friends, who nevertheless manage to have the whole gang arrested; and, after being tempted by pretty women to live with them, prefer to set sail for new adventures.
The Magnificent One
A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
Small Local Trains
Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a travelling theatre company. Realising his father will never favour the union, Gérard joins the company on their next tour. In an attempt to heal the rift, Durand’s wife goes after Gérard and ends up performing in their next play…
Mimsy Were the Borogoves
Philippe and Sylvie bring home a small container they found on the way from school and strange things start happen...
At Theatre Tonight
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
Zazie dans le Métro
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
Filmography
as Huntzinger
as Le vieux routard
as Le vieux monsieur
as le professeur de musique
as Le père
as Le médecin
as Le capitaine Melis-Sanz
as Lenoir
as Father Macchabée
as Le monsieur du premier acte
as Self
as Le bedeau
as The Albanian Interpreter who speaks Romanian
as Thibaut
as Le médecin
as Villager
as Un automobiliste au feu rouge
as Presenter
as Thouin (uncredited)
as Isodoro, le garçon de brasserie
as Le cuisinier
as Isodoro, le garçon de brasserie
as Takaroff
as Legrand, the radio reporter
as Bank Customer (uncredited)
as Un spectateur à l'Alcazar (uncredited)
as Clergyman at statue Ste-Cécile
as Employee of the dairy (uncredited)
as Scotsman
as Pépé Beauminet
as Permanent
as Murdered man (uncredited)
as Mr. Vermifue, employé de l'institut
as (uncredited)
as Le voisin de campagne
as Un avocat en attente de son audience
as Le nouveau patron des pompes funèbres
as Le vendeur des "Gant Perrin"