Patrick Chesnais
Acting
Biography
Patrick Chesnais (born 18 March 1947) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Patrick Chesnais was born in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1989, he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the film La Lectrice directed by Michel Deville. In 1994, he starred in Harold Pinter's Le Retour, and in 1992, in La Belle Histoire by Claude Lelouch. He starred in Hany Tamba's Melodrama Habibi in 2008. He is married to fellow actor Josiane Stoléru. Source: Article "Patrick Chesnais" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: March 18, 1947
Place of Birth: La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Known For
Les Sacrifiés
In 1955, a year after the birth of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities who feared his revolutionary speeches. At the age of 27, he arrived in the Algerian slum of Nanterre. Roughly questioned by FLN activists, in disagreement with the Algerian Nationalist Movement (MNA) who wanted to recognize theirs, he was then accepted as the local hairdresser and shoemaker. Subsequently, he became a driver during anti-MNA expeditions. Accepting increasingly dangerous missions, he is imprisoned by the French police and once again undergoes interrogations and special treatment by the police which will definitively undermine his sanity. One day, he no longer recognized his companions, and when joy broke out among the FLN militants, at the announcement of the signing of the Evian Accords, Mahmoud remained alone, frozen in an attitude of refusal, walled in his madness. Algeria has just won its independence.
Regards d'enfance
Le Grand Charles
Le Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. De Gaulle was played by Bernard Farcy, Winston Churchill by David Ryall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Hardy. Other actors in the cast included Dominic Gould, Sam Spiegel and Jay Benedict.
The Unexpected Getaway
In each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.
Kaamelott
Kaamelott is a French comedy medieval fantasy television series created, directed, written, scored, and edited by Alexandre Astier, who also starred as the main character. The series, which originally ran for six seasons (referred to as 'books'), ran from January 3, 2005, to October 31, 2009, on M6. In this offbeat account of King Arthur's quest for the Grail, virtually every journey, battle or adventure is stopped dead in its tracks by the knights of the round table's most worldly traits: cowardice, greed, idiocy or misplaced chivalry. As a consequence, instead of epic adventures we are treated with the characters' pragmatic and anachronistic take on each and every event in the Grail legend, true to the purest sitcom tradition.
Laval, le collaborateur
Several times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of Marshal Pétain's strongmen, a loyal collaborator for the Germans. Rounding-up Jews, forced labour, tracking the French resistance..., he served Hitler faithfully to the end. When France was liberated, he was tried, condemned, shot.
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
HIP - High Intellectual Potential
Morgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner is turned upside-down when her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
Chez Maupassant
"Chez Maupassant" is a French anthology television series based on short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Created by Gérard Jourd'hui and Gaëlle Girre, it ran on France 2 in three seasons in 2007, 2008 and 2011. It consists of a total of 24 episodes of which half are 60 minutes long and half are 30 minutes.
Filmography
as Marius De Villeduc
as Pierre
as La Chenille
as ("Cinéma Cinémas" segment)
as Jacques Rénier
as Paul Varan
as Voiceover
as Pierre Laval
as Père de Paul
as Priest
as Papy
as Serge Alvaro
as Jean
as Jules
as Vigo
as Henry
as Alvaro
as Damien Moreau
as Gilbert
as Go
as Le notaire
as Commissaire Rousseau
as Didier
as Michel Lanoy
as Bolzec
as Le voisin excentrique
as Self
as Rousseau
as le commandant Brosky
as André
as Le père de Jocelyne
as Danny
as Commissaire Rousseau
as Pierrot
as Philippe
as le commissaire Rousseau
as Self
as Taillendier
as Commissaire Rousseau
as François Amelot
as The Prostitute Costumer
as Général de Gaulle
as Georges
as Martin
as Lucien
as Bob
as Gérard
as Henry Celliers
as Erwann
as Philippe Dellas
as Gédéon
as Léon Amblard
as Clovis Costa
as Dr. Lepage
as Grégoire
as Ernest Dufour
as Armand
as Le détective
as Général Giraud
as Jean-Claude
as Norbert
as Lucius Sillius Sallustius
as Coll Murray, le journaliste
as Jean-Yves Dupreux, père de Jean-Christophe
as Lieutenant Lescaro
as Abel
as Gérard
as Fernand
as Gazet
as Commissaire Aguerre
as Franck
as Octave
as Paul Gurney
as Charles
as Gustave Planche
as Self
as Philippe Clovier
as Julien Dessales
as Bertrand
as Michel
as Le Père
as Commissaire Voitot
as Pierre Lhermitte
as Jean-Jacques
as Nicolas Montgerbier
as Marc Leloy
as André
as Simon
as Herman
as Jean-Marcel Mazzetti
as Le docteur
as Alain Monnier
as Pierre - le père
as Paul
as Jérémie
as le P.D.G.
as Self
as Johann Gelder
as Germinal
as Self
as Gino
as Wim
as Self
as First inspector
as Michel Servin
as Yan Lambert
as Martial Dromner
as Rucker
as Jeffy / L'inspecteur Lujon / M. Poitronneau
as Billy
as Hadès
as Gérard
as François
as Self
as Anders Etchegoyen