Paul Amiot
Acting
Biography
Paul Amiot (29 March 1886 – 26 January 1979) was a French film actor. His career spanned some 63 years and he appeared in nearly 100 films between 1910 and 1973. In 1920 he appeared in Robert Péguy's Être aimé pour soi-même. He was noted for his consistent roles as a figures of authority. He regularly played police inspectors or detectives, lawyers and physicians. He starred in some 100 films between 1908 and 1930. On his death in 1979 he donated his body to scientific research. Source: Article "Paul Amiot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: March 29, 1886
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
L'École des contribuables
A bureaucrat, tax assessor, specialized in tax return and fraud, complains about his son-in-law's inactivity. He'd rather have thought twice before urging him to work...
À nous deux, madame la vie
Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.
Graduation Year
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the preparation of high school diploma.
Napoleon
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Orpheus
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
Le Cercle Rouge
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
The Sword and the Balance
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Mr. Nobody
For some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture whilst executing one daring robbery after another. No one has any clue as to the identity of this elusive criminal and he has come to be known as Monsieur Personne.
Mr. Nobody
For some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture whilst executing one daring robbery after another. No one has any clue as to the identity of this elusive criminal and he has come to be known as Monsieur Personne.
Germinal
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.
Filmography
as Francois le Verdun
as Georges Arnaud
as Il dottore
as Hugo Cordell
as Marchand, Inspector General of Police
as General
as Official (uncredited)
as Le président de la Chambre des pairs
as l'autre chevalier envoyé du Gurthengerg
as Morel
as Captain (uncredited)
as Le commissaire
as Inspecteur Joly
as Lejeune
as Judge (uncredited)
as Le duc d'Anjou
as The Chief
as Le marquis de Santa Cruz
as Le gouverneur
as President of the court
as Professor
as Director of "La Sûreté"
as (uncredited)
as The colonel
as Count of Beauvent
as Le président du tribunal
as Maître Doillot
as Inspector Pillot
as Commissioner Lucas
as Maximilen de Robespierre
as le général
as Prince of Bulow
as Iramundi
as Prosecutor
as President
as The prosecuter
as Le commissaire
as A friend of Chimay
as Delmas, policeman
as Vladorowsky
as Gaston, bank director
as Le commissaire
as Lelorrain
as Le colonel
as D'Amade
as Le soldat du 54e
as Le sous-directeur de la Sûreté
as Inspector Robert
as Le ministre des finances
as Anderson
as Le commissaire de police
as Gretch
as Le docteur
as Hendrick Van Hoolst
as Merlu
as Hubert
as L'officier
as Antoine Fouquier-Tinville