Philippe Richard
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 24, 1891
Place of Birth: Saint-Etienne, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France
Known For
The Path of Honor
Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign Legion. A snitch having informed the police of Georges' presence at the Legion, he must leave. In Casablanca, Paul helps his brother escape the police by taking his identity to allow him to regain his honor.
L'Argent
Ruined by his competitor, the banker Saccard decides to set up a new business.
Yoshiwara
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
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?
Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
The Phantom Wagon
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
Port Arthur
French-language version of Port Arthur (1936), a German language film (q.v.) co-produced by German, French and Czechoslovakian film interests. About espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
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.
Heart of the Casbah
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.
From Mayerling to Sarajevo
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, is kept absent from the royal court due to his dangerous political ideas. Sent on a tour of inspections and inaugurations, he falls in love with Countess Sophie Chotek.
Filmography
as Louis-Philippe
as Head doctor of the hospital
as L'acteur jouant Don Gormas
as Louis Philippe 1st
as Otto
as Le directeur
as Bayadère
as Un homme (uncredited)
as (segment "La Luxure") (uncredited)
as 'Gros Polo'
as Le directeur (uncredited)
as Le directeur
as Industrialist
as Cardinal
as The bourgeois
as President
as André
as King Louis-Philippe
as Latanière
as Carcasse
as General advocate
as The director
as Louis
as Bonpied, the doorman
as Le gérant (uncredited)
as Commander
as Le prieur
as Head doctor
as (uncredited)
as Major
as Le patron du cabaret
as Marshal Marmont
as Ricard
as Le chirurgien
as Le grand-duc
as Louis XVIII
as Capt. Sueur
as John Gordon
as Le marjordome
as L'attaché russe
as 'Mon Oncle'
as Janvier
as (uncredited)
as Le procureur
as Officier de police
as Harryman
as Louis
as Talandri
as le domestique
as Michel, l'adjoint de Juve
as Duc d'Anjou