Pierre Brasseur
Acting
Biography
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli. On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Brasseur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: December 22, 1905
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
My Friend Victor
A poor youth of noble birth needs to marry. Will the cynical, calculating upstart who wants to set him on the right course be able to help?
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
A Very Handy Man
In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
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.
Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
Cinépanorama
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?
Grisou
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
Eyes Without a Face
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and whom films such as "Les Tontons Flingueurs" immortalized.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as La Brunetière
as Diablevert
as Diablegris
as Gosselin
as Florisse
as Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
as Faria
as Husband
as Jules Polnick
as Father Ballanchon
as General Géranium
as Fernand Toussaint
as Le Grec
as Dimanche
as Laurent
as Nissim Buzaglo
as Adhémar de Talois-Minet
as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
as Patache
as Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
as Georges Richter
as Loudéac
as Simone Palumbo
as Mayor
as Charlèz
as Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
as Russian killer
as Martin Fenayrou
as Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
as François Larmentiel
as Carl Krasner
as le grand duc Ernest
as Berrera
as Constable of Montmorency
as Comte de Kerloquen
as Pangloss
as Commissioner of the Republic
as Alfio Magnano
as Sidone
as Professor Génessier
as Monsieur Nègre
as Dr. Varmont
as Don Cesare
as Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
as Pierre Carreau
as Jeroboam Driscoll
as Maurice Tardenois
as Juju
as Self
as Barras
as Jehan Buridan
as Antoine Vallin
as Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine
as Console Grotti
as Bird (voice)
as Maître Pierre Renneville
as Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
as Julien Ledentu
as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
as Hoederer
as Captain Joris KnAipper
as Jacques Mervel
as Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")
as Hubert Espivant
as Francis
as Fabius / Jean
as Raffaele
as François Picault
as Pierre Taverny
as Emile Fréchisse
as Rocambole
as Rocambole
as Bitru
as 'Douze Apôtres'
as Georges
as Rodrigue
as Jean Pleyard
as Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud
as Jean-César Morin
as Frédérick Lemaître
as Prosper Bonenfant
as Roland
as Vancouver
as Gabriel
as Hubert Epervans
as Lussac
as Toninett
as Jonval, the young cynic
as Philippe
as Frossard
as Frossard
as Tonio
as Alfredo Lebonnard
as Georges Legrand
as Le Rec
as Alexandre Dumas figlio
as Pierre Mougins
as Lucien
as Hagnauer
as Cousine (uncredited)
as Bastien
as Doctor Dubois
as Georges Letournel, fils du mari de Jacqueline
as Fred Woolson
as Edmond Trivelin
as René Daroy /Achille Daroy
as Bob
as Max
as Georges Darnetal
as Jean Berthier
as Robert Lanclot
as Lt. de Tokay
as Philippe
as Paul, rider
as Didier
as Koretzky
as Rudi
as Maxime
as Hunter
as Jean Dupont-Desroches
as Edgar Flachon
as Le type de l'appareil à sous