Pierre Palau
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 13, 1883
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
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.
Florence is Crazy
Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly that she will become a chanteuse and her husband the impresario.
Le Corbeau
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small town through fear and authority. NB : this is a different movie from the 1951 version where Louis Jouvet also plays Dr Knock.
Fanfare of Love
Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all-female orchestra called "Tulips from Holland"; they fall in love with two gorgeous musicians.
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.
I Am with You
A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel where her husband must pass. He meets her and, disturbed by the one he believes to be his wife's double, becomes her lover. Little by little the truth breaks through. The husband takes leave of the mistress and returns to the wife whose return has been announced.
King of Hearts
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
The Royalists
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to seduce and capture him.
The Man from Nowhere
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
Filmography
as Alberic
as Le père Bigeard
as A guest
as Mr. Tyler
as Saint-Simon
as Boyer de l'Ain
as Uncle Théodose
as Beauty
as Un Moine
as Dr. Faust
as Arthur, wedding guest
as Venot
as (uncredited)
as Le vieux monsieur qui critique toutes les époques
as Monsieur Torcheboeuf (segment "Coralie")
as The director of 'Nuptia'
as Monsieur Paul
as Violette
as Anselme Bourguignon
as Mr. Paulau, a board member
as Le juge d'instruction
as Dermont
as Simone's father
as Doorman
as Le sergent / Il sergente
as Monsieur Marin
as Innkeeper (uncredited)
as Boëhmer
as Sidobre
as Petithunier
as Monsieur Dubois
as Ernest, domestic
as Louiset
as Dietrich
as Edmond Carré-Lamadon
as Payen-Laurel
as Victor
as Le régisseur des Funambules
as Monsieur Borel
as 'Le baron'
as Le contrôleur
as Investigating judge
as Le receveur de P.T.T.
as Chabrol, publisher
as Le petit homme
as Le docteur Pierre
as Le gouverneur (uncredited)
as Notary
as Morillon, the photographer (uncredited)
as Beaulieu
as (uncredited)
as Monsieur Benoît
as Impresario
as L'adjudant
as Leduc, first blackmailer
as Defoy
as Piotr
as Baron Fléchard
as Parainneaux
as Le chevalier Titus
as Jules Bongrand
as Levaut, pharmacist
as Monsieur Corbin
as Le commissaire de police
as Saint-Lévy
as Le commissaire Boucard
as Monsieur Achille
as Archibald Torrington
as Dr. Parpalaid
as Oscar
as Le docteur Mongicourt
as Pluvinat
as M. Lemant
as Richard
as Boucherot