René Blancard
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 12, 1897
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Known For
Mademoiselle from Paris
Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also in trouble. Her crazy-headed sister is about to steal her fiancé away from her. At the suggestion of singer Jacqueline François, Micheline goes on tour as an accompanist, and meets up with Darnal in Nice, full of projects he wants to involve her in. Micheline, who arrives in time to save her sister from a suicide attempt, will know how to run the new fashion house.
L'Enquête du 58
A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. Two inspectors come to investigate the affair. During his interrogation, the driver refuses to provide an explanation for his action and is charged with malpractice. The only one he will tell the truth to is the gatekeeper's wife.
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone market. Released by Les Films du Verseau.
Beautiful Star
Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.
A King Without Distraction
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.
The Truth
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Vautrin the Thief
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, when he is dismissed, collapses. Moved by this fragility, he takes him under his wing, and will do everything possible to ensure that his creature reaches happiness, even if it means imagining the worst shenanigans and other scams, with the help of a band of clever villains.
Jenny Lamour
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Le Plaisir
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
A Cage of Nightingales
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
Filmography
as Raddel
as le curé
as L'avocat général
as Mr. Borelli
as Delmotte
as M. Lavigne, le père d'Édouard
as L'huissier (uncredited)
as Le shérif
as Mr. Boulard
as M. Matheu, le père d'Elisabeth
as Inspector Rentier
as Unidentified Character (voice)
as Denys
as Don Tomás
as M. Dupré
as Aubineau
as Clifton
as Rouhaut
as Commissaire Lepic (uncredited)
as Micheline's father
as Commissioner Denys
as le commissaire Brochant
as The bistro
as Jaltex
as Doctor Corbier
as Maître Albert Chassagne
as Monsieur Victor
as Albert Pichon
as Le maire
as Doirel
as Professor Bertelin
as Inspector Martial
as Baptiste
as Me Tirgen, lawyer
as Le commissaire Bellefontaine
as Dorchain
as Commissioner Basquet
as Alexandrini
as Inspector Simonet
as Turnier
as Colonel Pérignon
as Lucien Bonnet
as Thomas
as Commissioner
as Goujon
as Brigadier
as André Fournier
as Philippe Chauvieux
as Police Commissioner
as Morgain
as Boisrond
as The notary
as Goujon
as le voisin de palier
as Joseph, chauffeur
as Gamekeeper Bourrel
as Le médecin
as M. Rachin, director
as Lucien de Rubempré (agé)
as Gourier
as Jules Colomban, Baudu's clerk
as Itchoua
as Le directeur du théâtre (uncredited)
as The surgeon (uncredited)
as Employee (uncredited)
as Inspector Picard (uncredited)
as Ferdinand
as Presto (uncredited)
as Police commissioner (uncredited)