Roger Karl
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Roger Karl.
Born: April 29, 1882
Place of Birth: Bourges, Cher, France
Known For
Vidocq
François Vidocq has been sentenced to eight years' hard labor for a crime he didn't commit. Escaped with the help of his faithful friends Desfossés and Fil de fer, the convict is pursued by his lifelong enemy: the policeman Flambart. Between scams and disguises, Vidocq initially leads an undercover life in 19th-century Paris. Eventually, the two men team up to fight criminals... And Vidocq succumbs to Annette's charms.
Misdeal
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
L'Argent
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
Life of Pleasure
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
The Case of Dr. Laurent
A Paris-based doctor tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Little Devil May Care
Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies, she feels guilty and takes Delphin under her wing.
Le Vertige
The film opens with the overthrow of the Czar during the 1917 Russian revolution. The family of General Count Svirsky (Roger Karl) cower in their home, certain that the mobs of angry peasants will tear them apart. But even in this moment of crisis, Svirsky can find time to murder the young officer who has been having an affair with Countess Svirska (Emmy Lynn). The Countess knows what has happened, but she loyally remains with her husband as they escape to the safety of the French Riviera. It is here that the Countess meets Henri de Cassel (Jaque Catelain), the “living image” of her dead lover.
Under Western Eyes
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.
Le Tigre du Bengale
Filmography
as Ferdinand
as Walzmeyer
as Terremoche
as Docteur Guillot
as Un truand
as Professor Artus
as Roeckel alias Poldermann
as Major Colonel Folsborg, Prussian officer
as Maître Gaëtan de Merly
as The Marquis de La Noue
as Pénoux-Rataud
as Le colonel
as Édouard Guillemin
as Dom Ramirez de Avila
as Le général Kiriloff
as le prince Radziwill
as Prince Radziwill
as Mortal, Nadia's husband
as Commissioner Werter
as Grand Duke Pierre
as Le Ministre
as Sélim Pacha
as Le chancelier Lang
as Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI
as Petersen
as Le grand-duc de Gérolstein
as John Wills
as Joachim Taft
as Le président Jean-Marie Bonnet
as Lévigné father
as Le père Leherg - le père de Delphin
as Le général Svirsky - le mari jaloux de Natacha
as Le prince Vladimir Aryad
as Justin Chenevat
as Le mari
as Kosroës le sage
as Nolff