Yves Afonso
Acting
Biography
Yves Afonso (13 February 1944 – 21 January 2018) was a French actor. He was born in Saulieu in the Côte-d'Or département. Since his uncredited debut in the movie Masculin, féminin in 1966, he had many roles, both in movies and on television. He normally plays supporting roles, and may have been best known for his role as Inspector Bricard in L'Horloger de Saint-Paul, and the black comedy Week End, where he played Tom Thumb. He died on 21 January 2018 at the age of 73. Source: Article "Yves Afonso" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: February 13, 1944
Place of Birth: Saulieu, Côte-d'Or, France
Known For
Male of the Century
The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
Les amants du bagne
In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an investigation alongside the authorities. He didn't expect to find such inhuman conditions. He meets a prisoner, Camille, and his wife, Claudia, who's in French Guyana to find a way to free her husband. He decides to help her.
Les arcandiers
In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses of the word. He and his buddies Bruno and Hercule think they have the solution to their pocketbook woes. The body of St. Bernadette has been miraculously preserved from decay and is a central object of pilgrimage in the shrine where it is kept. Why not steal that and hold it for ransom? The criminal gang is well able to pull this coup off and are soon in possession of one perfectly preserved corpse and a very fancy coffin. It's too bad for them that the church seems to have a limitless supply of these and doesn't want the one they stole back. Bemused, the lads set the coffin adrift on the river, only to be followed by it as they drive back upriver. In the course of carrying out their criminal designs, these lovable lugs encounter a variety of eccentric characters.
Mr. Michel's Dog
In 1977, after working as an assistant director on several features, BETTY BLUE filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix directed the following short film about a man and his dog.
Masculin Féminin
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
The Wing or the Thigh?
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Time to Live
Mary and Louis have been married for 10 years and have 2 children. Louis is a construction worker who, to support his wife and children in a comfort, works more and more. Mary asks Louis to spend more time with his family, but he replies that it is impossible. Marie makes the acquaintance of a former teacher of her son, he seems seduced by Marie who invites her over several times in the company of his children, his home ... The couple become unglued a little more when Louis meets a young prostitute. Can the couple manage to get through this?
Malaterra
Malaterra: for the residents this village is a haven of peace, a refuge. Until the death of a child. This once united community, where everyone thought they could trust each other, falls apart. Who killed little Nathan? And why?
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
One Deadly Summer
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Filmography
as Toussaint Olivesi
as Armand Mignot
as Père de Rémi
as Elzéard - le facteur
as l'inspecteur Blache
as Firmin
as Claude
as Robert
as Yves Lempereur
as Robert
as Napoléon
as Le voisin
as Marcel
as Self
as Romain
as Roberto Cipriani
as Jeannot
as Ulysses, the bus driver
as Pierrot Allard
as Engineer
as Pierrot
as Maurice, the father
as Roustan
as Alain
as Laurentino
as Roger aka Léo
as Marcel Petitgas
as French Captain
as Marcel Petitgas
as Rostollan
as Henry James
as Paulo
as Philippe Lecca
as M. Michel
as Le faux plombier
as Republic's brawler
as Le conducteur du train en bleu (uncredited)
as William Daube, leftist
as Aldo Minelli, le patron du bar
as Louis Maboul
as The Furrier's Henchman
as Jacques (uncredited)
as Inspector Bricard
as Cartoni, le tueur à gages
as Anatole
as « Petit René »
as Naturist
as Yves - A Revolutionary Student (uncredited)
as Homme a la brasserie
as René
as Gros Poucet (uncredited)
as David Goodis
as Man Who Kills Himself (uncredited)