Jean Dax
Also Known As: Gontran Théodore Louis Henri Willar
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: September 17, 1879
Age: 145 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 06, 1962
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Les dévoyés
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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kiki
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-20
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Baby
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-13
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Le Voyage imprévu
Overview: A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Mayerling
Overview: Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-31
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Mr, Mrs and Bibi
Overview: When his wife storms out of a dinner planned for the American boss, because the dog isn't allowed to be at the table, an engineer substitutes his secretary and pretends she is the wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-12
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Our Lord's Vineyard
Overview: A repentant alcoholic, Henri is promised to the young Yvonne, but he is in love with Gisèle, her sister and the fiancée of his friend Hubert. They all go on vacation, to the villa of Valentine Bourjeon, the mother of the two young girls. Henri and Gisèle begin an affair which, despite a thousand precautions, is quickly discovered. Hubert seems to be the only one not noticing anything. Mrs. Bourjeon will restore order in the sentimental life of her daughters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-20
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Pleasures of Paris
Overview: Provincials visiting Paris take the drug of Professor Jouvence, which rejuvenates them with the scabrous consequences that one can imagine.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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The Queen of Biarritz
Overview: Elenita from Sierra Mirador is the darling of Biarritz. For her, a young groom abandons his wife, a forty-year-old suddenly becomes inflamed and cheats on his young wife. But Elenita, watched by her mother, resigns herself to becoming honest and returns to her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-20
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Le Petit Jacques
Overview: An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good education if he allows himself to be condemned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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Jim la houlette
Overview: Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la Houlette and pretend to steal a manuscript to boost the sales of their novels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Une gueule en or
Overview: The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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Symphonie D'Amour
Overview: A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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The Seniors
Overview: A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-29
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La rose effeuillée
Overview: A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One day she is unjustly accused of robbery, and dismissed. She suffers in her loneliness, until the day she hears that the boy is terminally ill, and there's no medical hope for him. She comes back and sits by him, praying to Saint Thérèse de Lisieux - and the miracle happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Femmes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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La Fille de la Madelon
Overview: The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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La Peau d'un autre
Overview: The very chic Parisian couturier Jean Granet has trouble with the police, and will find himself imprisoned for two weeks, in the provinces, for speeding. He manages to get himself replaced by his friend Lambelin who, for a fee, will serve the sentence in his place. This is the beginning of a series of misunderstandings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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Une femme qui se partage
Overview: Louis Cruciol, a married man, leads a double life: he maintains his mistress by taking the identity of one of his employees, Louis Cornette. A series of misunderstandings ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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Une de la cavalerie
Overview: The merry Vigoulette wants to escape the yoke of his wife and asks to be recalled to a barracks regiment in Nice. Every night, he and his friend Poupardin have a great time. But one evening, he is missing. Fortunately his wife, who had arrived to spy on him, takes her place in the bedroom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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Ceux De Demain
Overview: Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute where he studies and becomes the protégé of an opera singer at whose house, one day, he surprises a thief who blesses him. His parents reconcile at the foot of his hospital bed.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-24
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The Five Cents of Lavarede
Overview: Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-07
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Mother Hummingbird
Overview: A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-10-23
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The Tragic Swing
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-10-31
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Accused, Stand Up!
Overview: Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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The King of Prison
Overview: Fernand Pradier (Gabriel Signoret) is an honest merchant and a simple person at heart who tries to make her daughter Germaine (Gabrielle Robinne) happy. She is engaged to a rich banker St-Bris (René Alexandre). However, the fiance once belonged to a criminal organization and, despite his efforts of rehabilitation, one of his ancient accomplices makes their engagement impossible. Eventually imprisoned, she escapes with the help of a beautiful typist (Stacia Napierkowska)...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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L'Oncle de Pékin
Overview: In this musical comedy, all the heirs of a recently deceased uncle must stay in his chateau until they find a buyer for it.If no one is found or if any of them leave, the place will be left to its Chinese servants, who devise tricks to cheat the heirs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-25
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In the Name of the Law
Overview: The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen of him until his body is found floating in the Seine several days later. The only clue is a woman's glove. The dead man's friends on the force vow to avenge him, and receive information leading them to suspect one Sandra, a beautiful foreigner, played by the stunning Marcelle Chantal.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-15
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Le Nabab
Overview: Bernard Jeansoulet supports his brother Louis and his mother through his work. Louis finds a job in Paris, where he gets carried away by the intoxicating atmosphere, and ends up in prison... An adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's work by one of the pioneers of cinema.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-05-23
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Ariane, Russian Maid
Overview: Arianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-02-26
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Un mauvais garçon
Overview: Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich man, Monsieur Feutrier. Jacqueline accepts and starts her career by defending Pierre Besnard, a bad Boy. Not only does she get the case dismissed but she falls in love with Pierre as well. But she is not famous for all that and sooner or later she will have to bring herself to marry Feutrier's son.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Mon curé chez les riches
Overview: In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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The Battle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-12-23
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L'assommoir
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-12-30
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The Secret Courier
Overview: A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-25
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The Crew
Overview: First adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the wife of one of his flying comrades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-03-30
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Iris perdue et retrouvée
Overview: To save her brother compromised in a case of forgery in writing, Iris agrees to marry a shady financier, lover of her sister-in-law. A young painter, in love with her, persuades her to flee with him, but tired of the life of an artist, Iris returns to her family....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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La Marraine de Charley
Overview: To receive his fiancée and his father at his home, an Oxford student counts on the presence of his aunt from Brazil to serve as his chaperone. The latter having delayed his trip, the young man passes his servant off as his aunt. This results in multiple misunderstandings. Finally, everything works out when the aunt comes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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La folie du doute
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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La Nuit de la Saint-Jean
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-03-03
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The King of Paris
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-05-14
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The Bridge That Failed
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Charlemagne
Overview: After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Education of a Prince
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-08-15
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Mayerling
Overview: Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-31
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She Played and Paid
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-04-16
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La closerie des Genets
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-02-13
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Monsieur le directeur
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-23
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