Françoise Blanchard
Also Known As: Patricia Derec, Patricia Derek, Françoise Denise Aline Blanchard (birth name)
Biography: Françoise Denise Aline Blanchard was a French actress and dubbing artist. Before choosing acting as a career choice, Blanchard worked as a hand model. Throughout the 1970s, she would work in films with such directors as Michel Gérard, Jacques Peroni, Bruno Mattei and Richard Balducci, before being cast in what became her most notable role, in Jean Rollin's 1982 horror film "La morte vivante" ("The Living Dead Girl") as Catherine Valmont, a young woman who is resurrected following a spillage of toxic waste and must devour human blood in order to survive. She received praise for her performance in the film, particularly the end scene, which was so powerful and convincing that it was believed that she had descended into a state of madness. Blanchard went on to appear in three more of Rollin’s works: "Les trottoirs de Bangkok" (1984), the short film "À la poursuite de Barbara" (1991) and her final film role "La nuit des horloges" (2007). She continued in roles during the 1980s, appearing in films, including Jesús Franco's "Revenge in the House of Usher". She had also served as French voice dubbing in film, including that of Olive Oyl in Robert Altman's Popeye (1980), Jane Bux in The NeverEnding Story III (1994) and Margot Wallace in "Hackers" (1995), as well as dubbing of several TV series, including "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Totally Spies!". She died in 2013, twelve days before her 59th birthday.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Adult: No
Birthday: June 06, 1954
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 24, 2013
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Revenge in the House of Usher
Overview: Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-03-23
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Caligula and Messalina
Overview: When the deranged emperor Caligula falls for an insatiable gladiatrix, their reign launches a mind-bending bacchanal of torture, sodomy, incest, castration, and aroused livestock.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-17
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Golden Temple Amazons
Overview: A woman, raised by an Amazon tribe after they killed her parents, seeks revenge on the tribe for their deaths by joining an expedition looking for the tribe's secret golden temple.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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The Living Dead Girl
Overview: A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-23
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Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez
Overview: Robin Bellefeuille, postman in Saint-Tropez and his friend gendarme Ficelle, have well-established ecological principles. When they learn about the future construction of a casino in town, they do everything to stop the project
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-31
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Police Destination Oasis
Overview: Freewheeling female friends Annie and Nadine are snatched during a night of rump-shaking discotheque shenanigans by an evil slavery ring. Drugged and gagged, the gals wake up in the "Oasis", a clandestine bordello nestled deep in the African Congo where they - and a gaggle of girl prisoners from all over the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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In Pursuit of Barbara
Overview: In 1990, Jean Rollin was hired to transform some footage Jesús Franco had shot in 1971 into a new jungle adventure film. Rollin gave up after a few days of shooting in a Madrid hotel garden. The film remains an unreleased short curiosity.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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Les p’tites têtes
Overview: Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group of tourists in Morocco. The troubles begin when Xavier and Daniel arrive in Morocco and discover that Henri has closed the agency in Paris and hasn't booked any hotels or attractions for the trip. Without any money, Daniel and Xavier decide to continue the journey. Their luck is their meeting with the rich Prince Douzami who falls in love with one of the tourist, Marilyn, and he decides to help them. The trip is still disturbed by two criminals Mata and Harry who want to take a microfilm that daniel has unfortunately swallowed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-09
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La Maison Tellier
Overview: In the late 19th Century, a brothel madam and her workers are invited to take communion on a small family farm
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-13
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Sida, la peste del siglo XX
Overview: A finished, but never released drama directed by Jess Franco.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Sidewalks of Bangkok
Overview: Adventure, crime and mystery combine with comic book dialogue and some sadistic sex for good measure. Playfully perverse, pistol-packing fun with Yoko and the alluring Francoise Blanchard.
Genres: Action Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-23
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Venus on Fire
Overview: Two American executives for a cosmetics company travel to the Greek islands in search for a model for their new line of suntan lotion, "Venus". They run into more than they bargained for
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-05-16
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L'émir préfère les blondes
Overview: Emir Fattal is on holiday in France, being pursued by an international criminal, MacGorell. He moved to a musical impresario, Sam Moreau, who did not like the presence of a squatter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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The Night of the Clocks
Overview: A young woman inherits the house of Jean Michel but she is haunted by strange dreams and numbers. She has no idea that this is the beginning of the 'the night of clocks', which opened for those who have sinned, the dead which are not dead...
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-07-16
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It's Called Catastrophe
Overview: Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-29
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Don't Forget Your Father in the Cloakroom...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-02
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Sexuella
Overview: Sex comedy based on a novel by Jacques Chaumelle and the director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-06
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Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power
Overview: As the Roman Empire slowly declines, Caesar Nero indulges himself in every known debauchery, including incest with his mother.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-18
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Y'a pas le feu...
Overview: A pyromaniac troubles the quietness of Boneuil, a small French village. The mayor decides to hire a team of young benevolent firemen, unfortunately more interested about chasing girl than putting fires out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-06-05
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