Jean Piat
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Biography: Jean Piat (23 September 1924 – 18 September 2018) was a French actor and writer. Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day. He was an officer in the Légion d'honneur and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a grand officer in the Ordre national du Mérite. He was married to actress Françoise Engel (who died in 2005), and was a professor in the dramatic arts of the Simon Course. He died on 18 September 2018 at age 93 of heart attack, five days before his 94th birthday. Source: Article "Jean Piat" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lannoy, Nord, France
Birthday: September 23, 1924
Deathday: September 18, 2018
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Gender: Male
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Paris Jamais Vu
Overview: A 20-minute hymn to "unseen Paris" which incorporates soaring aerial shots of the Parisian skyline accompanied by commentary written by Roger Glachant and narrated by Jean Piat. Shot using Lamorisse's "Helivision," a technique involving fitting a camera to the front of a helicopter for smooth tracker of locations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-28
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Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Overview: The Daltons have escaped to New York, where their accumulated loot is hidden in the carts of Monsieur Pierre's group of honest, naive European immigrants, who naively bought land in California from Crook, who inserted a clause they must claim it within 80 days. Joe emotionally blackmails Luke to guide them there, hoping to escape on the way. The usual route must shortened from 6 to 2 months, so no danger can be avoided. Given Lucky's reputation, Crook decides to shadow them to add sabotage, just to be sure- or is it?
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-07-29
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Rouletabille joue et gagne
Overview: The adventures of the famous Joseph Rouletabille, an adventurous young journalist, gone to solve a murder in the south of France. He puts an end to the conflict between two rival bands for the possession of a revolutionary metal, belenium.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-09
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The Devil Who Limped
Overview: The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-11
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Rouletabille Against the Queen of Spades
Overview: Rouletabille's fiancée, a young journalist always on the lookout for an investigation to solve, tells him how she has just suppressed a spy. Marriage is in question...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-12-21
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L'étiquette
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-04
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Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Overview: Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers. As a consequence, in this post, he has managed to make a comfortable living and even acquire a country mansion. Retirement beckons and he is going to be able to enjoy the quiet life at last. The wedding of his daughter, Genevieve with Andre du Velin, a well born playboy is going to endanger this dream, for Genevieve is ignorant of her father's job. However, her fiance doesn't see any problem with this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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Kaena: The Prophecy
Overview: Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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Rider on the Rain
Overview: A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-21
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Un fil à la patte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-26
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Lagardère
Overview: A young man, Lagardère, discovers that a plot is afoot to assassinate the Duke of Nevers. He warns him and flees with his daughter, Aurore. Fifteen years pass. Lagardère has raised Aurore as his own, but her mother seeks her out and has her abducted by her men. With the help of two friends, Lagardère rescues the girl and confronts her kidnappers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-04
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Ruy Blas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-10
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Ciao, You Guys
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-27
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Marriage of Figaro
Overview: It's the day of Figaro's marriage to Susanna, but first he must help the Countess divert the Count's attention away from Susanna and back to her, while arranging the betrothal of Cherubino and Barbarina.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Panurge's Sheep
Overview: Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-05
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The Bible
Overview: The Basilica of Monreale, near Palermo in Sicily acts as subject and springboard of Carné's final film; Its hundreds of gorgeous and intricate tiled mosaics vividly depict scenes from the Bible. Kinetic camerawork and dramatic narration of each scene compliment these stunning pieces in order to retell the Holy Book's age-old Story.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-18
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Les Jeunes Filles
Overview: French TV movie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-09
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La Maison du lac
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-01
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Domino
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-07-10
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Tower of Screaming Virgins
Overview: King's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a grip of fear -a "vampire/witch" in the "Tower of Sin" is luring young men to their deaths by offering them a night of sexual ecstasy followed by savage slaughter. Buridan is holding secrets of his own and his battle to save France from an evil Chancellor, an impotent King and a lascivious, wanton Queen make the battlefields of war seem like child's play.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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La Pèlerine écossaise
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-11
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The Milky Way
Overview: Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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Domino
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-27
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Les fausses confidences
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-22
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Confidences pour confidences
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-24
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Would-Be Gentleman
Overview: M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about Dorante's expenses and prefers her daughter Lucile to marry Cléonte. The two young men's servants use subterfuge to get M. Jourdain to accept Cléonte as son-in-law. They fake the arrival of the Grand Turk's son in Paris, and, in an Oriental ballet, confer upon M. Jourdain the title of Mammamouchi, his daughter marrying the son of the Grand Turk, who is none other than Cléonte in disguise.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-19
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A Monkey's Tale
Overview: Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-02
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Clara de Montargis
Overview: Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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My Husband, His Mistress and I
Overview: Middle-aged lust: a man, in his thirteenth and therefore omen-filled marriage year, cheats on his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Le Barbier de Séville
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-04
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La princesse d'Élide
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-04
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