André Deed
Also Known As: Henri André Augustin Chapais
Biography: Henri André Chapais, known as André Deed (22 February 1879 – 4 October 1940), was a French actor and director, best known for his Foolshead comedies, produced in the 1900s and 1910s. André Deed was one of the first named actors in cinema, and his film series based around Foolshead were a global success.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
Birthday: February 22, 1879
Deathday: October 04, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Boireau cuirassier
Overview: Boireau's flamboyant military costume gets stuck everywhere he goes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-09-08
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Cretinetti re dei ladri
Overview: Cretinetti fails as an amateur thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1909-04-01
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Cretinetti ficcanaso
Overview: Cretinetti meddles with things and lands into trouble every time, having his head forged on an anvil and falling into a pit on a construction site.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1909-11-01
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Cretinetti distratto
Overview: Cretinetti wakes up in the middle of his sleep and finds himself in outlandish situations, walking through a mirror and falling through the roof.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-06-07
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Il regalo di Cretinetti
Overview: Cretinetti tries to bring a gift to his sweetheart. He loses the flowers. The tableware set breaks into pieces. Finally he buys a piano, but in the great chaos he is stuffed inside it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-02-01
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Cretinetti s'incarica del trasloco
Overview: Moving Cretinetti style: a tornado of furniture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-09-16
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The Wig Chase
Overview: Child prank causes chase for few ballons and one lady's wig
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1906-05-11
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Boireau déménage
Overview: Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they have a drink to seal the deal. They load his cart...... and they have a drink..... in short, but the time this is over, Deed is pretty loaded too in this amusing comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1906-05-13
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Trois sous de poireaux
Overview: A drunk man is going to buy more drink at his wife's expense, which he takes advantage of to get more drunk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1906-06-16
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Boireau et la gigolette
Overview: Andre Deed sees Valentina Frascaroli shoot a man who annoys her in the street and is enchanted. He decides the way to win her affection is to swap clothes with the guy who cleans his apartment, and swagger about the cheap Montmartre saloons. Miss Frascaroli likes it, but the apaches who make up her friends don't, and proceed to torment the lovestruck fellow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-16
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Boireau au harem
Overview: A pasha invites a photographer to his harem. A belly dancer performs for him, and then seduces him, getting him into trouble There are two versions of this film, one with a fully clothed dancer, and a second where she is scantily dressed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-16
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He
Overview: In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty girl, hands it has Isidore, the village idiot, who becomes rosier
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-02-15
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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Overview: Two young lovers. An arranged marriage. An older groom. The lovers develop a plan to convince the groom that she is unworthy and also to discredit him. A surprise ending convinces the father that he should bless the lovers' marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-16
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Robinson Crusoe
Overview: Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally a 15 minute film, twelve and a half minutes of painted film have been found and have been restored.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1902-12-20
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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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The Mechanical Man
Overview: The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine. The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however by a gang of criminals, led by a woman named Mado, who wish to get the instructions for building the mechanical man. The criminals are captured before they are able to get them and are brought to trial and condemned. Mado manages to escape and kidnaps the scientist's niece whom she forces to give her the instructions which she uses to build a mechanical man.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1921-11-01
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Boireau, roi de la boxe
Overview: At a prize fight, Deed gets int a fight of his own with two other spectators and gets thrown out. He goes to a boxing instructor, and after one lesson, he sets out for revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-22
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Cretinetti e l'ago
Overview: Andre Deed was a leading player in short Italian comedies in this period under the character name of Cretinetti, and Italian slapstick was much rougher and far more bone-breaking than anything Americans would regularly view. In this one, he is sewing his pants until his fiancée appears with his prospective father-in-law, so he puts his pants on, only to discover that the needle is still in the pants and takes every chance to stick him painfully.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-13
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The Delights of the Shoot
Overview: Cretinetti goes hunting with his friends, stalking the ferocious Chicken, and produces a typical Italian slapstick, which makes your typical Keystone slapstick look like tea time at the Ritz. Raw, bone-breaking slapstick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-01-15
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Cretinetti che bello!
Overview: The set-up here is that Cretinetti has been invited to a friend's wedding and dressed up in a fine new outfit, which so impresses every woman he sees that they wind up pursuing him en masse -- along with a couple of men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1909-01-01
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Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
Overview: Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-12-16
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A Kind-Hearted Policeman
Overview: In this picture we see a man who is vested with authority to enforce the law, but, unlike the usual sort of men occupying the same position, he is so kind-hearted that ofttimes he is governed by his sentiments, and is very indiscreet in meting out just punishment to offenders, He is patrolling in the country, where lawbreakers are not numerous, but once in a while it will happen that somebody is guilty of an act that is not just in keeping with propriety. His first duty is to arrest a pair of lovers whom he catches kissing, but when he comes upon the love-sick couple, and threatens to arrest them, his heart is softened by their tears, so he allows them to go their way with some good advice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-09-23
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The Fear of Zeppelins
Overview: Cretinetti is about to get married and he could not be any happier and more in love with his Junoesque consort. But just on the day of his wedding, he reads a notice on the wall explaining how to behave in the case of an enemy air raid. The fear that grips him makes him even too literal in implementing safety indications, causing trouble and accidents that will not only stop him from enjoying his first marital night, but will even cause the collapse of the whole house. In the end, the gendarmes go to him with a conscription notice and take him away under coercion, under the appalled gaze of his new bride.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1915-11-01
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Gribouille redevient Boireau
Overview: Directed by André Deed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-02
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Cretinetti the Wrestler
Overview: André Deed is tired of being beat up, so a strong man has no trouble selling him one of the springs with handles at either end. When I was a kid, exercise mavens like Jack Lalanne would sell them, only made out of rubber. Anyway, Deed alternates exercising with this device and getting beat up on by almost everyone for the length of this one-reel comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-26
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The Man Monkey
Overview: A man behaves like a monkey after its brain is transplanted into him.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-03
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Modern Sculptors
Overview: The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life, and one can follow a snake-like line branding on the polished face of the stone the name of the house of Pathé Frères. As soon as this stone has been engraved, as by magic, a handsome young lady appears with a huge lump of clay covered with a cloth. As soon as the cloth is removed from the soft mass it starts whirling and turning as if stricken mad, and one is asking one's self what all the contentions are going to lead to, when the vague shape of an animal not yet discernible seems to appear, and before one has time to make one's mind as to the category of brutes to which it belongs one sees the form of a remarkably well made orang-utan modelled out of the clay, who calmly smokes his pipe. Then the statue is removed by the same winning young lady and another covered block of the same substance is carried forward.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-01-31
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Les incohérences de Boireau
Overview: Boireau is sleeping in his bed, floating in the air, when a fire wakes him. So he takes his gun and shoots a fish down from the sky...
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-02
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Come Cretinetti paga i debiti
Overview: Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1909-03-31
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Le costume blanc
Overview: The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly encounters every conceivable insult to his suit's integrity: a coalman bumps into him, a waiter spills food on him, a painter walks into him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-01-01
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An Extraordinary Dislocation
Overview: A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1901-02-01
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Two Girls Are in Love with Foolshead
Overview: Short comedy in which Gribouille (Cretinetti) loses his two lovers to two gentlemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-05-19
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Cretinetti chauffeur
Overview: Cretinetti's cab runs out of gas and ends up blocking traffic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-08-09
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The Devil's Son Has a Wedding in Paris
Overview: When Hell gets boring, head for Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1906-09-20
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The Inexperienced Chauffeur
Overview: The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the street, hitting everything from lamp-posts to market stalls and baby carriages. An ever-increasing crowd of incensed pursuers chases after him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1906-09-24
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Just Leon
Overview: Léon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-30
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L'apprenti architecte
Overview: Jim's mother brings him to an architect's office to secure a position for him, and he is accepted. After clinging lovingly to his ma, he is induced to abandon his strangle hold, and he is taken into the drafting room. Here two clerks make merry with him, but he managed to even matters unconsciously by leaning on the heavy end of a table, upsetting it and all on it. Now his employers tell him to carry a set of plans, papers and instruments, with which he is to accompany them to a building. In the course of construction, Jim reaches to the top of a closet for some of the papers, upsets it, breaks some more furniture and finally reaches the street, struggling under a mass of paraphernalia, with which he strews his path as he goes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-03-28
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Boireau sert les maçon
Overview: Boireau, apprentice mason, and a coalman fight it out for the affections of the cook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-02-09
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Il Natale di Cretinetti
Overview: Comedy from a series about the character Cretinetti (Gibrouille). He is organizing a Christmas party but it ends up being a total mess. He buys a Christmas tree, but the tree is so big that he can hardly transport it to the party. As he runs around the city with the tree he creates one disaster after another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1909-12-26
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Il Natale di Cretinetti
Overview: Another nice Christmas comedy, produced by Itala Films, with André Deed in his famous Cretinetti character.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-12-31
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Boireau on a Scientific Mission
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Cretinetti cerca un duello
Overview: A quarrel in a club room leads to a duel between two of the characters. Honor is satisfied by the usual "continental scratch" and the affair ends. Foolshead, however, has been a witness of the combat and is smitten with the duel fever, so a series of highly amusing scenes are witnessed in which Foolshead endeavors to get somebody to fight with him. Finally he gets a good beating for his pains, assaults the police and is arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1909-02-01
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Le Nègre du rapide numéro 13
Overview: In the Le Mans railway station, Oscar Ribouis is waiting for the connection that will lead him to Rennes, his home town. Feeling a bit thirsty, he decides to have a quick one at the refreshing room. And feeling a bit lonely he invites a rail worker to have a drink in his company and tells him about his stay in Paris. But after a couple of glasses of wine, Oscar misses his connection. Worse, he goes out, walks on the tracks and what does he do but get his foot stuck in switches! About to be run over by a train he is saved at the last moment by his new companion, the railway-man. Saved from the train alright but not from a heap of coal he falls into! Now blacker than an African Negro, Oscar, once again helped by his companion, manages to get on a night train for Rennes. But, still drunk like a fish, he wakes all the passengers of the sleeping car and scares them stiff: they all believe they are being attacked by a black bandit!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-03-31
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Tao
Overview: Jacques Chauvry, the new government delegate for a French protectorate in Cambodia, meets the young Soun who, due to a series of circumstances, will become heir to land that houses a large oil field. Tao , an evil mestizo, along with his minions, tries to get hold of these lands, terrorizing the locals by appearing disguised as the "spirit of evil".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-05-04
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Our Band's Going to the Competition
Overview: An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-07-25
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Jim is Fond of Garlic
Overview: In this comedy we see a fellow giving orders to the cook to put plenty of garlic in his food, and she complies with his wishes by giving everything an extra dose of the unpleasant ingredient. The first victim of the fumes is a dog that is seated beside the table, and when the fellow blows his breath on the animal he falls over unconscious from the effects. Next he prostrates a street cleaner and a painter perched on a ladder, as well as a woman in charge of a newsstand. They all succumb and fall over unconscious on the ground. He enters the subway and meets a man coming up the stairs, and when the latter gets a whiff of the garlic he too, goes down in a heap. Entering the car in the underground road he proceeds to waft the strong odor over the passengers, with the effect that each in turn goes down and out on the floor of the coach. When he reaches the next station he alights, leaving the car looking more like a hospital than anything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-22
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Boireau à l'école
Overview: André Deed in the persona of a juvenile Boireau, has two ambitions: to get along with pretty schoolgirl Valentina Frascaroli and to punch his teacher in the head. The latter gets him tossed in the school's dungeon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-03-22
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Jim's Apprenticeship
Overview: Boireau's father keeps trying to apprentice him to a different trade. Each time, the youngster annoys the customers and destroys the goods and property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-05-24
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The Kingdom of the Fairies
Overview: At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate captive has been taken to a strange, forbidding realm, from where it will be impossible to rescue her without some special help.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1903-07-25
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Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp
Overview: The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin must regain the lamp or lose everything.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1906-10-25
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L'ultima monelleria di Cretinetti
Overview: Italian short comedy
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-08-05
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Boireau bonhomme de pain d'épice
Overview: Boireau makes a mess, gets pushed around and ends up a gingerbread man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-05
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Boireau swordsman
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-05-16
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