Camille Bardou
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe, France
Birthday: August 24, 1872
Deathday: June 08, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Magnificent Wanderers
Overview: A rich man's son has lived a dissipated life and has joined a circus where he shares the courageous and perilous lives of its artists. He falls in love with a young dancer and is loved in return by her. But their passion goes through many vicissitudes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-08-21
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The Yellow Captain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-19
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L'enfant du carnaval
Overview: A desperate mother abandons her child on the door step of a playboy.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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Barocco
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-20
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Reign of Louis XIV
Overview: This series of tableaux-style vignettes taken from the much-storied life of France’s Louis XIV includes “Musketeers Fight”, “The Camp at Flanders”, “La Vallière’s Elopement”, “Louis XIV and the Iron Mask”, “Entertainment of the Court”, and “Night Festival in Versailles”, which features views of the palace’s Grand Fountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1904-09-23
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Protéa
Overview: Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played by his favorite actress, Josette Andriot, who wore a characteristic costume of a close-fitting black jersey, two years before Musidora achieved cult status with her similar appearance as Irma Vep. This final masterpiece reflects Jasset's popular style: rhythmic action, fantastic realism, rich visuals, an anarchistic philosophy, a disdain for psychology, and an attention to lighting that earned him the nickname “the Rembrandt of the cinema". Although Jasset died shortly after completion, the film had considerable success and Andriot went on to make four more films in the series with other directors.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-09-09
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The Burning Crucible
Overview: A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on the other hand, torments himself by imagining rivals. One morning she awakens from a nightmare in which she has been pursued by a man in various guises, who turns out to be the famous Detective Z, whose memoirs she has been reading. When she and her husband quarrel over leaving Paris permanently for a country estate, he goes to the "Trouve Tout" Agency and hires, of all people, Detective Z, to win back her affection.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-08-04
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A Narrow Escape
Overview: The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to help but Yvonne Lelys tricks him and he nearly leaves his family for the dancer. He even follows her to Constantinople. He falls asleep while writing to his father and dreams that he is a movie actor who, driven by poverty, sneaks into his father's home to rob him. As his father catches him, he kills him. Thankfully, it was all a dream.
Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-11-19
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Balaoo the Demon Baboon
Overview: An ape, turned near human by Dr. Coriolis and given the name 'Balaoo', is smitten by the beauty of Coriolis' niece, Madeleine. Being inquisitive, though, he runs off, getting into mischief, and falls in with a poacher who saves his life. Acting now as his slave Balaoo kills a man for the poacher, but balks on his orders to kidnap Madeleine, deciding instead to set a trap for the poacher.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Alsace
Overview: French war propaganda in the form of a family drama in the German government. Nationalist sentiments severely test the young marriage between a French and a German. Directed by Henri Pouctal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-02
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Paris During the War
Overview: This short film is included as a bonus feature on the Flicker Alley 2-disc DVD of J'accuse!.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1916-03-06
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Bandits en automobile
Overview: In 1913 early French film pioneer Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset died abruptly at the age of 51. His filmography of about 60 titles includes all film genres but is today mostly lost. He was particularly interested in detective or crime genres and with series like Nick Carter and Zigomar he is considered as one of the creators of the serial. The spectacular siege of Jules Bonnot’s Gang at Choisy-le-Roi near Paris on April 28th 1912 inspired Jasset to make this ‘Bandits en automobile’. French audiences recognized immediately the resemblances with the actual Bonnot Gang, a reason for which the film was prohibited in many cities.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-04-05
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Double Love
Overview: Jacques Prémont-Solène is a degenerate gambler and his losses at baccarat have bankrupted his lover, Laure Maresco. When he steals four hundred thousand francs and loses that at the gambling tables, he flees to the United States, and Nathalie takes the blame. Twenty years later, she has a flourishing career as a nightclub singer, but their son is just as inept a gambler as his father had been.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-27
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Bandits En Automobile - Episode 2: Outlaws
Overview: In 1913 early French film pioneer Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset died abruptly at the age of 51. His filmography of about 60 titles includes all film genres but is today mostly lost. He was particularly interested in detective or crime genres and with series like Nick Carter and Zigomar he is considered as one of the creators of the serial. The spectacular siege of Jules Bonnot's Gang at Choisy-le-Roi near Paris on April 28th 1912 inspired Jasset to make this 'Bandits en automobile'. French audiences recognized immediately the resemblances with the actual Bonnot Gang, a reason for which the film was prohibited in many cities.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-04-05
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Bandits En Automobile - Episode 1: The Gray Car Gang
Overview: In 1913 early French film pioneer Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset died abruptly at the age of 51. His filmography of about 60 titles includes all film genres but is today mostly lost. He was particularly interested in detective or crime genres and with series like Nick Carter and Zigomar he is considered as one of the creators of the serial. The spectacular siege of Jules Bonnot's Gang at Choisy-le-Roi near Paris on April 28th 1912 inspired Jasset to make this 'Bandits en automobile'. French audiences recognized immediately the resemblances with the actual Bonnot Gang, a reason for which the film was prohibited in many cities.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-04-05
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Le chevalier de Gaby
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-05-14
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Une Femme a Passé
Overview: The film tells the story of Frau Concha a femme fatale or as the story points out, a "fille perdue", a lost girl who has no feelings or scruples, toying with men as she pleases. These are the kind of wicked girls that usually are invited to enjoy the soirées at the Schloss. She is without mercy, respect or loyalty and Suzanne Talba is just great in the role and performs it in a unique way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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The Lion of the Moguls
Overview: In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and coveted by the Grand Khan. Fleeing the country, he takes refuge in Paris and his presentability allows him to be hired as an actor by a French film company. The trouble is that Anna, the star of the movie, is attracted to him. Which displeases banker Morel, the producer and Anna's lover... Written by Guy Bellinger
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-12-12
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Les Ombres Qui Passent
Overview: Directed by Alexandre Volkoff, 1924
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-07-20
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What the Gods Decree
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-09-26
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Marie Among the Predators
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Poster
Overview: A mother sells a photo of her daughter to the press for publicity, and a daughter suddenly dies leaving the mother desperate surrounding by portraits of her daughter all around town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-02-26
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Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves
Overview: Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy, Bretonneau's publisher, has an idea : to simulate the theft of a manuscript by Jim la houlette, in fact by Moluchet posing as the criminal. But Moluchet, confronted by the real Jim, lets him run away and is arrested...
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-11-12
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La joueuse d'orgue
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-07-07
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Zigomar vs. Nick Carter
Overview: Nick Carter, the famous detective, is ordered to prosecute the gang of Zigomar. Carter gets into various thorny situations but manages to escape every time, helped by Olga, a former girlfriend of Zigomar. Carter finally manages to trap Zigomar and Zigomar is arrested. However, Zigomar avoids going to court by apparently poisoning himself.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1912-03-24
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La lueur dans les ténèbres
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-01-27
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Tom Butler
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-05-24
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La voix qui meurt
Overview: A beautiful woman falls in love with a tenor giving her singing lessons. The evening when she is to appear in public for the first time, the tenor is called back to his country where his daughter has just drowned. He loses his voice and his mind. The young woman finds him one day, dying.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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La fille sauvage
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-07-14
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