Bill Bocket
Also Known As: Bill Stoesse, François Julien Bontemps, Биль Бокет
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tinchebray, Orne, France
Birthday: March 15, 1892
Deathday: March 12, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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La souris bleue
Overview: René, a simple employee of the Univers agency run by Mr. Lebourdier, loves Yvonne. But Mr. Martin dreams of a brighter party for his daughter. In order to win the post of deputy director, René asks Nenette, a pretty blonde, to seduce Mr. Lebourdier. But Nenette is Mr. Martin's girlfriend and she manages to fix everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-06-12
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Princess, At Your Orders!
Overview: Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage, for political reasons.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-02
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A story among a thousand
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-28
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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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Crainquebille
Overview: Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele moves away from him and Crainquebille thinks of suicide, when the affection of a kid from Montmartre makes him change his mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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The Amorous Garrison
Overview: In a small provincial town, the new colonel of the dragoon regiment consigns all his men. Three soldiers defy orders and jump the wall. But the colonel becomes indulgent thanks to the intervention of the general who did not remain insensitive to the charm of a young American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-24
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Gypsy Baron
Overview: An Hungarian young man hides his real identity as baron Barinkay until he returns to his birthplace and claims the family properties, now occupied by a clumsy pig dealer who has a beautiful daughter. The gypsy girl is not bad looking either, and the gypsies are willing to help him recover his home and fortune. French version of Der Zigeunerbaron based on the Strauss operetta, filmed at the same time with a different cast except for Wohlbrück.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Take the Road
Overview: Jacques is a jolly bachelor who lives a wild life with his a mistress Wanda and all he wishes is to go on living the way he does. But Father won't allow. He demands that Jacques get married. More or less reluctantly, Jacques decides to comply but on the way to his father's home - where he is to meet the bride Dad has chosen for him - the young man comes across the charming Simone and falls in love with her at first sight. He elopes her, determined to ignore his progenitor's orders. Little does he know that Simone, the girl of his heart, is none other than the one he was supposed to marry...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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La griffe du hasard
Overview: A likeable young man, reduced to living by expediency, is launched in spite of himself into an adventure of stealing jewels. With the help of a brave, rough-looking but actually very clear-sighted policeman, the jewels are recovered, the stolen young woman is reassured and the main culprit is forced into exile.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-02
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The Call of Life
Overview: A love between a teacher and his assistant is thwarted, because of their too great age difference.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Under the Roofs of Paris
Overview: In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-28
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S.O.S. Sahara
Overview: At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-17
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The Mondesir Heir
Overview: Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-07
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Devil and the Angel
Overview: The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-30
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A Smile in the Storm
Overview: In the Canadian Far North, a couple is looking for a gold mine. They meet a sergeant and his friend. But the man is killed during a fight with an adventurer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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Lawless Street
Overview: The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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La Chanson du Souvenir
Overview: A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Children of Paradise
Overview: In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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The New Gentlemen
Overview: The plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay), Gaillac must play second fiddle to Suzanne's wealthy "protector," powerful politician Count Montoire (Henry Roussell). When the Opera personnel go on strike, Gaillac is appointed leader of the strikers, doing his job so well that he is ultimately elected Secretary of Labor in the French cabinet. Now on equal footing with Montoire, Gaillac is at last a "worthy" suitor for Suzanne -- who can't make up her mind between her two well-connected admirers, leading to a political rivalry the likes of which Paris has never seen. This harmless political satire ended up being banned by the French government for undermining "the dignity of Parliament and its ministers". (moviefone.com)
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-11-20
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My Heart and Its Millions
Overview: Franck Crighton is a millionaire who is fed up with his hectic life. To have a bit of peace and quiet he has found the winning formula, passing himself off as Guillaume Aribeau, his own secretary. Under the cover of this modest condition Franck can both lead a freewheeling life and find true love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-06
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The Prosecutor Hallers
Overview: The simultaneously filmed French language version of the 1930 German film The Other. A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-08-31
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Un certain monsieur Grant
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-08-12
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Un homme de trop à bord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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Faded Melody
Overview: After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at Thomas' place in Berlin. Although she confesses her love for him, Thomas asks his brother Werner to look after Barbara, as he feels he is too consumed by work and doesn't wish to be bound to anyone. Only after a fight with his brother does Thomas realize how much in love with Barbara he really is; but by that time, she has left him. For years, Thomas searches in vain for her until one day he meets her in New York ... where she is now married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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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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About an investigation
Overview: During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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The Threepenny Opera
Overview: The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
Genres: Music Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-08
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My Heart Is Calling You
Overview: Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, the cheerful tenor, meets a girl hidden in his cabin. He helps her singing for her passage and soon Nicole is adopted by the whole troupe. Then at Monte Carlo the opera director has no intention to sign them. But he has an eye for beautiful women, so Nicole will try to persuade him to reconsider the offer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-09-14
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Michel Strogoff
Overview: The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-10
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Le Miroir aux alouettes
Overview: From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings together a courageous young girl and a young risk-taker who succeeds in thwarting a series of long-planned crimes.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Sergeant X
Overview: A military wife remarries after she thinks her Russian husband has died in battle, and when he returns alive he enlists in the Foreign Legion rather than disrupt her new happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-25
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