Paul Villé
Also Known As: Paul Ville, Marie Jean Baptiste Adolphe Paul Lacan, Paul Villie
Biography: Paul Ville ou Paul Villé (Marie, Jean-Baptiste, Adolphe, Paul Lacan), né le 18 octobre 1881 à Paris Xe et mort le 25 décembre 1977 à Paris XVIe, est un acteur français. Avec sa vois chevrotante, Il fut aussi un doubleur important, notamment les personnages de vieillards des versions françaises et particulièrement Walter Brennan dans la Rivière rouge (Red River) d'Howard Hawks (1948), Rio Bravo du même (1959) et bien d'autres. Il fut marié et divorcé de l'actrice Sylvie..
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 18, 1881
Age: 143 years old
Gender: Other
Deathday: December 25, 1977
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The Wild Child
Overview: In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-26
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Stavisky...
Overview: Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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Such a Pretty Little Beach
Overview: During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-19
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Son plus bel exploit
Overview: Monsieur Loyal, bailiff by profession, is dispatched to a grub by an actress. Reason: she accuses Micheline, a young singer who works there, of stealing her songs. But our usher is nonetheless a man, and Micheline exerts her charms on him so well that he gives him shelter for the night, and finds him a new job at the Mirador, a cabaret that has just opened.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-01
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Shadow and Light
Overview: A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a concert. Now recovered, she fell in love with Jacques whom she plans to marry. She does not know that he is having an affair with Caroline, his sister, director of a fashion house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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A Gentleman of the Ring
Overview: Chouchou leads a happy life between his comrades and his fiancée. But his father wants him to marry a rich American in love with him. Chouchou refuses and looks for work in order to be independent and to marry the one he loves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-21
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Le Père Lampion
Overview: How a simple sewer, a perfect look-alike of the president of the council, manages to reform a country and make himself loved by his fellow citizens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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My Wife Is Formidable
Overview: Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-05
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The Mayor's Dilemma
Overview: At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-23
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Dédé la musique
Overview: Dédé de Montmartre, former king of the accordion, has become a bad boy who lives off drug trafficking and prostitution. He sets his sights on a young girl, fresh and naive, Odette, saleswoman at Galeries Lafayette. But he is touched by the charm of this midinette.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-11
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Sowing the Wind
Overview: A child is rejected by his father and sister when his mother dies giving birth to him. The family is falling apart; the father takes to drinking, the child is placed with a nurse. However, the little girl will take the initiative to bring the child back to the family home which she decides to take care of, thus encouraging the father to change his behavior.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-03-16
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The Great Pack
Overview: Côme de Lambrefaut inherited the family castle on the death of his father, but the notary told him that all his property was mortgaged. However, he wants to keep the pack of one hundred and ten hunting dogs that make him proud. In September 1939, the castle was destroyed during a bombardment, and the dogs escaped from their enclosure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-17
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The Woman in Red
Overview: Two paintings are stolen. Amateur private detective Roland Gautier investigates.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-21
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Le roi Pandore
Overview: A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika. But crooks deprive him of his financial means
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Paris Waltz
Overview: A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Véronique
Overview: The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing herself to him with the name Veronique...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Kindergarten
Overview: 1948. Madeleine is the headmistress of a kindergarten in Ménilmontant. Dr Libois, the school doctor, is very close to her heart. When Rose, a new helper comes to the school, Libois is impressed at once by her understanding of the little ones and her dedication to them. Little by little, Libois grows fond of Rose while becoming estranged from Madeleine. He eventually marries Rose.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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The Unknown N° 13
Overview: While investigating the world of Parisian tramps, journalist René Savary, himself disguised as a poor beggar, notices the strange behavior of a little boy. He follows the brat after he has sneaked out of a barge, catches up with him and takes him to his home. There, the kid tells him about himself : his name is Jean, his mother has disappeared and since then he has been left to fend for himself. Moved by the lot of the wretched boy, Savary, with the aid of his friend Pierrot, undertakes to solve the mystery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-21
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Rendezvous in July
Overview: Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-06
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Rendezvous in Grenada
Overview: The love of a singer and his mistress suffers a setback.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Le Roi des camelots
Overview: How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to be more and more brilliant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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Matrimonial Agency
Overview: Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-21
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The Case Against X
Overview: Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrusted to the experienced Chief Inspector Bonnardel and his young rookie assistant, Inspector Richard. Suspicion turns to his mistress Catherine Villard, with whom he had just broken up on the night of the crime. She is soon arrested and charged. However, Inspector Richard discovers a button at the scene of the crime which could help him to trace the trail and confound the culprit(s).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-11
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Run Away Mr. Perle
Overview: Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who poisons his existence. A Parisian notary writes to the hero to ask him to come and take possession of an inheritance. In Paris, Perle meets a pretty adventuress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-11
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Follow That Man
Overview: While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. The second concerns the brutal broad daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Les Dents longues
Overview: A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to betray anyone to achieve his ends...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-15
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Lettre ouverte
Overview: Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-11
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The Beautiful Otero
Overview: An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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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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Stowaway in the Sky
Overview: A small child, fascinated by a lighter-than-air balloon, clambers aboard. The balloon takes flight, lifting the child upward to an amazing adventure. The land-bound adults have conniptions as the balloon wafts by; the child has nothing more than a great time.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-14
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Overview: The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-16
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Mandat d'amener
Overview: Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards, a fire ravages Delanglade's factory. During the ensuing investigation, the Public Prosecutor discovers the troubled past of the industrialist and his front man, Jacques Perthuis, an ex-convict. They themselves set fire to the factory to collect the insurance premium. Gérard Latour, suspecting his mistress of complicity in her husband's machinations, leaves her after a stormy argument.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-02
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Sacred Youth
Overview: Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives the same, but more advantageous, offer from his insurer, but Mr. Longué has decided to undergo a rejuvenation treatment in Switzerland, at Dr. Koranoff's establishment. The effect was striking, and he was given a new lease on life, leaving his heirs and insurer in complete disarray. His wife, witnessing her husband's metamorphosis, also undergoes the treatment, and off they go on a second honeymoon to Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-08-05
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Signed, Arsène Lupin
Overview: At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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Over the Wall
Overview: Simone and Jean have just married and, looking for a home in the Paris region, are lucky enough to find a house with a garden in a residential suburb. Expecting their first child, the young couple began to observe how the parents of neighboring families were raising theirs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-22
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Les hommes
Overview: At the start of the First World War, two next-door neighbors find themselves companions in misfortune. Faced with the horror of the trenches and the fear of death, they grow closer and become friends. But will these strong feelings that the war engendered survive a return to daily monotony?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Céleste
Overview: Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Céleste as his housemaid. A Portuguese immigrant, she soon appears to be a Marxist-Leninist activist, engaged in political groups working against the regime of Salazar, the dictator of Portugal. Geoges and Céleste fall in love with each other, which brings adventure in the reporter's hitherto superficial life, upset by a breakup with Hélène, the interference of the French Secret Service and a touch of terrorism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-10
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Le Bonheur
Overview: Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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Without Leaving an Address
Overview: A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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Fantastic Planet
Overview: On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Give Me My Chance
Overview: 17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-18
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L'Auberge de l'ange gardien
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-25
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Somewhere, Someone
Overview: A portrait of loneliness in contemporary France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-18
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Mister Taxi
Overview: An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-26
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Overview: The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
Overview: Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Pas moral pour deux sous
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-04
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