Raymond Gérôme
Also Known As: Raymond De Backer, Raymond Gerome, Gerome Raymond
Biography: Raymond Gérôme (17 May 1920 — 3 February 2002) was a Belgian-born, French stage and screen actor. Gérôme was born as Raymond Joseph Léon De Backer in Koekelberg. He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he lent his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas. In 1982 he was awarded a Pix du Brigadier for his performance in L'Extravagant Mister Wilde. Gérôme died in 2002, at his home in Les Lilas. Source: Article "Raymond Gérôme" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Koekelberg, Brussels, Belgium
Birthday: May 17, 1920
Deathday: February 03, 2002
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Gender: Male
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The French Revolution: Years of Rage
Overview: Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror with the execution of Robespierre.
Genres: Drama War History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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The Day of the Jackal
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Travels with My Aunt
Overview: At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-17
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Animal
Overview: Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-05
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L'Opération Corned Beef
Overview: The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-02-06
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Le Gentleman des Antipodes
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Genres: Crime Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-04
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La Toile d'araignée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-03
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The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Overview: In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Overview: Basil Hallward is a mediocre painter. His exhibitions owe their success to his social position and nothing more. But one day Basil meets Dorian Gray, symbol of youth and a certain beauty.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-07-27
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The Iron Mask
Overview: The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Big Deal
Overview: Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-29
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A Slightly Pregnant Man
Overview: Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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The Deadly Trap
Overview: An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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A Little Virtuous
Overview: In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the young woman with another man, Brady, his sponsor. The policeman Lorenzi is put on the case, but in love, Ferdinand does not want to denounce her. However, a stolen object that she offered him will allow his indictment: Claire will spend a year in prison. When she is released, Ferdinand marries her. Kerman, Ferdinand's new boss, employs Claire in his cabaret. She puts on a famous act during which she picks the pockets of the spectators, then gives the objects back at the end of the show. But Brady reappears, demanding 80% of the young woman's earnings, otherwise he will denounce Claire's bigamy, to whom he is still married! Ferdinand prepares to flee with his wife. When he finds her, he comes across the corpse of Brady, whom Claire has just killed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Dix petits nègres
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Under the Sign of the Bull
Overview: In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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Le mari ne compte pas
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-02
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The Conspiracy
Overview: Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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The Greengage Summer
Overview: Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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Les Avocats du Diable
Overview: In 1958 in Paris, during the Algerian War, a young trainee lawyer, Maître Chabrier, was assigned to defend an Algerian garbage collector against paratroopers who had beaten him. Stay out of Algerian affairs, his peers advise him because the trial is taking a political turn. Chabrier acquired the reputation of the Fellaghas' lawyer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-19
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The Brain
Overview: Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-07
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Dear Inspector
Overview: When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-18
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The Magnificent One
Overview: A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-11-23
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Murder at 45 R.P.M.
Overview: Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-24
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Élisa
Overview: Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her success is growing. On a trip to the provinces, she meets Bernard, a blind man. They soon fall in love, but Élisa hides her activities from him. When he finds out, he hits her. The situation quickly degenerates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Un ange au paradis
Overview: A bored undertaker, married to an ex prostitute, falls in love with a transsexual.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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Divine
Overview: Olivier, a young man, falls in love with Marion Renoir, theatre and screen star, to the despair of his fiancée Antonia. The latter goes to find the actress and asks her to invent a ploy to help her win back her lover's heart. The actress gets caught up in the game and ventures into an intrigue where simulation and sincerity are dangerously confused.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-10
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Young Girls Beware
Overview: Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with other mobsters who want to kill him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Overview: Author of the best-selling crime novel Le Poulet se mange froid (Chicken Eats Cold) under the pseudonym Sam O'Connor, Inspector Bourdieux's daughter, Agnès, is unwillingly drawn into the gangster ring by two small-minded young misfits, Dédé and Juju. She's not insensitive to the charms of M. Paul, a false kingpin who is in fact a son of a good family and a thrill-seeker. Planning a heist at the home of one of Paul's snobbish friends, she arrests the real Sam O'Connor, an escaped convict, with the help of her father. Then she and Paul confess their love for each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-11
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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Overview: The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Tell Me Whom to Kill
Overview: On the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the courteous challenge of discovering a war treasure lying at the bottom of a bay. But Basta, an old original who alone knew the location of the wreck, is murdered. And Pitou, the jovial nightclub owner, is determined to get his hands on all the loot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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The Other Truth
Overview: Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't bring himself to leave his wife over the young woman. When the dancer's wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-04-19
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Princess of Cleves
Overview: When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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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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The French Game
Overview: Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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Les Dix Petits Nègres
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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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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La Femme de paille
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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Le chien des Baskerville
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-03
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The Denunciation
Overview: Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-18
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The Night of the Generals
Overview: A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Thriller Mystery War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-29
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Goodbye Again
Overview: Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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L'Exercice du pouvoir
Overview: At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-08
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Tropic of Cancer
Overview: Expat American writer Henry Miller hustles his way through Paris in a series of amorous encounters while trying to find his literary voice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-27
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Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Overview: This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-10
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Lulu, roi de France
Overview: Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the public assistance, a notary comes to announce that his father died and left him an extraordinary inheritance: a castle, a title of duke and a royal filiation. But problems arise, the deceased duke has left heavy debts and suitors to the title.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-21
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One Morning in June 1940
Overview: 18 June 1940: German troops sweep through France. The cavalry school at Saumer is ordered to withdraw, but the director resolves to stop the enemy on a 25km front with his students.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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The French Revolution: Years of Hope
Overview: First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792.
Genres: History Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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