Raymond Rouleau
Also Known As: Edgar Rouleau
Biography: Raymond Rouleau (4 June 1904 – 11 December 1981) was a Belgian actor and film director. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1928 and 1979. He also directed 22 films between 1932 and 1981. Rouleau studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he met Tania Balachova. They emigrated to Paris together and collaborated with a variety of directors at the cutting edge of French theatre, including Charles Dullin and Gaston Baty. They married in France and separated in 1940. He subsequently married the actress Françoise Lugagne. Source: Article "Raymond Rouleau" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bruxelles, Belgium
Birthday: June 14, 1904
Deathday: December 01, 1981
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Gender: Male
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
Overview: A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-16
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Monsieur des Lourdines
Overview: A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-09
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The Honorable Catherine
Overview: Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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Suzanne
Overview: The many difficulties of a couple to harmonize, between the need for independence of one and the brutality of the other...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-28
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Le Jugement de minuit
Overview: The mysterious vigilante Milton has warned Scotland-Yard of his intention to kill the lawyer Maurice Meister who is the cause of his sister's suicide. Police and detectives watch over the lawyer's home, but on the day and at the appointed time Meister is murdered.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-27
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Vers l'abîme
Overview: The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents that have been stolen from him.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Le cœur dispose
Overview: An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to an elderly baron.But what about Robert, the family secretary?
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Gunshot
Overview: A vindicative and spiteful captain carefully plots his vengeance against his best friend who lured away from him the woman he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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The Secret of Madame Clapain
Overview: Madame Clapain dies in dubious circumstances at the home of the Cadifon ladies, of which she was a tenant. A friendly inspector and Thérèse Cadifon each carry out their own investigation.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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Secret Documents
Overview: An adventure between rival spies about documents concerning the process for extracting fuel from seawater. A love story that threatens to turn tragic, since the young woman enlisted by force in the network of doctor Morenius falls in love of her rival before returning, triumphant, to her fiancé.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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Just a Big Simple Girl
Overview: The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Stepha between the young first and the director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-09
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The Trump Card
Overview: A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-02
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L'inconnu d'un soir
Overview: Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she has a dream: she wants to become a star. One day the Orient Express, which never stops at the little station across the café she works in, is forced to pull up due to a technical incident. And out of a carriage gets ... a company of dancers, who start rehearsing before Edith's amazed eyes. She meets the director of the company, handsome dancing star Harry Belmont, who takes an interest in her beauty and in her natural talent. When she leaves her obnoxious father for Vienna, Harry is absent. She nearly gets seduced by a libidinous man but, after a narrow escape, she gets a job from Treberg, the owner of the restaurant she had dined in. Treberg finds her there, hires her as a dancer and the pair soon meets tremendous success. A star is born but, realizing that he comes second to her, he prefers to vanish.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-04-08
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Nocturnal Uproar
Overview: Armand Varescot, a rich and tyrannical old man, is killed by his young and pretty secretary, Caroline, while he was trying to abuse her. To avoid scandal, his granddaughter Marie Varescot convinces Frank, his cousin, to take responsibility for this "accidental" death, he who is in love with Caroline. But Commissioner Legrand, who has designs on Marie, only agrees to close the affair if Marie marries her, and if Frank leaves with Caroline, abandoning his share of the inheritance. The arrangement is accepted and life goes on.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-29
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The Scheming Women
Overview: The renowned theatre manager, Paul Rémy, is accused by his general secretary Andrieux of having killed his partner. On the advice of his wife Mona, Paul goes into hiding in a psychiatric hospital to escape from the police. But Andrieux seduces Mona who then turns against her husband.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Paris Frills
Overview: Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-06-20
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Two Hours to Kill
Overview: In the waiting room of the Auvernaux station, the atmosphere is very lively. Several passengers, who have missed their train, are discussing the killer of young girls who is rampant in the region. While the criminal might be in the vicinity, pursued by the police, a journalist leads the investigation inside the station.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-14
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Mission in Tangier
Overview: During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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The Shanghai Drama
Overview: A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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Beware of Blondes
Overview: Back from a stay in the Far East, a woman who knew the names of the chiefs of a drug ring is murdered. Georges Masse, the famous reporter, decides to investigate, accompanied by his faithful photographer P'tit Louis. He will come across some unappetizing characters like M. Dubois, a killer, Luigi Costelli, a dangerous trafficker and a beautiful but dubious lady, Suzanne Wilson. After being himself suspected, Masse will make the truth triumph.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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Dr. Schweitzer
Overview: In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French colony, to fight malaria, which is ravaging the population. Administrator Leblanc takes a dim view of his arrival. But Albert can count on the devoted Marie Winter and Father Charles to assist him in his task.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Massacre in Lace
Overview: Cock-eyed reporter Georges Masse enjoys a peaceful vacation in Venice. Which does not please his boss as he is not supposed to be... in vacation! P'tit Louis, Georges' blundering but faithful photographer, is sent to Venice with a mission: pull up his socks. But Georges is not so dormant as he appears. Behind the scenes, he investigates the activities of a gang that cleans out Venice. Quite logically, he soon finds himself face to face with a bunch of shady brutal characters, among whom Zélos, a Greek nightclub owner, and Alessandro Cassidi, a powerful motor manufacturer married to the alluring Clara, twice younger than he is...
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-12
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Full House
Overview: Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Overview: A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts, to play a trick on him, organize a fake burglary, but he discovers the hoax. When he returns home, he finds his house broken into. Convinced that the game continues, he does not understand that he is dealing with real gangsters. His recklessness allows him to rout the criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-18
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Premier bal
Overview: Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-16
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Last Refuge
Overview: Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that Philippe take refuge in his quiet family. His younger sister Antoinette attracts and charms Philippe and excites the jealousy of Sylvie who informs Alvarez. The police get involved and Philippe is killed during a merciless fight.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-26
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Volga in Flames
Overview: Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed. He comes across a man who has lost his way in the blizzard and takes him to the safety of an inn. Arriving at the garrison, Orloff meets and falls immediately in love with Macha, the daughter of his commander. The town is suddenly attacked by a hoard of bandits who claims to be the true Tsar of Russia.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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The Ideal Couple
Overview: Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-31
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Miss Bonaparte
Overview: Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Romance on the Beach
Overview: The North Sea. Rain is falling. Two young people take shelter under a bathing hut. The sun returns, and sand, sea and shells all figure in their amorous games.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Woman I Loved the Most
Overview: Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Conflit
Overview: Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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Une fille épatante
Overview: Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bicycle under the vehicle. Jacques Mareuil, whom she then blackmails, pays her a sum to cover her debts. In reality, Mareuil, a policeman, is keeping an eye on Atcheminov, the owner of the car, but, wanting to prove that he is an unscrupulous trafficker, he comes up against Dominique's impetuosity time and again. It all ends up like in a good comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-06
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Adventure Starts Tomorrow
Overview: Together with her partner-in-crime Claude, Clarence sets her sites on famed explorer Maxime. It seems that Luguet has stumbled upon the fabled "elephant's graveyard" in the jungles of Africa, and Miranda intends to get her well-manicured mitts on all that valuable ivory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-04
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The Duel
Overview: A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought back on the straight and narrow by a missionary, the priest blesses his brother's marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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The Lafarge Case
Overview: Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-08
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Les femmes sont folles
Overview: Marguerite secretly loves a novelist whose face no one knows. The jealous husband sets up a scheme by asking an actor friend to play the novelist and behave in an execrable way in order to disgust his wife. But things never turn out the way you think they will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Vertiges
Overview: A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-22
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Happy Days
Overview: Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-08
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The Witches of Salem
Overview: Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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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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L'Argent
Overview: Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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The Naked Woman
Overview: A painter short of the readies becomes famous overnight and he and his mate (and model) move into a luxury house. But the man falls for a princess, leaving his partner crying.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-21
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Une vie perdue
Overview: A jealous young woman murders her husband's mistress. A notorious scoundrel is accused of the crime. When, seized with remorse, the young woman goes to see the prosecutor to confess her crime, she is hit by a car and loses her memory. Her husband judges that she has earned the right to be forgotten and to happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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The Coin
Overview: Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other for the money, but the diamonds are gone and Jacques returns to his life as an honest man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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The Big Scare
Overview: Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-28
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Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-15
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