Christian Marin
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Biography: Christian Marin (8 February 1929 – 5 September 2012) was a French film actor. Born in Lyon, he is best known for his role in Le gendarme series (as "Merlot"), although he did not appear in the last two sequels. In 1967 he appeared in the television serial Les Chevaliers du ciel, in which he portrayed the character Ernest Laverdure. Source: Article "Christian Marin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lyon, Rhône, France
Adult: No
Birthday: February 08, 1929
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 05, 2012
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Overview: Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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Strogoff
Overview: A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Overview: The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-08
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The Gendarme Gets Married
Overview: The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-30
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The Gendarme in New York
Overview: Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-28
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The Dance
Overview: The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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The Gendarme Takes Off
Overview: The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Squeak-squeak
Overview: Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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The Buddies
Overview: Seven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and memorable drinking bouts. Bénin is the mastermind, Broudier the enforcer and Lesueur the prankster. One evening, a grandiose plan was hatched: to wreak havoc in two peaceful sub-prefectures: Ambert and Issoire. Broudier begins: in the middle of the night, disguised as a minister, he wakes up a barracks in Ambert and sets in motion a thunderous maneuver. The next day, disguised as a Dominican, Bénin climbed to the pulpit of the cathedral and delivered a sermon insulting Christian doctrine. The same day, in Issoire, the local authorities were preparing to unveil a statue of Vercingetorix. But the statue came to life, pelting the crowd with tomatoes: it was Lesueur. With their minds at rest, the friends headed off to the Côte-d'Or for a vacation. But already, one of them begins to perform a new prank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-15
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All the Gold in the World
Overview: Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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La Mégère apprivoisée
Overview: The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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Dead Man Talking
Overview: 8pm in a rundown prison. A prisoner on death row will be executed. He has the right to make a final declaration. But the law doesn't stipulate how long he can talk. So, as long as he talks the execution is postponed…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-03
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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 Reluctant Spy
Overview: Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-03
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Josefa's Loot
Overview: Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she appears, and decides to swindle her out of three million centimes by using Pierre as an intermediary in a case involving an insolvent check. Josefa uncovers the ruse and refuses to help her son. However, Pierre has discovered the identity of his friend's father, who had been unknown to him for twenty years. With the help of Justin's mother, the two friends do everything they can to extort the son's missing three million centimes from his ashamed and repentant father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-22
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Funny Money
Overview: Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-09
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Crime Does Not Pay
Overview: Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-06
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Bebert and the Train
Overview: The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin family sets out to find him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-03
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Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Overview: Television adaptation of the comedy by Eugène Labiche and Edouard Martin, written in 1860. On the Buttes Chaumont plateau, transformed into the Gare de Lyon, Monsieur Perrichon, who has all the makings of an honest bourgeois, sets off on a pleasure trip with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He has no idea that his daughter's two official suitors will give this trip a fantastic turn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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Microbidon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-02
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Le commando des chauds lapins
Overview: During the debacle of 1940, the turbulent adventures of a pimp, his "five secretaries" and three soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-13
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The Busybody
Overview: André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and start a family with the woman who loves him, Juliette. To motivate himself and cope with the setbacks he encounters, he decides to swallow an excessive dose of euphoriants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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How to Succeed in Love
Overview: Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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A Blonde Like That
Overview: Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the young woman in the Indian sector of Tamazunchale. They get to know each other and Myra tells the young man what drove her to flee her father. But she's run out of money and expects her adventure to come to an end soon. Then she meets a man named Doc, who suggests she contact an old Indian sorcerer.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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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: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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The Abominable Man of Customs
Overview: Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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L'or du duc
Overview: A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Le commissaire mène l’enquête
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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Song of the World
Overview: In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Overview: Young Berthe, deeply moved by a cinema screening of the notoriously sultry Le Dernier Tango à Paris, goes to the address where most of the action takes place, a building overlooking the Bir-Hakeim Bridge metro station. Reality suddenly seems to mimic fiction when she discovers not only an apartment advertised for rent, but also a man prostrate in a corner who seems to be waiting for her. Hoping for the same torrid embrace as in the film, she discovers that he is in fact preoccupied only by the apartment's defects. Attempting to embark on a passionate affair, she learns that the man suffers from libido problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Overview: Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South America, believe he's not only the boss, but also his wife's husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-05
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La Grande Récré
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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L'or du duc
Overview: A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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The Blockhead Fair
Overview: On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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Small Local Trains
Overview: Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a travelling theatre company. Realising his father will never favour the union, Gérard joins the company on their next tour. In an attempt to heal the rift, Durand’s wife goes after Gérard and ends up performing in their next play…
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-30
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Two Sunny Days
Overview: Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going through a crisis. Both are frustrated and unsatisfied with their lives. They hope this vacation will help save their relationship. They both hope that this, long expected vacation will improve their relationship. They go on a mountain trip, and they get lost. Far from their usual comfort, confronted with the raw nature, they are left with no other option but to face one another...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2010-07-18
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Le Gang des seniors
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-09
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Décibel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Jean de la lune
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Le Coin tranquille
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-21
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Quelle famille !
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Sacré Noël
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-23
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There's a Bone in the Mill
Overview: Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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The American Beauty
Overview: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Woodplum
Overview: Children find a baby in the forest.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-16
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Monsieur le Président Directeur Général
Overview: In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-16
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L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Overview: Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of the bus that takes him from the station to his notary's home, he decides to buy it. What follows is a bewildering chase between the agents of the Strasbourg transport authority, the capitalists, the naive peasant and his lucid, pretty fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-18
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The Story of a Three-Day Pass
Overview: Turner, a black American soldier, is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a French girl named Miriam. Their romance blossoms, but their love affair is darkened by Turner's impending departure and the specter of racial prejudice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-07-08
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Tous ceux qui tombent
Overview: A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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Ten Minutes from Naturists
Overview: Family caretakers Brussels advantage of the absence of his patrons to exchange a beautiful property against a holiday villa in Sunset Island ... They just did not know a small detail: Island Sunset is 100% nude! Meanwhile, the Levantains arrive in Brussels to promote a directive that could undress throughout Europe...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-04
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The Most Beautiful Month
Overview: The life of the inhabitants of a village in the Drôme region during the debacle of May-June 1940. Liberated, Cyprien Boromès returns to his village to learn that his daughter Rosine has had a child out of wedlock with the mayor's son, Bruno Besson.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-26
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Cherchez l'idole
Overview: After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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The Grand Duke's New Clothes
Overview: Two crooks think up a scheme to get rich at the expense of the vain and excessive Grand Duke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-23
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De fil en aiguille
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Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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