Franck Maurice

AKA: Franck Morris, Franck Mauris, Frank Maurice

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France

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {97}

le cafetier

1934-05-25 0

Jeunesse

After being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, but lands up rejoining her husband in the colonies as she now expects a baby. ...

Genre :

L'homme sortant avec des valises (uncredited)

1965-09-08 6.4

God's Thunder

Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1932-08-12 0

Shout It from the House Tops

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage. ...

Genre :Comedy

1934-08-03 7.25

The House on the Dune

In a village on the French-Belgian border, a smuggler named Sylvain falls in love with the pretty Pascaline, which infuriates Germaine, his mistress. The jealous woman reports Sylvain to the police. A ...

Genre :

1935-03-14 0

Monsieur Sans-Gêne

A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American comedy One Rainy Afternoon, released by United Artists ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

1936-07-09 0

La brigade en jupons

Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers. ...

Genre :

1937-02-19 0

Les Réprouvés

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy. ...

Genre :Drama

The town Sergeant

1937-01-22 0

La Loupiote

Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of ...

Genre :

A soldier

1938-01-23 6.4

I Accuse

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent wa ...

Genre :War, Drama, Horror

(uncredited)

1938-03-02 4.5

Chéri-Bibi

An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony. ...

Genre :Drama

Sailor (uncredited)

1938-05-13 0

Golden Venus

La Venus D'Or (Golden Venus) was based on Business, a play by Pierre Sabatier. Mirielle Balin stars as Judith, the mistress of ruthless oil magnate Harfstrong. What Harfstrong doesn't know is that Jud ...

Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1938-06-15 7

The New Rich

The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in industry. Happy in business, they soon find themselves ...

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1938-08-05 8

Beautiful Star

Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with h ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

(uncredited)

1942-03-26 0

Prince Charming

Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man. ...

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1938-09-06 7.1

Tricoche and Cacolet

Two friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is hired by Van der Pouf, a rich banker who wants him to watch over his wife Bernardine while the latt ...

Genre :Comedy

1938-10-05 4.7

Lights of Paris

A celebrated singer in Paris meets a young woman and courts her by pretending to be a driving instructor. ...

Genre :Music, Romance

(uncredited)

1938-10-19 0

Les Rois de la flotte

Cruchadouze and Castaniet are two inseparable friends. One day they decide to leave Arcachon to try the adventure in Bordeaux. After various odd jobs, they come into contact with Betty Florent, the ba ...

Genre :Comedy

Inspector

1940-12-08 5

Moulin Rouge

A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

1939-01-07 0

Place de la Concorde

Genre :Comedy

Un joueur de belote (uncredited)

1942-05-16 7

Strangers in the House

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relat ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Agent (uncredited)

1939-03-14 7.8

Behind the Facade

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispa ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

Crew member

1939-04-13 0

Nord-Atlantique

Barnes, the mate of the 'Portland', is the object of the hate of the whole ship's crew. His mistress is murdered shortly before the departure and suspicion naturally falls on him. Some time later, Jef ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

(uncredited)

1939-04-12 6.2

The Fatted Calf

Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take mon ...

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1942-09-02 4.167

The Trump Card

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. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Un agent (uncredited)

1941-12-02 6.3

Portrait of Innocence

A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer holidays in order to pay for reconstruction. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1940-09-02 0

Sixième étage

The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1942-02-16 6.045

Whims

Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make cl ...

Genre :Comedy

Gendarme (uncredited)

1943-12-13 4.1

The Wolf Farm

Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secreta ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy

« L'écailler », un inspecteur de police

1950-03-16 5.2

Au P'tit Zouave

Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars. ...

Genre :Comedy

1946-01-23 6.3

The Last Penny

Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the agency, who is a childhood friend. She does her bes ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Executioner

1945-05-16 8

Blondine

Blondine, the daughter of a poor fisherman, marries the Prince of the Mountain. Brune, her sister, envies Blondine her happiness and tells her that a secret lies hidden in her husband's name. Blondine ...

Genre :Fantasy

Un homme à la fête de charité (uncredited)

1946-03-13 5.7

The Temptation of Barbizon

Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the rom ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Un hallebardier

1946-03-27 0

Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cade ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

1946-03-13 6

Roger the Disgrace

Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger t ...

Genre :Drama

Consumer (uncredited)

1946-05-03 5.6

Mr. Gregoire Runs Away

Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords. But all of a sudden his existence changes dramat ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Orderly gendarme (uncredited)

1946-07-29 8.3

The Murderer Is Not Guilty

In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective ...

Genre :Crime

Soldier (uncredited)

1947-02-26 0

Loves of Casanova

On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a ...

Genre :Adventure, History, Music

Man in court

1948-04-28 6.4

White as Snow

Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, d ...

Genre :Comedy

1948-04-30 0

Si jeunesse savait...

Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the ...

Genre :Comedy

A prison guard

1947-06-26 9.5

The Beautiful Trip

She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned pianist-virtuoso. These two solitary beings, totally different, meet by chance on a liner and gradually realize that ...

Genre :Drama

1948-07-09 0

Halte... Police!

Darrac, a reporter for Paris-Inter, and Nicole, a journalist for Le Soir-Express, know each other, compete and end up falling in love over the three police investigations they follow for their newspap ...

Genre :

Passerby (uncredited)

1947-08-20 5

Noah's Ark

Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Un ouvrier de l'institut (uncredited)

1950-02-15 1

Amédée

Employed in a beauty salon, Amédée must undergo a pentothal injection. The dose is too strong; suddenly Amédée reveals the truth to everyone; to clients of the institute; to his cheating wife; to his ...

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1950-02-22 1

Le 84 prend des vacances

Gaston Bernod is a Parisian bus driver. Honest, upright and hard-working, he is held in high esteem by his superiors. Gaston has always pampered "his" bus, going as far as to equip it with a fuel-savi ...

Genre :Comedy

Un homme à l'audience (uncredited)

1947-12-10 1

Square of Knaves

Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and boa ...

Genre :Comedy

1950-03-16 5.2

Au P'tit Zouave

Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars. ...

Genre :Comedy

Un consommateur (uncredited)

1950-04-14 5.3

Miquette

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and ...

Genre :Comedy

1948-11-26 6

The Spice of Life

A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley ...

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1949-02-08 6.9

Fantomas Against Fantomas

Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth. ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

1949-02-09 0

L'échafaud peut attendre

A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerpri ...

Genre :

1950-08-02 0

Cartouche, King of Paris

The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne. ...

Genre :Adventure

Traveler (uncredited)

1949-03-09 7

Manon

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fight ...

Genre :Drama, Adventure, Thriller

The man (uncredited)

1949-03-07 5.1

The Lovers of Verona

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being s ...

Genre :Drama

1950-11-02 0

Paris Incident

Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies ...

Genre :

Agent (uncredited)

1950-11-11 5.5

Lost Souvenirs

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologi ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama

1949-06-03 5.1

Du Guesclin

A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century. ...

Genre :History, Drama

An agent

1950-11-24 4

The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go accordi ...

Genre :Comedy

Tough guy

1949-09-09 0

Night Round

During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by si ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

A police officer (uncredited)

1950-12-13 6.4

Gunman in the Streets

An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France. ...

Genre :Crime

Un marin au chauffage du navire (uncredited)

1949-12-09 5.636

Maya

Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that ...

Genre :Drama

A man at the fair (uncredited)

1949-12-16 6.5

Monsignor

Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descendant of the kings of France, more precisely of Loui ...

Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1951-10-17 5.6

Utopia

Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island. ...

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1951-05-25 0

The Merry Pilgrims

With no contract in view, Aimé Barelli, the leader of the band of the same name, decides to take a holiday. As this is the Holy Year, the young artist accepts to follow his mother on a pilgrimage to R ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

The Second Agent (uncredited)

1951-04-06 6.2

Mr. Peek-a-Boo

Léon, a humble civil servant, has the unusual ability to walk through walls, however thick they are. One day, he falls madly in love with a charming hotel thief by the name of Suzan. ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Un inspecteur

1951-04-04 0

The Two Girls

A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their liv ...

Genre :Comedy

Un habitant du quartier (uncredited)

1952-05-08 5.7

Mr. Leguignon Lampiste

A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps ...

Genre :Comedy

1952-08-13 0

Three Women

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatiz ...

Genre :Comedy

Un révolutionnaire (uncredited)

1952-11-14 6.2

Beauties of the Night

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music, Fantasy

1952-06-02 6

Rooster in dough

A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his Saint-Bernard side, he asks a young engineer to introduce himself to h ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Un cheminot en grève (uncredited)

1953-01-09 5.3

One Hundred Francs Per Second

Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's daughter, is fired. Some time later, Bourdinet launches a radio quiz show to boost his business. Philippe ...

Genre :Comedy

A fisherman at the guinguette

1953-04-12 1

Le Gang des pianos à bretelles

An accordionist playing in disreputable halls is mistaken for a gangster by a special envoy from the American crime syndicate in charge of investigating the French milieu. The American will prepare a ...

Genre :Comedy, Thriller

A Sailor

1934-08-01 5.1

Les Affaires publiques

A slapstick comedy centered on two neighboring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ceremonial unveiling of a statue, the launching of a ship, and the crash-land ...

Genre :Comedy

Un paysan (uncredited)

1954-12-09 5.2

The Count of Bragelonne

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Un consommateur

1954-09-24 5.7

The Sheep Has Five Legs

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel. ...

Genre :Comedy

Un détenu (uncredited)

1963-10-16 7.7

L'assassin connaît la musique

Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symph ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Un homme au tribunal

1956-03-02 5

Les Duraton

Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his fam ...

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1939-05-17 6.3

The Last Turning

Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

1955-06-28 10

Mademoiselle from Paris

Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also ...

Genre :

Agent on guard (uncredited)

1955-05-10 4.8

Le Crâneur

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade. ...

Genre :Crime

1957-11-01 0

White Smoke

Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigare ...

Genre :

Un locataire

1936-09-01 7.4

They Were Five

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart. ...

Genre :Drama

Policeman (uncredited)

1957-01-25 0

Miss Catastrophe

A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And he ...

Genre :Comedy

Mn who watches over the kidnapped child

1962-12-05 4

The Empire of Night

Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villai ...

Genre :Comedy

Gendarme (uncredited)

1934-09-15 6.9

Le Bonheur

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 fav ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Un homme de main de Stéfani

1946-01-23 6.3

The Last Penny

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Second-hand dealer (uncredited)

1951-01-03 5

Bibi Fricotin

To find the heritage of his friend Catherine's ancestors, the leaping Bibi Fricotin, helped by the seer Fatma, goes through a thousand funny or comical adventures, thanks to multiple means of transpor ...

Genre :Comedy

The Police Commisioner

1938-03-08 5.8

The Lafarge Case

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 . ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

(uncredited)

1954-12-01 6

Yours Truly, Blake

Larry Blake is an American airline pilot who loves women and ... trouble! Wherever he goes troubles indeed follow, like this time in Paris. On vacation in the French capital, the happy American decide ...

Genre :Crime

Inspector (uncredited)

1937-01-28 7.192

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

Spectator at the cinema (uncredited)

1962-05-04 6

Paris Pick-Up

On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Un gangster

1936-02-07 5

Les Gaîtés de la finance

The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the second as a double. The latter accepts ignoring everything. When he learns that he will be the target of k ...

Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1955-03-29 4.5

Give 'em Hell

During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer and adventurer Johnny Jordan is looking for a new gig. His opportunity comes in the form of a local shippi ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Crime, Thriller

Un témoin (uncredited)

1953-09-16 7.51

The Earrings of Madame de...

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. He ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

le père qui réprimande son fils (uncredited)

1937-10-20 6.96

Bizarre, Bizarre

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leadi ...

Genre :Comedy

un passant

1958-04-02 3.7

The Desert of Pigalle

A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves.... ...

Genre :Drama

Man from the gang

1958-03-12 7.173

Les Misérables

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 m ...

Genre :Drama

Luggage Carrier on the Platform (uncredited)

1961-09-27 6.4

Paris Blues

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love. ...