Pierre Fresnay

AKA: Пьер Френе, Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach

0.1988

1897-04-03

Paris, France

Biography

Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.

Crew Roles

The Duel

Director

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {63}

Le capitaine de Boëldieu

1937-06-04 7.9

Grand Illusion

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Professor Louis Delage

1951-11-28 6.2

Perfectionist

Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts ...

Genre :Drama

Armand Duval

1934-11-02 0

La Dame aux camélias

Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France. The Argentine film was heavily modernized, while th ...

Genre :Drama

Louis Bernard

1934-12-01 6.5

The Man Who Knew Too Much

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet. ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Baptiste Talon, retired SNCF employee

1960-09-02 6.2

The Old Guard

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside ...

Genre :Comedy

Le docteur Rémy Germain

1943-09-28 7.6

Le Corbeau

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Marius Ollivier, fils de César

1931-10-09 7.378

Marius

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle st ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Marius Olivier

1932-10-27 7.466

Fanny

Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she ac ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Vincent de Paul

1947-11-05 6.5

Monsieur Vincent

The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Marius Ollivier

1936-01-01 7.648

César

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilo'gy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biologic ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

David Holm

1939-09-07 7.2

The Phantom Wagon

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collec ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama

Carbot

1949-11-30 6.4

At the Grand Balcony

World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France. ...

Genre :Drama

Armand Vallin

1960-05-27 0

The Thousandth Window

An old man against the public housing project. ...

Genre :

Octave, Philippe & Gérard de Chalencey

1938-12-14 5.3

Three Waltzes

"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing ...

Genre :Romance, Music

Ludovic Mercier / Saget

1946-04-17 6.7

Devil's Daughter

Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this new name, he deceives his compatriots with the ex ...

Genre :Drama

Jack

1933-10-13 0

Âme de clown

Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the new clown Teddy who seems to please the young lady a lot. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Roland Brissot

1943-03-21 6.712

Carnival of Sinners

A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this w ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Horror

Le narrateur (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

Commissaire Wens

1942-08-07 7.3

The Murderer Lives at Number 21

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Pierre

1943-08-25 0

L'Escalier sans fin

An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away ...

Genre :

Narrator

1969-09-05 0

God Chose Paris

An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Je ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (uncredited)

1950-09-20 6.5

Justice Is Done

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Sauval

1946-12-04 6.5

Tainted

Louberger, director of an orphanage, is full of praise for a former boarder, Mr. Sauval, who has become their benefactor. One night he arrives and he does not seem to be exactly the man described by L ...

Genre :Drama

Moscat

1949-10-28 6

Just Out

Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome author, Maréchal, another successful but bitter author, Bourgine, a writer plagued with ambition, Brégaillon ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

le capitaine Georges Carrère

1937-04-13 6.833

Street of Shadows

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

1961-03-30 0

Le Grand Secret

Is there an adventure, a drama, a more exciting suspense than that offered to us by the laborious research of the scientist on the lookout for the great secret of his origins? The film begins at the e ...

Genre :

Marquis de Maubrun et maire

1955-10-12 6.3

The Aristocrats

A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his best to uphold the traditions of nobility in an ever-changing world. The Mar ...

Genre :Drama

Commissaire Wens

1941-09-16 6.2

The Last One of the Six

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Le père Théotime

1949-09-02 0

Barry

Lovers since childhood, Sylvain and Angelina do not see their lives separated from each other. However, Sylvain is sent to war and the young woman desperately awaits his return. Years pass and the lat ...

Genre :Drama

Razumov

1936-03-20 6.2

Under Western Eyes

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. ...

Genre :Drama

Lieutenant Pierre Keller, instituteur

1955-05-10 7.6

The Fugitives

During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. They meet another escaped compatriot, Pierre, who has ...

Genre :War, Drama

Raoul Vignerte

1935-12-04 5.3

Crimson Dynasty

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's ...

Genre :Drama, History

Antoine Fournier

1956-11-07 5.5

L'Homme aux clés d'or

Antoine Fournier, a language teacher at a secondary school in Lille, was disgraced by four young men he had caught stealing money from a charity collection. Dismissed from the teaching profession, Fou ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

1952-11-14 4.9

Dr. Schweitzer

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 h ...

Genre :Drama

Gaston

1944-02-23 7

The Traveler Without Luggage

Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pension fund, several families claim him as their missin ...

Genre :Drama

Le commissaire Lavan

1938-01-13 5.9

The Puritan

A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the ...

Genre :Drama

Bordier

1937-09-09 0

La Bataille silencieuse

A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he meets Draguicha, a Serbian student who, misled by a g ...

Genre :Drama

Hippolyte Barjus

1957-08-29 5.8

The Ostrich Has Two Eggs

A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a Japanese countess. He is first horrified, but finally accepts the situation because it brings him ec ...

Genre :Comedy

M. Fabre

1951-09-26 7

Amazing Monsieur Fabre

It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Joseph Andrieu

1958-11-12 0

So Much Love Lost

Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The train arrives. Mr. Andrieu is expecting his sardines and both his daughters, back from winter sports. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Thomas Gourvennec

1950-10-03 6.2

God Needs Men

The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep ...

Genre :Drama

Pierre Rabaud

1942-05-21 6

The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock

The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side the ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Jean Séverac, le mari d'Hélène

1948-04-13 0

Convicted

After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places they enjoyed in earlier years, it might rekindle t ...

Genre :Drama

César Dandieu

1959-09-10 3

The Dreadful

César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type of carburetor to the company when César has to hand in the ...

Genre :Comedy

Maurice Morand

1954-02-26 4.2

The Unfrocked One

Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even ...

Genre :Drama

Marcus

1941-12-23 7

The Chain Breaker

Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a pas ...

Genre :Comedy

Jacques Offenbach

1950-05-05 5

Paris Waltz

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider. ...

Genre :

Luis Vargas

1957-11-08 5.4

A Bomb for a Dictator

RY A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to France. The rebels have made careful plans to blow up the dictator's private plane as he returns, but at ...

Genre :Drama

François Laferrière

1943-12-22 7

I Am with You

A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel where her husband must pass. He meets her and, disturbed by the one he believes to be his wife's doub ...

Genre :Romance

Maxime Hauterive de Champcey

1935-02-21 6.563

Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him under the belief he's a fortune hunter. ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1950-03-16 0

The Century Is Fifty

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offe ...

Genre :Documentary

Bastien

1958-09-24 5.3

Et ta sœur…

Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he is no ordinary criminal mind you. As a matter of fact he is a newspaper editor and should have no p ...

Genre :Comedy

Abbot Daniel Maurey

1941-01-11 0

The Duel

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 ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Francis aka 'Chéri-Bibi'

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

Tête d'horloge

1970-04-11 4

Clock Head

One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small professor. ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy

Commander Lestailleur

1938-09-07 6

S.O.S. Mediterranean

The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French, German and English boats, respectively, unite to rescu ...

Genre :Adventure

1938-10-28 5

Adrienne Lecouvreur

Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war. The film was a co-production betw ...

Genre :Drama

Bouvier

1922-09-29 0

The Black Diamond

Genre :

1930-04-04 0

Ça aussi !... c'est Paris

Genre :

1929-01-04 0

A Foolish Maiden

Genre :

Edouard Martel

1953-10-14 4

Napoleon Road

A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe island. ...

Genre :Comedy

Gaston Fournier

1951-10-31 6

Trip to America

As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the prosperity they have heard about. ...