Léon Larive

AKA: Larive
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1886-06-28

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {95}

Judge

1928-04-21 8

The Passion of Joan of Arc

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhu ...
Genre :Drama, History

1933-01-20 0

kiki

Genre :Comedy

Prefect

1934-01-04 5.263

Madame Bovary

Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a ...
Genre :Drama

1935-06-26 0

La Mascotte

The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of the good King Laurent XVII whose finances are in bad shape. In order for her to retain her beneficial ...
Genre :Comedy

Teacher

1933-04-07 6.878

Zero for Conduct

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Félix, le valet de chambre du baron

1936-12-11 7.151

The Lower Depths

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassiliss ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Crime

1928-12-04 6

Two Timid Souls

Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to seduce Cecile, but she prefers Fremissin... ...
Genre :Comedy

1931-02-18 0

Bubble Gum

Boule de Gomme is a child actor. On the set of the film he is shooting he gets on the nerves of the director and of the all crew by being off the beat when he is asked to cry or to laugh. Nobody manag ...
Genre :

Monsieur Pantouille

1932-11-24 0

Un client de province

Doctor Planturel who is leaving for a vacation, hires a new servant too hastily. Now, Victor, the alleged domestic, is in fact a robber whose only aim is to burglar the doctor's house. But when a clie ...
Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Jeunhomme

1933-01-06 0

Le soir des rois

Georges de Frileuse is a partier who inherits a castle and a ruby ​​necklace when his aunt dies. On Twelfth Night, he invites a few friends over, but a series of mysterious figures arrive instead of t ...
Genre :Drama

Boullus

1933-03-24 0

Fat Man's Worries

A young lady whose husband has been seeing someone else decides to make him jealous by flirting with the unlikely prospect of a fat man.Is it worth that guy's trouble to try to lose some weight, or is ...
Genre :Comedy

1933-04-01 0

Theodore and Company

Chénérol, a wealthy merchant, one day discovers that his wife is having an affair and that his nephew is playing with him. Indeed, the latter, Théodore, does not work but earns money by using a few di ...
Genre :Comedy

1933-09-01 0

The Big Bluff

Roger Latour introduces himself to Wilky Studios as the famous thief Silver Jim, and offers to fulfill the role of king of the slums for whom the producer is still looking for an actor. Wilky, impress ...
Genre :

1934-04-13 0

Casanova

Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in Venice and then the plot takes Casanova to France an ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Maître d'hotel

1934-05-18 0

La dactylo se marie

A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband. ...
Genre :Comedy

1928-11-30 0

Minuit... place Pigalle

A Paris night club proprietor falls from grace and is reduced, after going away for a while, to working there in a menial position. ...
Genre :

The owner of the inn

1934-12-28 0

L'Or dans la rue

A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket to America. ...
Genre :

The innkeeper

1936-11-20 0

Bach the Detective

Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former boss's nephew, accused of stealing jewelry. He first ...
Genre :

Rabastens

1937-12-15 4.25

Claudine at School

Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her small village school run by Miss Sergeant. A new teacher, Aimée Lanthenay, arrives at the school. S ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

(uncredited)

1938-01-27 0

Nuits de princes

In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and the love she feels for a new suitor. ...
Genre :Drama

1938-01-28 5

Rasputin

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas. ...
Genre :History, Drama

Bear

1941-04-10 6.975

The Tale of the Fox

In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and brought to him. ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

1938-08-18 2

Ça... c'est du sport

Trapon, a bank employee, is in love with Mrs. Lavator, who wants to marry off her two daughters before marrying her. As one of the two fiancés of his daughters has no money, Trapon begins to embezzle ...
Genre :

1938-05-31 0

The Little Thing

Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so ...
Genre :Drama

A beggar

1938-09-14 0

The Train for Venice

Discovering his wife's relationship with a middle-class snob, a husband tries his best to break this relationship by the seducer himself and ends up leaving with his wife for another wedding night in ...
Genre :

1941-03-05 0

Those of the Sky

An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes the sacrifice to help his rival. ...
Genre :Drama

Le cafetier (uncredited)

1939-03-23 6.1

The Mayor's Dilemma

At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Marcel

1939-05-24 0

Le Château des 4 obèses

In a castle, one stormy evening, Doctor Carter and a whole merry company find themselves welcomed by the four brothers who hold the place. The four obese disappear one by one, without leaving a trace. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

1941-10-03 5

Paris Romance

Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a womanizing singer who made his mother miserable. For all that, Georges is attracted to show bu ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

The notary

1942-01-02 6.667

Pontcarral, Empire Colonel

For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove ...
Genre :Drama

1941-12-17 0

Ici l'on pêche

A painter has his daughter brought up by a couple of innkeepers who run an establishment on the edge of the water with the sign: Here we fish. Having grown up, she refuses to join him and prefers her ...
Genre :

Cook (uncredited)

1939-11-06 5.2

Cavalcade of Love

Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhapp ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1939-11-26 0

Sacred Woods

Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the Legion of Honor award. One solution could be to sleep with Champmorel, the Director of Fine Arts and ...
Genre :

Clerk (uncredited)

1945-03-23 0

La Grande Marnière

A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and Pascal, meet and fall in love with each other. Robe ...
Genre :Drama

Commissioner (uncredited)

1943-02-04 5.5

The Honorable Catherine

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 love ...
Genre :Comedy

1940-04-22 0

Cristobal's Gold

Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Se ...
Genre :

Big customer

1943-06-16 0

Fou d'amour

Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds out that she is named Solange and that she is the go ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Marcenac

1942-02-18 0

Opéra-musette

The itinerant musician Lampluche, having found a musical score on the banks of a river and a full wallet, was taken to the neighboring town for the famous composer Maxence Leroy. The inhabitants of th ...
Genre :Music

Un membre d'équipage (uncredited)

1943-12-15 7.9

Voyage Without Hope

Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo ship is willing to smuggle him out out France for a price but Gohelle has no money. His mistress, Mari ...
Genre :Drama

Chauffeur

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

(uncredited)

1944-12-06 0

The Hunchback

The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years before. ...
Genre :Adventure

1944-12-06 0

The White Blackbird

Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance stolen 23 years earlier. The one who should have ...
Genre :Comedy

Janitor

1945-10-17 7

The Bohemian Life

Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his fri ...
Genre :Drama

1946-04-17 0

The J3

During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at selling cigarettes and silk stockings than at studying. But the day a new philosophy teacher takes cha ...
Genre :Comedy

1946-07-24 0

Master Love

Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to pr ...
Genre :Comedy

Un échevin (uncredited)

1946-10-22 5

Homeland

Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Princ ...
Genre :Drama

1946-10-23 7

The Revenge of Roger

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

(uncredited)

1946-12-18 0

Destiny

This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life. ...
Genre :Music

Stamp dealer

1947-09-12 6.177

Devil in the Flesh

In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dallianc ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Commander Ludovic Midol

1948-04-30 0

La Carcasse et le Tord-cou

La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his head to marry Thérésa, the daughter of their neigh ...
Genre :Comedy

The shipowner

1947-09-19 5.6

The Crowned Fish Tavern

Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of ​​putting Sylvia back in the prese ...
Genre :Drama

A taxidermist (uncredited)

1948-01-01 1

The Killer is Listening

April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true crime occurs. ...
Genre :Drama

Le suisse

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

Prison Guard (uncredited)

1950-04-21 0

Here Is the Beauty

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied whe ...
Genre :Drama

Director of the circus Rémi

1949-06-28 6.6

Wear His Heart on His Sleeve

Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One day he is fired for having accompanied Mary Pinson, a singer deemed scandalous by the right-minded pari ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1949-05-07 7

The Secret of Mayerling

On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary ...
Genre :Drama

Jules (segment "Le retour de Louis")

1949-09-14 6.2

Return to Life

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

(uncredited)

1949-12-06 5.8

Rendezvous in July

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Guest

1951-11-22 4.5

Jamais deux sans trois

Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel ...
Genre :Comedy

Publisher

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

The big industrialist

1951-12-27 0

Les deux Monsieur de Madame

Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things. ...
Genre :Comedy

Molo (uncredited)

1951-01-11 1

Le Roi des camelots

How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to ...
Genre :Comedy

Le gros client du taxi (uncredited)

1951-01-17 6.1

Without Leaving an Address

A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Hotel Director

1950-02-08 0

A Night at a Honeymoon

Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police commissionaire. ...
Genre :Comedy

Un client (uncredited)

1951-04-18 4.8

Paris Vice Squad

Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vici ...
Genre :Crime

Walker

1951-05-09 0

Cherished by her concierge

Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretaker is Madame Motte, and the lady is in love with the young man. Just for laughs, Eugène's friends cir ...
Genre :Comedy

Un révolutionnaire (uncredited)

1952-11-14 6

Beauties of the Night

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music, Fantasy

Le caissier

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. ...
Genre :Comedy

Etchenoga

1928-12-21 7

La Grande Passion

This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Paillard

1953-05-08 5

Des quintuplés au pensionnat

In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champrès' son. ...
Genre :Comedy

1958-11-05 0

Provincial Chronicle

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Mr. Albert (uncredited)

1942-08-07 7.268

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

L'aurbegiste de Chamonix

1958-12-25 8

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

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 making ...
Genre :Comedy

Un marin

1937-06-23 8

Yoshiwara

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian nav ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

le client de la pharmacie

1931-10-15 5.8

All That Is Not Worth Love

Tourneur's first film tells the story of a chemist, Jules Renaudin. He welcomes a young pregnant girl, Claire, who enters his pharmacy in despair one evening. He takes care of her and gradually falls ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Le cuisinier

1939-07-09 7.492

The Rules of the Game

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Left-luggage employee

1956-12-20 0

I'll Get Back to Kandara

One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall on one of his students who had just arrived in his ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1938-09-09 5.4

Crossroads

A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well know ...
Genre :Drama

Le concierge des Funambules (uncredited)

1945-03-15 8.1

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by thr ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Un médecin

1949-06-17 5.7

Dr. Laennec

Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it. ...
Genre :Drama

Big sick man (uncredited)

1946-05-03 6

Messieurs Ludovic

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will find great love with one of them. ...
Genre :Romance

Turgis

1945-09-02 0

François Villon

An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles. ...
Genre :

Civil servant

1939-02-18 6.9

Pasha's Wives

Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows him back to his native country, only to discover tha ...
Genre :Comedy

Un villageois

1945-12-04 6.7

The Bellman

The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe the daughter of his only friend, a head injur ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Horror

Clerk

1953-07-26 5.738

When You Read This Letter

After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic wi ...
Genre :Drama

Vetusto (uncredited)

1949-04-06 8

The Mark of the Day

In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young engineer Larzac, newly appointed to the mine, will soon o ...
Genre :Drama

Le colonel

1948-06-09 5.4

Scandals of Clochemerle

A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the confusion by getting involved with the local women. ...
Genre :Comedy

Un client à la vente aux enchères

1936-04-07 6.3

Life Is Ours

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Picard, le valet du roi

1938-02-10 6.9

La Marseillaise

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems ...
Genre :History, Drama

Le patron du restaurant (uncredited)

1943-04-08 7.1

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But beca ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Le directeur du théâtre (uncredited)

1955-06-19 5.7

Frou-Frou

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Le concierge de Saint-Beuve, collège pour filles (uncredited)

1955-10-18 5.8

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's ...
Genre :Comedy

Un joueur de billard (uncredited)

1938-11-02 3.8

Monsieur Coccinelle

An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a fairground magician, will return to her once more. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sam Otis

1930-04-01 0

Le masque d'Hollywood

Dixie, a young Broadway dancer, leaves her fiancé Jimmy to go into the movies. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

1931-01-30 9

The Aviator

Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against José in an airplane. ...
Genre :Comedy