Léon Arvel

AKA: Леон Арвель
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1873-04-29

Paris, France

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {41}

Lebrèche

1935-10-04 0

Speak to Me of Love

A young girl marries an attractive but very busy businessman. So busy, that on the wedding day, he has no hesitation in taking an unexpected trip. ...
Genre :

1931-11-20 0

Circulate!

Genre :Comedy

1932-09-23 0

Love... Love...

The adventures of a pompous jeweler who refuses to listen to the advice of his level-headed employees. In due time, the jeweler is robbed, but his sharp-eyed subordinate manages to prevent the villain ...
Genre :

1933-01-06 0

Criminal

A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison. ...
Genre :Drama

1934-01-25 0

We Are Not Children

In the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little midinette. He leaves her a few months later to marry Cécile Breton. The years go by. Jean becomes an import ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Baron Denis

1934-12-21 0

Le Prince Jean

Following a quarrel with his father, Prince Jean joined the Foreign Legion. When he returns, he finds his brother who, on the king's death, usurped his title, and the woman he loved, betrothed to anot ...
Genre :Drama

Judge

1934-11-16 0

La flambée

A commander who had devised helpful defenses for his country kills a spy who'd tried to entrap him.The officer's young wife who had been thinking of leaving him for a minister, rallies to his side. ...
Genre :Drama

1935-01-04 0

Sacrifice of Honor

Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship, steaming through dangerous waters during WWI. Among t ...
Genre :War, Drama

1935-12-27 7.6

Baccara

A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

The Procurator General

1936-04-10 3.5

The Fear

A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear. ...
Genre :Drama

1936-05-29 0

Une gueule en or

The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1936-12-03 6.8

With a Smile

A tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed, he turns his attitude around and he becomes success ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Barbaroux

1937-03-12 0

Blanchette

Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves when her morale is at its lowest. ...
Genre :Drama

Director of the circle

1938-01-12 6.4

Orage

The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison. ...
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

Banker

1938-10-05 0

Un fichu métier

Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron Patcheff, a minister, decides then to replace the P ...
Genre :Comedy

Sir Arthur

1939-04-20 5.4

Cordial Agreement

The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based ...
Genre :History, Drama

1940-04-03 7

Paris - New-York

The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexand ...
Genre :Romance

Mr. Bonnardet

1947-04-23 0

The Scarlet Bazaar

Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of hi ...
Genre :Drama

The doctor (uncredited)

1948-01-22 4.5

After Love

Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The girl dies during childbirth. In a spirit of reveng ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor

1948-11-24 6.6

In the Eyes of Memory

Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true st ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

(uncredited)

1948-03-03 6.1

The Eleven O'Clock Woman

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is c ...
Genre :Action, Crime

A notary

1952-05-21 5.1

Matrimonial Agency

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it. ...
Genre :Comedy

1934-12-31 0

Itto

Filmed in French Morocco, Itto's dialogue is spoken primarily in the tribal Chleuh language. The jingoistic story concerns a series of clashes between French occupational forces and a rebellious Chleu ...
Genre :Drama

General advocate

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

1935-10-22 6.3

Flight Into Darkness

During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mist ...
Genre :Drama, War

Médecin

1937-05-21 0

La Chanson du Souvenir

A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936). ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Le domestique

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

Fabregars

1951-02-07 7.6

Diary of a Country Priest

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and un ...
Genre :Drama

Ein Arzt

1931-03-06 6.267

David Golder

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squande ...
Genre :Drama

President

1929-04-05 6.2

The New Gentlemen

The plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay), Gaillac must play second fiddle to Suzanne's wealthy "p ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

1927-12-09 0

Fleur d'amour

Genre :

Le président

1936-12-02 6.5

Mister Flow

While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to t ...
Genre :Drama

L'avocat

1938-12-21 6

Conflit

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 ...
Genre :Drama

Le juge d'instruction

1936-12-18 5

Un mauvais garçon

Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does ...
Genre :Music

1935-10-13 0

Mysteries of Paris

Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many ...
Genre :Drama

L'employé du commissariat (Police station employee)

1934-05-15 6.479

Liliom

Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innoc ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Parent (uncredited)

1954-11-26 5.7

Papa, Mama, the Maid and I

The residents of the apartment building on Rue Montmartre are a motley crew of oddballs and eccentrics. The daring son of a professor couple is in love with a sexy student who supplements her pocket m ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Restaurant waiter

1935-09-05 10

Dark Eyes

In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing ...
Genre :Drama

1937-12-02 4.5

Sisters-in-Arms

During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English ...
Genre :Drama, History

Le metteur en scène

1934-04-01 7.8

S. S. Tenacity

Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeep ...
Genre :Drama, Romance