Jean Sylvain

AKA: Sylvain, Sylvain Schenkel
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1906-10-21

Paris, France

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {61}

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 ...
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Le vicomte Adolphe de Kernan

1938-04-27 0

La Glu

A young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his betrothed, mother and friends so that he can live with her. La Glu is murdered. Who did it? Relatives and fri ...
Genre :

1938-03-23 0

Southern Bar

Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities o ...
Genre :Drama

1938-04-13 0

Une de la cavalerie

The merry Vigoulette wants to escape the yoke of his wife and asks to be recalled to a barracks regiment in Nice. Every night, he and his friend Poupardin have a great time. But one evening, he is mis ...
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1938-05-18 0

Les Gaietés de l'exposition

Set against the backdrop of the 1937 Paris Exposition, a mistaken identity plot where a travel agent from Morocco is confused by the French police with a dangerous swindler. ...
Genre :Comedy

1938-06-01 0

Troubled Heart

In 1914, students living in a boarding house are disturbed by a young woman. On the eve of being called up, one of them declares his love for her. She abandons herself to someone who may not come back ...
Genre :Drama

Bastien - le domestique de Mme Ancelin (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

A machinist

1948-05-19 7

Emile the African

Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post st ...
Genre :Adventure

Domestic

1948-08-27 0

Femme sans passé

Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of circumstances, locked up in a psychiatric clinic. T ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Boy (uncredited)

1950-02-22 7

Death Threat

André Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely wants to find his informer. He falls in love with Hélène, the mistress of a wealthy industrialist, Bern ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime

Journalist

1950-03-08 0

Round of Hours

A singer who has become voiceless is forced to leave his wife and children. He will become famous again as a clown. ...
Genre :Drama

The idiot

1948-10-14 0

The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin

Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a little help from a priest she visits. ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Restaurant Customer (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

Sleuth

1950-05-24 5.8

Minne

Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for ...
Genre :Comedy

Un ami

1950-05-26 6.2

Lady Paname

The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Jeff the composer. A photographer nicknamed Bagnolet ...
Genre :Comedy

Witness

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 ...
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Sergeant Mercier

1950-09-01 0

Véronique

The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing he ...
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Customer at the Le Roi Soleil bar

1950-09-20 6.2

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

A butler (uncredited)

1950-10-10 6.8

Three Sinners

A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean. ...
Genre :Drama

Friend

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

Professor (uncredited)

1950-12-01 5.1

Lawless Street

The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings. ...
Genre :Comedy

Photographer (uncredited)

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

Le client en bagarre

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

The tax controller (uncredited)

1951-01-19 4

Les Maîtres-nageurs

A married industrialist maintains three mistresses. On the instructions of his wife, the tax inspector seizes the small notebook where he records his illegal dealings. After a stormy marital explanati ...
Genre :Comedy

Un chauffeur

1951-03-21 7.357

Dr. Knock

Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the nam ...
Genre :Comedy

1953-04-17 1

Sins of Paris

Madeleine Lebeau, a woman who charges for her easy virtue, has a plan that has some of her customers paying more than others; she tells them she is pregnant and, to avoid complications, the men pay he ...
Genre :

Un homme au guichet de la poste (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

1951-08-09 5.5

Sins of Madeleine

Malou, a prostitute from Montmartre, and her pimp, have found a well laid scheme : whenever she (or he) wants to get rid of a lover, she announces to him in a tearful voice that she is pregnant. The r ...
Genre :Drama

Le maire (uncredited)

1952-12-31 6.2

She and Me

You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Jul ...
Genre :Comedy

Un inspecteur

1954-09-26 6

The Contessa's Secret

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, History

1956-11-07 0

Les Lumières du soir

A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret. ...
Genre :Drama

John

1956-06-02 6.5

Mon bébé

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Cape seller (uncredited)

1953-07-31 6

Captain Slipper

A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not better. ...
Genre :Comedy

Valet (uncredited)

1954-10-29 6.2

Le Rouge et le Noir

It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him fo ...
Genre :Drama

Le garçon de café de « La Boîte à Wiskhy » à Paris

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

Un salutiste

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

1955-11-10 6.2

Headlines of Destruction

Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, editor-in-chief of a major newspaper, rejects him. Shor ...
Genre :Crime

Neighbor who marries his daughter

1954-06-13 5.833

Men Think Only of That

Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusiastically accepts the proposal of Don Juan to make ...
Genre :Comedy

Concierge

1954-08-04 4.7

Nights of Shame

Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love of Pierre, an honest painter, hides her dishonorable profession, ...
Genre :Drama

Gasoline seller

1954-12-06 4.2

On the Bench

La Hurlette and Carmen are a pair of philosophical tramps who enjoy simple pleasures in the company of the cheerful Sosthène. As in the fairy tales, La Hurlette learns that he has just inherited a tid ...
Genre :Comedy

The Secretary

1950-12-20 1

Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!

André Courvalin, a merry bachelor, considers marrying, but not his exuberant mistress Aurélie. He would much rather wed sweet Suzanne. Trouble is that Suzanne is already engaged to Yves, one of his fr ...
Genre :Comedy

Commissioner

1953-04-29 0

Naked in the Wind

Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges for the incumbent's defeat by having Pantaflon, a nig ...
Genre :Comedy

Robert

1959-02-18 7

Asphalt

Françoise Arnould plays here a married woman who decides one day to get away from her husband and return to her childhood place, where she meets all her former friends, and lovers. ...
Genre :Drama

Van cleaner (uncredited)

1960-03-09 6

The Heirs

Rival brother and sister Gaëtan and Chantal, the last heirs of the late billionaire financier Omar Porassis, use every trick in the book to try and claim his fabulous inheritance when two of Omar's na ...
Genre :Comedy

1963-02-01 8.5

A Blonde Like That

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 m ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Crime

Referee of the palm game (uncredited)

1961-03-22 5.7

Princess of Cleves

When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainm ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Real curator of the castle (uncredited)

1965-09-23 5

Killer Spy

The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it ...
Genre :Comedy

Roland's Witness (uncredited)

1940-02-01 6

Beating Heart

Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him. ...
Genre :Drama

Un soldat (uncredited)

1939-10-27 6.2

Four Flights to Love

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a bli ...
Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Le peintre en bâtiment

1958-03-19 5

Hardboiled Egg Time

A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented pa ...
Genre :Comedy

'Le suisse' (uncredited)

1966-12-21 6.9

King of Hearts

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have s ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Antique dealer (uncredited)

1964-11-04 4.9

Male Companion

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself. ...
Genre :Comedy

Le garçon de café (uncredited)

1964-09-18 6.5

Male Hunt

A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Notary's clerk (uncredited)

1948-03-10 4

The Murdered Model

Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the features of a certain Gilbert, who died a year earli ...
Genre :

Driving School Teacher (uncredited)

1950-12-01 5.1

Lawless Street

The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings. ...
Genre :Comedy

Le commandant

1951-11-27 4

The Bonnadieu House

Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that ...
Genre :Comedy

Raphaël

1947-01-15 7.3

Panic

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and di ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Groomsman

1948-04-09 7.5

The Loves of Colette

François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a diary where he writes of his relationship with Colet ...
Genre :Drama

Le greffier (uncredited)

1955-08-02 5

Girl on the Third Floor

A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Un chanteur

1949-03-23 0

Dark Sunday

Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a young woman. Alas, the lady forsakes him and the poor man tries to overcome his grief by writing "Gloom ...
Genre :

An Agent (uncredited)

1957-09-27 6.5

The Gates of Paris

Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The ur ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance, Crime