Max Dalban

AKA:
0.2628

1908-05-27

Paris, France

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {63}

Valentin Parpevieille

1933-07-21 0

Moune et son notaire

The brave notary Valentin Parpevielle has many problems with his young wife Moune, who has fallen in love with a crook count. ...
Genre :Comedy

Godin

1932-11-11 7

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Les ...
Genre :Comedy

1932-01-15 0

Baleydier

The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by the audience to be deliberately comic. ...
Genre :

1932-04-18 6.4

Night at the Crossroads

Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belon ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Albert

1935-02-22 7

Toni

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in w ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1933-12-01 4

Love and Cool Water

A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of him and falls in love with him. She has a fat, selfish, boorish husband whom she abandons to her imagi ...
Genre :Comedy

1934-02-02 0

Street Without a Name

The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a mysterious character hides himself in this street. ...
Genre :Drama

un déménageur

1951-12-05 3.6

My Wife Is Formidable

Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wi ...
Genre :Comedy

Second inspector

1937-12-22 6.5

Alibi

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Jules, friend of Chervin

1938-09-22 5.667

Sirocco

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wea ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1940-10-23 4

Pour le maillot jaune

The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France. ...
Genre :Romance

1939-03-18 5

Vidocq

A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a crook, a thief and a counterfeiter, and was employed by Pasquier’s government’istry as di ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

(uncredited)

1943-12-01 6.9

Colonel Chabert

The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the n ...
Genre :Drama

Wizard

1944-04-12 0

The Ménard Collection

Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men w ...
Genre :Comedy

Pierre, cafe owner (uncredited)

1944-04-26 5

Children of Chaos

An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in ...
Genre :Drama

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

1945-10-03 2.5

The Queer Assignment

A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of my ...
Genre :Comedy

1946-05-15 0

Impasse

A student, Gabriel, comes to the aid of Gisèle, a young manicurist wrongfully arrested, by helping her escape. As a result, Gabriel must serve three months in prison. His sentence served, unable to co ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mario

1946-05-29 0

Driving Lesson

Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior that he decides to give her a chance to learn about g ...
Genre :Comedy

Friend of Henry

1946-05-31 5

The Ideal Couple

Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a G ...
Genre :Comedy

'P'tit Louis'

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

Cricri, un machiniste

1947-05-21 6.8

Silence Is Golden

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. P ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

The mover (uncredited)

1950-05-05 5

Paris Waltz

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

The mover

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 ...
Genre :

Killer

1949-03-07 4.8

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

Monsieur Barattier, Patron of the Inn

1949-09-30 5.6

The Sinners

Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Victor

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

The giant

1951-11-10 0

Nights of Paris

Bert and George Bernard, two American comedians, are asked by a solicitor to trace a rich heiress whose initials are tattooed on one of her thighs. All they know about her is that she is a chorus girl ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Le gros homme

1949-12-09 5.25

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

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 :

L'oriental qui amène des ciseaux (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

1952-10-10 0

Piédalu fait des miracles

The inhabitants of Marboue-Chambourcy want a swimming pool, and the difficulties in realizing this expensive dream divide the village into two clans: on one side the women, on the other the men. Pieda ...
Genre :

Étienne

1951-10-12 2

Piédalu à Paris

Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minister of Renovation, and finds it difficult to find someone to listen to him. He meets an actress in P ...
Genre :Comedy

Butcher

1952-12-26 0

It Happened in Paris

Wealthy American Patricia comes to spend some time at her uncle's place in Paris. While out on her own for the evening she meets pseudo-Russian prince Vladimir in a bistro. ...
Genre :Comedy

The cafe owner

1952-12-31 1

Double or Quits

In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agree ...
Genre :Comedy

Le cafetier

1951-10-31 3

Two Pennies Worth of Violets

Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false res ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Le capitaine du guet

1928-12-09 3.6

The Tournament

Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir. ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1954-05-19 1

The Secrets of the Bed

Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference. ...
Genre :Comedy

1954-02-19 5.4

Boom on Paris

In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Le boucher

1952-08-20 5

Judgement of God

Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and n ...
Genre :Drama, History

Boss of the café "Le brazá"

1957-05-14 6

Crazy in the Noodle

Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do the job on him. But as he's waiting for death, he ac ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime

1955-09-14 6

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes

A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife. ...
Genre :Comedy

1956-12-14 0

Good Evening Paris

A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Newspaper carrier

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)

1957-07-02 0.5

A Friend of the Family

Pierre, an unhappy lover, is saved from suicide by his friend Paul. Extremely grateful, Pierre unloads his suitcases on his friend's family, who will soon regret not having let him commit suicide. ...
Genre :Comedy

Patron de "La Reine Blanche" (uncredited)

1955-04-09 7.178

French Cancan

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music

Bernard, the colleague

1931-11-01 7.3

La Chienne

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love w ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Butcher

1953-07-22 5.031

Innocents in Paris

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tom Spink

1936-02-29 0

Les mutinés de l'Elseneur

A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London. ...
Genre :Adventure

Doctor

1947-06-25 0

The Kids Are Leading the Investigation

When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to inve ...
Genre :Crime

L'épicier

1954-07-18 5.7

Leguignon the Healer

Having cured the local café owner, Diogène Leguignon becomes convinced that he is a healer and possesses the fluid. His wife sees the benefits of this gift and urges Diogene to exercise his power, par ...
Genre :Comedy

Leader of the brass band

1955-12-09 1

We're Moving the Colonel

The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the ...
Genre :Comedy

rouge

1949-10-20 5

We Request an Assassin

A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do so, who promises to kill him within forty-eight hours. However the next day, money, luck and love s ...
Genre :Comedy

Le gros homme du hammam

1956-10-10 6.1

Slightly Ahead

A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée mus ...
Genre :Comedy

le commissaire

1933-06-22 5

Chotard and Co.

François Chotard, wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet, a writer who prefers dreaming to working, a situation conducive to quarrels between the son and the father- in-la ...
Genre :Comedy

L'Escouade

1928-07-18 6.5

The Sad Sack

The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks. ...
Genre :Comedy

Germaine 'Fifille'

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

Capoulade

1947-01-15 7.358

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

Jean-Loup de Cazaubon

1957-12-06 0

In Six Easy Lessons

A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident. ...
Genre :Comedy

Arthur Torbayon

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

Brochard dit 'le chrono'

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

Monsieur Amadou

1943-03-17 7

Secrets

A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, but Michel, without any magic power, turns out to be a wonderful teacher and he wins them all over,no ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1951-01-05 0

On demande un bandit

The tribulations of Onésime Ballotin, the insurance broker from L'Art d'être courtier, this time parachuted into the ruthless world of Corsican banditry! ...
Genre :Comedy