René Hell

AKA: René Jules Legendre
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1891-05-01

Orbec, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {95}

Julien le concierge

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

le serrurier

1946-05-15 6.2

Happy Go Lucky

After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to spend time comforting him.Which is not going to help ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

(uncredited)

1946-03-08 5

Special Mission

The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged m ...
Genre :Drama, War, Thriller

(uncredited)

1946-11-20 4

Gringalet

A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a life of luxury and he has become a lazy good for nothing whereas the youthful indiscretion has turne ...
Genre :Comedy

1946-10-30 0

Le Cabaret du Grand Large

Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions. ...
Genre :Crime

(uncredited)

1946-12-18 6.6

Martin Roumagnac

The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Marti ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

The mobster

1947-05-02 6.8

Mirror

Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles. ...
Genre :Drama

The game warden

1948-06-16 6

The Figurehead

At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehead, the bust of a gorgeous woman. ...
Genre :

1948-06-23 0

L'Ombre

Suspected of murder, a man disappears under mysterious conditions, which only increases the charges against him. ...
Genre :Crime

Consumer (uncredited)

1950-02-27 5.5

Marie of the Port

Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing vill ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

The Violet Merchant

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

Gravier

1948-10-27 0

Cité de l'espérance

The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1947-11-15 0

Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur

Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear a ...
Genre :Adventure

Stage manager

1948-10-29 6.2

The Cupboard Was Bare

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notify ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1950-05-10 0

Les Nouveaux Maîtres

Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Le cabaretier

1950-06-09 0

One Only Loves Once

Although they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1948-01-21 0

Road Blocked

Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she had witnessed the murder of the lover of his first ...
Genre :

Singer from the troupe

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

A bettor

1950-08-23 6

Bed for Two

Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient, is getting weary of his monotonous, limited life. He tries marriage but, unfortunately, Blanche, the ...
Genre :

1949-02-02 4

Piège à hommes

A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him. ...
Genre :

Player

1950-08-30 0

No Pity for Women

The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken for Alain by a young woman and her servant. He ju ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

1949-03-23 5.75

Five Red Tulips

During the Tour de France, five riders are found murdered with a red tulip near their bodies. A journalist and a police inspector lead the investigation to unmask the murderer. ...
Genre :Crime

Hotelier (uncredited)

1950-11-25 5.2

The Strollers

Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to? ...
Genre :Drama

The stolen man

1950-10-30 0

Mon ami le cambrioleur

When Nadia, his unfaithful mistress, breaks up with him, Patrick Lambert decides to kill himself. But before he reaches the point of no return he is stopped in the act by Camille, a burglar who has ju ...
Genre :Comedy

The postman

1950-11-02 0

Paris Incident

Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies ...
Genre :

Tramp (uncredited)

1960-04-26 4

Mum's the Word

Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one night. He is operated on immediately. When he wakes up, ...
Genre :Comedy

1950-11-17 6

Fugitive from Montreal

Pierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautifu ...
Genre :Drama

Spectator

1949-06-03 0

L'Homme aux mains d'argile

The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is dispu ...
Genre :Drama, History

Tramp

1949-06-21 0

The Unknown N° 13

While investigating the world of Parisian tramps, journalist René Savary, himself disguised as a poor beggar, notices the strange behavior of a little boy. He follows the brat after he has sneaked out ...
Genre :Drama

1949-07-01 0

The Red Angel

L'Ange rouge is a cabaret run by a former mobster with his friend, a singer and dancer he brought back from Argentina. A fleeing gangster takes refuge in the cabaret. The singer and the gangster have ...
Genre :

A mobster

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

Sewage worker

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

Newsboy

1951-11-28 4.5

Mammy

Mammy has a grandson she adores even though he is a good for nothing. One day Maurice disappears and Mammy becomes blind. When Maurice finally announces his return the fond old lady is overjoyed. Unfo ...
Genre :Drama

Adrien

1950-01-13 0

The Unexpected Voyager

Marc, a photographer, works out of love to help Dany, a car thief, to get back on the right track: he offers her to work with him, as a model. But the former accomplices of the young woman compromise ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Manager

1950-01-18 3

Rome Express

A valuable painting has been stolen from an art gallery in Paris.. On a train travelling between Paris and Rome, Zutra, a mysterious and sinister character, tries to find the stolen painting. ...
Genre :Comedy

Un journaliste (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

An Inspector (uncredited)

1950-01-27 0

Sorceror

A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is only accused of another theft prior to his crime. S ...
Genre :Drama

1952-02-29 6.2

The House on the Dune

A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler lives with.Meanwhile the young man is intrigued by anot ...
Genre :

1952-03-05 0

Le crime du Bouif

A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Un inspecteur

1951-04-04 0

The Two Girls

A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their liv ...
Genre :Comedy

Un homme à la vente aux enchères (uncredited)

1952-05-08 5.7

Mr. Leguignon Lampiste

A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps ...
Genre :Comedy

The deputy

1952-05-28 0

Carrot Top

As the red headed boy writes in his school book, a family is a group living under the same roof who can't stand each other. ...
Genre :Drama

1952-06-13 0

Foyer perdu

A brave and talkative wine merchant, Eugène Barbentin drives his son Pierrot out of the family home, because he has given birth to his girlfriend. His wife then reveals to him that he is not Pierrot's ...
Genre :Comedy

Village man (uncredited)

1951-05-18 7

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Romance

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 :

1951-06-13 6.8

Victor

Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place. ...
Genre :Drama

The Bonapartist (uncredited)

1951-06-22 4.5

Les Petites Cardinal

Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, talented sisters, Virginie and Pauline Cardinal. They are ballerinas at the Opera de Paris and very much ...
Genre :

1951-07-04 3.5

Sweet Madness

Passing for crazy and locked up, the CEO of a company escapes from the asylum and claims that he is the captain of a troop of pirates. To the disappointment of the director of the company and in the c ...
Genre :Comedy

Tramp

1951-07-04 0

The Real Guilty

Inspector Dumont and his deputy Inspector Queneau investigate the murder of a young woman. They learn that the victim was pregnant before her death and that she was the mistress of Mario, a shady play ...
Genre :Drama

First agent

1952-10-31 5

Ils sont dans les vignes...

In 1935, in the Burgundian village of Valromey, Commissioner Desbordes was the very unpopular leader of the anti-alcoholic league. His own brother, Pimpin, is an unconditional defender of the vineyard ...
Genre :Comedy

The bistro owner

1951-09-21 0

Passion

An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both. ...
Genre :Drama

Le contrôleur S.N.C.F. (uncredited)

1952-12-11 5.3

Run Away Mr. Perle

Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who poisons his existence. A Parisian notary writes to t ...
Genre :Comedy

Notary

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

The driver (uncredited)

1952-12-17 7

Holiday for Henrietta

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bast ...
Genre :Comedy

Guardian

1953-02-11 0

Un trésor de femme

Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remove it. Francois follows in the footsteps of Sophie, ...
Genre :Comedy

Un paysan

1954-12-09 5.2

The Count of Bragelonne

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Le chauffeur des Cardinaud (uncredited)

1956-08-20 6.1

Blood to the Head

François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cra ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor

1954-04-28 0

Anatole chéri

Anatole and his wife arrive in Deauville for the special care of their inherited aunt, Caroline. Caroline is also being courted by a doctor and the lifeguard Sparadrap. A young woman, Lolotte, recogni ...
Genre :Comedy

Un inspecteur

1953-05-26 5.857

Poison Ivy

FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Jambier's father (uncredited)

1956-10-26 7.271

La Traversée de Paris

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris. ...
Genre :Comedy, 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

1953-05-14 0

The Night Is Ours

Alain Brécourt, a former pilot who distinguished himself during the war, meets Françoise Clozat, a test pilot. They become lovers, but Françoise learns that Alain is married to a singer. Françoise des ...
Genre :Drama

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

Singer at the banquet (uncredited)

1955-05-10 4.8

Le Crâneur

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade. ...
Genre :Crime

Man from Joseph's gang (uncredited)

1957-09-27 4

This Pretty World

Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito ...
Genre :Comedy

1956-04-25 7

Law of the Streets

Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met ...
Genre :Drama

Prison guard (uncredited)

1959-11-11 6.8

Signed, Arsène Lupin

At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Un consommateur chez Bouche (uncredited)

1954-03-17 7.2

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

La Grenouille

1957-04-12 6.3

Speaking of Murder

Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

The street sweeper

1957-03-22 6.4

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, he removes his vault ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Mystery

Le cocher

1951-02-28 5.433

Dear Caroline

France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a m ...
Genre :Comedy

The traveling pencil merchant (uncredited)

1961-03-01 2.667

A Martian in Paris

The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "L ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Old peasant (uncredited)

1957-12-04 5.519

The Tricyclist

Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the p ...
Genre :Comedy

1958-07-22 2

Mimi Pinson

Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. ...
Genre :Comedy

Grandfather

1959-05-06 6.2

Witness in the City

Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1949-12-12 0

The Story of Dr. Louise

The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers. ...
Genre :

Old garage owner

1961-09-27 7.009

The Counterfeiters of Paris

"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to org ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

1951-01-01 5.5

Champions Juniors

Even back in 1951, boys knew more about cars than their dads. ...
Genre :Comedy

Guest of the hostel (uncredited)

1960-04-13 6.333

The Baron of the Locks

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for ...
Genre :Comedy

Le crieur de journaux (uncredited)

1958-05-14 6.167

The Night Affair

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Romance

Typographer (uncredited)

1959-09-02 6.9

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The onlooker on the bicycle (uncredited)

1948-10-03 5.6

Impasse of Two Angels

Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

(uncredited)

1952-01-23 5.2

They Were Five

Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a b ...
Genre :Drama

1948-04-07 7

Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle

Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear a ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Un homme de l'hôtel (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 vendeur de journaux (segment "Le Gros Lot")

1963-04-26 5.5

People in Luck

A light French comedy of 5 segments. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cabinetmaker

1951-05-24 4.8

The Strange Madame X

Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she f ...
Genre :Drama

Le cocher (uncredited)

1952-12-12 5.4

Imperial Violets

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empr ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music

1958-01-24 6.7

Tamango

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Paul, le majordome du marquis

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

Mr. Martin (uncredited)

1963-05-17 6.1

Carom Shots

Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Customer at the café (uncredited)

1960-09-02 6.2

The Old Guard

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

Peasant (uncredited)

1966-06-01 6.9

Mademoiselle

A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes. ...
Genre :Drama

Man with Dog in the Park (uncredited)

1961-09-27 6.5

Paris Blues

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Music

1956-12-04 7

Crime and Punishment

A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders a pawnbroker to steal his money. Very quickly, it i ...
Genre :Drama