André Chanu

AKA:
0.1563

1910-12-28

Paris, France

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {41}

Chicot (uncredited)

1943-12-13 4.1

The Wolf Farm

Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secreta ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Le second clerc de notaire (uncredited)

1946-04-02 6.8

Land Without Stars

Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and fal ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Tatave

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

Me Villerose

1947-03-12 0

Rendezvous in Paris

When she sets sail for Lisbon, Catherine Laurence, a famous classical singer has but one wish: to be left alone. Unfortunately she soon gets bothered by a rude, invading man. Later she gets to know hi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

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

1948-05-23 0

La Grande Volière

A young pilot, Martin, applies for the Ecole Militaire de Salon. He is accused of having caused the accident of one of his bosses, his career is then threatened. ...
Genre :

Pascalin

1948-07-21 6

Le dolmen tragique

Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector Pauc to de Kerlec's manor. Pauc decides to mingle ...
Genre :Crime

The Narrator (voice)

1950-09-01 3

Tête blonde

When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good deal, he takes it home but discovers a woman's head inside. A friend of Mr. Truche having ju ...
Genre :

Le toubib

1950-03-10 3.7

The Big Circus

During the second World War. The lives of three comrades fighting in the Forces Françaises Libres' flight. Pierre is a valiant pilot, afraid of nothing. Jean is reported missing during the Normandy la ...
Genre :War

The announcer of the Vél d'Hiv

1952-04-30 2.5

Le Costaud des Batignolles

Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a w ...
Genre :Comedy

The announcer

1951-10-09 10

Love and Desire

A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the di ...
Genre :Drama

1952-07-11 0

Alone in the World

François wants to buy a house to help underprivileged children. He lacks money, but a generous donor allows him to realize this dream. ...
Genre :

Couturier

1951-05-18 0

Le clochard milliardaire

Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the one condition to spend a certain amount of time as ...
Genre :Comedy

1952-12-12 0

Her Last Christmas

A very ill little girl having expressed the wish to live until Christmas, the whole neighborhood agrees to anticipate the celebration. ...
Genre :Drama

1953-01-30 0

Deux de l'escadrille

During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, h ...
Genre :Comedy

André

1975-10-10 0

Les Tripoteuses

Genre :

Duc de Noailles

1954-02-10 6.69

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in m ...
Genre :Drama, History, Comedy

1953-07-19 0

L'oeil en coulisse

Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd happily met. Tonin liked the asylum. His friends ar ...
Genre :Comedy

Speaker

1957-12-11 5.6

Too Many Lovers

The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappoint ...
Genre :Comedy

Doctor

1955-02-23 7

The Ragpickers of Emmaus

The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1958-04-09 0

Le souffle du désir

Daniel Bellanger, a night-club crooner, is a basically straight,honest man. He has just married Christiane, a cashier in a Montmartre hotel and his main objective in life is to live happily with his w ...
Genre :Drama

1957-09-13 1

Girl Merchants

A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster. ...
Genre :Drama

The animator

1960-05-20 0

The Crab Basket

Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema. He founded a film cl ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Doctor Schwartz

1971-02-10 4.2

Love Me Strangely

Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Romance

1959-07-14 0

Minute papillon

Oscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water purification machine he has developed. In his haste, he accidentally grabs a gangster's car containing th ...
Genre :

1963-03-20 0

Seul... à corps perdu

An unscrupulous reporter investigates the discovery of a corpse in the trunk of a car stolen by his young brother, a petty criminal. ...
Genre :Crime

1964-05-06 3.667

Le bluffeur

Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to ...
Genre :Crime

Alain's father (uncredited)

1960-11-02 0

Thank You, Natercia

A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1974-10-02 1.667

Les jouisseuses

Carol runs a hotel where one of the guests, her lover Mathias is a scientist who has invented a pill which can induce instant euphoria and sexual stimulation. Claude is keen to market the pill, but wh ...
Genre :

Minister (uncredited)

1961-10-24 1

Auguste

Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accuratel ...
Genre :Comedy

1957-12-06 5.9

Anyone Can Kill Me

The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Le reporter dans l'hélicoptère

1957-08-09 4.5

Explosive Vacation!

Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the ...
Genre :Comedy

1970-07-10 2

Nathalie, l'amour s'éveille

Two sisters, Nathalie and Elsa, go on vacation. Returning to Paris by hitchhiking, Elsa meets several men. ...
Genre :Drama

Cordillot

1949-12-12 0

The Story of Dr. Louise

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

Commander Durmel

1952-06-27 5.7

Love Is Not a Sin

A building, a landing, two tenants: he, Jacques Loursier, is president of the U.R.A.F (Union and Resistance Anti-Woman); she, Eliane Cahuzac, is president of the Association for the Triumph and Indepe ...
Genre :Comedy

1952-10-22 5.8

The Moment of Truth

After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers ...
Genre :Drama

Robert

1949-02-06 6

Last Love

Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by ch ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1952-10-10 6.6

Full House

Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Sully

1956-01-27 5.7

If Paris Were Told to Us

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, History

1952-08-29 6

Trial at the Vatican

In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint. ...
Genre :Drama

1963-08-28 6.6

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work. ...
Genre :Comedy