Mario David

AKA: Jacques Paul Jules Marie David
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1927-08-09

Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France

Biography

Crew Roles

La rabona
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Disputas en la cama
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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {78}

Prison director

1978-05-24 6.8

Violette Nozière

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spend ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Philippe Dubois, le masseur de M. Barnier

1967-10-11 7.341

Oscar

This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his d ...
Genre :Comedy

Advocate General

1963-01-25 6.3

Bluebeard

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, r ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, History

Gérard Postelle

1970-08-26 6.1

The Breach

An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend. ...
Genre :Thriller

Frédo

1968-10-30 6.503

The Gendarme Gets Married

The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending ...
Genre :Comedy

1964-11-11 1

Comment épouser un premier ministre

Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate l ...
Genre :Comedy

Felix Pejat

1982-09-21 6.2

Shot Pattern

A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran polic ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Mario

1970-05-19 6.9

Borsalino

In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Drama

André Lapierre, motorcyclist

1960-04-22 6.3

The Good Girls

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams. ...
Genre :Drama

Julien (archive footage)

2009-10-01 7.297

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documen ...
Genre :Documentary

'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

1962-05-23 6.286

The Elusive Corporal

The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean effor ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Bob

1975-12-05 6.378

The Gypsy

Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Roquentin

1965-12-04 7.142

Up to His Ears

A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him. ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

'Charlot l'élégant'

1961-11-17 6.1

A Man Named Rocca

Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Resistance fighter (uncredited)

1958-04-19 5.909

The Cat

During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercove ...
Genre :Drama

Duhamel

1994-02-16 6.8

Torment

Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Monitor

1961-12-20 5.8

The Busybody

André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and start a family with the woman who loves him, Juliette. To ...
Genre :Comedy

1956-08-01 5

Forgive Our Trespasses

In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies. ...
Genre :Drama

Urbain

1966-05-25 6.152

Line of Demarcation

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the ...
Genre :Drama, War

Jacky

1968-09-06 5.9

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Un client des Serin

1955-10-18 6.6

Hi-Jack Highway

A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, th ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

L'homme musclé, à « La Création du monde » (uncredited)

1954-10-15 4.988

Peek-a-boo

A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it ...
Genre :Comedy

Agent on the stairs (uncredited)

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

Attraction at the 'Balajo' (uncredited)

1953-05-22 4.9

The Tour of the Grand Dukes

Gaston is in love with Brigitte, daughter of the Baroness, who claims to have a lover. Gaston sets off for Paris, with 300,000 francs borrowed from the Baroness, to find his rival. He is robbed and fo ...
Genre :Comedy

Bob Grouillet, press officer

1983-05-25 0

En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger

Five feminist activists from Marseille, each enduring unique forms of male domination in work and home life, unite over their shared frustrations. Their anger peaks after watching renowned writer Tous ...
Genre :Comedy

Knife thrower

1963-02-01 6.5

Who Stole the Body?

Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mario

1967-11-29 5.9

The Madman of Lab Four

This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the sec ...
Genre :Comedy

Bercy

1964-12-23 5.5

Les Gorilles

A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases. ...
Genre :Comedy

Masseur

1960-02-17 5.5

Some Like It... Cold

The old Valmorin died 200 years ago. The notary tells the family about the inheritance: the one who is terminally ill will receive the money. They all try their luck with getting ill before the other ...
Genre :Comedy

Honoré

1957-03-01 3

And This Way to the Exit

Carlos, a weapons trader, is struck by his resemblance to a certain Slim. Wishing to take advantage of this situation, the mafioso asked the latter to be the commander of his ship. ...
Genre :Thriller

Amédée

1955-12-07 6

More Whiskey for Callaghan

Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate the theft. But his tracks soon lead him to the welcoming skies of the Côte d'Azur. There, he decide ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Jean-François, antique dealer in Le Havre

1969-03-07 7.313

The Brain

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thin ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Bodybuilder Motorist

1967-12-01 6.9

The Exchange Student

Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his Eng ...
Genre :Comedy

Un agent au barrage

1981-04-01 4.8

Signé Furax

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Arouni - un étalon

1974-11-27 4.6

Kisses Till Monday

Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman. ...
Genre :Comedy

Rumin, healer

1979-02-14 7.136

Hothead

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dabek

1957-12-04 5.5

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

Self - Actor (archive footage)

2017-09-01 7

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
Genre :Documentary

Kid Barrantin

1972-03-01 5.8

The Troubles of Alfred

Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, a ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-11-08 6

Love at Night

Young Monique leaves the preventorium where Doctor Delaunay has lovingly cared for her. A painful return. Her mother Denise lives with Eugène, a handsome, disreputable young man who's easy to please a ...
Genre :Drama

1955-08-26 0

Cherchez la femme

Barbara Van Looren is the lively, clever daughter of the well-known shipowner. For her, life is a breeze, even when she's kidnapped by Mike Cortez's men. A young journalist, Mercier, who tried to defe ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

1956-11-28 5

Man and Child

Fred Barker, an unmarried American who remained in France after heroically defending the country during the Second World War, runs the perfume factory in Grasse of his friend Carlo Ferelli, whose life ...
Genre :

Mr. Sigmund

1969-10-23 4.9

A Golden Widow

A woman learns that she is sole legatee of her forgotten rich uncle, but there is a small problem: she's got to be a widow to latch onto the dough or the fortune will go to a vague sect... ...
Genre :Comedy

Brute

1961-07-24 0

Les Livreurs

These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they ...
Genre :Comedy

Supporter

1961-07-05 1

Panurge's Sheep

Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,do ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Fireman

1963-12-11 0

La bande à Bobo

In Castallet, a village in Provence, cats are swarming and disturbing the peace and quiet of the inhabitants. The municipality decides to get rid of these invasive felines, but a group of children nic ...
Genre :Comedy

Locksmith (segment "Fermez votre porte")

1965-07-28 0

Le commissaire mène l’enquête

Genre :Comedy, Crime

1959-11-04 1

Atomic Agent

Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change the future of rocketry. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Dobronsky

1964-11-18 3.8

Code Name: Tiger

A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special ...
Genre :Thriller

Tony

1966-03-16 0

The Boss of Champignol

Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regi ...
Genre :Comedy

Lazlo Hart

1985-08-16 5.3

Flying Devils

A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However, personal dramas and financial difficulties soon thre ...
Genre :Drama

Le représentant

1960-06-01 6.4

The Love Game

Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de Broca. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

L'athlète qui court au bois

1954-05-31 5

The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne

Cyprien and his friends Hector Colomb and Annette are penniless and desperate. They need someone to take an interest in them. One day, they decide to become volunteer castaways. To build their raft, t ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1977-08-17 7.442

That Obscure Object of Desire

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship bet ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mastic

1958-11-26 2.5

The Sicilian

A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters ...
Genre :Comedy

Gino

1957-08-01 0

We at Champignol

A turf war between two French villages against a soccer backdrop... Claudius, goalkeeper for Fouzy's team, is traded for a cow and becomes Champignol's new goalkeeper. During the final, he is transfor ...
Genre :Comedy

Guillaume

1971-05-21 4

Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?

To replace Hector Grofenol, the tyrannical boss of the "Tout pour le camping" factory, who has been put out of action, a group of employees call on his cousin Achille, a Provençal shepherd, thinking t ...
Genre :Comedy

Tonio

1955-12-06 3

Une fille épatante

Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bicycle under the vehicle. Jacques Mareuil, whom she then blackmails, pays her a sum to cover her debt ...
Genre :Comedy

Lambourde

1973-09-13 0

La Tête des autres

Prosecutor Maillard can rejoice: he has just obtained the death sentence of an accused accused of murder. It is the third head he gets at the assizes. There followed an evening of rejoicing with his w ...
Genre :Comedy

Traffic policeman in the rain

1973-11-23 7.017

The Magnificent One

A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Action, Adventure

Le camionneur

1978-03-16 6.392

The Discord

Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner ...
Genre :Comedy

Scarlatti

1967-08-02 0

A Choice of Killers

Since the car accident that caused the death of his wife, the comics author Stéphane Destouches sinks into alcohol and wanders the roads of Morocco. ...
Genre :Thriller

Jacques

1960-05-19 1

Recourse in Grace

Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of tr ...
Genre :Drama

Paulo, un détenu

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

Ousted protector

1958-11-19 5.2

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclub in the district of Montparnasse but are soon hun ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Raymond Pelletier

1975-10-01 6.479

Flic Story

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become Fra ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

der Dieb der Ölkanne

1979-01-31 6.055

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their cons ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Self

2010-04-12 0

They Saw Inferno

A wonderful documentary that sheds additional light on the fascinating project ‘Inferno’ was, as well as how those who were involved with it reacted to it during the shooting process. A riveting adjun ...
Genre :Documentary

Roger

1959-12-04 5.959

À double tour

The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiancé suspects that she may have been murdered by someone el ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Le chauffeur de car

1967-04-05 6.7

Shock Troops

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy. ...
Genre :War, Drama, Thriller

Riton

1971-07-21 2

The Hideout

A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

La Palluche

1968-01-12 6.3

The Man in the Buick

Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would like to forget about his past, now limiting hims ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Dédé aka 'le Frisé'

1956-04-10 6

That Naughty Girl

Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Self

1972-01-12 8

Le Grand Échiquier

Genre :Reality

Nibet

1980-05-03 7

Fantômas

Master criminal Fantomas kills an ambassador, has an affair with the dead man's wife, sneaks into a rich woman's house handing out vanishing-ink business cards, is arrested and sentenced to death but ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Loubère

1974-11-04 6

À vous de jouer Milord

This French spy story presented in comic book style was broadcasted on TV on November 1974. It tells the adventures of Hubert de Pomarec (Henri Piégay), alias “Milord”, a retired spy called back into ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

Mario, l'inspecteur

1988-09-15 10

The secret files of Inspector Lavardin

The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 199 ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

un gendarme

1967-01-07 9

Vidocq

Based on the memoirs of Eugène-François Vidocq, Vidocq is a French TV series in thirteen 25-minute episodes, in black and white, created by Georges Neveux (scriptwriter-dialoguist) and Marcel Bluwal. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery