Jean Galland

AKA: Jean Gallot, Jean Charles Pierre Galland, Galland
0.1824

1887-05-28

Laval, Mayenne, France

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {74}

1933-01-06 0

Mater Dolorosa

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully his wife. ...
Genre :Drama

Baron Eggersdorf

1958-12-19 6.2

Christine

Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Ambroise

1952-02-29 7.496

Le Plaisir

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taki ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Le médecin

1962-05-30 7

Midnight Meeting

A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film? ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Gonziano

1962-11-07 5

The Doll

An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a ro ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Monsieur de Bernac

1953-04-16 7.5

The Earrings of Madame de...

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. He ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Capitaine Cruchet

1932-03-17 7

Wooden Crosses

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and mor ...
Genre :Drama, War

Maximoff

1939-04-26 0

Savage Brigade

The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful ...
Genre :Drama, History

Capt. Palbouhora

1955-03-18 4

Marianne of My Youth

A new teenage student arrives at a prestige boarding school in Bavaria, having not only the ability to play the guitar and sing, but also to charm animals and detect ghosts. Quickly becoming part of a ...
Genre :Fantasy, Romance

Henry Saint-Clair

1935-03-14 5.75

Whirlpool

The happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. The wife still loves him, although he is incapable ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

M. Cordier

1957-09-11 5.333

On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels

When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Pietro Rossi

1935-10-18 0

Stradivarius

A French-language version of Stradivari (1935). ...
Genre :

Doctor Planturel

1932-11-24 0

Un client de province

Doctor Planturel who is leaving for a vacation, hires a new servant too hastily. Now, Victor, the alleged domestic, is in fact a robber whose only aim is to burglar the doctor's house. But when a clie ...
Genre :Comedy

Lawyer Maurice Meister

1933-01-27 0

Le Jugement de minuit

The mysterious vigilante Milton has warned Scotland-Yard of his intention to kill the lawyer Maurice Meister who is the cause of his sister's suicide. Police and detectives watch over the lawyer's hom ...
Genre :Crime

l' Oncle Arthur

1961-03-17 5.4

Wise Guys

In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented life. He is one of the leading figures in the small world of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Following a triv ...
Genre :Drama

Monsieur Haviland

1934-02-21 5.227

Amok

Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to vi ...
Genre :Drama

Cartier

1934-06-01 0

Cease Firing

When the war is over, a captain finds it very difficult to reintegrate into civilian life. Nothing happens, neither in journalism nor in insurance. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Count Almaviva

1933-12-29 0

The Barber of Seville

Based on an opera by Rossini and an opera by Mozart, taken from the work of Beaumarchais. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Inspector Barfin

1935-04-12 0

Le Mystère Imberger

For sentimental reasons, Monsieur Imberger, a fifty-year-old, disappears. Everyone thinks he was murdered but repeatedly he reappears. Inspector Barfin takes care of this mystery... ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Count Goldi Illeano

1936-07-24 0

Disk 413

A secret message is on a recording, a man who had disappeared for a while may be trying to steal it.His wife, a singer, teams up with a spy chief she has met to confront her husband. ...
Genre :Drama

Marice Vauzelle

1937-07-02 0

Les hommes de proie

A blackmailer is murdered. Vauzelle, the lover of the beautiful Michelle Korany, is suspected because he was the one who was being blackmailed. ...
Genre :Drama

Captain Rose

1937-12-01 0

Human Freight

1915, in invaded Belgium, the Germans seek in vain to dismantle the organization of the smugglers of men who help volunteers to cross the Dutch border. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Doctor Karl

1937-05-21 0

La Danseuse rouge

Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in spite of herself, in the nets of the secret services, she becomes a renowned dancer who travels the ...
Genre :Drama

Serge Vrony

1940-12-20 0

Nadia la femme traquée

A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminoff, head of the intelligence service of the country of origin of the conspirators, who uses Nadia, a ...
Genre :Drama

Bourrier

1941-03-05 0

Those of the Sky

An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes the sacrifice to help his rival. ...
Genre :Drama

Jean Dorcier

1942-05-29 0

Vie privée

Beautiful and adored by the public, the great actress Florence once faulted with Remi, a disreputable individual. A little girl was born who lives in the countryside. Dorcier, the director, would like ...
Genre :

Vicar

1942-07-27 0

Andorra or The Bronze Men

A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on. ...
Genre :Drama

Pierre

1942-08-05 0

The Lost Woman

Marie, a young bourgeois and Jean, a cargo sailor have an affair, she becomes pregnant but he has to go back to the sea. Marie leaves for Paris where she meets Pierre and marries him. War breaks out, ...
Genre :Drama

General Kitchener

1939-04-20 5.4

Cordial Agreement

The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based ...
Genre :History, Drama

Louis

1940-01-11 5.4

Threats

"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Vincent Berteaux aka Monsieur Vincent

1943-02-04 0

L'homme sans nom

Monsieur Vincent is the respected healer of a Basque village. But nobody knows that Vincent Berteaux used to be a surgeon in Paris. When Assomption, a young holidaymaker, arrives in the village in the ...
Genre :Drama

Rakos

1940-03-18 0

Le Danube bleu

Anika is the most beautiful girl of her clan and has for pretenders the gypsy Sandor and the rich Féry. When Féry is assassinated, Sandor is accused of the murder. Anika, with the help of a fortune te ...
Genre :Drama

(archive footage)

2018-10-11 6.3

The Image Book

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is po ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama

Monsignor of Larigaudie

1962-09-05 5.7

Snobs!

Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means. ...
Genre :Comedy

Von Falken

1937-04-20 4.3

Marthe Richard

Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War. ...
Genre :Drama, History

'Export'

1962-02-09 7

A Swelled Head

A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house. ...
Genre :Comedy

Colonel Derblay

1963-09-03 7

The Reluctant Spy

Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne. ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

Maître Gérane

1959-03-20 6.8

Head Against the Wall

An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies. ...
Genre :Drama

Maître Jean Bernard

1936-11-11 5

27, rue de la Paix

A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everythi ...
Genre :Crime

Priest

1963-05-22 4.2

The Virgins

The story of five girls that lose their virginity. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Albert Hochstätter

1938-12-14 6.8

The Novel of Werther

Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Bishop

1963-08-28 6.6

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

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

Maharajah of Datane

1935-11-02 4.867

Princess Tam Tam

A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Mr. Duquesne

1957-08-30 5

La Peau de l'ours

A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him. ...
Genre :Comedy

1957-11-27 5.269

A Kiss for a Killer

In Nice, a wealthy widow is charmed by a young man who marries her and manages her finances. He soon starts an affair with her secretary, who proves to be even more ruthless than he is. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

General

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

Hotel director

1963-12-31 3.8

Les Gros Bras

Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, ...
Genre :Comedy

Magician Stravunesku

1962-12-05 4

The Empire of Night

Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villai ...
Genre :Comedy

'Le vieux'

1966-12-23 5.7

Sale temps pour les mouches

Renowned atomic scientists are kidnapped on French soil. Inspector San-Antonio and his loyal deputy Bérurier infiltrate a gang suspected of involvement in the case, in order to trace the trail. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Duke of Havre

1967-04-02 0

The Double Contempt

In Paris, under the Restoration, Julie de Chaverny, a young woman admired and envied by all, has been suffering for six years from an unhappy marriage to her husband, M. de Chaverny. She finally gives ...
Genre :Drama

Ignacio

1936-11-01 5.333

The House of the Spaniard

A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up… ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime

Sir Elphiston

1964-12-25 6.6

The Black Indies

In 1870s Scotland mining engineer James Starr is asked by former colleague Simon Ford, who's living inside the abandoned Aberfoyle mine, to help solve mysterious occurrences taking place inside the mi ...
Genre :Adventure, TV Movie

Pierre Ugron

1933-07-14 0

The Oil Sharks

The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Captain Gordon

1933-08-12 0

Un certain monsieur Grant

Genre :

Thomas Bentick

1936-11-12 6

The Unknown

The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Stephen

1935-01-01 0

Marchand d'amour

A genius director whose daring and sensual films have earned him the nickname "The Merchant of Love", claims to escape commercial contingencies and direct the film of his life on his own. It is a reso ...
Genre :

Don Bartolo

1954-05-06 5.7

The Adventurer of Seville

Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Victor Danemore

1956-06-28 5.68

Foreign Intrigue

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young w ...
Genre :Thriller

Comte Artanezzo

1934-02-03 0

Le Scandale

A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her? ...
Genre :Drama

Claude "Uncle" Mortier

1951-04-06 6.357

Edward and Caroline

Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Private Secretary

1955-12-23 6.8

Lola Montès

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Doctor Glass

1967-08-31 0

Docteur Glass

Genre :Comedy

Docteur Briquet

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

Fantômas/Görn/Etienne Rambert

1932-05-20 5.8

Fantômas

The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the Marquise dur ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Lieutenant Van Strammer

1935-09-19 0

Second Bureau

Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Marquis de Villa-Campo

1955-03-11 6.4

Caroline and the Rebels

A swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer. ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance

le militaire en retraite

1962-06-26 2

Les trois chapeaux claques

For 7 years Don Dionisio has been engaged to Marguerite, a young girl from a good family. Every year he comes from the distant village where he is a civil servant to spend a day with his beloved. But ...
Genre :Drama

Le commissaire

1964-03-11 4.6

Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent

Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

The first specialist

1957-03-06 2

Hi Doc

24 hours in the life of a humble general practitioner. A very busy life to say the least... Like every other day, Dr. Forget works from morning till dusk (and even later). He sees patients in his cons ...
Genre :Comedy

Léopold II

1940-02-01 0

Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo

The voyages of Pierre Savorgnan de Brassa through Africa. This great explorer, the founder of Brazzaville (Congo), was born in Italy but chose France as his motherland. ...
Genre :Adventure

The boss

1964-11-04 0

The Adventures of Salavin

Finding himself unemployed overnight, Louis Salavin lets himself go into an incurable laziness despite the support of his friends and his mother... ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Baron Arnold

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

Michel Boëldieu

1953-12-06 5.3

The Healer

Pierre Laurent, a former doctor, has established himself as a renowned healer in Brittany. A young girl, Isabelle, who follows his results with admiration, declares her love for him and becomes engage ...
Genre :Drama

Brand / Petersen

1932-08-17 0

Coup de feu à l'aube

A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader. Thanks to a cunning policeman posing as a member of ...
Genre :Crime