Pierre Palau

AKA: Palau

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1883-08-13

Paris, France

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {97}

Oscar

1933-04-14 0

Les deux 'Monsieur' de Madame

A tradesman authorizes his wife's first husband to replace him in order to hide from a brave, very rich aunt that his niece is remarried and thus saves himself from bankruptcy. He is indeed saved from ...

Genre :Comedy

Le receveur de P.T.T.

1943-09-28 7.542

Le Corbeau

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, Thriller

1932-12-09 0

The Brazilian thing

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to reach a settlement, that she must sign. In this settl ...

Genre :Comedy

Le commissaire de police

1935-01-01 0

Pitiless Gendarme

The police superintendent may be good-natured but he has got a lot on his plate with all the witnesses that come to make a statement before him. They are all crazier than the others and although the s ...

Genre :Comedy

Saint-Simon

1961-11-03 3.8

Famous Love Affairs

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis. ...

Genre :History, Romance

1932-07-02 0

Mister Albert

Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and im ...

Genre :Comedy

Fondoy

1932-07-08 0

Côte d'Azur

Hélène is a telephone operator in love with her boss, who has never looked at her. She follows him to the Côte d'Azur and passes herself off as a great lady. Brodier falls madly in love with her. ...

Genre :Comedy

1933-12-01 0

Faut réparer Sophie

Sophie is the daughter of the concierge of a large building. One day, her father surprises her tenderly embraced by the viscount who is going to see his fiancee on the fifth floor. The concierge deman ...

Genre :

1934-05-18 0

La dactylo se marie

A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband. ...

Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Achille

1934-11-02 0

Midnight Prince

A record seller, and not very serious, Henry spends his nights in a cabaret where there is a Slavic prince in exile. His resemblance to the Prince of Palestria makes him designated to replace the youn ...

Genre :Comedy

1935-05-03 5.5

Tovaritch

Playwright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in Paris, the story revolves around Princess Tatiana (Irene de Zilaby) and General Mikail (Andre Lefaur), ...

Genre :Comedy

1935-07-05 0

Jeunes filles à marier

Well-to-do Simone replaces her music-hall friend Yahne when her wealthy uncle visits from America. ...

Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Corbin

1935-11-01 0

Touche-à-tout

A young supervisor is expelled from his high school after misleading his students during an outing. He made his fortune and basked on the Côte d'Azur. A young maid comes to his aid before he loses eve ...

Genre :Comedy

1937-07-01 0

The Queen of Spades

Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from ...

Genre :Horror, Drama, History, Fantasy

Levaut, pharmacist

1936-11-09 4

Girls of Paris

A few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always glorious, will parade before our eyes, for our greatest pleasure. Turning among characters such as : an ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1937-10-27 6.1

The Green Dress

Count Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised by the Duke in the company of his wife and... in a rather compromising situation, Hubert resorts to a s ...

Genre :Comedy

Jules Bongrand

1937-01-08 0

La Peau d'un autre

The very chic Parisian couturier Jean Granet has trouble with the police, and will find himself imprisoned for two weeks, in the provinces, for speeding. He manages to get himself replaced by his frie ...

Genre :

1937-03-12 0

La Reine des resquilleuses

A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer. ...

Genre :Comedy

Parainneaux

1937-05-14 0

Le cœur dispose

An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to an elderly baron.But what about Robert, the family ...

Genre :

Piotr

1938-01-28 5

Rasputin

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas. ...

Genre :History, Drama

Baron Fléchard

1937-06-11 0

The Beauty of Montparnasse

Mr. Pontbichot has long dreamed of cheating on his wife. To achieve his goals, he looks for a son-in-law who could help him, and finds him in the person of a young painter, who pleases his daughter. ...

Genre :Comedy

Morillon, the photographer (uncredited)

1942-03-16 6.5

Annette and the Blonde Woman

Based on the short story by Georges Simenon. Annoying Annette is bent on seducing Maurice, a handsome lawyer who has his eye on a haughty American Myriam who is running after bashful Bernard. The stor ...

Genre :Comedy

1938-12-14 0

Vacances payées

Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman ...

Genre :

Impresario

1939-06-15 0

Le Paradis des voleurs

A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to a couple of dancers. They are mistaken for the Morton Sisters and perform in the Folies Parisiennes ...

Genre :Comedy

Notary

1942-12-09 0

Eight Men in a Castle

The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat ca ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1940-03-06 4.7

The Duraton Family

Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a broadcast. ...

Genre :Comedy

Le gouverneur (uncredited)

1943-01-22 6.2

The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, History, Action

Beaulieu

1941-12-23 0

Ce n'est pas moi

Cambo, a banker, has been in trouble since a certain Parizot has tried to extort stocks from him. Following the advice of his friend Quincampoix, Cambo decides to trade places with Bardac, a painter, ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Le docteur Pierre

1943-02-12 4.938

Picpus

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer. ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Le petit homme

1943-03-21 6.7

Carnival of Sinners

A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this w ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Horror

Chabrol, publisher

1943-04-21 0

Madame et le mort

A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom? ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Investigating judge

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 contrôleur

1943-12-22 7

I Am with You

A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel where her husband must pass. He meets her and, disturbed by the one he believes to be his wife's doub ...

Genre :Romance

'Le baron'

1944-02-18 4.2

L'aventure est au coin de la rue

A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts, to play a trick on him, organize a fake burglary ...

Genre :Comedy

1945-03-22 5.4

The Bride of Darkness

Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian ...

Genre :Crime, Horror, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Dietrich

1946-03-13 5.8

Behind These Walls

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a pris ...

Genre :Drama, War

Victor

1945-06-27 0

Mademoiselle X

A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to kill her unfaithful lover. He will know how to console her and share with her a new happiness. ...

Genre :Drama

Louiset

1946-03-29 3

The Grand Hotel Affair

In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a certain Mr. Léon. Could these bizarre individuals have something to do with the double murder at the Gr ...

Genre :Comedy

Payen-Laurel

1945-07-11 6

Box of Dreams

Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Edmond Carré-Lamadon

1945-10-13 5.1

Angel and Sinner

During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and t ...

Genre :Drama

Ernest, domestic

1946-05-03 6

Messieurs Ludovic

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will find great love with one of them. ...

Genre :Romance

Monsieur Dubois

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

Petithunier

1946-07-15 0

The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin. A mysterious stranger launches a press campaign accusing him of having a harmful influence on young ...

Genre :Comedy

Boëhmer

1946-09-14 1

Queen's Necklace

The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent d ...

Genre :Drama, History

Sidobre

1946-09-11 5

The Sea Rose

Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and collect the insurance premium. ...

Genre :Drama

Innkeeper (uncredited)

1947-03-20 6.8

The Royalists

The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to seduce and capture him. ...

Genre :Adventure, History, Drama

1947-03-25 0

Rumors

Jean is a good man who has a steady job (he is a mechanic in the village garage) and a companion named Aline. But Jean is also a guzzler and a philanderer. As a result, when a local prostitute is kill ...

Genre :Drama

Simone's father

1948-06-16 0

Carrefour du crime

Suffering from mental disorders, a detective is trapped by his own associate who compromises him in a heinous crime. ...

Genre :Drama

1950-02-22 0

Un trou dans le mur

André de Kerdec, a young lawyer buys an old parchment in an antique shop and discovers that a treasure is hidden in the bedroom of Artémise, an old maid who owns a manor. He manages to be hired as her ...

Genre :

Anselme Bourguignon

1950-08-02 0

Cartouche, King of Paris

The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne. ...

Genre :Adventure

Doorman

1948-03-03 6.1

The Eleven O'Clock Woman

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is c ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Dermont

1949-07-13 0

La louve

A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he lives with his stepdaughter, Henriette, everybody considers insane . ...

Genre :Thriller

Destrouesse

1949-10-19 8.5

Mademoiselle de la Ferté

Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him. ...

Genre :Drama

Mr. Paulau, a board member

1950-01-27 0

Love and Companionship

The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of th ...

Genre :Comedy

The director of 'Nuptia'

1952-05-21 5.3

Matrimonial Agency

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it. ...

Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Torcheboeuf (segment "Coralie")

1952-08-13 0

Three Women

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatiz ...

Genre :Comedy

1952-12-05 0

The Road to Damascus

Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own frie ...

Genre :

Monsieur Paul

1951-11-08 5.3

Gigolo

Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the atte ...

Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1953-02-15 5

The Lottery of Happiness

Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a bike. It's a big success. ...

Genre :Comedy

Uncle Théodose

1961-01-20 4.833

The Joker

A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness. ...

Genre :Comedy

Boucherot

1922-11-17 0

Triplepatte

Robert de Houdan is indecisiveness itself. He keeps hesitating, shilly-shallying and never reach any decision in any way. So much so that he finds himself on the verge of ruin and falls prey to Bouche ...

Genre :Comedy

L'adjudant

1939-05-10 5

Trois artilleurs à l'opéra

Genre :

A guest

1963-05-22 4.2

The Virgins

The story of five girls that lose their virginity. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Leduc, first blackmailer

1938-09-09 5.4

Crossroads

A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well know ...

Genre :Drama

Le sergent / Il sergente

1948-01-02 5.9

La Danse de mort

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past. ...

Genre :Drama

1935-11-16 7.2

Fanfare of Love

Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all-female orchestra called "Tulips from Holland"; they fall in love with two gorgeous musicians. ...

Genre :Comedy

Le père Bigeard

1965-10-07 5

Public School

A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and dir ...

Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Benoît

1939-09-07 7.2

The Phantom Wagon

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collec ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama

Boyer de l'Ain

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

Saint-Lévy

1934-12-21 6

Zouzou

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

(uncredited)

1939-10-27 6.2

Four Flights to Love

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a bli ...

Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Arthur, wedding guest

1955-10-26 6

The Grand Manoeuvre

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Beauty

1956-12-24 5

Mitsou

During the First World War, the Empyrée Montmartre, a Paris music-hall, is dedicated to patriotic revues whose star is the charming Mitsou. The young artist is not without talent but she is mainly wel ...

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Faust

1955-12-29 4.5

Marguerite of the Night

It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan. ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Venot

1955-07-26 6.143

Nana

In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in love with Nana, a young kept woman and star of the Théâtre des Variétés. This all-consuming ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Le régisseur des Funambules

1945-03-15 8.1

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by thr ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Le docteur Mongicourt

1933-04-01 5

La Dame de chez Maxim's

Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad Môme Crevette ...

Genre :Comedy

1933-11-24 4

The Blue Ones of the Sky

An obscure mechanic falls in love with a an champion pilot. ...

Genre :

Le chevalier Titus

1937-02-18 6.8

The Man from Nowhere

Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of ...

Genre :Drama

Le juge d'instruction

1949-09-16 5.7

The Farm of Seven Sins

In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious ...

Genre :Drama

Le commissaire Boucard

1934-11-10 5.5

The Free Trade Hotel

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among other ...

Genre :Comedy

Defoy

1938-03-08 5.8

The Lafarge Case

Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband . ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Pluvinat

1932-05-19 0

Ladies Hairdresser

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Parpalaid

1933-11-03 7.5

Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine

"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small town through fear and authority. NB : this is a different movie from the 1951 version where Louis Jo ...

Genre :

Archibald Torrington

1934-10-25 6.7

Si j'étais le patron

An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were the boss, we would see what we would see. One of the main shareholders of the factory takes him at his ...

Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Borel

1944-06-01 7.667

Florence is Crazy

Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly that she will become a chanteuse and her husband the impresario. ...

Genre :Comedy

Monsieur Marin

1947-09-12 6.2

Devil in the Flesh

In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dallianc ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Le vieux monsieur qui critique toutes les époques

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

Alberic

1966-12-21 6.9

King of Hearts

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have s ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Mr. Tyler

1963-01-25 0

Tous ceux qui tombent

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani. ...

Genre :Drama

Violette

1951-04-25 0

Dakota 308

A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the Camargue. On arrival, we find nails instead of gold! ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Un Moine

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

le bijoutier

1931-12-24 0

Luck

A beautiful widow gambles away her fortune at baccarat and is forced her to sell her jewels and ask Victor for hospitality. Victor tries to seduce her but she loves the shy Gaston. ...

Genre :Drama

Richard

1931-09-11 0

Rien que la vérité

Bob bets 250,000 francs that he can tell the truth and nothing but the truth for twenty-four hours. ...

Genre :Comedy

M. Lemant

1931-11-20 0

Quand te tues-tu?

Leon lives with Gaby. One of their friends, Xavier, is determined to kill himself. But Leon will inherit several millions if he marries a widow, so he gives Gaby in marriage to Xavier. ...