René Blancard

AKA: René Blancart, Rene Blancard, R. Blancard
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1897-03-12

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Biography

Crew Roles

Nights of Shame
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {77}

Le maire

1952-02-29 7.536

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

Alexandrini

1949-11-15 5

Sin and Desire

The tumultuous loves of a diver and a pretty bitch. Mario loves Perrucha, she only loves money. When, by dint of diving, the boy's health deteriorates, the girl goes to find an important industrialist ...
Genre :Drama

le voisin de palier

1946-12-03 7.1

Gates of the Night

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

L'avocat général

1960-11-02 7.648

The Truth

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Le commissaire Bellefontaine

1950-05-24 3.7

A Certain Mister

Documents relevant to National Defence have been concealed in a certain vase by a dangerous gang of robbers. To neutralize the criminals, a seasoned police commissioner and his clumsy assistant, young ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Dorchain

1950-02-27 5.794

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

Professor Bertelin

1951-03-28 7.143

Under the Paris Sky

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day. ...
Genre :Drama

Itchoua

1943-04-21 0

Le Chant de l'exilé

In the French Basque Country, Ramon, the son of a farmer and fruit and vegetable merchant with a beautiful voice, has the good life. He is engaged to his charming cousin Maria. But his daily life is c ...
Genre :Drama

Police commissioner (uncredited)

1938-08-05 8

Beautiful Star

Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with h ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ferdinand

1941-12-23 7

The Chain Breaker

Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a pas ...
Genre :Comedy

Employee (uncredited)

1943-02-04 5.5

The Honorable Catherine

Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's love ...
Genre :Comedy

The surgeon (uncredited)

1943-03-21 6.712

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

1943-07-28 0

The Roquevillards

France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son M ...
Genre :Drama

Gourier

1943-10-06 0

Tornavara

In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his father, a rich owner of gold mines. ...
Genre :

1943-11-03 0

Mermoz

Biography and apology of the famous pilot, nicknamed by some the Archangel, who organized the airmail network of South America, flew the first over the Andes Cordillera, maintained the mystique of the ...
Genre :Drama, History

Lucien de Rubempré (agé)

1943-12-13 7.583

Vautrin the Thief

A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, ...
Genre :Drama

Gamekeeper Bourrel

1946-01-30 4.6

Raboliot

Happily married to Sandrine, Pierre Fouques also known as Raboliot is the father of two young children. He would live a steady life hadn't he a passion for poaching, which gets him into a lot of troub ...
Genre :Drama

1946-01-23 6.3

The Last Penny

Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the agency, who is a childhood friend. She does her bes ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Joseph, chauffeur

1946-07-25 0

Mensonges

Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventful, rather monotonous life.Her husband is a kind man but he does not give her any thrill or excitemen ...
Genre :Drama

Goujon

1947-01-15 0

Inspector Sergil

Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, helped by two pretty women, Bijou and Nadège. ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller

The notary

1947-03-05 0

La Dame de Haut-le-Bois

The son of the Comtesse de Brévannes dies. She, who has never wanted to meet her daughter-in-law and who wants to take care of her grandson, goes to their house under the guise of a governess. ...
Genre :Drama

Brigadier

1948-09-22 5.5

Le Dessous des cartes

Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler. Florence, his wife, refuses to join him. Desperate C ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Goujon

1948-10-13 0

Sergil et le dictateur

Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his stay in France and - it goes without saying -trouble begins at once, as of his journey in the fast train fr ...
Genre :Comedy

Commissioner

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

Philippe Chauvieux

1947-12-17 5.4

Danger of Death

Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. ...
Genre :Drama

Thomas

1948-11-26 6

The Spice of Life

A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley ...
Genre :Comedy

André Fournier

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 :

Me Tirgen, lawyer

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

Colonel Pérignon

1949-04-08 0

Le droit de l'enfant

Jacques Herbelin is the faithful husband of Louise and the proud father of Cécile, a kind little girl. But Louise does not reciprocate her husband's affection and prefers to cheat on him in the arms o ...
Genre :Drama

Turnier

1949-05-18 0

The Cupid Club

Isabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly after, a murder is committed of which Isabelle's best friend is suspected. To save her, Isabelle is forced, d ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Inspector Simonet

1949-08-18 0

The Hell of Lost Pilots

A plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio, he is unable to give his position and the water reserves are limited to two days. Each, among the milit ...
Genre :

Baptiste

1950-12-06 0

Oriental Port

In Marseille, a customs inspector falls in love with a young woman involved in dubious traffic. ...
Genre :Thriller

Doirel

1951-12-06 0

Duel à Dakar

Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage to steal part of it and kidnap Robert's fiancée, ...
Genre :

Commissioner Basquet

1950-02-10 0

The Big Meeting

One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Inspector Martial

1951-03-23 0

Rue des Saussaies

The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who pretends to be a respectable man. Jeanne has resolved to avenge her brother but she just cannot tak ...
Genre :Drama

Monsieur Victor

1952-09-10 4.5

Drôle de noce

Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promis ...
Genre :Comedy

Maître Albert Chassagne

1952-12-31 1

Double or Quits

In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agree ...
Genre :Comedy

Doctor Corbier

1953-02-27 6.1

Follow That Man

While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. The second concerns the brutal broad daylight murde ...
Genre :Crime

le curé

1963-08-30 7.8

A King Without Distraction

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresso ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Boisrond

1947-05-02 6.3

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

Le médecin

1945-11-04 9

L'Enquête du 58

A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. Two inspectors come to investigate the affair. During his interrogation, the driver refuses to provi ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Le shérif

1958-12-16 4.2

Serenade of Texas

Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big Bend in Texas. ...
Genre :Western, Comedy, Music

Mr. Borelli

1959-12-02 5.7

Green Harvest

In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But ...
Genre :Drama, War

M. Lavigne, le père d'Édouard

1959-08-12 1

Julie la rousse

The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's son will go in search of this woman and will thereb ...
Genre :Comedy

M. Matheu, le père d'Elisabeth

1957-09-04 6.8

La Polka des menottes

Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of t ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Inspector Picard (uncredited)

1942-08-07 7.3

The Murderer Lives at Number 21

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Albert Pichon

1952-05-21 6.8

We Are All Murderers

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attemp ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Jaltex

1953-04-09 4

Fatal Affair

Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress. ...
Genre :Drama

1953-08-12 0

Mr. Scrupule, Gangster

Mr. Scrupule is a mild-mannered smuggler operating on the coast of Nice. If it hadn't been for an unexpected encounter, he'd probably have gone on for a long time in a trade that earned him the esteem ...
Genre :Crime

M. Rachin, director

1945-09-06 7.4

A Cage of Nightingales

In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director. ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Mr. Boulard

1958-09-26 3.1

The Little Professor

Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he h ...
Genre :Comedy

1959-10-21 0

Secret professionnel

Catherine Langeac and André Foucaud are a medical couple, she a general practitioner and he a gynecologist. Their attentiveness and understanding enable them to solve many of their patients' problems. ...
Genre :

Denys

1957-01-25 0

Miss Catastrophe

A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And he ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-03-16 4

Intermediate Landing in Paris

Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Mea ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Raddel

1965-03-31 0

Operation Diplomatic Passport

The daughter of a foreign diplomat in Paris is courted by two men. One of them entrusts her with a harmless commission for Poland, as she has a diplomatic passport. But it's a trap, and the girl is fo ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Don Tomás

1956-10-26 6.229

Main Street

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Commissioner

1947-10-04 7.538

Jenny Lamour

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady busi ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

1954-11-25 6.8

Queen Margot

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportun ...
Genre :Drama, History

Morgain

1947-06-25 0

The Kids Are Leading the Investigation

When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to inve ...
Genre :Crime

M. Dupré

1956-05-17 2

Le Long des trottoirs

A girl surviving on public welfare, fall into a life of prostitution. ...
Genre :Drama

Commissaire Lepic (uncredited)

1955-08-03 7.282

To Catch a Thief

An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style. ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Micheline's father

1955-06-28 10

Mademoiselle from Paris

Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also ...
Genre :

Lucien Bonnet

1949-03-18 5.4

56, rue Pigalle

Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron's manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de Montalban, married to Ricardo. Vigneron pays the sum but Lucien is killed by an accomplice, Baruch. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

The bistro

1954-02-06 3.7

Tempest in the Flesh

A dam is under construction in the Pyrénées mountains. All the workers only have eyes for pretty, sensual Clara, the canteen waitress. And what she exchanges with many of them is more than just looks, ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Rentier

1957-08-20 0

The Suspects

Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his best agents, ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Commissioner Denys

1954-08-04 4.7

Nights of Shame

Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love of Pierre, an honest painter, hides her dishonorable profession, ...
Genre :Drama

René Gaudin

1953-04-26 0

Endless Horizons

The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons). Giselle Pascal stars as Boucher, who is first seen in 1930, leaving her millinery shop behin ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Rouhaut

1955-12-02 0

A Missionary

Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned. ...
Genre :Drama

1925-07-07 0

La joueuse d'orgue

Genre :Drama

Unidentified Character (voice)

1957-03-14 8.588

Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone mark ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

Le directeur du théâtre (uncredited)

1943-04-08 7.1

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But beca ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Jules Colomban, Baudu's clerk

1943-07-20 6.8

Shop Girls of Paris

The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across ...
Genre :Drama

Aubineau

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

Clifton

1955-12-29 2.5

Diamond Machine

A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

L'huissier (uncredited)

1959-07-01 2

The Coin

Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other for the money, but the diamonds are gone and Jacques ...
Genre :Drama

le commissaire Brochant

1954-04-07 5.3

Quai des blondes

The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky Esposito. Initially defeated and robbed, Ferrer see ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Presto (uncredited)

1938-11-02 3.8

Monsieur Coccinelle

An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a fairground magician, will return to her once more. ...
Genre :Comedy