Marcel Maupi

AKA:
0.2024

1881-11-06

Marseille, France

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {80}

Colleville

1939-02-17 6.5

Cocoanut

A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient. ...
Genre :

1932-09-19 0

The Picador

A picador, an already mature man, keeps secret his love for the young orphan he raised. But she falls in love with a young picador... ...
Genre :

The man in the panama hat

1934-07-05 5.6

Bad Seed

A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy, Romance

Inspector

1933-03-10 0

Roger la Honte

1871. Roger Laroque accuses himself of a crime he did not commit to save his mistress, Julia de Noirville, from dishonor. He escapes from prison and is considered dead for fourteen years. Then he retu ...
Genre :Drama

Machinist (uncredited)

1931-10-09 5.5

Mam'zelle Nitouche

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, w ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

1933-12-01 4

Love and Cool Water

A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of him and falls in love with him. She has a fat, selfish, boorish husband whom she abandons to her imagi ...
Genre :Comedy

1934-01-12 0

Pleasures of Paris

Provincials visiting Paris take the drug of Professor Jouvence, which rejuvenates them with the scabrous consequences that one can imagine. ...
Genre :

1934-05-11 0

L'Article 382

While walking back home at night, an examining judge is robbed of his watch. Fortunately he offers resistance and, by roughing up the mugger, manages to recover his belonging. Imagine his surprise whe ...
Genre :

Chauffeur

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

1934-03-30 0

Toboggan

Toboggan, the 1934 Henri Decoin French boxing sports romantic love triangle melodrama (about a washed up boxer who makes a comeback for a sexy dancer, but she is two-timing him, and she brings her boy ...
Genre :Drama

'Le grand salé'

1934-10-05 0

Le Secret d'une nuit

A very nice young man, Sylvain Renaud is "surrounded" by two bad guys who want to drag him into some very dirty business. ...
Genre :

1934-08-10 0

Le Chéri de sa concierge

The young Eugène Crochard, whom his entourage believes to be a billionaire following a joke published in a newspaper, is pursued by a cohort of people including his very pretty concierge. Really becom ...
Genre :

Casimir

1935-02-22 6.5

Ferdinand the Roisterer

Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageot, is mostly busy with his mistresses but comes to be worried with his young and outgoing daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy

1935-12-18 6.8

Dawn Over France

The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin and blacksmith by profession, to revolt. With his ...
Genre :Drama

1936-04-10 0

Coup de vent

In Pisa, chance forces an old bookseller out of his isolation. He unleashes the fury of the tenants of his building, he undergoes the rigors of the law and he is involved in the adventure of two lover ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1937-09-17 6.3

The Kings of Sport

Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporation's annual race. ...
Genre :Comedy

Elevator operator

1937-07-28 0

Un scandale aux Galeries

The son of an industrialist is in love with a saleswoman employed by his father. The latter coos with an ingenue from whom he hides the age of his son. A department manager involved in all this has hi ...
Genre :Comedy

1937-06-18 0

La course à la vertu

Two twin sisters, nieces of the mayor of Buissons-les-Amours, are, one very wise, the other evaporated. The lover of the second falls in love with the first whom he will marry after being forgiven for ...
Genre :Comedy

Bartender

1937-11-19 1

In Venice, One Night

Mortal is ready to do anything to obtain a divorce from his wife Nadia. To compromise her, he needs to find her a lover. He thinks he has found the ideal candidate in the person of a manly private det ...
Genre :Comedy

Bowls player

1937-03-12 0

Blanchette

Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves when her morale is at its lowest. ...
Genre :Drama

Godard

1937-02-26 0

L'Ange du foyer

Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with Chouquette. His wife and her friend, Baron Sigismon ...
Genre :Comedy

1937-12-29 0

Balthazar

Following a slight accident, a stranger appears in a Provençal village and knocks at the door of the Philippes'villa, asking them for help. Albert Philippe is suspicious but his wife shows some intere ...
Genre :Comedy

Policeman

1942-04-19 7.2

Sideral Cruises

Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure

1938-12-14 0

The Tamer

A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring. ...
Genre :Comedy

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

Isidore

1939-04-27 5.8

Berlingot and Company

François and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child they found by the side of the road. Although the two men are often at each other's throats they are ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Bellemain

1942-08-14 6.4

Twisted Mistress

Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes advantage of it to court her but Guy is becoming suspicious so René has to ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

The crew

1942-09-04 6.8

L'Arlésienne

In the Camargue a local young playboy named Frédéri falls in love with a young woman from Arles. His family thinks she is unsuitable as a wife because she had a fling with a soldier. His entourage att ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

The taxi driver (uncredited)

1941-08-14 6.5

Her First Affair

Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charmi ...
Genre :Romance

Mélik

1941-09-16 5.8

Premier bal

Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Frisemotte, mechanic (uncredited)

1941-09-24 4.5

Parade in 7 Nights

In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

The Commissioner (uncredited)

1941-11-16 5.5

Sins of Youth

A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to acc ...
Genre :Drama

'Jambe d'Azur'

1942-12-11 7.2

The Benefactor

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

'La Puce', jockey

1939-08-11 0

Second Childhood

Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the much-younger girl, remaining faithful to her even after ...
Genre :Drama

Le garagiste

1946-05-15 6.2

Happy Go Lucky

After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to spend time comforting him.Which is not going to help ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

La Puce, il Jockey

1939-08-28 0

Last Desire

Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandoned by her lover. Caesar welcomes her into his home ...
Genre :Drama

Gardener

1940-04-11 6

President Haudecoeur

A public prosecutor wants his son to marry an ugly girl(who has a squint) because her mom is very rich.But it's too late for the boy has already fallen in love with another girl who is pregnant by him ...
Genre :Comedy

1940-04-24 0

Le Roi des galéjeurs

Because the shiner Titin has fallen in love with a singer, he braves the latter's protector, the baron, and passes himself off as an insurer in connection with a pearl necklace that is circulating. Bi ...
Genre :Comedy

Innkeeper

1943-03-31 0

La Chèvre d'or

Legend has it that in the village of PugetMaure, a mysterious goat is the guardian of a treasure once abandoned by the Saracens. Norette, the mayor's daughter, has a golden bell that would reveal the ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

1943-04-07 5.1

The Heart of a Nation

The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in Wo ...
Genre :Drama, War

1943-06-30 0

Malaria

A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing. ...
Genre :Drama

Taxi driver

1942-02-16 6.045

Whims

Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make cl ...
Genre :Comedy

Le barman (uncredited)

1943-12-15 7.667

Voyage Without Hope

Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo ship is willing to smuggle him out out France for a price but Gohelle has no money. His mistress, Mari ...
Genre :Drama

Clerk

1940-12-20 7

The Well-Digger's Daughter

A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, 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

1946-05-15 0

Le gardian

The guardian is engaged to a girl from a good family, but the intervention of a gypsy will make his heart lean. This one comes in fact to take revenge and will try to kill him. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Motto

1946-05-07 5

L'Aventure de Cabassou

An architect whose wife has cheated on him withdraws to a solitary life in a cave, but somehow manages to keep au courant with what is going on. ...
Genre :Comedy

Doctor (uncredited)

1945-12-21 1

The King of Dodgers

Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician in the same orchestra, they meet Arlette Sicleton and Lulu. Arlette is the sister of Sicleton, a spo ...
Genre :Comedy

1948-03-26 0

La Parade du rire

A debate on the definition of the word laughter, organized by Madame de Saint-Jules and two academicians, illustrated by film extracts, turns into a huge battle of cream pies. ...
Genre :Comedy

1947-10-22 5

The Marriage of Ramuntcho

A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1948-06-14 0

Colomba

The film is set shortly after the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, around 1818, in which the hero Lieutanatn Orso fought for the French. In Marseille, returning to Corsica and his family estate, of which is n ...
Genre :

Tramp

1947-12-06 8

False Identity

A man who has just deposited a will with a notary is run over by a car. As his overcoat bears the name and address of Emile Blondin on a label, the police go there and discover that the dead man is no ...
Genre :Crime

Ballet master

1947-12-19 0

One Night at the Tabarin

Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for the closing of the Bal Tabarin, a famous Paris cabaret. So, imagine André's reaction when he... inh ...
Genre :Comedy

Reboul

1948-01-14 0

Le voleur se porte bien

Hector Dumontier has had enough of his wife Noémie : she is always immersed in those detective stories he disapproves of. To teach her a lesson, Dumontier decides to simulate the burglary of their hou ...
Genre :Comedy

1949-02-04 0

The Red Signal

A physician whose wife was killed when two trains collided has remained a tormented soul,In his mind,he can still hear his wife whisper "Stop the train! Stop it!" . ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Dominique

1949-01-05 5

Two Loves

Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all the girls in the country. His brother, Désiré, a disabled carpenter, secretly loves Toinette, the lumber ...
Genre :Comedy

Sosthène

1949-06-29 0

La vie est un rêve

Martine is a young woman of aristocratic origin who does not know the man to whom she is promised. She decides to set up a coup with a schoolteacher friend. She is responsible for flirting with the fi ...
Genre :Comedy

Tastevin

1934-11-10 7

Tartarin of Tarascon

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Le sous-préfet (as Maupi)

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

Bartender

1938-04-15 6.8

Heartbeat

A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new care ...
Genre :Comedy

Rémi

1938-05-04 6.9

The Strange Monsieur Victor

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this ve ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Barnabé

1938-09-07 7.4

The Baker's Wife

In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first bre ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Un copain

1936-09-01 7.4

La Belle Équipe

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart. ...
Genre :Drama

Innocent Mangiapan

1936-01-01 7.635

César

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biologica ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Man in Panama Hat

1936-02-21 0

First Offence

After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of professional car thieves. British remake of "Mauvaise graine" (1934). ...
Genre :Crime

Innocent Mangiapan, ferry crewman

1932-10-27 7.473

Fanny

Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she ac ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Jules

1938-06-15 7

The New Rich

The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in industry. Happy in business, they soon find themselves ...
Genre :Comedy

Octave

1932-11-23 8

The Wonderful Day

An assistant pharmacist in the South of France , Blaise works for Mrs. Pinède, a well-endowed hot-blooded woman who has developed a crush on him, and her husband ... who hasn't! One day, Blaise meets ...
Genre :Comedy

le garde du corps

1936-10-29 7

The Twins of Brighton

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father. ...
Genre :Comedy

Marius Rabut

1936-11-05 6

Forty Little Mothers

After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become his forty little mothers. At the same time, the chil ...
Genre :Comedy

Hairdresser

1945-07-15 7

Hoboes in Paradise

In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. The ...
Genre :Comedy

1931-01-09 4.3

Dance House

Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and that man's unmarried younger brother ...
Genre :Drama

Le garçon d'hôtel

1934-12-20 5

The Lafleur Cavalryman

The reservist Lafleur, having a wife, a mistress and still running after the first petticoat that comes along, his namesake, an active soldier, finds himself embroiled in the vengeance or intrigues th ...
Genre :Comedy

Le régisseur

1941-09-16 5.952

The Last One of the Six

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

José

1933-01-13 6

Mirages of Paris

In this fast-moving fantasy, an unsophisticated student escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the "toast of Paris." ...
Genre :Comedy

1946-05-29 0

Une femme coupée en morceaux

Four men in love with the same woman put on a music-hall show and travel the world in search of the beauty. They will find success and fortune, but their sentimental quest will be a failure. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sailor

1940-12-13 0

Camp Thirteen

In a camp of sailors, the suicidal and solitary life of Greta, which makes men lose their heads. ...
Genre :

Mr. Alexandre, pharmacist

1949-04-08 7.208

Truant School

1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to radically change the methods employed by his predecessor. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1933-01-01 0

Weaker Sex

The story of Madame Leroy-Gomez, a wealthy divorcee living in Paris. Together with her servant Antoine she schemes to marry off her unmarried children and fix any issues that arise for those already m ...
Genre :Comedy

Innocent Mangiapan le chauffeur du ferry-boat (uncredited)

1931-10-09 7.387

Marius

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle st ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance