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Roger Gaillard

Roger Gaillard

Acting
1893-04-17
Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-RhĂ´ne, France

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1Night at the Crossroads

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.

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#2Royal Affairs in Versailles

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as D'Alembert

6.7 / 10
DramaHistoryComedy

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.

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#3Café de Paris

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.9 / 10
CrimeMysteryThriller

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?

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#4La Chienne

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Adjutant Alexis Godard

7.3 / 10
DramaCrime

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally found love, but Lulu is a streetwalker, still in love with her pimp.

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#5The Blaireau Case

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Gendarme

6.1 / 10
Comedy

Blaireau, a poacher, is imprisoned for an offense he didn't commit. An ambitious lawyer tries to exculpate and glorify him. But, once he's released, this major philosopher destroys in just a few hours the prestige painstakingly built by his liberator.

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#6The Strange Ones

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Gerard's Uncle

6.6 / 10
Drama

Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.

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#7The Marriage of Ramuntcho

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.4 / 10
ComedyRomance

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 completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.

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#8Monsieur Sans-GĂŞne

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
RomanceComedy

A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American comedy One Rainy Afternoon, released by United Artists.

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#9The Devil Who Limped

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Lord Castelreagh

6.5 / 10
History

The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.

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#10The Threepenny Opera

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
MusicDramaCrime

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.

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#11Divine

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
RomanceDrama

A country girl finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.

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#12La Chèvre d'or

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Blaise Pascal

8.0 / 10
DramaFantasy

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 secret. A Parisian journalist is interested in the story. In front of the coalition of villagers, he abandons the treasure and marries Norette.

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#13Heart of the Casbah

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Michel's father

7.3 / 10
DramaRomanceCrime

Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.

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#14The Sharks of Gibraltar

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Accuser

7.0 / 10
Drama

In order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy Gordon has the ingenious idea of ​​transforming a lamentable drunkard into a Lady, haughty but submissive to his orders. Stella's transformation is complete, the success extraordinary. Why must a French officer touching the heart of the former pochard bring down the fragile edifice? A submarine is about to blow up, Gordon is shot down and a confessed Stella returns to her horrible taverns to drown her sorrows in alcohol for good.

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