Pierre Fresnay
Birthday: 1897-04-03
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.
Movies
Grand Illusion
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
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Perfectionist
Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers ...
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La Dame aux camélias
Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed tw...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attemp...
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The Old Guard
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside...
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Le Corbeau
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as lett...
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Marius
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since chil...
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Fanny
Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointme...
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Monsieur Vincent
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders....
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César
Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and ...
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The Phantom Wagon
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a...
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At the Grand Balcony
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose...
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Three Waltzes
"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music ba...
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Devil's Daughter
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having...
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Âme de clown
Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the n...
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Carnival of Sinners
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed ...
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Strangers in the House
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abando...
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place....
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L'Escalier sans fin
An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by ...
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God Chose Paris
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspect...
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Justice Is Done
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All m...
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Tainted
Louberger, director of an orphanage, is full of praise for a former boarder, Mr. Sauval, who has bec...
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Just Out
Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome author, ...
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Street of Shadows
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece a...
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Le Grand Secret
Is there an adventure, a drama, a more exciting suspense than that offered to us by the laborious re...
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The Aristocrats
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging...
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The Last One of the Six
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six ...
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Barry
Lovers since childhood, Sylvain and Angelina do not see their lives separated from each other. Howev...
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Under Western Eyes
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career i...
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The Fugitives
During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag ...
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Crimson Dynasty
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Lan...
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L'Homme aux clés d'or
Antoine Fournier, a language teacher at a secondary school in Lille, was disgraced by four young men...
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Dr. Schweitzer
In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French col...
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The Traveler Without Luggage
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychi...
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The Puritan
A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with...
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La Bataille silencieuse
A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smug...
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The Ostrich Has Two Eggs
A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a ...
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Amazing Monsieur Fabre
It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insec...
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So Much Love Lost
Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The tra...
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God Needs Men
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their...
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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the e...
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Convicted
After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he ...
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The Dreadful
César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded invento...
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The Unfrocked One
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church,...
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The Chain Breaker
Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of i...
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A Bomb for a Dictator
RY A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to Fran...
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I Am with You
A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel w...
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Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter M...
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The Century Is Fifty
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at i...
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Et ta sœur…
Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he...
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The Duel
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young wom...
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Chéri-Bibi
An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony....
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Clock Head
One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small prof...
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S.O.S. Mediterranean
The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka...
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, on...
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Napoleon Road
A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon...
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Trip to America
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple ...
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