André Deed
Birthday: 1879-02-22
Place of Birth: Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
Biography: Henri André Chapais, known as André Deed (22 February 1879 – 4 October 1940), was a French actor and director, best known for his Foolshead comedies, produced in the 1900s and 1910s. André Deed was one of the first named actors in cinema, and his film series based around Foolshead were a global success.
Movies
Boireau cuirassier
Boireau's flamboyant military costume gets stuck everywhere he goes....
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Cretinetti ficcanaso
Cretinetti meddles with things and lands into trouble every time, having his head forged on an anvil...
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Cretinetti distratto
Cretinetti wakes up in the middle of his sleep and finds himself in outlandish situations, walking t...
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Il regalo di Cretinetti
Cretinetti tries to bring a gift to his sweetheart. He loses the flowers. The tableware set breaks i...
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Boireau déménage
Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they hav...
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Trois sous de poireaux
A drunk man is going to buy more drink at his wife's expense, which he takes advantage of to get mor...
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Boireau et la gigolette
Andre Deed sees Valentina Frascaroli shoot a man who annoys her in the street and is enchanted. He d...
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Boireau au harem
A pasha invites a photographer to his harem. A belly dancer performs for him, and then seduces him, ...
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He
In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty g...
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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Two young lovers. An arranged marriage. An older groom. The lovers develop a plan to convince the gr...
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Robinson Crusoe
Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in blac...
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La rose effeuillée
A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One...
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The Mechanical Man
The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled ...
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Boireau, roi de la boxe
At a prize fight, Deed gets int a fight of his own with two other spectators and gets thrown out. He...
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Cretinetti e l'ago
Andre Deed was a leading player in short Italian comedies in this period under the character name of...
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The Delights of the Shoot
Cretinetti goes hunting with his friends, stalking the ferocious Chicken, and produces a typical Ita...
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Cretinetti che bello!
The set-up here is that Cretinetti has been invited to a friend's wedding and dressed up in a fine n...
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Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas.......
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A Kind-Hearted Policeman
In this picture we see a man who is vested with authority to enforce the law, but, unlike the usual ...
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The Fear of Zeppelins
Cretinetti is about to get married and he could not be any happier and more in love with his Junoesq...
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Cretinetti the Wrestler
André Deed is tired of being beat up, so a strong man has no trouble selling him one of the springs ...
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The Man Monkey
A scientist's reckless experiment turns a man into a half-ape creature, whose monkey-like antics bri...
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Modern Sculptors
The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which...
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Les incohérences de Boireau
Boireau is sleeping in his bed, floating in the air, when a fire wakes him. So he takes his gun and ...
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Come Cretinetti paga i debiti
Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks....
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The White Suit
The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly e...
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An Extraordinary Dislocation
A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts ...
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Two Girls Are in Love with Foolshead
Short comedy in which Gribouille (Cretinetti) loses his two lovers to two gentlemen....
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The Inexperienced Chauffeur
The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the st...
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Just Leon
Léon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous....
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L'apprenti architecte
Jim's mother brings him to an architect's office to secure a position for him, and he is accepted. A...
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Boireau sert les maçon
Boireau, apprentice mason, and a coalman fight it out for the affections of the cook....
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Il Natale di Cretinetti
Comedy from a series about the character Cretinetti (Gibrouille). He is organizing a Christmas party...
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Il Natale di Cretinetti
Another nice Christmas comedy, produced by Itala Films, with André Deed in his famous Cretinetti cha...
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Cretinetti cerca un duello
A quarrel in a club room leads to a duel between two of the characters. Honor is satisfied by the us...
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Le Nègre du rapide numéro 13
In the Le Mans railway station, Oscar Ribouis is waiting for the connection that will lead him to Re...
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Tao
Jacques Chauvry, the new government delegate for a French protectorate in Cambodia, meets the young ...
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Our Band's Going to the Competition
An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory....
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Jim is Fond of Garlic
In this comedy we see a fellow giving orders to the cook to put plenty of garlic in his food, and sh...
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Boireau à l'école
André Deed in the persona of a juvenile Boireau, has two ambitions: to get along with pretty schoolg...
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Jim's Apprenticeship
Boireau's father keeps trying to apprentice him to a different trade. Each time, the youngster annoy...
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The Kingdom of the Fairies
At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch sud...
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Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp
The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury...
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Boireau bonhomme de pain d'épice
Boireau makes a mess, gets pushed around and ends up a gingerbread man....
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Boireau enragé fumeur
Andre Deed loves his cigars, but not everyone does. He heads off to a tea social, where the hostess ...
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