Paul Meurisse
Birthday: 1912-12-21
Place of Birth: Dunkerque, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Biography: Paul Meurisse (21 December 1912, Dunkirk – 19 January 1979, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French actor who appeared in over 60 films and many stage productions. Meurisse was noted for the elegance of his acting style, and for his versatility. He was equally able to play comedic and serious dramatic roles. His screen appearances ranged from the droll and drily humorous to the menacing and disturbing. His most celebrated role was that of the sadistic and vindictive headmaster in the 1955 film Les Diaboliques. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Meurisse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Diabolique
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely...
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Le Deuxième Souffle
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a deter...
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Crooks in Clover
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortu...
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Bethsabée
Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bet...
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The Suspects
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this mo...
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Picnic on the Grass
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial ins...
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The Truth
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witness...
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Army of Shadows
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Th...
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Forbidden to Love
An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed....
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The Eye of the Monocle
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Cor...
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Impasse of Two Angels
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine d...
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Scandal
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respec...
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The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends...
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The Affair of the Poisons
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set ey...
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The Big Swag
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le ...
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The Monocle's Sour Laugh
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraf...
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the obje...
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When the Pheasants Pass
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who i...
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Vingt-quatre heures de perm'
Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inv...
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Destitute Mary
Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ....
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The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin....
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn roma...
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Inspector Sergil
Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, he...
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Marie-Octobre
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Hele...
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Colonel Durand
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered...
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Fortune carrée
Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees a...
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Sergil et le dictateur
Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his stay in...
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The Red Angel
L'Ange rouge is a cabaret run by a former mobster with his friend, a singer and dancer he brought ba...
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L'assassin connaît la musique
Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy envi...
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The Gypsy
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance....
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Maria of the End of the World
Maria is the wife of self-styled naturalist Mathius. Alas, Maria's husband spends more time with his...
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Back Streets of Paris
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scrup...
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Me and the Forty Year Old Man
A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty....
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Serenade to the Executioner
Schomberg, an enigmatic psychiatrist runs a nursing home. He is forced to close his clinic and disap...
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The Game of Truth
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agath...
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Code Name: Melville
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were...
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Until the Last One
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He ha...
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Sergil Among the Girls
The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in charge of...
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Le Majordome
Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal code an...
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Head Against the Wall
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him ...
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The Wolf Farm
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L...
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The Voracious Ones
On the Côte d'Azur, a rich man wins a large sum of money playing at the casino. As he leaves the est...
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Not Delivered
After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give u...
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Congress of Love
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Les Violents
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having becom...
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Seventh Heaven
"Le septième ciel" became Raymond Bernard's last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner w...
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Easy Down There!
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns....
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The Inspector Likes a Fight
To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an airc...
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Love and the Frenchwoman
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty w...
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The Contessa's Secret
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's li...
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The Black Monocle
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Rei...
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Je suis un mouchard
Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealous...
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Be Careful Ladies
Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to ...
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Bells Without Joy
In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched a...
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The Education in Love of Valentin
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take ...
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Le Dessous des cartes
Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mou...
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Guinguette
Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy ...
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Montmartre on the Seine
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisan...
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Last Hour, Special Edition
A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an inves...
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Agnes of Nothing
Pushed by her husband to settle in the family castle, Agnès finds her sister-in-law Alix there. Her ...
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My Wife Is Formidable
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admi...
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Ne bougez plus !
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable...
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Monsieur chasse
A husband covers his weekly infidelities with the pretext of hunting. His best friend intends to tak...
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The New Aristrocrats
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do pare...
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Love Marriage
Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department st...
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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with a...
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