Jacques Varennes
Birthday: 1894-11-08
Place of Birth: Mantes-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Oise [now Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines], France
Biography: Jacques Varennes (6 September 1894 – 8 November 1958) was a French film actor who appeared in around seventy films during his career. He appeared in Maurice Tourneur's 1938 historical film The Patriot. Source: Article "Jacques Varennes" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Brevet 95-75
Foreign spies are interested in plans for a device invented by a French aviator. They kidnap the you...
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Bouquets from Nicholas
A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who ...
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Personal Column
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services...
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Poison
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other ...
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La Malibran
On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unu...
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The disappearance from the elevator
A bank guard disappears from the elevator between the ground floor and the first floor. He was carry...
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Shout It from the House Tops
The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that ...
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The Devil's Holiday
Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family....
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La maison du mystère
Julien Villandrit owns a textile factory whose manager, Henri Corrandi, is his childhood friend. Bot...
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Le Petit Jacques
An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good educ...
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Le Bossu
Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonza...
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A Bombshell Night
A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arr...
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One of the Legion
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by ...
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The Tower of Nesle
In the 13th century, lovers hurried to the door of Marguerite de Bourgogne. The aristocrat who every...
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Courier of Lyons
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of ...
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Le Fraudeur
Florimond, a dangerous smuggler, and his mistress Viviane try in vain to transfer illegal precious s...
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Un meurtre a été commis
Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers very...
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Gosse de riche
The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. Sh...
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Wicked Duchess
Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the...
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Nadia la femme traquée
A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminof...
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Saturnin de Marseille
A student, who wishes to become an opera singer, is helped by a good boy, Saturnin, who improvises a...
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L'Ange Gardien
A former colonial official lives far from Paris with a dry cousin who pays attention to his heritage...
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A Hand Hit
The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused...
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Sins of Youth
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his d...
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On Trial
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumpt...
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Monsieur des Lourdines
A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squand...
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Finance noire
In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introdu...
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Vautrin the Thief
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin,...
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From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation,...
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Orpheus
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydi...
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The Devil Who Limped
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de...
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The Spice of Life
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leadin...
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Le chemin de la drogue
A young customs officer is given an important mission: to investigate drug trafficking on the Belgia...
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Three Sinners
A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try e...
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Jim la houlette
Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la...
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Mlle. Desiree
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Ju...
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The Eagle with Two Heads
Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face...
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Fra Diavolo
Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different support...
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Le Rouge et le Noir
It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career a...
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L'Assommoir
Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virgi...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...
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Check on the King
Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. Af...
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Mandat d'amener
Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose yo...
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Quai des illusions
Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves ...
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Fric-Frac
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store....
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his f...
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The Strange Mr. Steve
Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to ...
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Antoinette
Ruined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the r...
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A Night of Madness
Jacqueline took one of her friends to a place where tourists, informants, girls, pimps and Apaches r...
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The Roquevillards
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that ...
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Le Patriote
The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the...
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The Lovers of Midnight
A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girl...
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Dear Caroline
France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractiv...
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Paméla
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the ...
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Chansons de Paris
A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are...
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Enfants de Paris
Ginette, daughter of a foreman of an automobile factory, and Claude, son of the director of this com...
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La joueuse d'orgue
Robert Bernier murdered his brother with the complicity of a worker. The only witness to the tragedy...
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Le Prince Bouboule
Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry ...
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Maid in Paris
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by...
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its found...
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Une fille épatante
Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bi...
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When Love Is Over
An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in tu...
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