Charles Denner

Charles Denner

Birthday: 1926-05-29

Place of Birth: Tarnow, Poland

Biography: Charles Denner (29 May 1926 – 10 September 1995) was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut who gave him two of his most memorable roles, as Fergus in The Bride Wore Black (1968) and Bertrand Morane in The Man Who Loved Women (1977). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Denner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Elevator to the Gallows
Elevator to the Gallows

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally prov...

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The Man Who Loved Women
The Man Who Loved Women

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...

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A Captain's Honor
A Captain's Honor

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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Z
Z

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to sup...

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A Thousand Billion Dollars
A Thousand Billion Dollars

A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinati...

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Vivement Truffaut
Vivement Truffaut

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly nam...

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The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pave...

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Life Upside Down
Life Upside Down

A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a wor...

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The Bride Wore Black
The Bride Wore Black

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, c...

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Bluebeard
Bluebeard

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

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The Married Couple of the Year Two
The Married Couple of the Year Two

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor...

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The Sleeping Car Murder
The Sleeping Car Murder

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destina...

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A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Blis...

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Law Breakers
Law Breakers

A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds....

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Money Money Money
Money Money Money

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to person...

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The Night Caller
The Night Caller

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their l...

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The First Time
The First Time

Claude is in his last year of high-school, but he doesn't care much for school. Instead all his thou...

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The Two of Us
The Two of Us

A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewi...

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Golden Eighties
Golden Eighties

Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall...

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The Blue Panther
The Blue Panther

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entr...

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The Inheritor
The Inheritor

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his i...

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Les pieds nickelés
Les pieds nickelés

Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an init...

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L'Unique
L'Unique

A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a ...

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The Truth on the Savolta Affair
The Truth on the Savolta Affair

Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarch...

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And Now My Love
And Now My Love

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The stor...

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Défense de savoir
Défense de savoir

When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. ...

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YUL 871
YUL 871

An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced ...

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Robert et Robert
Robert et Robert

Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their c...

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A Second Chance
A Second Chance

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighte...

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Les Joueurs
Les Joueurs

Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand...

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Le Cœur à l'envers
Le Cœur à l'envers

Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Par...

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Diane's Body
Diane's Body

Diane is married to Julien, an architect. The two met in Czechoslovakia before marrying and moving t...

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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefa...

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Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis
Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis

After the death of one of his clients, a Swiss industrialist decides to call his brother to transpor...

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A Police Officer Without Importance
A Police Officer Without Importance

Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to ...

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Heraclitus the Dark
Heraclitus the Dark

Deval shot “Héraclite l’obscur” in Tunisia in 1967, with his then-girlfriend and editor Jackie Rayna...

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The Devil's Toy
The Devil's Toy

This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboard...

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The Thief of Paris
The Thief of Paris

In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inhe...

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The Truce
The Truce

A nightclub owner and his stripper girlfriend take a country ride, meet another rival underworld guy...

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La Belle au bois dormant
La Belle au bois dormant

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The Best Part
The Best Part

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in...

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The Crook
The Crook

A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession....

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Les Hommes en blanc
Les Hommes en blanc

Jean Nerac completes his medical studies, sure of a successful career, but less sure of his attempts...

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Mado
Mado

A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous of...

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Le Grand Escroc
Le Grand Escroc

Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter...

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Les fourberies de Scapin
Les fourberies de Scapin

Two youths have secretly married ladies but not the ones their fathers who are away on trips had sel...

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Mata Hari, Agent H21
Mata Hari, Agent H21

Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer a...

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Stella
Stella

During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from depo...

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François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay

At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgen...

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Rock and Torah
Rock and Torah

This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That i...

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la vie à l'envers
la vie à l'envers

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La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

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