Charles Boyer
Birthday: 1899-08-28
Place of Birth: Figeac, Lot, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Biography: Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised romantic dramas, Algiers (1938) and Love Affair (1939). Another famous role was in the 1944 mystery-thriller Gaslight. He received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.
Movies
How to Steal a Million
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries....
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Reflections on 'Gaslight'
A documentary on the 1944 film "Gaslight" starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer....
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Is Paris Burning?
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...
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The Buccaneer
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...
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Conquest
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging...
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Algiers
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resi...
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History Is Made at Night
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her ...
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Together Again
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for y...
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Casino Royale
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin...
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The Earrings of Madame de...
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her ...
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Tales of Manhattan
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it...
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La ronde infernale
While engaged in the six-day Vel d'Hiv event, a cyclist is concerned about the behaviour of his wife...
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Gaslight
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion....
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Arch of Triumph
In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows ...
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Tovarich
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they...
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Stavisky...
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe ...
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All This, and Heaven Too
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du...
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Mayerling
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage t...
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Love Affair
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to...
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Liliom
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a...
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The Battle of the Rails
A dramatized account of the French Resistance, this wartime film depicts how railway workers sabotag...
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Barefoot in the Park
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptigh...
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The 13th Letter
A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an a...
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La Parisienne
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her....
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is marri...
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Hold Back the Dawn
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota sys...
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Cluny Brown
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country es...
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The Hawk
The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat....
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The April Fools
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with t...
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Fanny
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'...
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The Cobweb
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but...
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The Constant Nymph
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. W...
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A Matter of Time
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her day...
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The Fighting Lady
Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 "newsdrama," narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (B...
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Red-Headed Woman
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair...
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A Woman's Vengeance
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women an...
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Lost Horizon
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued a...
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Private Worlds
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor ...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Back Street
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxe...
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Nana
In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls m...
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Maxime
Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young mil...
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A Very Special Favor
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy...
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Love Is a Ball
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young...
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The Garden of Allah
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk....
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Captain Fracasse
A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately ...
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Break of Hearts
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music t...
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Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O...
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the t...
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Shanghai
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian b...
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The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of stat...
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Confidential Agent
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and countersp...
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When Tomorrow Comes
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he i...
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Thunder in the East
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plan...
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The Man from Yesterday
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She tr...
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The Happy Time
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa....
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The Magnificent Lie
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved bef...
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Orage
The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison....
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Appointment for Love
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymo...
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Le Bonheur
Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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The First Legion
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”....
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The Big House
French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role,...
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Caravane
Princess Wilma is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. She impulsively chooses gypsy ...
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Adorable Julia
A successful and married, although not quite young, stage actress falls for a young man, who is invo...
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Little Isles of Freedom
1942 Oscar nominated documentary about wartime Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Part of the Broadway Brevi...
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Caravan
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, H...
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The Trouble With Forgetting
To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and realit...
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The Battle
In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British at...
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Paris, Palace Hôtel
On Christmas Eve, a manicurist pretends to be a wealthy man's daughter after meeting a young garage ...
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The Only Girl
English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice whi...
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Tumultes
Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a mu...
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Riviera Dream
This black & white novelty film features Egyptian actor Alex d'Arcy -- playing the part of a dischar...
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The Man of the Sea
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only w...
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The Romance of Celluloid
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the m...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she...
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Demons at Midnight
This drama's main asset is Charles Boyer as Pierre, a father out looking for his son one night. Pier...
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The Louvre
Lucy Jarvis -- the plucky camerawoman known for becoming the first Westerner to film inside communis...
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
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The Barcarolle of Love
A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the ope...
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What a Woman!
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a ...
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Breakdowns of 1942
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....
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The Wild Bunch
On the way home after their honeymoon, a bride confesses two things to her groom: She's wealthy and ...
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Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo....
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