André Penvern
Birthday: 1947-11-26
Place of Birth: Sèvres, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Biography: André Penvern is a French actor born in Sèvres. At age 17, he began working with National Drama Centers. He went from small parts to stage manager, sound and lightning designer, etc. His meeting with Margot Capelier, casting director, was crucial for him. She introduced him to Fred Zinnemann Otto Preminger John Frankenheimer, Gérard Oury. He alternates between theater and television, encountering Jean Marboeuf Alain Bonnot, Philippe de Broca, Olivier Dahan.
Movies
La Vie en Rose
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...
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March or Die
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion pl...
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Vidocq
Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alche...
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La Vie de Bohème
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no vis...
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Les Parasites
Oulage has it all planned: New Year's eve, at the stroke of midnight, he'll finally kiss Brigitte, t...
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Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the en...
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Too Shy to Try
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and c...
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Behind the Walls
A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-ye...
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The Model Couple
In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens, Claud...
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Champagne !
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bac...
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Amazon
On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the...
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L'entourloupe
Two little criminals without major, dream of adventure and easy life. They agree to go to work in th...
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Bâtards
Returning from a vacation in Spain in September, Agathe, a dental technician, and her husband Alexan...
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The Winner
A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, h...
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The Cruel Embrace
Ludovic is the son of Nicole, a single mother who married Micho, a man older than her. He agreed to ...
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Paulette
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no ...
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Bienvenue à Bellefontaine
Sentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been cleare...
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Grace of Monaco
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political...
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Oranges Amères
Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial...
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Prêt-à-Porter
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue an...
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Open Season
Flanked by their two children, Simon and Adélaïde decide, like many Parisians today, to leave their ...
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The Tenant
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit...
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and wom...
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys t...
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C'est magnifique !
When Pierre learns that his parents are not his parents, he wants to find out who he is and where he...
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Louis XVI, l'homme qui ne voulait pas être roi
The dramatic events around the French king Louis XVI and the French crises in the late 1700's with n...
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Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...
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Scoundrel in White
Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Chris...
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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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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe wh...
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Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution....
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Le Chef
A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to l...
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Pétain
During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied...
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French Connection II
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in Ne...
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted Fren...
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May Wine
A middle-aged woman and her daughter unknowingly become romantically involved with the same man whil...
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The Man Who Knew a Lot
Mr. Beranger works at Paradesign, a furniture department store where the employees live day and nigh...
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Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
By chance, a band of merry friends is getting in command of a thalasso therapy center....
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Belle and Sebastian 3: The Last Chapter
12 year-old Sebastian has decided not to follow his father and Angelina to Canada, deciding to stay ...
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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieve...
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The Happy Prince
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the...
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Baby Phone
Two buddies visit a friends couple-urban sophisticate, inhibited parents. While they meet with the b...
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The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P...
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Someone Behind the Door
A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe th...
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The Holcroft Covenant
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past...
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Black Butterfly
Richard, a lonely, alcoholic, down-on-his-luck, divorced screenwriter, invites Jack, a mysterious va...
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French Postcards
French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives ...
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The man who wanted to sleep
Alfred, a resident of a retirement home, can no longer get to sleep, disturbed by the incessant bedh...
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The Little Mermaid
A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment,...
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The Poisoner
Loudun, October 1947. Leon Besnard and Marie celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary with fri...
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Scrambled Eggs
Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his gover...
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This Is the Goat!
France, 1640. Lawyer Maitre Pompignac has never won a case: all his clients are dead, either drawn a...
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Open Season 2
Two years after moving to the French countryside and seeing hunting banned, Adelaide and Simon disco...
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Gros câlin
Monsieur Cousin, a lonely Parisian statistician, shares his small apartment with a python named Gros...
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Animal
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their ...
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