René Ferté
Birthday: 1903-03-23
Place of Birth: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Biography: René Ferté was a Swiss actor who worked principally in the French cinema, from 1923 onwards. He is mostly known for performances in a series of silent films directed by Jean Epstein. His roles in sound films were generally less notable, though he appeared in Fritz Lang's Le Testament du docteur Mabuse (French version), and he took the title role in the 1934 sound remake of Judex. After the outbreak of the Second World War he ceased working in films.
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Nos maîtres les domestiques
After squandering his family's fortune, Richard d'Argental, a young marquis, is forced to sell his m...
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La roche aux mouettes
To restore health to their little boy, the Henry couple decided to live in Brittany. The child has a...
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Le Secret de l'émeraude
In a small hotel on an English beach, an agent from the Intelligence Service is responsible for find...
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Le Prince des Six Jours
How a simple fellow who took on the identity of a famous cyclist manages to win the famous Six Days ...
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Le train d'amour
A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy pa...
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Vidocq
A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceas...
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The Heart of a Nation
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of t...
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The Three-Sided Mirror
A wealthy young businessman consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russi...
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Mauprat
Romantic novelist George Sand's Mauprat as adapted by cinema visionary Jean Epstein. As a child, orp...
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The Red Inn
Two young doctors, surprised by the storm, take refuge in an inn. A diamond broker joins them and, f...
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His Head
Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the s...
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Six and a Half by Eleven
A renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie,...
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L'École des vierges
A wife who suspects (wrongly) her husband of infidelity, makes the decision to find herself a lover....
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Judex
Judex the vigilante enjoins crooked banker Maurice-Ernest Favraux to distribute his ill-gotten fortu...
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L'escale
An elegant young idler, vacationing in a port in the South of France where he is stopping over, sets...
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The French language production of Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse....
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