Charles Denner

Actor

May 29, 1926 (69 years)

† September 10, 1995

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 Denn…

Filmography

6.0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Self

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

7.8

Z

Manuel

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.

7.6

Elevator to the Gallows

L'Adjoint du Commissaire Cherrier

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

7.2

The Night Caller

Inspector Moissac

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

7.1

The Bride Wore Black

Fergus

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

7.1

The Man Who Loved Women

Bertrand Morane

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

6.4

Bluebeard

Henri Landru

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

6.7

The Thief of Paris

Jean-François Cannonier

In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. In retaliation, Georges steals the fiancé's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a lifetime of burglary.

6.5

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

Ministre des travaux public

Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.

6.9

The Sleeping Car Murders

Bob, l'amant sincère de Georgette Thomas

Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police, led by Inspector Grazzi, investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one among them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the others start turning up dead. It's up to the remaining two to solve the case, lest they become the next victims.

6.9

A Thousand Billion Dollars

Walter, private detective

A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.

7.0

L'unique

Vox

A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution with the help of a scientist. With holography, they would like to create the perfect copy of the star.

6.5

The Married Couple of the Year Two

Traveller

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.

6.7

Money Money Money

Simon Duroc

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

6.6

Golden Eighties

M. Schwartz

In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance.

6.4

The Inheritor

David Loweinstein

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

7.1

The Crook

Monsieur Gallois

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

5.4

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Counterfeiter (segment "Le Grand escroc")

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

6.3

Le Cœur à l'envers

Guillaume

Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mother.

5.0

The Blue Panther

Johnson

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.