Étienne Draber

Actor

March 26, 1939 (81 years)

† January 11, 2021

Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

Biography

Étienne Draber is a French actor known for both his stage and movie roles. He is the father of French actress Stéphanie Bataille. He died from Covid-19 in 2021.

Filmography

7.9

Maigret

Monsieur Lourceau

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

7.1

Police Commissioner Moulin

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

6.2

Châteauvallon

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5.3

Les Cordier, juge et flic

Gilles Duprez

The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.

6.3

Madame Bovary

Maitre Guillaumin

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

6.3

House of D

French Man in Window

In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.

7.3

Petit déjeuner compris

M. Jean-Claude Bologne, agent l'immobilier

A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.

6.5

The Under-Gifted

le père de Julien

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!

6.9

May Fools

Mr. Boutelleau

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.

6.9

Ridicule

Vicomte du Closlabbe

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

6.1

My Best Friend

Speaker

Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.

5.6

The Perfect Date

Le grand-père de Michel

Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.

6.4

The Inheritor

(uncredited)

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...

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Colombe

Desfournettes

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6.1

Seven Deaths by Prescription

Robert Brézé

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

6.6

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Brid'oison

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

5.8

Le Bon Plaisir

Le médecin du Président

Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.

3.3

T'aime

Un médecin

Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.

5.7

Outward Signs of Wealth

Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble.

5.5

Les Charlots en délire

L'inspecteur de police au nœud papillon

Gérard, CEO of the factory "La voix du peuple", decides to close his factory by dismissing all his staff, starting with Jean Barbier, the chief of staff, and Phil Dechambre.