Philippe Magnan

Actor

August 21, 1948 (77 years)

Paris, France

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

6.1

Capitaine Marleau

Anselme Mezler

Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.

6.2

Ladies of the Law

Olivier Darès

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5.3

Les Cordier, juge et flic

Delestré

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

6.7

22 Bullets

Commissioner Jean-Daniel Pothey

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

5.3

Arsène Lupin

Bonnetot

As the daring thief Arsène Lupin ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.

7.1

An Officer and a Spy

Attorney Brisset

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

6.0

The Valet

Berman

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.

6.5

Spin

Philippe Deleuvre

The President of the French Republic, visiting Saint-Etienne in the Loire, in a striking plant dies, victim of a bomb attack. The political world is agitated: early presidential elections to be held within the next thirty-five days. There is no doubt that Philip Deleuvre, the prime minister, will run for the Elysee. But what few people know is that the leader of the government knows more things he claimed. This state causes lie back to business Kapita Simon, a former communications adviser (spin doctor) of the late president. Anxious to preserve the honor of his deceased friend and some form of political ethics, the man of the shadows has now set a goal: to find a candidate who will be able to beat Deleuvre.

5.9

Nothing to Declare

Chief of police Mercier

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

10.0

Le Grand Charles

René Coty

Le Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. De Gaulle was played by Bernard Farcy, Winston Churchill by David Ryall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Hardy. Other actors in the cast included Dominic Gould, Sam Spiegel and Jay Benedict.

N/A

Frérots

Patrice Fremont

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5.5

Our Dream Lives

Marcel Tuille

Bénédicte, Martine, and Juliette were classmates who formed an inseparable trio. Fifteen years later, Bénédicte and Martine return to their small native town of Pithiviers for Juliette's funeral. But Juliette remains present in Bénédicte and Martine's remembrances and through her eighteen-year-old daughter Scarlett, who bears a striking resemblance.

5.8

Half a Chance

Prison judge

Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.

5.3

The Magic Tuche

Président Papin

After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the country.

6.9

Ridicule

Baron de Malenval

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.

7.5

Spread Your Wings

Ménard

Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a species endangered, thanks to the ultralight of Christian! Then begins an incredible and perilous journey ...

4.8

Ten Minutes from Naturists

Édouard Langlois, eurodéputé conservateur

A family of Brussels concierges, whose employers have left for the summer, decide to swap their home for a magnificent villa in the south of France for the holidays. However, upon arriving on the island, they discover that all the surrounding beaches are exclusively for naturists.

6.6

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

le président Venot

In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.

6.5

Farewell

François Mitterrand

An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.

5.5

My Worst Nightmare

Principal of Henri IV college

Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...