Henri Guisol

Actor

October 12, 1904 (89 years)

† May 11, 1994

Aix-en-Provence, France

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

7.2

The Count of Monte Cristo

L'abbé Faria

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

6.9

Lola Montès

Horsema Maurice

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

7.5

Mauregard

Maxence aîné

Upon his return from Louisiana in 1865, Maxence de Mettray decides to use the profits from his last commercial trip to buy the castle of Mauregard in Touraine, the castle of his ancestors. From there, his story and that of his descendants is told over six different periods. A French mini-series in six 60-minute episodes.

8.0

Joseph Balsamo

Baron de Taverney

Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.

7.1

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Son Meunier

Mild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss disappears, only for the superior to return and try to reclaim the profits from their successful cooperative.

N/A

Maurin des Maures

Cabissol

No description available

7.0

Le Temps de vivre... Le Temps d'aimer

Wilson

No description available

7.3

La Chienne

Amédée, waiter (uncredited)

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally found love, but Lulu is a streetwalker, still in love with her pimp.

4.1

The Twilight Girls

Christian Brenner

A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.

6.3

Theodora, Slave Empress

Giovanni di Cappadocia

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.

6.5

Blind Venus

Ulysse

Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German occupation. Although the film is not set in any specified period, Gance wanted it to be seen as relevant to the contemporary situation in France. He wrote, "...La Vénus aveugle is at the crossroads of reality and legend... The heroine ... gradually sinks deeper and deeper into despair. Only when she has reached the bottom of the abyss does she encounter the smile of Providence that life reserves for those who have faith in it, and she can then go serenely back up the slope towards happiness. If I have been able to show in this film that elevated feelings are the only force that can triumph over Fate, then my efforts will not have been in vain."

9.0

Madame et le mort

Armand Le Noir

A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?

6.9

Bizarre, Bizarre

Buffington - un journaliste alcoolique

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.

8.0

Dorothy Looks for Love

André Vincent

To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the intricacies of love.

8.8

The Roundup is for Tonight

Jean Dupont

Three sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle, who bamboozled the impresario Mortimer so well that he made her his wife; the story of the sad little Simon, deprived of a father and unable to stand the mockery of his friends; and the story of the daughter of an ex-convict who - by golly - steals a statue on the day of her First Communion.

6.0

Dream Ballerina

Jeweler

A young dancer, disappointed with her debut on stage, has three dreams: fame in dancing at the Paris Opera, wealth through her marriage to an important jeweler, and love in the person of a petty hood. Disappointed even in her dreams, the ballerina takes refuge in her art.

6.8

Thunder Over Paris

Charlie

An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with eccentric outfits.

5.7

La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée

Count Alexandre de Valrude

Sophie, viscountess of Valrude, believes herself being a widow since her husband disappeared in the Amazon.

5.2

Paris Is Always Paris

M. Morand

A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.

7.0

Box of Dreams

Pierre Forestier

Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.