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Paul Frankeur
Born: 29th Jun 1905 Paris, France - Died 27th Oct 1974
Dept: Acting
Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 93
Film: 91 (98%)
Television: 2 (2%)
Remaining genres not in graph: History, Talk, Documentary, Horror, Music
Filmography
Original title: Le cri du cœur
1974
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy tr ... view
Character:
Jean
Original title: Le Fantôme de la liberté
1974
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. P ... view
Character:
The Innkeeper
Original title: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
1972
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by ... view
Character:
François Thévenot
1970
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from ... view
Character:
Lucioni
Original title: Mon oncle Benjamin
1969
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the mar ... view
Character:
Docteur Minxit
Original title: La Voie lactée
1969
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of chara ... view
Character:
Pierre
Original title: Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages
1968
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge. ... view
Character:
Ruffin
1967
A survivor of the Spanish Civil War who had been in French internment camps takes refuge with a family of winegrowers in the Jura. He becomes attached ... view
Character:
Lucien Bouchot
1966
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in. ... view
Character:
Inspector Fardiano
Original title: La Longue Marche
1966
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He ... view
Character:
Morel
Original title: On a volé la Joconde
1966
A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." ... view
Character:
Lemercier, l'encadreur
Original title: Le Tonnerre de Dieu
1965
Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings. ... view
Character:
Le gendarme (uncredited)
Original title: La Corde au cou
1965
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his mis ... view
Character:
Inspector Bruneau
Original title: Nick Carter va tout casser
1964
Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying appara ... view
Character:
Antonio
Original title: Maigret voit rouge
1963
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detec ... view
Character:
Bonfils
Original title: Le Voyage à Biarritz
1963
Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous resort ... view
Character:
Locomotive driver (uncredited)
Original title: Le Gentleman d'Epsom
1962
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters. ... view
Character:
Arthur
Original title: Un singe en hiver
1962
During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tes ... view
Character:
M. Esnault, le patron du café
Original title: Jugez-les bien
1961
Richard killed his wife out of jealousy, but was acquitted. During the vacations, he meets a young girl and decides to start a new life with her. Know ... view
Character:
Cassel
1961
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doct ... view
Character:
Docteur Torty
Original title: La viaccia
1961
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full con ... view
Character:
Ferdinando
Original title: Le nain
1961
In a small circus campaign, the act of Valentine, the dwarf, is one of the highlights of the show. But then one night, he grew suddenly and turns into ... view
Character:
Barnaboum
Original title: Le Panier à crabes
1960
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides ... view
Character:
Clavier
Original title: Quai du Point-du-Jour
1960
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machin ... view
Character:
Monsieur Pierre
Original title: Voulez-vous danser avec moi ?
1959
The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a dancer's death. ... view
Character:
Commissaire Marchal
Original title: Rue des Prairies
1959
While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away, and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get ... view
Character:
Ernest
Original title: Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre
1959
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has re ... view
Character:
Doctor Bouchardon
1959
Oscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water purification machine he has developed. In his haste, he ... view
Character:
1959
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network hav ... view
Character:
Lucien Marinval
Original title: Archimède le clochard
1959
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy. ... view
Character:
M. Grégoire, l'ancien patron
Original title: Le fauve est lâché
1959
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that ... view
Character:
Raymond Maroux
Original title: Une balle dans le canon
1958
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclu ... view
Character:
Pépère
Original title: Le Désordre et la Nuit
1958
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be mo ... view
Character:
Chaville
Original title: Œil pour œil
1957
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death. ... view
Character:
The operated
Original title: Les Copains du dimanche
1957
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation cl ... view
Character:
Mr Larcheron, le directeur de l'usine
Original title: Le rouge est mis
1957
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by da ... view
Character:
Fredo
1957
An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyi ... view
Character:
Marc Kelber
Original title: Le Sang à la tête
1956
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves th ... view
Character:
André Drouin
Original title: Les Assassins du dimanche
1956
After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a crisis of conscience. Accidents loom at every tur ... view
Character:
Lucien Simonet
Original title: Des gens sans importance
1956
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops i ... view
Character:
Émile Barchandeau
Original title: Je suis un sentimental
1955
Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, edit ... view
Character:
Jacques Rupert
1955
In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in love with Nana, a young kept woman and sta ... view
Character:
Bordenave
Original title: Le Dossier noir
1955
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious de ... view
Character:
Charles Broussard
Character:
Georges
Original title: Razzia sur la Chnouf
1955
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. W ... view
Character:
le commissaire Fernand
Original title: Interdit de séjour
1955
Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a jewelry ... view
Character:
Commissioner Bernard
Original title: Huis Clos
1954
The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they ... view
Character:
Gomez - le compagnon de Garcin
Original title: Touchez pas au grisbi
1954
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the styl ... view
Character:
Pierrot
Original title: Avant le déluge
1954
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le delug ... view
Character:
Monsieur Boussard
Original title: L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard
1954
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, ... view
Character:
Original title: Le nuage atomique
1954
A Belgian atomic cloud appears not to be deadly but instead instigates a climate of friendship and fraternity. ... view
Character:
Director
1953
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But ... view
Character:
le contrôleur dans le train
1953
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break d ... view
Character:
Gendarmerie brigadier
Original title: Horizons sans fin
1953
The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons). Giselle Pascal stars as Boucher, who is fi ... view
Character:
Soupape
Original title: Suivez cet homme
1953
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. T ... view
Character:
Mr. Mallet
Original title: Nous sommes tous des assassins
1952
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution ... view
Character:
Léon
1951
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both. ... view
Character:
Jacques Charbonnier
Original title: Sous le ciel de Paris
1951
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day. ... view
Character:
Milou
Original title: Justice est faite
1950
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal ... view
Character:
Monsieur Jouvillon (uncredited)
Original title: Les Premières Armes
1950
A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school. ... view
Character:
Victor
1950
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars. ... view
Character:
Le commissaire Bonnet alias « M. Denis »
Original title: Monseigneur
1949
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descen ... view
Character:
Le commerçant
Original title: Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire...
1949
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in ... view
Character:
Dugelay
Original title: Retour à la vie
1949
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second Worl ... view
Character:
Mayor (segment "Le retour de Louis")
Original title: Jour de fête
1949
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabit ... view
Character:
Marcel
Original title: Le Point du jour
1949
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young engine ... view
Character:
Bac (uncredited)
1949
Part of the longer compilation "Histoires extraordinaires" by the same director.
Based on the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. ... view
Character:
Original title: Les Casse-pieds
1948
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of every ... view
Character:
Le blagueur
Original title: Les Frères Bouquinquant
1948
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who doe ... view
Character:
Commissioner
Original title: Les Amants du pont Saint-Jean
1947
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Vi ... view
Character:
Georges Girard
Original title: Contre-enquête
1947
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieu ... view
Character:
Original title: Le Couple idéal
1946
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of ... view
Character:
Hairdresser
1946
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will fin ... view
Character:
Mr. Seguin (uncredited)
Original title: Le Père tranquille
1946
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing or ... view
Character:
Simon, Édouard's second lieutenant
Original title: Fille du Diable
1946
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this ... view
Character:
The Bartender
Original title: Étoile sans lumière
1946
An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorit ... view
Character:
le reporter
Original title: La fille aux yeux gris
1945
A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonese ... view
Character:
The inspector of the 'Sûreté'
Original title: La Cage aux rossignols
1945
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his ... view
Character:
(uncredited)
Original title: Les Enfants du Paradis
1945
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actr ... view
Character:
L'inspecteur de police
Original title: Service de nuit
1944
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel. ... view
Character:
Line repairman
Original title: Le ciel est à vous
1944
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family. ... view
Character:
Un mécanicien (Uncredited)
1943
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the vill ... view
Character:
Edouard, the shoemaker (uncredited)
1943
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom? ... view
Character:
1943
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they ... view
Character:
(uncredited)
Original title: Une étoile au soleil
1943
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble ... view
Character:
Original title: Le Mariage de Chiffon
1942
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, ... view
Character:
Max's Mechanic (uncredited)
Original title: La Nuit fantastique
1942
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he f ... view
Character:
Boss of the bistro
Original title: Croisières sidérales
1942
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days w ... view
Character:
First smooth-talker
Original title: Nous les gosses
1941
A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer h ... view
Character:
Le secrétaire du commissaire (uncredited)