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Robert Le Vigan

Actor
Born January 8, 1900Died October 12, 1972 (72 years)
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Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".

A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.

Known For

  • Port of Shadows
  • It Happened at the Inn
  • The Lower Depths
  • Harvest
  • La bandera
  • Who Killed Santa Claus?
  • Behold the Man
  • Four Flights to Love
  • Madame Bovary
  • Caught in the Foreign Legion
  • Le mariage de Chiffon
  • Jenny
  • The Phantom Wagon
  • Maria Chapdelaine
  • The World Will Shake
  • Ne le criez pas sur les toits
  • Ernest the Rebel
  • Romance de Paris
  • Dédé la musique

Filmography

2021
1952
1943
1943
The Heart of a Nation · as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
1943
Ne le criez pas sur les toits · as Le Professeur Léonard Bontagues
1943
It Happened at the Inn · as Goupi-Tonkin
1942
1942
Le mariage de Chiffon · as The Usher
1941
Who Killed Santa Claus? · as Leon Villard
1941
1940
Dédé la musique · as Fernand The American
1939
Four Flights to Love · as Edouard Bordenave
1939
The Phantom Wagon · as Le Père Martin
1939
The Last Turning · as Blackmailer Cousin
1939
The World Will Shake · as Le Greffier
1939
Louise · as Le Peintre Gaston
1939
The Fatted Calf · as Grussgolt
1938
Ernest the Rebel · as Governor-President Of Mariposa
1938
Port of Shadows · as The Painter
1938
L'avion de minuit · as Doctor
1938
1938
Boys' School · as L'homme «invisible»
1938
The West · as Taïeb El Haïn
1938
The Woman from the End of the World · as Arlanger, L'armateur
1937
Harvest · as Sergeant De Sault
1937
The Man from Nowhere · as Le Comte Papiano
1936
The Lower Depths · as L'acteur Alcoolique
1936
Hélène · as Doctor Regnier
1936
1936
Jenny · as L'albinos
1935
La bandera · as Fernando Lucas
1935
Behold the Man · as Jésus Christ
1934
Maria Chapdelaine · as Tit-Sèbe, Le Rebouteux
1934
Madame Bovary · as Mr. Lheureux, Fabric Merchant
1933
The Tunnel · as Brooce
1933
1933
1932
The Yellow Dog · as Le Docteur Ernest Michoux
1931
Moon Over Morocco · as Donald Strawber
1931
Radio Follies · as Cast

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