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Robert Le Vigan
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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. …
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit
as lui-même
Río Turbio
La orquídea
El correo del rey
as Peabody
Ley del mar
as Rafael
Bifur 3
as Paul (uncredited)
La Grande Marnière
as Fleury
The Ménard Collection
as Amédée Garbure
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
as Grégori
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
as le professeur Léonard Bontagues
It Happened at the Inn
as Goupi-Tonkin
The Heart of a Nation
as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
Business Is Business
as Phinck
The Marriage of Chiffon
The Marriage of Chiffon
as The usher
Andorra or The Bronze Men
as Asnurri
Vie privée
as Rémi Géraud
Patrouille blanche
Chambre 13
Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Leon Villard
Paris Romance
Dédé la musique
as Fernand the American
Four Flights to Love
as Edouard Bordenave
The Phantom Wagon
as Le père Martin
The Last Turning
as Blackmailer cousin
The World Will Shake
as Le Greffier
Louise
as Le peintre Gaston
The Fatted Calf
as Grussgolt
Ernest the Rebel
as Governor-President of Mariposa
The Midnight Airplane
as Doctor
The Little Thing
as Roger
Port of Shadows
as The Painter
Tempête sur l'Asie
Boys' School
as l'homme «invisible»
The West
as Taïeb el Haïn
The Woman at the End of the World
as Arlanger, l'Armateur
Harvest
as Sergeant De Sault
The Citadel of Silence
as Granoff, prison Chief (uncredited)
Franco de port
as Henri
The Man from Nowhere
as Le comte Papiano
Romarin
The Lower Depths
as l'acteur alcoolique
Hélène
as Doctor Regnier
One of the Legion
as Leduc
Jenny
as l'Albinos
The Mutineers of Elsinore
as Charles Davis
The Queen and the Cardinal
as Cardinal Mazarin
La Bandera
as Fernando Lucas
Golgotha
as Jésus Christ
No Poster
L'affaire Coquelet
Maria Chapdelaine
as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
No Poster
Famille nombreuse
as Chief Warrant Officer Sandri
Le Prince des Six Jours
as Fouilloux, a spectator
Street Without a Name
as Vanoël
An Ideal Woman
Madame Bovary
as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
Le Tunnel
as Brooce
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
as Mousquet
Boubouroche
as Potasse
The Little King
The Yellow Dog
as le docteur Ernest Michoux
Moon over Morocco
as Donald Strawber