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Robert Le Vigan

Actor

Robert Le Vigan

Born January 8, 1900 in Paris, FranceDied October 12, 197260 films

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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.

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Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
The Lower Depths poster7.2The Lower Depths1936Boys' School poster7.4Boys' School1938

Filmography

60 films as actor
  1. 1954Río Turbio
  2. 1951La orquídea
  3. 1951El correo del reyPeabody
  4. 1950Ley del marRafael
  5. 1945Bifur 3Paul (uncredited)
  6. 1945La Grande MarnièreFleury
  7. 1944The Ménard CollectionAmédée Garbure
  8. 1943The Man Who Sold His Soul to the DevilGrégori
  9. 1943Don't Shout it from the Rooftopsle professeur Léonard Bontagues
  10. 1943It Happened at the InnGoupi-Tonkin
  11. 1943The Heart of a NationUncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
  12. 1942Business Is BusinessPhinck
  13. 1942The Marriage of Chiffon
  14. 1942Andorra or The Bronze MenAsnurri
  15. 1942Vie privéeRémi Géraud
  16. 1942Patrouille blanche
  17. 1942Chambre 13
  18. 1941Who Killed Santa Claus?Leon Villard
  19. 1941Paris Romance
  20. 1940Dédé la musiqueFernand the American
  21. 1939Four Flights to LoveEdouard Bordenave
  22. 1939The Phantom WagonLe père Martin
  23. 1939The Last TurningBlackmailer cousin
  24. 1939The World Will ShakeLe Greffier
  25. 1939LouiseLe peintre Gaston
  26. 1939The Fatted CalfGrussgolt
  27. 1938Ernest the RebelGovernor-President of Mariposa
  28. 1938The Midnight AirplaneDoctor
  29. 1938The Little ThingRoger
  30. 1938Port of ShadowsThe Painter
  31. 1938Tempête sur l'Asie
  32. 1938Boys' Schooll'homme «invisible»
  33. 1938The WestTaïeb el Haïn
  34. 1938The Woman at the End of the WorldArlanger, l'Armateur
  35. 1937HarvestSergeant De Sault
  36. 1937The Citadel of SilenceGranoff, prison Chief (uncredited)
  37. 1937Franco de portHenri
  38. 1937The Man from NowhereLe comte Papiano
  39. 1937Romarin
  40. 1936The Lower Depthsl'acteur alcoolique
  41. 1936HélèneDoctor Regnier
  42. 1936One of the LegionLeduc
  43. 1936Jennyl'Albinos
  44. 1936The Mutineers of ElsinoreCharles Davis
  45. 1935The Queen and the CardinalCardinal Mazarin
  46. 1935La BanderaFernando Lucas
  47. 1935GolgothaJésus Christ
  48. 1935L'affaire Coquelet
  49. 1934Maria ChapdelaineTit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
  50. 1934Famille nombreuseChief Warrant Officer Sandri
  51. 1934Le Prince des Six JoursFouilloux, a spectator
  52. 1934Street Without a NameVanoël
  53. 1934An Ideal Woman
  54. 1934Madame BovaryMr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
  55. 1933Le TunnelBrooce
  56. 1933Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecineMousquet
  57. 1933BoubourochePotasse
  58. 1933The Little King
  59. 1932The Yellow Dogle docteur Ernest Michoux
  60. 1931Moon over MoroccoDonald Strawber