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Robert Le Vigan

Acting Born Jan 8, 1900 Paris, France 24 credits

Biography

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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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Known for

Film

Port of Shadows

as The Painter

Brush Strokes

as Leon Villard

Full filmography

  • Port of Shadows (1938) as The Painter
  • Bifur 3 (1945) as Paul (uncredited)
  • Louise (1939) as Le peintre Gaston
  • Jenny (1936) as l'Albinos
  • Golgotha (1935) as Jésus Christ
  • La Bandera (1935) as Fernando Lucas
  • Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941) as Leon Villard
  • Four Flights to Love (1939) as Edouard Bordenave
  • It Happened at the Inn (1943) as Goupi-Tonkin
  • The Lower Depths (1936) as l'acteur alcoolique
  • Madame Bovary (1934) as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
  • Les mutinés de l'Elseneur (1936) as Charles Davis
  • Business Is Business (1942) as Phinck
  • The Woman at the End of the World (1938) as Arlanger, l'Armateur
  • Harvest (1937) as Sergeant De Sault
  • The World Will Shake (1939) as Le Greffier
  • The Midnight Airplane (1938) as Doctor
  • The Heart of a Nation (1943) as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
  • Street Without a Name (1934) as Vanoël
  • Maria Chapdelaine (1934) as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
  • Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine (1933) as Mousquet
  • Vie privée (1942) as Rémi Géraud
  • El correo del rey (1951) as Peabody
  • Boys' School (1938) as l'homme «invisible»