Claude Dauphin
Claude Dauphin (19 August 1903 – 16 November 1978) was a French actor. He appeared in over 130 films between 1930 and 1978. He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne. His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as Franc-Nohain, and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole. Claude Dauphin died in Paris. Des... more
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The Tenant
(1976)
Drama, Horror, Thriller
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Roman Polanski
Cast:
Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters
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Two for the Road
(1967)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and their increasing tensions that led to both of them having extra-marital affairs.
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
Stanley Donen
Cast:
Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Georges Descrières, Claude Dauphin, Nadia Gray
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Barbarella
(1968)
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Roger Vadim
Cast:
Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Marcel Marceau, Claude Dauphin
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Grand Prix
(1966)
Action, Drama
The story tells about the confrontation of four first-class racers of Formula 1. Each of the competitors had their own additional motivation to become a champion. Their world is a risk and extreme, fast driving on the highway. The taste of adrenaline is what race lovers live. Outside of competition, they all experience personal drama...
Runtime:
176 min
Director:
John Frankenheimer
Cast:
James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Bedford, Yves Montand, Jessica Walter
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Casque d'Or
(1952)
Crime, Drama, Romance
Ex-convict Georges Manda returns to the free world determined to go straight and takes a steady job as a carpenter. Unable to completely shake his connections with the underground, he meets with a former prison mate, older gangster Félix Leca, who introduces him to his mistress, the sweet but guarded Marie "Casque d'Or". Marie and Geor...
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Jacques Becker
Cast:
Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, Odette Barencey
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Le Plaisir
(1952)
Drama
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in l...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Max Ophüls
Cast:
Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc, Danielle Darrieux
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Is Paris Burning?
(1966)
Drama, History, War
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city w...
Runtime:
173 min
Director:
René Clément
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Versini, Alain Delon, Gert Fröbe
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That Most Important Thing: Love
(1975)
Drama, Romance
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Andrzej Żuławski
Cast:
Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Roger Blin
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The Sleeping Car Murder
(1965)
Crime
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, t...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Costa-Gavras
Cast:
Jacques Perrin, Catherine Allégret, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann
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Les Misérables
(1978)
Drama, History, Romance, TV Movie
Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
Runtime:
150 min
Director:
Glenn Jordan
Cast:
Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Caroline Langrishe, Ian Holm, Christopher Guard
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The Visit
(1964)
Drama
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Bernhard Wicki
Cast:
Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Irina Demick, Paolo Stoppa, Hans Christian Blech
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The Quiet American
(1958)
Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman, but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for the girl’s attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Runtime:
120 min
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The Tale of the Fox
(1941)
Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and brought to him.
Runtime:
65 min
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Mado
(1976)
Drama, Romance
Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve t...
Runtime:
135 min
Director:
Claude Sautet
Cast:
Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Julien Guiomar, Claude Dauphin
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April in Paris
(1952)
Comedy, Music, Romance
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
David Butler
Cast:
Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin, Eve Miller, George Givot
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
(1969)
Comedy, Drama
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the rather traditional beliefs of others.
Runtime:
132 min
Director:
Bryan Forbes, John Huston
Cast:
Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
(1962)
Comedy
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Julien Duvivier
Cast:
Louis de Funès, Fernandel, Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura, Michel Simon
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
(1972)
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain succes...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Ettore Scola
Cast:
Alberto Sordi, Charles Vanel, Claude Dauphin, Janet Agren, Michel Simon
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The Wild Goose Chase
(1975)
Comedy
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a fi...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Claude Zidi
Cast:
Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Marc Doelnitz, Amadeus August
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Phantom of the Rue Morgue
(1954)
Crime, Horror, Mystery
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Cast:
Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest, Allyn Ann McLerie
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We Want the Colonels
(1973)
Comedy
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pug...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Mario Monicelli
Cast:
Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli, Carla Tatò
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Rosebud
(1975)
Action, Thriller
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Otto Preminger
Cast:
Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Kim Cattrall, Isabelle Huppert, Brigitte Ariel
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Hard Contract
(1969)
Crime, Romance
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for 'one last score'. His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
S. Lee Pogostin
Cast:
James Coburn, Lee Remick, Lilli Palmer, Burgess Meredith, Patrick Magee
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Van Gogh
(1948)
Documentary
Oscar Winning 1948 short film by Alain Resnais, not to be confused with either the Short 1966 TV doc or the 1991 feature film by Maurice Pialat, both of which shared the same name.
Runtime:
20 min
Director:
Alain Resnais
Cast:
Claude Dauphin
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The Full Treatment
(1960)
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the ...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Val Guest
Cast:
Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Braden
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Van Gogh
(1948)
The biography of Dutch artist Van Gogh, illustrated only with images of his paintings and drawings, or details of those, and according dramatic musical score. This is the entry for the 16mm version that was later remade in 35mm.
Runtime:
18 min
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Little Boy Lost
(1953)
Drama
A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.
Runtime:
95 min
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The Curtain Rises
(1938)
Comedy, Drama
François, Cécilia and Isabelle are students of the drama class of the Conservatoire led by Professor Lambertin. François is in love with Isabelle who also loves him, but he is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress. Cécilia commits suicide staging the suicide like a crime, so as to involve Francis. But a testimony restores the truth.
Director:
Marc Allégret
Cast:
Claude Dauphin, Janine Darcey, Louis Jouvet, Odette Joyeux
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At the Meeting with Joyous Death
(1973)
Drama, Horror
The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena
Runtime:
90 min
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Deported
(1950)
Drama
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Robert Siodmak
Cast:
Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti, Richard Rober
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Beating Heart
(1940)
Drama
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Henri Decoin
Cast:
Danielle Darrieux, Claude Dauphin, André Luguet
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English Without Tears
(1944)
Comedy
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was prev...
Runtime:
88 min
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Paris 1900
(1948)
Documentary
Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Runtime:
80 min
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Twilight
(1945)
Drama, Romance
Two men are in love with the same woman.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Marc Allégret
Cast:
Claude Dauphin, Micheline Presle, Louis Jourdan, Jacques Louvigny, Marcelle Praince
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Focal Point
(1977)
Drama, Thriller
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually leading her to discover the workings of a plot to assassinate US Foreign Secretary John W. Maxwell.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Jean Claude Tramont
Cast:
Annie Girardot, Jacques Dutronc, Jean Bouise, Claude Dauphin, Michel Robin
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The World Will Shake
(1939)
Science Fiction
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Richard Pottier
Cast:
Claude Dauphin, Madeleine Sologne, Erich von Stroheim, Roger Duchesne, Armand Bernard
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Firemen's Ball
(1949)
Comedy, Drama
The history of the Greek family between 1940 and 1944, which recounts the major events of World War II: the German occupation, the resistance, and the liberation ...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
André Berthomieu
Cast:
Claude Dauphin, Paulette Dubost, Dominique Nohain
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Lamiel
(1967)
Comedy, Drama
Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count (Jean-...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Jean Aurel
Cast:
Anna Karina, Robert Hossein, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Bernadette Lafont