Albert Dinan
Birthday: Born in 1902-03-27 in Paris, France
Deathday: 1976-07-03
Albert Dinan (27 March 1902 – 3 July 1976) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than ninety films and television series during his career. Source: Article "Albert Dinan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
TV Credits
Frédéric le gardian
Character: baguette
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Maurin des Maures
Character: Orsini
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Movie Credits
Island Fishermen
Character: Quémeneur
Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasure of Jenny, his jealous mistress....
A Cop
Character: Bouthillon
Georges, hunted by the Germans, had taken refuge with his brother, Commissioner PJ Paris. Once released, he teams up for the sake of a girl with the lackluster Zattore. A bank is robbed, but the police is fast and Georges will either lose his life....
The Good Girls
Character: Albert
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams....
Gunman in the Streets
Character: Gaston
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France....
The Gentleman from Epsom
Character: Léon
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters....
Scandal
Character: Jeff
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect....
Hi-Jack Highway
Character: Émile Serin
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him....
The Fugitive
Character: Mac Gregg
Fred Maubert, an innocent convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes from prison and goes in search of the real culprit. He begins by looking for his former mistress, Simone, who has since married Doctor Bréville and lives in Canada....
Carom Shots
Character: Man (uncredited)
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service......
120, rue de la Gare
Character: Bébert
On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which takes him from Lyon to Paris, following in the footsteps of the members of a mysterious business firm....
Rhine Virgin
Character: le commissaire Guérin
Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get rid of Jacques and keep his company....
Colonel Durand
Character: Raffart
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent. Now, he is garrisoned at Strasbourg....
Cité de l'espérance
Character: Mr. Victor
The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit....
Le diamant de cent sous
Character: Jim
For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on crazy adventures to recover the jewel....
Sending of Flowers
Character: Rodolphe Salis
Envoi de Fleurs is based on incidents in the life of French composer Paul Delmet. Played by popular French singing star Tino Rossi, Delmet is depicted as a man all too willing to give up personal happiness in favor of blind ambition. After carrying on a romance by correspondence with beautiful young Suzanne (Micheline Francey), Delmet is on the verge of marrying the girl. Instead, he allows himself to be talked out of leaving France to further his own career, with disastrous results for all conc...
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Character: Commissioner Rémy
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not ...
Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Character: Monsieur Jo
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques Hélian's lively Big Band the venue does not attract people anymore. Nightclub patrons now prefer the jazz cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Taking this new taste into account, the staff of the "Tambourin" and Jacques Hélian decide to set up their own club, "La Pivoine Ecarlate". They are joined by Pâquerette, a flower vendor and amateur singer, a...
Le Traqué
Character: Gaston
Manhunt in Paris and as far as Belgium to catch an American gangster escaped from a police van....
Fugitive from Montreal
Character: Newspaper seller
Pierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautiful foreign young lady by the name of Helen Bering. He introduces her to his friend, which seems to trouble him. To his amazement, Helen and Paul disappear without notice. Pierre, who was beginning to feel jealous, sees his suspicion confirmed. He decides to fly to Montreal where he thinks the couple ...
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Character: Buck
The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film....
The Red Angel
Character:
L'Ange rouge is a cabaret run by a former mobster with his friend, a singer and dancer he brought back from Argentina. A fleeing gangster takes refuge in the cabaret. The singer and the gangster have an affair....
Drame au Vel'd'Hiv'
Character: 'Trois Pattes'
At the Vélodrome d'Hiver, at the height of the sports competitions, the director of the house is found murdered. We also stole the recipe for the show. A swarm of private detectives, second-hand sleuths, embark on the most diverse tracks. Arrests pile up and the chase continues amid the non-stop games. The culprit will however be caught, red-handed, by a young inspector wearing a handsome mask....
The Unexpected Voyager
Character: Dudule
Marc, a photographer, works out of love to help Dany, a car thief, to get back on the right track: he offers her to work with him, as a model. But the former accomplices of the young woman compromise this action....
Speaking of Murder
Character: l'inspecteur Pluvier
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis' younger brother is a police informer....
Rayés des vivants
Character: Toto
With the help of a social worker and Isabelle, Pierre, a delinquent influenced by Marcelle, undertakes a slow and difficult reintegration....
Palace of Shame
Character: (uncredited)
Tongues start to wag after a famous Parisian music hall dancer is rushed to hospital after being found poisoned by arsenic at the Concert Mayol....
Sergil Among the Girls
Character: l'inspecteur Léon, l'adjoint de Sergil
The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in charge of the investigation will employ somewhat particular methods in order to unmask the assassin....
L'Été en hiver
Character:
Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their respective professions. They have not lived together for more than six months. During the winter, they decide to spend a vacation together in Meschers, to relive the first moments of their relationship....
Ladies First
Character: Clémenti
An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the beautiful widow of Griffin's late partner....
Reproduction interdite
Character: Butcher
An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyist, finds them again and, instead of killing them as he originally intended, joins in their game – with ultimately disastrous results....
The Law Is the Law
Character: Le brigadier-chef des douanes
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent....
Tomorrow Is My Turn
Character: Le milicien Cadix
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers....
An Angel on Wheels
Character:
Heralded racing driver Pierre Chaillot has never noticed the pretty young flight attendant who dotes on him adoringly. But when his fiancée's infidelity drives him to the brink of suicide, Pierre's guardian angel takes the form of this stewardess to urge him to choose life. Though the angel confesses her divinity, Pierre is skeptical of the existence of angels. But, despite their difference, the two bond during her brief sojourn in human form....
Nest of Spies
Character:
The mysterious death of a well-known criminal sparks an investigation into national security....
Sister Angele's Secret
Character: Inspector from Marseille
A poor wop entrusts his savings to an antique dealer's care. Bad idea. When he comes back to claim his dough,the villain acts as if they've never met. And the poor Italian immigrant kills him....
Villa Sans-Souci
Character: Commissioner
The whimsical Jean Latour wins a competition for a month's holiday on the Côte d'Azur. When he arrives at the "Villa Sans Souci", he discovers that the owner and generous donor, M. Mallez, is a doctor, that the property's guests are sick with nerves, and that Mallez has brought him in to entertain his neurasthenic residents....
Je suis un mouchard
Character: 'Petit-Jules'
Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealousy, is prepared to do everything to get rid of Henri. He and his accomplice involve him in a dangerous robbery. Henri is hurt and arrested by the police. But the young man, a weak character, denounces his accomplices. Two years later, the two gangsters run away from prison. Bob finds that Henri and Mado are husband and wife and have a daughter. In a panic, Henri runs for cover....
Daniella by Night
Character:
Daniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she meets two men, Count Castellani, whose clothes she'll model, and Karl Bauer, a reporter in the hotel room next to hers. Castellani gives Daniella the spotlight, which prompts jealousy from another model. Is he merely trying to seduce her? It's soon apparent that he has other plans as well: the line of clothes is a cover for smuggling and perhaps espionage. Daniella may be in danger - one model is dead...
Zaza
Character: Malardot
Around 1900, Zaza was the undisputed star of the "Variétés parisiennes". Bonded with pianist Cascard, she indulges in adventures and falls in love with handsome Bernard Dufresne. A short affair. Surprised by her friend's behavior, she believes he has a mistress in the provinces. In reality, he is married and Zaza, faced with her daughter, prefers to step aside. From now on, she'll live for her art, and will always refuse to renew her acquaintance with the man who made her suffer....
Pas un mot à ma femme
Character:
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The Inspector Likes a Fight
Character:
To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a revolutionary engine. He sets out to compromise the police investigation and the actions of the document smugglers seeking to recover the plans....
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Character:
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective....
Ramuntcho
Character: Customs officer Baptistin
Love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France....
Soupe au lait
Character: Roland's friend
Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait". It's when Francine announces her engagement that he decides to declare his love for her. Francine is not at all keen on the husband her parents are forcing on her - a wealthy record manufacturer - but she gives in under their pressure and asks Roland to give her up. But fate has other plans. A car accident provokes the young man's anger, and wit...
Beast at Bay
Character: Yves Le Guen
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. The fugitive, Daniel Morane, is a handsome boy and justifies himself crimes(murders) of which we accuse it. The young woman is allowed convince, seduce, feels sorry, and agrees to help him(it). But during their escape(mare), the doubt seizes her …...
Coplan, Agent 005
Character:
In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan....
Sweet Ecstasy
Character: Popoff
Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing passersby, throwing wild parties and following all the latest trends. When sexy Elke gives him the eye, he leaves the actress in the lurch and joins the gang for a decadent party aboard a yacht. However, Elke's wanton ways and Olivier's inexperience do no...
Ma femme, ma vache et moi
Character:
Marinette, the wife of Mario, a sympathetic hobo, is disgusted with the farm and runs off to Paris without husband or child. The tenacious husband sets off in pursuit, accompanied by the baby and a cow that's a bit cumbersome. The unfaithful woman wanted to become a star. Mario and his crew go from music hall to nightclub until finally, a classified ad brings back a repentant Marinette, just in time to prevent Mario from running off with a prostitute, herself eager for a change of scene....
The Trip to Biarritz
Character: Bastide
Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous resort town of Biarritz. Meanwhile, he gets involved in the romantic life of his son who is studying to be an engineer in London....
Le bluffeur
Character: Henri
Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to punish him for operating without their cooperation. His fortune is stolen and he is accused of a diamond robbery perpetrated by the old gang....
Requiem pour un caïd
Character: Inspector Chataignier
Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him....
Innocents in Paris
Character: Louvre doorman
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend....
The Cupboard Was Bare
Character: 'P'tit Louis'
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered ...
Bric a Brac and Company
Character: Jean Verly
If Fernandel did not appear in a supporting part ,another short (by E.Chotin who made dozens of them)which would not have been restored.But Fernandel is here ,playing a street pedlar selling luxury (sic) clothes on the flea market with a gorgeous girl as a model.This is a rather desultory script but Fernandel's presence makes the short worthwhile.He sings one song: "le Père Lapuce". A wealthy antique dealer, having started in the flea market in the past, settles his son there, an unrepentant nuk...
Sinners of Paris
Character: Emile
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females....
Last Hour, Special Edition
Character: Inspector Perrier
A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section....
Fire in the Flesh
Character: Capitaine Le Guen
Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose...
Loves of Casanova
Character: Esprit Jasmin
On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a great lady, conquers the niece of his implacable enemy but courts disaster for love of Coraline, a faithless opera dancer....
Alarm in Morocco
Character: Roland
When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible....
Première brigade criminelle
Character: Police Inspector
Commissaire Masson tells a young journalist about the only failure of his career: the wife of a Canadian secret agent, pursued by speculators, tried to deceive them. Unsuccessful, she shot her blackmailer to protect her husband, deceiving public opinion. How guilty was she really?...
Le Chien
Character: Le Barman
In this extremely hard to find TV movie from 1962, Delon plays the role of "He", a nameless man who loves his dog very much. But the destiny plays funny jokes with us sometimes, so for one night our protagonist loses his dog and finds the love of a beutiful woman ("She", played by the gorgeous Elke Sommer)....
Sénéchal the Magnificent
Character: Léon Duchêne aka M. Léon
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the...
Explosive Vacation!
Character: Le brigadier
Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the Royal Montmartre as a gift. The trouble is that Monsieur Jo, the former owner of the joint is also the boss of a gang of drug traffickers. And that he has managed to persuade the pair of naive lovebirds to drop a painting to a friend on their way to their honeymoon place. Now the picture is stuffed ...
Why Women Sin
Character: Lefébure, father of Betty
La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results....
Mémoires d'un flic
Character: Pino, boss of the Marabout
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track....
The Murdered Model
Character: Didier
Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the features of a certain Gilbert, who died a year earlier in a family, all of whose members will become more or less suspicious to the Commissioner. He thinks that, in spite of Dr. Furnelle's conclusions, Gilbert's death was not natural. But finding the cause of death and the identity of the possible culprit will require more than a mere intuition....
Lawless Street
Character: François
The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings....
His First Affair
Character: Carlo
The beautiful Domenica makes a student believe that her husband is a Corsican bandit, while he is a teacher....
Caroline and the Rebels
Character: Lieutenant Guéneau
A swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer....
Whereabouts Unknown
Character: Georio (as Dinan)
Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco......
Lunegarde
Character: (uncredited)
A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that it is the Countess Armance de Lunegarde, driven from her home and performing as a gummy in third-rate music halls....
Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Character: L'indicateur (uncredited)
Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war....
Unexpected
Character:
An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman....
Trial at the Vatican
Character: Pranzini
In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint....
Série noire
Character: Mariani
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns. The day Léo leaves prison, the criminal entrusts him with a letter to deliver to his estranged wife. He finds her, and she falls under his spell. The problem is that he, too, has fallen in love with her....
Deux Romains en Gaule
Character:
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia....
Four in a Jeep
Character: Sgt. Marcel Pasture
Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna....
One Bullet Is Enough
Character:
After leaving the prison where they have served their sentence, some criminals plan a new robbery....