Samson Fainsilber
Birthday: Born in 1904-05-18 in Iasi, Romania
Deathday: 1983-12-19
Samson Fainsilber (18 June 1904, Iași – 19 December 1983, Paris) was a Romanian-born French film actor. During his career he appeared in around sixty films and television series. He featured in the 1933 historical drama Roger la Honte. Source: Article "Samson Fainsilber" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Les Aventures de Papa Poule
Character: M. Pera
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Marie Tudor
Character: Lord Clinton
Based on the play by Victor Hugo, portraying the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England....
Les Rois maudits
Character: Roger Mortimer le Vieux
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death a...
Janique Aimée
Character: Arsène Molivant, father of Alice
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Les Héritiers
Character: Igor
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Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Charles
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Grichka
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
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The End of the World
Character: Schomburg
The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster....
Mater Dolorosa
Character:
One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully his wife....
Charles and Lucie
Character: Le gobeur d'oeufs
An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary daily routine is disrupted by the surprising news that they have inherited a luxurious house in the South of France....
Marie des angoisses
Character: Paco
A neglected young woman comes up against the equivocal feelings of a steward....
Stavisky...
Character: L'employé au fichier
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war....
The Queen and the Cardinal
Character: Conti
A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Austria....
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Character:
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's consci...
The Shark
Character: Lawyer
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Roger la Honte
Character: Lucien de Noirville
1871. Roger Laroque accuses himself of a crime he did not commit to save his mistress, Julia de Noirville, from dishonor. He escapes from prison and is considered dead for fourteen years. Then he returns in the guise of a rich American in order to unmask the real murderer....
Jocelyn
Character: Jocelyn
The youthful loves of a young seminarian Jocelyn and the young and gentle aristocrat Laurence, refugees in the mountains to escape the revolutionaries. Jocelyn's ordination will sacrifice her love to the bishop's wish....
The Bread Peddler
Character: Castel
A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her....
Gangster malgré lui
Character: Marc
The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist and amateur detective....
Échec et meurtre
Character: Mangenstein
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Dorothy Looks for Love
Character: Sylvain
To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the intricacies of love....
The Village of Wrath
Character:
A young man and an alleged witch get married despite the prejudices of their fellow citizens....
Whirlwind of Paris
Character:
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!...
One Must Live Dangerously
Character: L'homme aux oiseaux
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves"......
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: Mazarin
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly....
Odette
Character: Dario d'Alhucemas
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Clandestine
Character: Dr. Netter
A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the home of a German-friendly Parisian and is helped by her son and daughter. A Jewish doctor also aids him. They all join him in his efforts against the Nazis and derail a munitions train....
No Pockets in a Shroud
Character: Gonzague
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. But the day he exposes the socialist mayor's homosexual crime, he is shot dead by an unknown assailant in a cul-de-sac just before the paper is due to appear....
Return at Dawn
Character: L'inspecteur Veber
Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital....
Escale
Character: Dario
An officer of a passenger ship falls in love with the mistress of a Marseille racketeer, with unexpected results....
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Character: Zoltán Forbek
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès....
Le Bossu
Character: Monsieur de Peyrolles
Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonzague covets the inheritance....
Providence
Character: Old Man
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour....