Luis Rego
Birthday: Born in 1943-05-30 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
Luis Rego (born 30 May 1943) is a French actor, comedian, writer and director, of Portuguese origins. He was a founding member of music/comedy group Les Charlots which he left after a few years. Source: Article "Luis Rego" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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À bout portant
Character: Self - Les Charlots
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Rire et sourire : Le Splendid
Character: Différents rôles (Joseph Lewis)
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Parlement
Character: Jorge
Samy, a young parliamentary assistant, arrives in Brussels after the Brexit referendum. He is not fit for the job. Samy doesn't know much about European institutions and he hopes to get away with it thanks to his cleverness…...
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...
Le croc-note show
Character: (Voices)
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Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo
Character: (Voice)
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My Life Is Hell
Character: Pazou
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul....
French Fried Vacation
Character: Georges Pelletier, aka 'Bobo', host of the Club
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs....
Life Doesn't Scare Me
Character: Ines' father
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things....
Quatre étoiles
Character: Robert
Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him unti...
Copacabana
Character: Patrice
Babou seems to be able to shrug off anything. Real jobs, husbands, responsibilities, who needs them? But when she finds out that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to make some changes....
The Charlots Return
Character: Antonio
Antonio returned to Portugal ten years ago with his lovely (and quite thin) French wife. She has since become quite a hefty specimen of womanhood, and his eye has lately been wandering to others. When his strong-tempered wife catches him with another woman (their neighbor), she bonks him on the head. In order to avoid further embarrassment, he pretends this has induced amnesia. He does so well in his pretense that his worried wife calls his old Parisian buddies (the rest of the Charlots) and ask...
The Wild Goose Chase
Character: Franz
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 finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?...
Maine-Ocean Express
Character: Contrôleur Lucien Pontoiseau
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client)....
Meet the Leroys
Character: Marcel Leroy
A man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce....
The Landlords
Character: M. Da Silva
Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced ...
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Character: M. Gomez
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems....
Mauvaise Blague
Character: Le Juge
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Men Prefer Fat Girls
Character: Gérard Langlois
Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him....
Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
Character: Reska
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love......
Rookies Run Amok
Character: Luis
Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy....
The Great Java
Character: Luis
Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million....
Rookies Run Amok 2
Character: Lucien, le sergent
The sequel of a successful French comedy "Rookies Run Amok" (1971) again with "Les Charlots" group....
Flowers of Blood
Character: Director of erotic festivsl
In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she dragged her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, but ultimately lost her at nine to the Paris child authorities....
San Antonio
Character: Pinaud
While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French ambassador in a British hotel. But after a negligence of Bérurier (one more little sex affair...), San-Antonio witnessed, helpless, to the ambassador's abduction, organized by a gorgeous Italian girl. Back to Paris, San-Antonio is dismissed by the police chief, Achille Hachille. A real godsend for Bérurier, who get promoted... But soon, the situatio...
The Phantom Heart
Character: Philippe
Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking about love, the relationship between former lovers.....
Plutôt crever que mourir ici…
Character: Willy
Hospice Les Diamants Eternés, In his too small room, Willy, an inveterate smoker, accompanist, died. Because of these films, they cannot be released and cannot be found in this house of repositories that will be felt in an aseptic prison universe. What he wants is to die a free man! Helped by Barracuda his goldfish, Zoé the pretty nurse, and a group of old women, Willy has a plan... Escape!...
The Fuhrer Runs Amok
Character: Harry
France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match....
Aldo et Junior
Character: Paul
The confrontation of a sixty-eight-year-old father and his son with conservative ideas....
The Wolf at the Door
Character: Paco
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork....
Le monde d'Angelo
Character: Robert
Angelo believes his father works with extraterrestrials on a top secret project....
Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments
Character: Bernard, bistro owner
A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. The two team for a job with Le Gai Vendangeur (The Jolly Vintner) as sales reps, but they score zero while tooling around Brittany in a silly station wagon decorated with an immense wine bottle atop the...
Nuts
Character: Le père de François
François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his parents, he vows to win her back....
Get a Life
Character: Adérito
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life....
Day Off
Character: Mercier
Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant fa...
Villa Marguerite
Character: Etienne Grandclément
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Poor George
Character: Sequeira
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there....
Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
Character: Fernand
Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period...
Slices of Life
Character: L'interprète
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"...
Poule et frites
Character: Roger / Antoine
Roger, a chip seller on a Cote d’Azur beach, divides his life between his wife, a painter with a flair for originality whose work is unrecognized, and his mistress Bébé, a beautician on vacation. But his encounter with a third woman, a picaresque singer with whom he falls madly in love, will be accompanied by numerous adventures....
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
Character: Alvaro
An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries....
La grande Paulette
Character:
This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself....
Superlove
Character: Maurice
The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He introduces her to his parents who decide to adopt her and give her a room in their house. The presence of the Holy Mother will soon break the monotony of the household. Teresa, Mario’s mother, starts to talk to a chandelier. Carolina, his sister, thinks she has become invulnerable and begins to hit her teacher. As for Mario, he thinks he has been invested with a special mission, to tell the truth...
Le p'tit bleu
Character:
Lucien Lourmel, in his fifties, lonely and tired, runs the nightclub "P'tit Bleu", where young talent performs. He is a member of a mafia-like organization that he runs with two friends...
Procès de Jean Carmet
Character: L'avocat
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Le Tribunal Des Flagrants Délires
Character: L'avocat
Le Tribunal des flagrants délires was a comedy show where celebrities were judged in mock-trials. Desproges held the part of the prosecutor for more than two years, a part for which his verve, his scathing humour and his literary erudition were ideally suited....
Attila Marcel
Character: M. Coelho
Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbour. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhoo...
Leopard Ties
Character: Jo Ballister
The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican maquis, hoping to transform them into conquerors. The executives, in suits and ties, find the hostile environment challenging....
Les Charlots en folie
Character: Self
Documentary on Les Charlots, known as The Crazy Boys in the English-speaking world, a group of French musicians, singers, comedians and film actors who were popular in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s....
Little Girls
Character: Ines' Father
Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage years. This film discusses their first meeting and what happens afterward....
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Character: Luis, cas social
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired...
Nocturama
Character: Jean-Claude
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center....
La bonne adresse
Character: Spartacus
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El Cantor
Character: William Stern
William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness....
À vos caisses !
Character: Monsieur André
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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Character: L'avocat
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple....
The Big Bang
Character: Fred (voice)
In 1995, Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden, Monte Carlo and Switzerland immolate themselves.The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV....
Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
Character:
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La Smala
Character: L'interne alcoolo
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train......
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: Le second capitaine des mousquetaires
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France......
Raining Cats and Frogs
Character: René Lamotte (voice)
It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure....
Un simple froncement de sourcil
Character: Claude / Christophe
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The Dark Room
Character: The confessor
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back....
Panier de crabes
Character: Michel
A French adaptation of Neil Simon's play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", staged by Jacques Rosny....
Le Roi des cons
Character: L'homme sur la terrasse du Trocadéro
Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me about love and spread the messages of Georges, who soon became a sex symbol....