André Thorent
Birthday: Born in 1922-05-28 in Salies-du-Salat, Haute-Garonne, France
Deathday: 2015-03-27
André Thorent was born on May 28, 1922 in Salies-du-Salat, Haute-Garonne, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Le Samouraï (1967), Allô police (1966) and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978). He died on March 27, 2015 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
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Émile Zola ou la Conscience humaine
Character: Allemane Allemane
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Les Dossiers de Jérôme Randax
Character: Thulin
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La Traque
Character: Artois
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Allô Police
Character: le commissaire adjoint et officier de police Francin.
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Movie Credits
Cloportes
Character: Gangster client of the cabaret
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge....
Life Upside Down
Character: Le docteur
A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality....
Paradise for All
Character: M. Borne
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured on...
State of Grace
Character: Florian
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in...
Un amour de jeunesse
Character: Colonel
Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier......
Madame Bovary
Character: Dr. Canivet
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered....
Make Room for Tomorrow
Character: Le maître d'hôtel espagnol
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and pra...
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Character: le curé du Châtelard
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home....
Twist Again in Moscow
Character: Fedor
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party auditor who suspects that all is not above board, and he must keep out of sight and out of trouble his interloping and troublesome young brother-in-law, who arrives unannounced with barrels of rotten herring....
Paganini
Character: Galvano
Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy....
Head Against the Wall
Character:
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies....
Day Off
Character: Agency director
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...
Song of Autumn
Character: Monsieur Marcel
Chants d’Automne (Song of Autumn), is a story of daily life on a colonial farm, at the start of the war of liberation in Algeria, describing individual and group behavior in this context. An unthinkable, even dangerous, romantic relationship, born in this context between Catherine, daughter of a settler, and Abdelmalek, son of a blacksmith. Managing his vast property in a feudal manner, Monsieur Marcel whose only ambition is his personal enrichment to the detriment of the community. Everyone fea...
Julie la rousse
Character: José
The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's son will go in search of this woman and will thereby meet her daughter. About a love story that continues from one generation to the next....
La Demoiselle de Coeur
Character:
The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them....
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Character: Le chauffeur de Charlemagne
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career....
So Young a Peace
Character:
The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood. Children, freedom regained, do not yet know how to play “at peace”, they naturally play “at war”....
A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: Commissioner-jewelry
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris....
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Character:
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped....
Nickel and Dime
Character: Lucien, l'oncle de Jacques
Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall....
The Man with Connections
Character: Commander
Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent for basic training outside Paris before being shipped off to Algeria. His stops in Morocco and Algeria are uneventful as far as military action goes. He returns home with few bad memor...
Six personnages en quête d'auteur
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Raging Fists
Character: Commissioner
Tony and Nanar, two teenagers who met in reform school, are part of a gang of idle, penniless youngsters from the Paris suburbs. Together, they go to dances and plan mischief. The muse of the gang, B.B. La Brune, organizes leisure activities when she's not up to no good. Unemployed and penniless, they all dream of consumption and possession. Until the day a fight turns ugly: Tony, trying to reason with Nanar, pulls the trigger....
Le Samouraï
Character: Policeman / Taxi Driver
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him....
December
Character: Le général Michon
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse....
L'Amour des 4 colonels
Character: Ikonenko
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Appelez-moi maître
Character: M. Frise
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Fric-Frac
Character: Fernand
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Les coucous
Character: Le gardien
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The Brigade
Character: Advocate General Drussaens
This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of their prior activities. After the war, some of them continue to have a "resistance" mind-set. One of the stories concerns a love relationship between a Polish boy and a French girl who are thrown together ...
Douze hommes en colère
Character: Juré n°9
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The Sicilian Clan
Character: L'inspecteur Bordier
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them....
Nightmare
Character: Hugo
A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail and eventually tracks her down to the bar she had visited. As the dragnet around her closes in, it becomes apparent that the young woman's stepmother is behind the effort to locate her. But questions over why she is hiding out and what she is ...
Sachs' Disease
Character: Mr. Guénot
Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other......
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Character: Le professeur
Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy....
Catherine de Médicis
Character: Tavannes
This film, in two parts, is considered a cultural work admirably embodied by Alice Sapritch. The TV movie focuses on the period of the late 16th century in France, ravaged by religious wars, and highlights the efforts of Catherine de Medici to defend the throne of her sons and maintain the unity of the kingdom. The role of Catherine de Medici in this TV movie is an interpretation that gives more humanity to this historical figure often presented in a negative light in history....
Dialogues des Carmélites
Character: Javelinot, le médecin
The story of a group of nuns executed during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their vows....
Manon Roland
Character:
The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland....
Paris Belongs to Us
Character: Bernard
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger....
I Married a Shadow
Character: Le médecin de la clinique
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident....
The Infernal Machine
Character: Créon
A television adaptation of Jean Cocteau's surréalist take on the tragedy of Oedipus....
Terror and Virtue: Robespierre
Character: Bertrand Barère
From April to July 1794, Robespierre forms a triumvirate with Saint-Just and Couthon. He plans to instate his ideal based on virtue and in times of revolutionary crisis, on terror. In May, he establishes the Cult of the Supreme Being. However, he still has numerous enemies......