Wladimir Yordanoff
Birthday: Born in 1954-03-28 in Chatou, France
Deathday: 2020-10-06
Wladimir Yordanoff (28 March 1954 – 6 October 2020) was a French actor of Bulgarian origin. He has appeared in more than sixty films since 1979. Yordanoff died on 6 October 2020, aged 66. Source: Article "Wladimir Yordanoff" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
TV Credits
Les Maîtres du pain
Character: Jérôme Corbières
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La Clef des Champs
Character: Antoine Pujol
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Colette, une femme libre
Character: Henry Gauthier-Villars dit « Willy »
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Femmes de loi
Character: François D'Islert / Derrac
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Les Edelweiss
Character: Charles
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Merlin
Character: Roi Pendragon
At 50, Merlin—the greatest magician in the kingdom— would like nothing more than to retire to the woods and live in peace. But with the arrival of the fairy Viviane and young Lancelot, Merlin's plans are derailed....
Mémoires d'ex
Character: Narrateur (voix)
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Movie Credits
You Are So Beautiful
Character: Roland Blanchot
Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena....
Mark of an Angel
Character: Bernard Vigneaux
Elsa Valentin is in the middle of a brutal divorce and custody battle when she is struck by the appearance of a pretty young girl named Lola (Héloïse Cunin). Her interest in the child grows to an obsession, and she finds any possible excuse to be near her. When Lola's mother, Claire, grows unnerved by all this, Elsa admits she believes Lola is her daughter....
The Merry Widow
Character: Gilbert
Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The tro...
Family Resemblances
Character: Philippe Ménard
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce....
Nathalie...
Character: François
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal....
The Landlords
Character: Jean-Louis Lacroix, le responsable du syndic
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 ...
Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte
Character: Alain Varenne
The complicated life of a wannabe actress who meets an older writer in the midst of a crisis....
Polisse
Character: Beauchard
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team....
I Do
Character: Francis Bertatoff
Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!...
Guilty
Character: Maître Hubert Delarue
Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep his family....
Try Me
Character: Jacqueline's father
When Yves-Marie, 9, asks Jacqueline, who is her age: "Marry me", she replies with a pirouette: "The day you go to the stars, I give you my hand."...
The Imaginary Invalid
Character: Béralde
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Mad Love
Character: Matalon
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie....
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Character: Hammer
A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides....
True Friends
Character: Jacques Boretty
The bonds of a 30-year friendship are tested when Walter's 20-year-old daughter, Clemence, falls in love with his friend Paul....
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Character: Le sénateur Charmat
Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and homeless, sleeping under bridges, etc. The winter of 1953-54 proved particularly difficult for these people, as it was one of the coldest on record. Father Pierre (Lambert Wilson), a parish priest, on seeing the suffering of these people (and their frequent death from the cold), was moved to write the French government seeking help for them. When his letter,...
Shooting Stars
Character: Le président Spizner
A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends....
The Spanish Apartment
Character: Jean-Charles Perrin
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship....
Philadelphie: la fusillade de Mole Street
Character: Commentaire
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Always Alive
Character: Sauveur Michelangeli
Ange, the mayor of a distant mountain village in Corsica becoming depopulated has launched a drama workshop supposed to give new life to the region. To this end he is to sign a contract with a cabinet minister for whom the villagers are rehearsing a play. It is the very day of the coming of the minister that Ange chooses to pass away, which infuriates his cantankerous wife Lellè. The contract must be signed anyway but how to go about it, mainly with such a family as Ange's: Rinatu, the nationali...
Sheer Madness
Character: Alexaj
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepe...
Natalia
Character: Verdier
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star....
Boomerang
Character: Charles Rey
When Antoine returns to the island of Noirmoutier, secrets kept in the past resurfaces and threatens to change his family’s present....
Un dimanche de flics
Character: Sylvio
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia....
Colette, une femme libre
Character: Willy
Colette, une femme libre is a two-part French biographical TV film directed in 2003 by Nadine Trintignant and broadcast on January 251 and February 1 2004 on RTBF, then on April 26 and April 27 2004 on France 2. A biography of the writer Colette, it was also the last role for Marie Trintignant, who was killed by her partner Bertrand Cantat shortly before the end of filming at the end of July 2003....
The Hedgehog
Character: Paul Josse
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rathe...
À dix minutes de nulle part
Character: Monsieur Roger-Maillon
The Stievenart family decides to spend their vacation far away and puts an ad on the internet. The Mailon family responds by offering to exchange homes. But the Stievenart family has an environmentally friendly house, while the Mailons consume a lot of energy....
Ticket Gagnant
Character: André Laliche
The life of a man who discovers he has won the lottery, but faces numerous challenges in trying to claim his prize. Through a series of comedic and heartwarming events, the film explores themes of luck, fate, and the true nature of happiness....
Bienvenue aux Edelweiss
Character: Charles
French comedy...
Vincent & Theo
Character: Paul Gauguin
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two....
Wild Target
Character: Casa Bianca
Victor Meynard, a hit man who still lives with his mother, is becoming more reluctant to pull the trigger during assignments. He meets a young man, Antoine, whom he takes under his wing after being unable to kill him. Their lives change when he meets Renée, an art forger who has earned the wrath of powerful mob leaders. Unwilling to assassinate the new object of his affections, Victor must run and hide with two new friends in tow....
Blanval
Character: Justin
August 1917. Two pilots whose aircraft was shot down by the Germans hide in a castle. They meet Justin, the employee, who has just killed his master....
The Possessed
Character: Lebjadkin
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual....
Danton
Character: Chief of guards
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not a...
The Secret Wife
Character: Marc Allighieri
It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?...
La fonte des neiges
Character: Felix
When the friend who was visiting them suddenly dies, an unremarkable couple is forced to take in his young pregnant wife of Russian origin....
Les Maîtres du pain
Character: Jérôme Corbières
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OSS 117: From Africa with Love
Character: Armand Lesignac
1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission - more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever - he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001....
An Officer and a Spy
Character: General Mercier
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony....
The Fantastic Journey of Margot & Marguerite
Character: Le grand-père
Margot and Marguerite are 12-year-old girls who seem no different from any other youngsters with the usual family and peer problems. While they appear to have similar faces and body shapes, they wear different clothes and hairstyles, but the biggest difference between them is that one lives in 1942 and the other in 2020. When the girls crawled into a wooden chest they were magically sent into each other’s timeline, and because the girls look so similar their family and friends do not notice the ...
Sauvons les apparences!
Character: François
After his mother has an accident, obese Julien (14) is taken in by his uncle's family in Switzerland. The family, who to all appearances are totally "normal", make Julien's nutrition and well-being their highest priority. But then Julien falls in love with Keiko, a young Japanese girl. In order to seduce her he pretends to be a Sumo-champion but soon finds himself in a quandary: he needs to lose weight for his new family, but he needs to gain weight if he is going to take part in the Sumo traini...
A Spot of Bother
Character: David
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family....
Pauline détective
Character: Monsieur Dominique
After she has been dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline allows her sister to take her to a palace on the Italian Riviera. Instead of savouring the delights of a carefree existence, Pauline prefers to take on the role of an amateur sleuth, convinced that a crime has been committed in the environs. She ropes a handsome lifeguard into her investigation......
The Taste of Others
Character: Antoine
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine wi...
Elf, Kings of Oil
Character: Maurice Bidermann
In 1988, supported by François Mitterrand, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent ran for the presidency of Elf. Alfred Sirven, through Christine Deviers-Joncour, introduced him to Roland Dumas. A year later, Le Floch-Prigent was appointed CEO of Elf Aquitaine. Sirven becomes Director of General Affairs at Elf......
The Elf Case
Character: Maurice Bidermann
In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become the chief executives at Elf. They discover a company that runs on kickbacks: in exchange for the oil rights, Elf makes handsome but discreet payoffs to the leaders of African nations. With the tacit complicity of President Mitterrand, and with eventual political and personal interests in mind, the new management takes charge of the slush fund. Within months, Sirven, Le Floch-Prigent and his wife Fat...