François Dyrek
Birthday: Born in 1933-08-16 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France
Deathday: 1999-12-17
TV Credits
Marie-Antoinette
Character: Louis XVI
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L'Homme du Picardie
Character: Brillet
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Le Château des Oliviers
Character: Sarrans
The Castle of Olive Trees is the ancestral home of the "Laborie de Sauveterre". Located at "Châteauneuf-du-Pape", it holds many mysteries and legends. Like every summer "Estelle Laborie" goes there to take some time off. But this summer she take an important decision: run from Paris and stay here at the castle definitively. Little does she knows that her arrival will awake a lot of drama and secrets, beginning with this enigmatic "Pierre Séverin" who wants to demolish the castle to the ground,...
Jean-Roch Coignet
Character: La Franchise
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Les Mystères de Paris
Character: Le Chourineur
TV mini series. An adaptation of Eugene Sue's popular novel....
Les Rois maudits
Character: Le soldat à l'ost
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...
Arcole ou la terre promise
Character: Antoine Campagne
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Marcheloup
Character: Pascal
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Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Juste
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Riton
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: M. François
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Noël Courcoué
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Lazulli
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Marian
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Greffeil
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: M. Fontaine
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Mandrin
Character: Manot la Jeunesse
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Movie Credits
Paradise for All
Character: le responsable du zoo
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...
Take It from the Top
Character: Le routier
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life......
Le Gaffeur
Character: Marcel Dugrand
A good country priest discovers that he is a father and must assume his role, a task all the more delicate since his son is a thug....
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Character: José Bouvines
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader,...
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Character: Montlouis
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another....
Equator
Character: Superintendent
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd an...
Just a Game
Character: Bear man
Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland....
Cross My Heart
Character: Titanic
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is less talkative and more withdrawn. When those around him begin to prod, they discover that Martin’s single mother has died. Fearful that he will be sent away from home now that he has no parents, Martin looks to his friends for help. With Jerome leading the charge to save Martin from the orphanage, the first thing they decide to do is dispose of the mother’s body....
Le Chêne d'Allouville
Character: Roger Dubois, deputy mayor
The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The deputy Charles Crétois was keen on this project, which allowed him to continue the speculation he had been indulging in on certain lands. He is supported by the mayor of Allouville to whom he promised the Legion of Honor. But the whole village protests: they want to save the oak tree....
Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
Character: Bertoli
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Le Zèbre
Character: Alphonse
Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes....
Drummer-Crab
Character: Former gendarme, boss of the bistro
"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic....
La vie continue
Character: Robert
Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife....
Le Groom
Character: Félix
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Bouvard et Pécuchet
Character: M. Vaucorbeil
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way....
Bonnot's Gang
Character: Édouard Carouy
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s....
Hothead
Character: Driver of the first truck
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries....
Radio corbeau
Character: Albert Cauvin, l'aubergiste restaurateur
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town....
Tendrement vache
Character: Andre Legent
Brave peasant of the country of Caux, Henri Duchemin is recovering badly from the death of his married wife, whom he loved dearly. After seeing a TV show, the man is convinced that his late wife has reincarnated into a cow....
Le divorcement
Character: Julien
In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed feelings, and the most difficult thing about the divorce, besides understanding why it is taking place at all, is deciding what will happen with the couple's numerous pets....
It All Depends on Girls
Character: 'Good Night', the blind
In Montmartre, Paris, two friends are leading a happy carefree Bohemian existence. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker, Mathieu is a sculptor. Then they both meet the love of their lives and decide to get married. Unfortunately, the objects of their desire are not so eager to be drawn into matrimony....
Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Character: David Greenglass
A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage....
See Here My Love
Character: l’inspecteur Daloup
Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him....
The Judge and the Assassin
Character: Le cheminot libéré
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane....
Flagrant désir
Character: Georges Barnac
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?...
Le voleur de feuilles
Character: Jacky
An old vagrant accidentally meets a man who has just killed his wife. They are both housed with an old woman who lives in the nostalgia of a youthful love....
The Erotic Touch of Hot Skin
Character:
A young couple becomes entangled with a younger woman, resulting in tragic consequences....
L'assassin viendra ce soir
Character:
A woman's father, a scientist, receives repeated death threats and eventually ends up dead. Receiving no help from the police, the woman begins to realize that she is next....
Piaf
Character: Henri
Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC theatre, which leads to her breakthrough....
The Pebbles of Etratat
Character: Drinking buddy of Kelvo
Following a car breakdown, Miss Annie, director of a weight loss center, meets a certain Mr. Kelvo, a car champion. But instead of helping her, he rapes her. She decides to take revenge and follows him....
Les Rois du gag
Character:
Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters"....
Themroc
Character: Un policier
Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal....
A Pain in the Ass
Character: Félix, saboteur
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him....
The Ambassadors
Character: Paul
“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to work on a Defense site, wading in the mud, he works with a jackhammer. Salah wanders in search of work and housing. Coming up against racism from the owners claiming the respectability of the building and the good neighborhood, he finds himsel...
Monsieur Papa
Character: Janine's colleague
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend....
The Companions of Baal
Character: Louis
Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise....
Private Screening
Character: L'autre metteur en scène
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechani...
L'Exercice du pouvoir
Character:
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic....
Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Character: Rigouille
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie....
The Bit Between the Teeth
Character: Guy Pasquier
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes...
Life and Nothing But
Character: Vergnes
In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross....
Torquemada
Character:
Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas...
Tempest in a Teapot
Character: Socrate
American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean and a young woman, Vita, step in with a scheme to get back at Sophia, a character who is never seen during the entire film. Included is a parody of the Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter (1978)....
Asphalt
Character: Edward
Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever....
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: Le second tavernier
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......
Appelez-moi Fouks
Character: Morlock
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Strange Game
Character: Serge
In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator....
Parti sans laisser d'adresse
Character: Detective
A young Swiss drug addict has been imprisoned for robbery, and must wait and wait for his upcoming trial, all the while isolated and without hope of parole - the police are convinced he is a dealer and not just a user. He hears from his son that his girlfriend has a new man, and begins to despair of ever coming to trial, or of having another relationship like the one he lost. This fiction film is said to be based on a true story....
The Question
Character: Lieutenant Herbelin
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers....
A Day to Remember
Character: Jean
Bertille is an old woman who lives in the countryside. Her relatives reunite there with her as she is about selling the property. They don't take long to out their true intentions which are merely material on her estate. Also, Bertille is afflicted by her youngest son who has been in prison for a decade. Decades of fighting over Einstein's stick of truth has made Bertille very frail and easy to come down on....
The Little Mermaid
Character: Un ami de Georges
A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment, he claims he was whistling at her companion, her 14-year-old cousin, Isabelle. This changes Isabelle's outlook on life: her favorite story is Anderson's "Little Mermaid," and she thinks that in Georges she's found her prince. She follows him, engages him in conversation, and turns up at his flat. At first, he pushes her away and tells her she's nuts, but slowly he finds that she brings out of him...