Pierre Blanchar
Pierre Blanchar (30 June 1892 – 21 November 1963) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar. He played Napoleon in the 1938 British film A Royal Divorce alongside Ruth Chatterton as Josephine. He later appeared alongside Michèle Morgan in the 1946 film Pastoral Symphony.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6719 |
| Birthday | 1892-06-30 |
| Place of Birth | Philippeville, Constantine, France [now Skikda, Algeria] |
| Also Known As | Gustave Pierre Blanchard, |
1932
Wooden Crosses
7.066/53
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, e...
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Wooden Crosses
1943
Secrets of a Ballerina
6.25/4
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire...
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Secrets of a Ballerina
1935
Crime and Punishment
7/5
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...
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Crime and Punishment
1937
Courier of Lyons
7.286/7
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillo...
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Courier of Lyons
1937
Life Dances On
7/36
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she...
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Life Dances On
1928
La valse de l'adieu
10/1
The life of composer Frédéric Chopin through his youthful love for Maria Wodzińska, a young Polish aristocrat he was unable to marry because of his ow...
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La valse de l'adieu
1937
Street of Shadows
6.857/7
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side,...
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Street of Shadows
1927
The Chess Player
6.8/10
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
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The Chess Player
1932
The Beautiful Sailor
5.273/11
A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love with Marin...
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The Beautiful Sailor
1946
Pastoral Symphony
6.2/22
On Christmas Eve, Swiss minister Jean Martens takes in a blind, half-crippled orphan and brings her up among his own four children. But Gertrude grows...
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Pastoral Symphony
1938
The Strange Monsieur Victor
6.917/24
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and consider...
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
1932
The Mistress of Atlantis
5.278/9
Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and so...
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The Mistress of Atlantis
1959
Riff Raff Girls
5.286/7
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge o...
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Riff Raff Girls
1959
Katia
6.4/29
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and...
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Katia
1937
The Queen of Spades
7/1
Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spad...
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The Queen of Spades
1925
Her People
8/1
In a small east-european ghetto, the Jewish family is celebrating Easter. The fraternal dissonance between the Sigoulim brothers pretty accurately mir...
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Her People
1923
Geneviève
7/1
Geneviève is an orphan child and living with her little sister Josette. Because of her economic situation, she cancels marriage with an honest and res...
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Geneviève
1942
Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
5.929/7
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife'...
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
1947
Sky Battalion
6.6/5
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de Franc...
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Sky Battalion
1929
Captain Fracasse
6.5/6
A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits
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Captain Fracasse
1944
The Hunchback
8/2
The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years...
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The Hunchback
1949
Dr. Laennec
6.25/4
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
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Dr. Laennec
1935
Lovers and Thieves
7/1
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving...
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Lovers and Thieves
1937
The Man from Nowhere
6.825/20
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns hom...
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The Man from Nowhere
1941
Night in December
7.5/2
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, qui...
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Night in December
1944
The Liberation of Paris
6/1
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
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The Liberation of Paris
1935
Turandot, princesse de Chine
10/1
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Turandot, princesse de Chine
1938
Le Joueur
10/1
Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love.
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Le Joueur
1933
The Old Devil
5.6/5
Vautier, a wealthy surgeon in his fifties, falls in love with Hélène, a young woman from a modest background. He allows her to have a string of short-...
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The Old Devil
1937
Culprit
7.333/3
A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a chil...
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Culprit
1946
Homeland
6/2
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against...
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Homeland
1934
At the End of the World
7/1
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At the End of the World
1948
After Love
5.333/3
Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The...
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After Love
1923
Heritage
10/1
There is a rivalry between the top part and the lower part of the village of Murcie because of water. Pancho, Maria del Carmen's fiancé, hurts Xavier,...
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Heritage
Georges Méliès
0/0
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Georges Méliès
1934
Iris perdue et retrouvée
7/1
To save her brother compromised in a case of forgery in writing, Iris agrees to marry a shady financier, lover of her sister-in-law. A young painter,...
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Iris perdue et retrouvée
1922
Jocelyn
8/2
Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem. A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution. He befrien...
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Jocelyn
1932
The Dreamy Mouth
4.5/4
The story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra is performed. Romaine, a mysterious woman, is in t...
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The Dreamy Mouth
1929
Wedding March
10/1
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Wedding March
1935
Les Bateliers de la Volga
10/1
In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a colon...
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Les Bateliers de la Volga
1937
A Woman of No Importance
10/1
A young lord who has abandoned his pregnant mistress hires his son, twenty years later, as secretary. He will try to fix his mistake.
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A Woman of No Importance
1950
My Friend Sainfoin
7.667/3
The honeymoon in Italy of Guillaume and Eugénie de Puycharmois escorted by friend Sainfoin, a second-hand driver. Sainfoin's humor displeases Eugenie....
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My Friend Sainfoin
1924
The Thruster
7/1
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The Thruster
1961
The Black Monocle
6.1/24
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a Germa...
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The Black Monocle
1949
The Cupid Club
8/1
Isabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly after, a murder is committed of which Isabelle's best frien...
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The Cupid Club
1943
Secrets
7/2
A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, but Michel, without any magic power, turns out to b...
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Secrets
1942
La Neige sur les pas
6/2
Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She runs away with her lov...
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La Neige sur les pas
1940
Two Women
7/2
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
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Two Women
1938
A Royal Divorce
9/1
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
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A Royal Divorce
1935
The Devil in the Bottle
9/1
If a sailor uses a magic bottle he found that grants whatever he desires, will his soul be lost to the Devil?
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The Devil in the Bottle
1934
L’Or
5.75/2
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L’Or
1941
La Prière aux étoiles
7/1
Pierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Southern sun. But Florence has a burdensome past: bef...
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La Prière aux étoiles
1933
Zero for Conduct
6.9/268
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
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Zero for Conduct
1941
La Prière aux étoiles (80min cut)
0/0
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La Prière aux étoiles (80min cut)
1929
Diane - Die Geschichte einer Pariserin
10/1
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Diane - Die Geschichte einer Pariserin
1941
La Prière aux étoiles (film inachevé)
0/0
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