Paul Bisciglia
Born: 1928-07-30 in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
Died: 2010-04-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Paul Bisciglia (30 July 1928 – 18 April 2010) was a French film actor. Throughout his acting career, Bisciglia appeared in more than one-hundred feature films. He made his debut in the 1950 film Trois télégrammes. What followed was several uncredited roles, before landing a much larger part in drama Clara de Montargis. During the fifties, he appeared in many drama films, including the award-winning Avant le déluge, with Antoine Balpêtré, and again several more uncredited roles. During the sixties, Bisciglia began to appear more frequently in television series and television films, although he was included in many films such as The Wretches, with Michèle Morgan, Les vieux de la vieille, with Pierre Fresnay, Paris nous appartient, Le signe du lion, and in 1966, he appeared in his first leading role in Alain Cuniot's L'or et le plomb. In 1969, Bisciglia had a small role in the horror film La vampire nue, the second feature film from director Jean Rollin. It was Bisciglia's first of several times working with Rollin. He worked with the director again in the successful films Requiem pour un vampire, with Marie-Pierre Castel and Mireille D'Argent, Les démoniaques, Lèvres de sang, and the zombie classic Les Raisins de la Mort, with Marie-Georges Pascal. His career continued through the seventies and eighties, such as the Golden Globe-nominated Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob, Club privé pour couples avertis, with Philippe Gasté of Jean Rollin's Requiem pour un vampire, Verdict, with Sophia Loren, L'aile ou la cuisse, Family Rock, and he voiced in three animated films Astérix et la surprise de César (Asterix vs. Caesar), Astérix chez les Bretons (Asterix in Britain) and Astérix et le coup du menhir (Asterix and the Big Fight). Bisciglia's acting career continued until 1999, during which he appeared in two final feature films, Profil bas and Montana Blues. Bisciglia also had a successful television career appearing in a number of television series and films. He made his first appearance in the 1957 television film L'équipage au complet. His television films include Elle s'abaisse pour vaincre, Les fiancés de Loches, Claudine à Paris and the television film remeke Les liaisons dangereuses. His television series credits include Le théâtre de la jeunesse, Rocambole, Les saintes chéries, Schulmeister, espion de l'empereur, Les brigades du Tigre, De mémoire d'homme, Les cinq dernières minutes, Désiré Lafarge, Commissaire Moulin, Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret and Julien Fontanes, magistrat. Source: Article "Paul Bisciglia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2002
1993
- Low Profile as Le patron du bistrot
1991
- Venus and Lulu as Le journaliste
1989
- Asterix and the Big Fight as Agecanonix (voice)
- Molierissimo as Pouillard
- Love Without Pity as L'homme de l'Huma
1986
- Asterix in Britain as (voice)
1985
- Asterix vs. Caesar as (voice)
1982
- La Baraka as le client
- Salut, j'arrive
1981
- Belles, blondes et bronzées
- Sans famille as Le concierge
- Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx as Le larbin
1980
- Légitime défense
- Petit déjeuner compris as M. Burin
- Anthracite as Caretaker
- Les contes de La Fontaine as Messire Jean
- Trop au lit pour être honnête as La garçon
1979
- Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses as Police officer
1978
- The Grapes of Death as Lucas
- Claudine as Le chanteur des rues
1977
- Brigade Call Girls as Henri
- Animal as Le gardien du château
- The Teasers Go to Paris
- Allez la Rafale ! as Riton
- Soumissions perverses as Jules Larrigau, the farmer
1976
- Police Commissioner Moulin
- The Wing or the Thigh? as Le bagagiste
- Lumière as La Bougie
- Sex Shock as Le couple au square
- Minichronique as L'épicier
- Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel as Le commissaire
1975
- That Most Important Thing: Love as Assistant Director
- Lips of Blood as The Psychiatrist
- The Seventh Company Has Been Found as Claumachet, sous-officier de la 7e compagnie
- The Cold Soup as Le garde-champêtre
- Indécences as L'homme des bois
1974
- Jury of One as A juror
- The Slap as Waiter
- Like a Pot of Strawberries
- How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby as Le chasseur PLM
- The Demoniacs as Paul
- The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir as Un clochard (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
- Young Casanova as Le flic dubitatif
- Sexy Boom as 'Double-Crème'
- House of 1000 Pleasures as Le livreur (uncredited)
1973
- The Voracious Ones
- Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob as Pump attendant
- Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? as Père de la filette, en exode sur la route
- The Crazy Capo Affair
- La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
- Rock or the Curse as Gerly
1972
- Fusil chargé
- The Pebbles of Etratat as Mechanic
- Requiem for a Vampire as Man with the Bike
- La tuile à loups as Muratel
- The Egg as Dufiquet employee
1971
- Le Cinema de Papa as un acteur
- Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur as L'officier Anglais
- Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy as Le contremaître
1970
- Only the Cool
- The Nude Vampire as Butler
- Alice au pays des merveilles as Five of spades
- Dougal and the Blue Cat as Le Chat bleu / Flappy (voice)
1968
- L'Homme du Picardie as Pucheu
1967
- Action Man as Bartender (uncredited)
1966
- The Boss of Champignol
- The Ferryman's House
- L’Or et le plomb as Usher's clerk
1965
- The Big Swag as Metro machinist (uncredited)
- Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
1964
- Cherchez l'idole as Tailor's assistant
- Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Prince's advisor (uncredited)
- Les Hommes as Cyclist
1963
1962
- Sign of the Lion as Willy
1961
- Paris Belongs to Us as Paul
- The Fruit Is Ripe
1960
- The Wretches
- The Old Guard as Jojo, Mariette's fiancé
- Lovers on a Tightrope as Mechanic
- The Delinquents as Painter
1959
- The Cousins as Marc
- Witness in the City as Taxi driver
- Night Dance Hall
1958
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Roger La Soutarde
- Provisional Liberty as Riri
- La P..... sentimentale as Chauffeur
- Le souffle du désir
1957
- The Seventh Commandment as Hunter
- Sunday Buddies as Lucien dit: "Lulu", un collègue de l'usine
1956
- Forgive Our Trespasses as 'Coquillage'
- Les Lumières du soir as Friend of Catherine at the restaurant
1955
- Les Hommes en blanc as Un interne
1954
- Before the Deluge as Jean-Jacques Noblet
- Papa, Mama, the Maid and I as Tenant on the sixth floor, under the roof (uncredited)
- Quai des blondes as le chasseur de l'hôtel
1951
- Under the Paris Sky as (uncredited)
- The High Life
- Clara de Montargis
- The Beautiful Image as (uncredited)
- The Turkey as Victor, le groom
- Love and Desire
1950
- Beware of Blondes as (uncredited)
- Paris Incident as Young postman