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
- Sans famille as Le concierge
- Belles, blondes et bronzées
- Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx as Le larbin
1980
- Petit déjeuner compris as M. Burin
- Légitime défense
- The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine as Messire Jean
- Anthracite as Caretaker
- Trop au lit pour être honnête as La garçon
1979
- Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses as Police officer
1978
- Claudine as Le chanteur des rues
- The Grapes of Death as Lucas
1977
- Animal as Le gardien du château
- Allez la Rafale ! as Riton
- The Teasers Go to Paris
- Brigade Call Girls as Henri
- Soumissions perverses as Jules Larrigau, the farmer
1976
- Police Commissioner Moulin
- Minichronique as L'épicier
- The Wing or the Thigh? as Le bagagiste
- Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel as Le commissaire
- Lumière as La Bougie
- Sex Shock as Le couple au square
1975
- The Seventh Company Has Been Found as Claumachet, sous-officier de la 7e compagnie
- That Most Important Thing: Love as Assistant Director
- Lips of Blood as The Psychiatrist
- The Cold Soup as Le garde-champêtre
- Indécences as L'homme des bois
1974
- House of 1000 Pleasures as Le livreur (uncredited)
- The Demoniacs as Paul
- The Slap as Waiter
- Jury of One as A juror
- Young Casanova as Le flic dubitatif
- How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby as Le chasseur PLM
- Sexy Boom as 'Double-Crème'
- The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir as Un clochard (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
- Like a Pot of Strawberries
1973
- 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
- Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
- La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
- The Voracious Ones
- Rock or the Curse as Gerly
- The Crazy Capo Affair
1972
- Requiem for a Vampire as Man with the Bike
- The Egg as Dufiquet employee
- La Tuile à loups as Muratel
- The Pebbles of Etratat as Mechanic
- Fusil chargé
- A Murder Is a Murder as L'employe de Kastner
1971
- Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur as L'officier Anglais
- Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy as Le contremaître
- Le Cinema de Papa as Un acteur
1970
- The Nude Vampire as Butler
- Alice au pays des merveilles as Five of spades
- Only the Cool
- 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
- L’Or et le plomb as Usher's clerk
- The Ferryman's House
- The Boss of Champignol
1965
- The Big Swag as Metro machinist (uncredited)
- Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
1964
- Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Prince's advisor (uncredited)
- Cherchez l'idole as Tailor's assistant
- 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 Old Guard as Jojo, Mariette's fiancé
- The Wretches
- Lovers on a Tightrope as Mechanic
- The Delinquents as Painter
1959
- Witness in the City as Taxi driver
- The Cousins as Marc
- Night Dance Hall
1958
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Roger La Soutarde
- Provisional Liberty as Riri
- Le souffle du désir
- La P..... sentimentale as Chauffeur
1957
- Sunday Buddies as Lucien dit: "Lulu", un collègue de l'usine
- The Seventh Commandment as Hunter
1956
- Les Lumières du soir as Friend of Catherine at the restaurant
- Forgive Our Trespasses as 'Coquillage'
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
- The Turkey as Victor, le groom
- Love and Desire
- Under the Paris Sky as (uncredited)
- Clara de Montargis
- The High Life
- The Beautiful Image as (uncredited)
1950
- Beware of Blondes as (uncredited)
- Paris Incident as Young postman