Pierre Brasseur
Born: 1905-12-22 in Paris, France
Died: 1972-08-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli. On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Brasseur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2002
- Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes as Self (archive footage)
1979
- Le Dernier Mélodrame ... (Writer)
1972
- The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life as La Brunetière
1971
- The Married Couple of the Year Two as Gosselin
- La Brigade des maléfices as Diablevert
- Macédoine
1970
1969
- Goto, Island of Love as Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
- À la recherche de Jean Grémillon as Self
1968
- A Little Virtuous as Jules Polnick
- Birds in Peru as Husband
- Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo as Faria
1967
- The Madman of Lab Four as Father Ballanchon
- The Birth of Children of Paradise as Self
1966
- King of Hearts as General Géranium
- A Matter of Resistance as Dimanche
- A Young World as Le Grec
- Fortuna as Nissim Buzaglo
- Pas de panique as Fernand Toussaint
- Two Hours to Kill as Laurent
1965
- Cloportes as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
- Pas de caviar pour tante Olga as Patache
- Black Humor as Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
- L'or du duc as Adhémar de Talois-Minet
1964
- A Very Handy Man as Simone Palumbo
- Lucky Jo as Loudéac
- The Circular Triangle as Georges Richter
1963
- Don't Tempt the Devil as Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
- Josefa's Loot as Mayor
- The Abominable Man of Customs as Russian killer
- Agent of Doom as Charlèz
1962
- Rencontres as Carl Krasner
- Emile's Boat as François Larmentiel
- Crime Does Not Pay as Martin Fenayrou
- Hitch-Hike as Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
1961
- Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Constable of Montmorency
- Spotlight on a Murderer as Comte de Kerloquen
- The Nina B. Affair as Berrera
- Famous Love Affairs as le grand duc Ernest
1960
- Eyes Without a Face as Professor Génessier
- The Dialogue of the Carmelites as Commissioner of the Republic
- Il bell'Antonio as Alfio Magnano
- Carthage in Flames as Sidone
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Pangloss
1959
- The Law as Don Cesare
- Head Against the Wall as Dr. Varmont
- The Bureaucrats as Monsieur Nègre
1958
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Maurice Tardenois
- The Possessors as Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
- Life Together as Pierre Carreau
- Sans famille as Jeroboam Driscoll
1957
- The Gates of Paris as Juju
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
1955
- Napoleon as Barras
- Oasis as Antoine Vallin
- Tower of Lust as Jehan Buridan
1954
- Rasputin as Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine
- Clothing the Naked as Console Grotti
- Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances as Self
1953
- The Drunkard as Maître Pierre Renneville
- The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird as Bird (voice)
1952
- Le Plaisir as Julien Ledentu
- Crimson Curtain as Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
- Torticola versus Frankensberg as Invisible Man's Friend
1951
- Bluebeard as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
- Dirty Hands as Hoederer
- Skipper Next to God as Captain Joris KnAipper
1950
- Lost Souvenirs as Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")
- Jamaican Man as Jacques Mervel
- Julie de Carneilhan as Hubert Espivant
1949
- Portrait of a Murderer as Fabius / Jean
- The Lovers of Verona as Raffaele
- Millionaires for One Day as Francis
1948
- Rocambole as Rocambole
- The Secret of Monte-Cristo as François Picault
- Cruise for the Unknown One as Emile Fréchisse
- La Nuit blanche as Pierre Taverny
- The Revenge of Baccarat as Rocambole
1947
- Noah's Ark as Bitru
- Love Around the House as 'Douze Apôtres'
1946
- Pétrus as Rodrigue
- Gates of the Night as Georges
- La Femme fatale as Jean Pleyard
- Behind These Walls as Jean-César Morin
- Land Without Stars as Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud
1945
- Children of Paradise as Frédérick Lemaître
1943
- Two Shy Ones as Vancouver
- Summer Light as Roland
- Adieu Léonard as Prosper Bonenfant
- Le soleil a toujours raison as Gabriel
1942
- La Croisée des chemins as Hubert Epervans
- Promise to the Unknown One as Lussac
1941
- Three Argentines in Montmartre as Toninett
1940
- Tobie Is an Angel
- Sixième étage as Jonval, the young cynic
1939
- Last Desire as Frossard
- Le père Lebonnard as Alfredo Lebonnard
- The Path of Honor as Philippe
- Second Childhood as Frossard
- Visages de femmes as Georges Legrand
- Corsican Brothers as Tonio
1938
- Heartbeat as Cousine (uncredited)
- Port of Shadows as Lucien
- Hercule as Bastien
- Café de Paris as Le Rec
- The Life of Giuseppe Verdi as Alexandre Dumas figlio
- Gosse de riche as Pierre Mougins
- Grisou as Hagnauer
1937
- Claudine at School as Doctor Dubois
- La Reine des resquilleuses as Fred Woolson
- Confessions of a Newlywed as Edmond Trivelin
- The Virgin Bride as Georges Letournel, fils du mari de Jacqueline
- Une femme qui se partage
1936
- Jeunesse d'abord
- Prête-moi ta femme
- Passé à vendre as Bob
- Valse éternelle
- Le Mari rêvé as René Daroy /Achille Daroy
1935
- A Rare Bird as Jean Berthier
- Jonny, haute-couture as Jonny
- Le Bébé de l'escadron as Max
- Le Miroir aux alouettes as Jean Forestier
- Little One as Georges Darnetal
- Quadrille d'amour as Robert Lanclot
1934
- Incognito as Marcel
- Caravane as Lt. de Tokay
- The Amorous Garrison as Paul, rider
- L'Oncle de Pékin as Philippe
1933
- Tell Me Tonight as Koretzky
- Weaker Sex as Jimmy
- Honeymoon Trip as Rudi
- Moi et l'impératrice as Didier
1932
- Quick as Maxime
- The Winner as Hunter
- A Father Without Knowing It as Jean
- Une faim de loup
1931
- My Friend Victor as Edgar Flachon
- Circulate! as Jean Dupont-Desroches
1927
- Backbiters as Le type de l'appareil à sous
- Feu! as Frémiet's ordinance