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
- La Brigade des maléfices as Diablevert
- The Married Couple of the Year Two as Gosselin
- Macédoine
1970
1969
- Goto, Island of Love as Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
- À la recherche de Jean Grémillon as Self
1968
- Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo as Faria
- A Little Virtuous as Jules Polnick
- Birds in Peru as Husband
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
- Fortuna as Nissim Buzaglo
- A Young World as Le Grec
- Two Hours to Kill as Laurent
- Pas de panique as Fernand Toussaint
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
- The Abominable Man of Customs as Russian killer
- Josefa's Loot as Mayor
- Agent of Doom as Charlèz
1962
- Crime Does Not Pay as Martin Fenayrou
- Hitch-Hike as Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
- Emile's Boat as François Larmentiel
- Rencontres as Carl Krasner
1961
- Famous Love Affairs as le grand duc Ernest
- Spotlight on a Murderer as Comte de Kerloquen
- Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Constable of Montmorency
- The Nina B. Affair as Berrera
1960
- Eyes Without a Face as Professor Génessier
- The Dialogue of the Carmelites as Commissioner of the Republic
- Il bell'Antonio as Alfio Magnano
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Pangloss
- Carthage in Flames as Sidone
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
- Tower of Lust as Jehan Buridan
- Oasis as Antoine Vallin
1954
- Clothing the Naked as Console Grotti
- Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances as Self
- Rasputin as Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine
1953
- The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird as Bird (voice)
- The Drunkard as Maître Pierre Renneville
1952
- Le Plaisir as Julien Ledentu
- Crimson Curtain as Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
- Torticola versus Frankensberg as Invisible Man's Friend
1951
- Dirty Hands as Hoederer
- Skipper Next to God as Captain Joris KnAipper
- Bluebeard as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
1950
- Lost Souvenirs as Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")
- Julie de Carneilhan as Hubert Espivant
- Jamaican Man as Jacques Mervel
1949
- The Lovers of Verona as Raffaele
- Millionaires for One Day as Francis
- Portrait of a Murderer as Fabius / Jean
1948
- The Secret of Monte-Cristo as François Picault
- La Nuit blanche as Pierre Taverny
- Cruise for the Unknown One as Emile Fréchisse
- The Revenge of Baccarat as Rocambole
- Rocambole as Rocambole
1947
- Love Around the House as 'Douze Apôtres'
- Noah's Ark as Bitru
1946
- Gates of the Night as Georges
- Behind These Walls as Jean-César Morin
- Land Without Stars as Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud
- La Femme fatale as Jean Pleyard
- Pétrus as Rodrigue
1945
- Children of Paradise as Frédérick Lemaître
1943
- Summer Light as Roland
- Two Shy Ones as Vancouver
- Adieu Léonard as Prosper Bonenfant
- Le soleil a toujours raison as Gabriel
1942
- Promise to the Unknown One as Lussac
- La Croisée des chemins as Hubert Epervans
1941
- Three Argentines in Montmartre as Toninett
1940
- Tobie Is an Angel
- Sixième étage as Jonval, the young cynic
1939
- Le père Lebonnard as Alfredo Lebonnard
- Corsican Brothers as Tonio
- Second Childhood as Frossard
- Last Desire as Frossard
- Visages de femmes as Georges Legrand
- The Path of Honor as Philippe
1938
- Port of Shadows as Lucien
- Heartbeat as Cousine (uncredited)
- The Life of Giuseppe Verdi as Alexandre Dumas figlio
- Gosse de riche as Pierre Mougins
- Café de Paris as Le Rec
- Grisou as Hagnauer
- Hercule as Bastien
1937
- Confessions of a Newlywed as Edmond Trivelin
- Claudine at School as Doctor Dubois
- The Virgin Bride as Georges Letournel, fils du mari de Jacqueline
- La Reine des resquilleuses as Fred Woolson
- Une femme qui se partage
1936
- Le Mari rêvé as René Daroy /Achille Daroy
- Valse éternelle
- Passé à vendre as Bob
- Jeunesse d'abord
- Prête-moi ta femme
1935
- Quadrille d'amour as Robert Lanclot
- Le Bébé de l'escadron as Max
- Jonny, haute-couture as Jonny
- Little One as Georges Darnetal
- Le Miroir aux alouettes as Jean Forestier
- A Rare Bird as Jean Berthier
1934
- Caravane as Lt. de Tokay
- The Amorous Garrison as Paul, rider
- Incognito as Marcel
- L'Oncle de Pékin as Philippe
1933
- Honeymoon Trip as Rudi
- Tell Me Tonight as Koretzky
- Moi et l'impératrice as Didier
- Weaker Sex as Jimmy
1932
- A Father Without Knowing It as Jean
- Quick as Maxime
- Une faim de loup
- The Winner as Hunter
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