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
- Two Hours to Kill as Laurent
- A Young World as Le Grec
- Fortuna as Nissim Buzaglo
- Pas de panique as Fernand Toussaint
1965
- Cloportes as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
- L'Or du duc as Adhémar de Talois-Minet
- Black Humor as Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
- Pas de caviar pour tante Olga as Patache
1964
- Lucky Jo as Loudéac
- A Very Handy Man as Simone Palumbo
- The Circular Triangle as Georges Richter
1963
- Don't Tempt the Devil as Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
- Agent of Doom as Charlèz
- Josefa's Loot as Mayor
- The Abominable Man of Customs as Russian killer
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
- 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
- Il bell'Antonio as Alfio Magnano
- Carthage in Flames as Sidone
- The Dialogue of the Carmelites as Commissioner of the Republic
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Pangloss
1959
- The Law as Don Cesare
- The Bureaucrats as Monsieur Nègre
- Head Against the Wall as Dr. Varmont
1958
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Maurice Tardenois
- Sans famille as Jeroboam Driscoll
- The Possessors as Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
- Life Together as Pierre Carreau
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
- 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
- Bluebeard as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
- Dirty Hands as Hoederer
- Skipper Next to God as Captain Joris KnAipper
1950
- Jamaican Man as Jacques Mervel
- Lost Souvenirs as Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")
- Julie de Carneilhan as Hubert Espivant
1949
- Millionaires for One Day as Francis
- The Lovers of Verona as Raffaele
- Portrait of a Murderer as Fabius / Jean
1948
- Rocambole as Rocambole
- La Nuit blanche as Pierre Taverny
- The Revenge of Baccarat as Rocambole
- The Secret of Monte-Cristo as François Picault
- Cruise for the Unknown One as Emile Fréchisse
1947
- Noah's Ark as Bitru
- Love Around the House as 'Douze Apôtres'
1946
- Pétrus as Rodrigue
- La Femme fatale as Jean Pleyard
- Gates of the Night as Georges
- 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
- 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
- Sixième étage as Jonval, the young cynic
- Tobie Is an Angel
1939
- Second Childhood as Frossard
- Visages de femmes as Georges Legrand
- Le père Lebonnard as Alfredo Lebonnard
- Corsican Brothers as Tonio
- The Path of Honor as Philippe
- Last Desire as Frossard
1938
- Hercule as Bastien
- Heartbeat as Cousine (uncredited)
- Port of Shadows as Lucien
- Grisou as Hagnauer
- Café de Paris as Le Rec
- Gosse de riche as Pierre Mougins
- The Life of Giuseppe Verdi as Alexandre Dumas figlio
1937
- Une femme qui se partage
- Confessions of a Newlywed as Edmond Trivelin
- Claudine at School as Doctor Dubois
- La Reine des resquilleuses as Fred Woolson
- The Virgin Bride as Georges Letournel, fils du mari de Jacqueline
1936
- Valse éternelle
- Passé à vendre as Bob
- Prête-moi ta femme
- Le Mari rêvé as René Daroy /Achille Daroy
- Jeunesse d'abord
1935
- A Rare Bird as Jean Berthier
- Little One as Georges Darnetal
- Quadrille d'amour as Robert Lanclot
- Le Bébé de l'escadron as Max
- Le Miroir aux alouettes as Jean Forestier
- Jonny, haute-couture as Jonny
1934
- L'Oncle de Pékin as Philippe
- The Amorous Garrison as Paul, rider
- Caravane as Lt. de Tokay
- Incognito as Marcel
1933
- Moi et l'impératrice as Didier
- Honeymoon Trip as Rudi
- Tell Me Tonight as Koretzky
- Weaker Sex as Jimmy
1932
- A Father Without Knowing It as Jean
- Une faim de loup
- Quick as Maxime
- The Winner as Hunter
1931
- Circulate! as Jean Dupont-Desroches
- My Friend Victor as Edgar Flachon
1927
- Feu! as Frémiet's ordinance
- Backbiters as Le type de l'appareil à sous