Alain Mottet
Born: 1928-12-30 in Lyon, Rhône, France
Died: 2017-10-31
Known For: Acting
Biography
Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France – 31 October 2017 in Paris, France) was a French actor. Alain Mottet appeared in dozens of films, often in secondary roles. He appeared in three films with José Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in L'Affaire de la malle à Gouffé. In 1969, in L'Armée des ombres, he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned. For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series Vidocq in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker including on several episodes of Au théâtre ce soir. One of his most notable TV roles was as Shazénian in the fairytale Shéhérazade, shown at the end of 1971: on a flying horse, he walks with Claude Jade into the night sky. In parallel to his screen career, he also continued to work on stage, most notably in plays by Jean Le Poulain, Roger Planchon, André Barsacq and Georges Wilson. He was part of the cast of the Comédie-Française from 1986 to 1988. Married to Françoise Hirsch (1930-2017), until his death on 31 October 2017, he is the father of Christine Mottet and actor and musician Pierre Mottet. Source: Article "Alain Mottet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2013
2010
- L'appel du 18 juin as Maréchal Pétain
2003
- Mata Hari, la vraie histoire as Me Clunet
2002
- Aram as Miran Sarkissian
1995
- François Kléber as Le directeur de la police
1991
- Venus and Lulu as Marceau le comédien
1990
- My New Partner II as Le préfet
1989
- Le Grand Secret as Hamblain
1983
- Un dimanche de flics as Director
1980
- Inspector Blunder as Dumeze, police director
- Le Curé de Tours as M. de Bourbonne
1978
- Question of Love as L'avocat général
- Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires as Simon Jaumier
1977
- The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés as Marc Ovet
- Murder on Demand as Jacques Lacarène
1976
- The Good and the Bad as le commissaire Blanchot
- Domino as Héller
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- La Mort d'un touriste as L'inspecteur L'Héritier
1974
- La main enchantée as Maître Chevassut
- Madame Sans-Gêne as Fouché
1973
- Le dialogue dans le marécage as Sire Laurent
- Héloïse and Abélard as Besnard de Clairvaux
1972
- The Pariah as 'Ficelle', henchman of Villanova
- Les Misérables as Thénardier
1971
- One Way Ticket as Nitesse
- Shéhérazade as Shazénian
1970
- Last Known Address as Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend
- La Mort de Danton as Maximilien-Marie-Isidore De Robespierre
1969
- Army of Shadows as Camp Commander
1968
- Ho ! as Paul
1967
- Vidocq as Inspecteur Flambart
- L'Affaire Lourdes as Jacomet
1965
1964
- The Black Indies as James Starr
1963
- The Fire Within as Urcel