Robert Le Vigan
Born: 1900-01-08 in Paris, France
Died: 1972-10-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters". A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.
Filmography
2021
- Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit as lui-même
1954
1951
- El correo del rey as Peabody
- La orquídea
1950
- Ley del mar as Rafael
1945
- Bifur 3 as Paul (uncredited)
- La Grande Marnière as Fleury
1944
- The Ménard Collection as Amédée Garbure
1943
- It Happened at the Inn as Goupi-Tonkin
- The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil as Grégori
- Don't Shout it from the Rooftops as le professeur Léonard Bontagues
- The Heart of a Nation as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
1942
- Chambre 13
- Vie privée as Rémi Géraud
- Patrouille blanche
- The Marriage of Chiffon
- Andorra or The Bronze Men as Asnurri
- Business Is Business as Phinck
1941
- Who Killed Santa Claus? as Leon Villard
- Paris Romance
1940
- Dédé la musique as Fernand the American
1939
- The Phantom Wagon as Le père Martin
- Four Flights to Love as Edouard Bordenave
- The Last Turning as Blackmailer cousin
- The World Will Shake as Le Greffier
- Louise as Le peintre Gaston
- The Fatted Calf as Grussgolt
1938
- Port of Shadows as The Painter
- The West as Taïeb el Haïn
- Ernest the Rebel as Governor-President of Mariposa
- Tempête sur l'Asie
- The Woman at the End of the World as Arlanger, l'Armateur
- Boys' School as l'homme «invisible»
- The Little Thing as Roger
- The Midnight Airplane as Doctor
1937
- Harvest as Sergeant De Sault
- Franco de port as Henri
- The Man from Nowhere as Le comte Papiano
- The Citadel of Silence as Granoff, prison Chief (uncredited)
- Romarin
1936
- The Lower Depths as l'acteur alcoolique
- Jenny as l'Albinos
- Les mutinés de l'Elseneur as Charles Davis
- Hélène as Doctor Regnier
- One of the Legion as Leduc
1935
- Golgotha as Jésus Christ
- La Bandera as Fernando Lucas
- The Queen and the Cardinal as Cardinal Mazarin
- L'affaire Coquelet
1934
- Madame Bovary as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
- Famille nombreuse as Chief Warrant Officer Sandri
- Maria Chapdelaine as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
- Le Prince des Six Jours as Fouilloux, a spectator
- An Ideal Woman
- Street Without a Name as Vanoël
1933
- Boubouroche as Potasse
- The Little King
- Le Tunnel as Brooce
- Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine as Mousquet
1932
- The Yellow Dog as le docteur Ernest Michoux
1931
- Moon over Morocco as Donald Strawber