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
- La orquídea
- El correo del rey as Peabody
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 Heart of a Nation as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
- The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil as Grégori
- Don't Shout it from the Rooftops as le professeur Léonard Bontagues
1942
- Chambre 13
- Vie privée as Rémi Géraud
- The Marriage of Chiffon
- Business Is Business as Phinck
- Patrouille blanche
- Andorra or The Bronze Men as Asnurri
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
- The Last Turning as Blackmailer cousin
- Four Flights to Love as Edouard Bordenave
- The Fatted Calf as Grussgolt
- The World Will Shake as Le Greffier
- Louise as Le peintre Gaston
1938
- Port of Shadows as The Painter
- Boys' School as l'homme «invisible»
- Tempête sur l'Asie
- Ernest the Rebel as Governor-President of Mariposa
- The Midnight Airplane as Doctor
- The Little Thing as Roger
- The Woman at the End of the World as Arlanger, l'Armateur
- The West as Taïeb el Haïn
1937
- Harvest as Sergeant De Sault
- The Man from Nowhere as Le comte Papiano
- The Citadel of Silence as Granoff, prison Chief (uncredited)
- Franco de port as Henri
- Romarin
1936
- The Lower Depths as l'acteur alcoolique
- Hélène as Doctor Regnier
- Jenny as l'Albinos
- One of the Legion as Leduc
- Les mutinés de l'Elseneur as Charles Davis
1935
- La Bandera as Fernando Lucas
- Golgotha as Jésus Christ
- L'affaire Coquelet
- The Queen and the Cardinal as Cardinal Mazarin
1934
- Maria Chapdelaine as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
- Madame Bovary as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
- Le Prince des Six Jours as Fouilloux, a spectator
- Famille nombreuse as Chief Warrant Officer Sandri
- Street Without a Name as Vanoël
- An Ideal Woman
1933
- Le Tunnel as Brooce
- Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine as Mousquet
- The Little King
- Boubouroche as Potasse
1932
- The Yellow Dog as le docteur Ernest Michoux
1931
- Moon over Morocco as Donald Strawber