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
- The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil as Grégori
- It Happened at the Inn as Goupi-Tonkin
- The Heart of a Nation as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
- Don't Shout it from the Rooftops as le professeur Léonard Bontagues
1942
- The Marriage of Chiffon
- Vie privée as Rémi Géraud
- Patrouille blanche
- Andorra or The Bronze Men as Asnurri
- Business Is Business as Phinck
- Chambre 13
1941
- Who Killed Santa Claus? as Leon Villard
- Paris Romance
1940
- Dédé la musique as Fernand the American
1939
- Four Flights to Love as Edouard Bordenave
- The Phantom Wagon as Le père Martin
- The Fatted Calf as Grussgolt
- The Last Turning as Blackmailer cousin
- The World Will Shake as Le Greffier
- Louise as Le peintre Gaston
1938
- Port of Shadows as The Painter
- Tempête sur l'Asie
- Boys' School as l'homme «invisible»
- The West as Taïeb el Haïn
- The Woman at the End of the World as Arlanger, l'Armateur
- The Midnight Airplane as Doctor
- Ernest the Rebel as Governor-President of Mariposa
- The Little Thing as Roger
1937
- The Citadel of Silence as Granoff, prison Chief (uncredited)
- The Man from Nowhere as Le comte Papiano
- Franco de port as Henri
- Harvest as Sergeant De Sault
- Romarin
1936
- The Lower Depths as l'acteur alcoolique
- One of the Legion as Leduc
- The Mutineers of Elsinore as Charles Davis
- Jenny as l'Albinos
- Hélène as Doctor Regnier
1935
- Golgotha as Jésus Christ
- The Queen and the Cardinal as Cardinal Mazarin
- La Bandera as Fernando Lucas
- L'affaire Coquelet
1934
- Le Prince des Six Jours as Fouilloux, a spectator
- Famille nombreuse as Chief Warrant Officer Sandri
- Street Without a Name as Vanoël
- Madame Bovary as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
- Maria Chapdelaine as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
- An Ideal Woman
1933
- Boubouroche as Potasse
- Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine as Mousquet
- The Little King
- Le Tunnel as Brooce
1932
- The Yellow Dog as le docteur Ernest Michoux
1931
- Moon over Morocco as Donald Strawber