Robert Le Vigan
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(62 total)
Port of Shadows
as The Painter
The Lower Depths
as l'acteur alcoolique
Boys' School
as l'homme «invisible»
It Happened at the Inn
as Goupi-Tonkin
Harvest
as Sergeant De Sault
Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Leon Villard
La Bandera
as Fernando Lucas
Madame Bovary
as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
The Man from Nowhere
as Le comte Papiano
Four Flights to Love
as Edouard Bordenave
The Last Turning
as Blackmailer cousin
Jenny
as l'Albinos
The Heart of a Nation
as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
The Marriage of Chiffon
as The usher
Maria Chapdelaine
as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
The Woman at the End of the World
as Arlanger, l'Armateur
Golgotha
as Jésus Christ
One of the Legion
as Leduc