Gérard PhilipeFilmography

Born:: December 4, 1922 in Cannes, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: If it is true that Gerard Philipe entertained thoughts of becoming a physician, he'd purged himself of such notions before his teen years were over. After studying acting in his native Cannes with Jean Wall and Jean Huet, Philipe was discovered for the stage by veteran performer Claude Dauphin....Read More

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La Fièvre Monte à El Pao

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Maria Felix, Jean Servais, Miguel Angel Ferriz

Synopsis: A moral decay leading to revolution is paralleled to the illness that is consuming the hero in this emotive tale by renowned director Luis Buñuel. Set on a fictional Latin American island, the action starts when Gov. Vargas (Miguel Angle Ferriz) is assassinated. His executive secretary Ramon Read More

1959
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Valerie, Annette Vadim, Simone Renant

Synopsis: Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses was filmed several times. In Roger Vadim's version, Jeanne Moreau coerces her husband Gerard Philippe into ruining the reputation of pious Annette Vadim (the director's wife at the time). Philippe spoils Moreau Read More

1959
Le Joueur

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Nadine Alari, Bernard Blier, Françoise Rosay, Jean Danet

Synopsis: Le Joueur is French director Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the oft-filmed Dostoyevsky novel The Gambler. Set in 19th century Baden-Baden, the film details the trials and tribulations of several chronic gamblers, foremost among them young Alevei (Gerard Philipe). In love with Pauline (Liselotte Pulver Read More

11/12/58
Montparnasse 19

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lino Ventura, Lea Padovani, Gerard Sety

Synopsis: Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes, screenwriter Max Ophuls and director Jacques Becker offer their spin on the tragic, troubled life of Italian abstract painter Amedeo Modigliani. As played by Gerard Philipe Read More

4/4/58
La Vie a Deux

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Edwige Feuillère, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death claimed him before he could bring his plan to fruition. Adapted from Guitry's original by Jean Martin and directed by Clement Duhor, the film offers an all-star cast in a Read More

1958
Pot-Bouille

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Dany Carrel, Jacques Duby, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: The second of director Julien Duvivier's two cinematic contributions of 1957 was Pot-Bouille (Boiling
Pot). Based on a novel by Emile Zola, the film stars Gerard Philipe as Octave, an opportunistic Parisian youth who hops from bed to bed -- and from bedmate to bedmate. Young or old, plain or Read More

10/18/57
Les Aventures de Till L'Espiegle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar, Jean Carmet, Jean Debucourt, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Berger

Synopsis: That merry prankster Till Eulenspiegel is at it again in this lively Franco-German production. Director Gerard Phillipe does double duty as Till, a fun-loving youth who turns freedom fighter after his father is burned as a heretic during the Spanish Inquisition. In public, Till is a carefree Read More

1956
Si Paris Nous Etait Conté

Actors: Sacha Guitry, Françoise Arnoul, Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Robert Lamoureux, Michèle Morgan

Synopsis: Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous Etait Conte (If Paris Were Told to Us). Guitry himself appears as the ghost of King Louis XI, who relates the story of Paris to a group of fascinated modern-day students. As Read More

1956
The Bold Adventure

Synopsis: The Spanish Inquisition has targeted a helpless group of Belgians as heretics and is tracking them down. Suddenly, an unknown young man sweeps into the picture and saves them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
La Meilleure Part

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Michèle Cordoue, Gérard Oury, Michel Francois, Umberto Spadaro

Synopsis: Gerard Philipe stars in the lavishly appointed adventure film Le Meilleure Part. Philipe is cast as a dedicated constructive engineer, presently working on a huge dam project. Faced with a deadline, he must complete his project despite such obstacles as strikes, accidents, and illness. But there's Read More

12/30/55
Les Grandes Manoeuvres

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Yves Robert, Brigitte Bardot, Simone Valere

Synopsis: Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays a dashing dragoons officer, vintage 1913, who wagers his friends that he can make the next woman who enters the room fall in love with him. In strides drop-dead gorgeous Michele Morgan Read More

10/26/55
Le Rouge et le Noir

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Jean Mercure

Synopsis: Stendhal's brilliant but difficult novel Le Rouge et le Noir all but defies transfer to film, but adaptor/director Claude Autant-Lara comes within shouting distance of full success. Stripped to essentials, the plot concerns Julien Sorel (Gerard Philipe), a carpenter's son who becomes a tutor. Read More

10/29/54
Si Versailles M'Etait Conté

Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Georges Marchal, Jean-Louis Barrault, Claudette Colbert, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs in Versailles. In addtion to writing and directed the film, Guitry reserves for himself the plum role of Louis XIV. Concentrating on the palace of Versailles over a period Read More

1954
Villa Borghese

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Eduardo de Filippo, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Anna Maria Ferrero

Synopsis: Villa Borghese is Grand Hotel with trees and shrubbery. Set in the famed Roman city park of Villa Borghese, the film offers pithy character vignettes of the various people from various walks of life who stroll through the park in the course of a day. The all-star cast includes Vittorio De Sica as Read More

1954
Monsieur Ripois

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Germaine Montero, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston

Synopsis: Rene Clement's Monsieur Ripois was released in English-speaking countries as The Knave of Hearts and Lovers, Happy Lovers. Relying heavily on voiceover narration and subjective camerawork, the film has Gerard Phillipe in the title role. Believing himself to be love with his wife's best friend Read More

1954
Les Orgueilleux

Actors: Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Michèle Cordoue

1953
Les Belles de Nuit

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida, Magali Vendeuil, Marilyn Buferd

Synopsis: Director René Clair insisted that his 1952 production Beauties of the Night (Les Belles du Nuit) was intended as a comic variation on Griffith's multipart Intolerance (1916). The Clair film deals with a disillusioned music teacher (Gérard Philipe) who dreams of the beautiful women of history Read More

11/14/52
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Viviane Romance, Frank Villard, Noël-Noël, Henri Vidal, Jacqueline Plessis, Isa Miranda, Eduardo de Filippo, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: The Seven Deadly Sins is a portmanteau film (a la Quartet and O. Henry's Full House) assembled by some of the biggest talents in the Italian and French film industry. The film's six sections (one containing two sins) are designed by separate titles, which should be self-explanatory. "Avarice and Read More

3/27/52
Fanfan la Tulipe

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Oliver Hussenot, Nerio Bernardi, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: Pauline Kael once characterized the French adventure film Fanfan the Tulip as a "Louis XV western". This is a pretty broad interpretation, though it is true that the film never stops moving--an excellent method of sustaining audience attention and plugging up the plot holes. Gerard Philipe plays Read More

3/20/52
Juliette ou La Clé Des Songes

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Suzanne Cloutier, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Yves Robert

Synopsis: The English-language title of this Marcel Carne cinematic exercise is Juliette or Key of Dreams. The central character is not Juliette (Susan Clouthier), however, but a young incipient thief named Michel (Gerard Phillipe). Smitten by Juliette's charms, Michel steals for her sake, and ends up in Read More

1951
Avignon Bastion De La Provence

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar

1951
Souvenirs Perdus

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Danièle Delorme, Pierre Brasseur, Gérard Philipe

Synopsis: It has been said that French filmmaker Christian-Jacque specialized in two types of films: romantic mysteries and the celebration of historical artifacts. Souvenirs Perdus(1951) falls into both categories. The titular "lost souvenirs" are four unclaimed items, left in the Paris lost-and-found Read More

1950
La Ronde

Actors: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey, Odette Joyeux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Isa Miranda, Gérard Philipe

Synopsis: An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series of character vignettes, set in Vienna in the early 1900s and held together by a narrator (Anton Walbrook). As the title implies, both the story and the film's visual motifs Read More

1950
La Beauté du Diable

Actors: Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valere

Synopsis: La Beaute du Diable came into being when French filmmaker Rene Clair became fascinated with a structural defect in the "Faust" legend. Clair felt that the beginning and end of the story was perfect, but the middle section, wherein the title character blasphemes the Pope, was "silly." The director Read More

1950
Une Si Jolie Petite Plage

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Madeleine Robinson, Jean Servais, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Some film historians regard Yves Allegret's Une si Jolie Petite Plage (aka Such a Pretty Little Beach and Riptide) as the French director's finest work. Yet, it was twice ignored by American filmgoers when it was released in the U.S. in February and July of 1949. Perhaps those filmgoers weren't Read More

1949
Tous les Chemins Menent a Rome

Actors: Micheline Presle, Marcelle Arnold, Gérard Philipe

Synopsis: The astoundingly prolific French filmmaker Jean Boyer turned out only one film in 1948. Tous les Chemins Menent a Rome stars Gerard Phillipe as Gabriel, a bookish professor who is convinced he is coming to the rescue of a damsel in distress. Actually, Gabriel has misunderstood the situation: the Read More

1949
The Charterhouse of Parma

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Renée Faure, Maria Casarés, Lucien Coedel

Synopsis: French filmmaker Christian-Jaque directs the 1948 melodrama La Chartreuse de Parme. Gérard Philipe plays the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo, a member of the clergy who chooses love over the church. Unfortunately, this sets off a lot a problems for both him and his sweetheart, the Dutchess Gina de San Read More

2/21/48
The Devil in the Flesh

Actors: Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Jean Debucourt, Denise Grey

Synopsis: Released in France as Le Diable au Corps, The Devil in the Flesh stars Micheline Presle as a nurse at a French military hospital during World War I. Gerard Philipe costars as a high school student who carries a torch for the older Presle. Under pressure from her parents to marry, Presle begins an Read More

1947
L'Idiot

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Edwige Feuillère, Lucien Coedel, Marguerite Moreno, Nathalie Nattier

Synopsis: This is just a casual observation, but it's highly possible that more film adaptations of the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky were made in France than in Russia. In 1946 there appeared a faithful (if by necessity truncated) French version of the Russian novelist's The Idiot. Gerard Philipe plays the Read More

1946
Le Pays Sans Etoiles

Actors: Jany Holt, Pierre Brasseur, Gérard Philipe

Synopsis: Having been forced to put his directorial career on hold during WWII, Georges Lacombe returned to the screen with Le Pays Sans Etoilles (Land Without Stars). Based on a novel by Pierre Vary, the film utilizes the old gimmick of featuring the same cast of characters in two different Read More

1945