Gilbert BecaudFilmography

Born:: October 24, 1927 in Toulon, France
Occupation:: Actor, Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

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Roman de Gare

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, Zinedine Soualem, Myriam Boyer, Michèle Bernier

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's thriller Roman de Gare (aka Crossed Tracks) features a number of characters and a timeline that skips back and forth, keeping the audience guessing as to how these characters all relate to each other. Fanny Ardant plays a novelist named Judith whose famous works might have been Read More

4/25/08
Gilbert Becaud: Spectacrouge

Actors: Gilbert Becaud

2002
Léolo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Roland Blouin, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Bourgault

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Lauzon's highly praised film tells the strange story of Léolo, a young boy from Montréal. Told from Léolo's point-of-view, the film depicts his family of lunatics and Léolo's attempts to deal with them. Not one individual in the boy's life is well adjusted. His brother, after being Read More

1993
Buster

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellen Beaven

Synopsis: On August 8, 1963, the Royal Mail train, on its nighttime run from London to Glasgow, was robbed by 15 men who got away with 2.6 million pounds (today the equivalent of $35 million). Buster tells the story of one of the junior robbers, Buster Edwards (played by pop singer Phil Collins), in a crime Read More

11/23/88
Toute une Vie

Actors: Marthe Keller, Charles Denner, André Dussollier, Charles Gerard

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's romantic drama Toute une Vie chronicles three different love affairs over three generations during the 20th century. Marthe Keller and Charles Denner portray different members of the families in each of the generations. The stories involve a cameraman's son who suffers and Read More

5/17/74
Un Homme Libre

Actors: Gilbert Becaud, Olga Georges-Picot, Patricia Huntington

Synopsis: Henri's wife has divorced him. While Henri (Gilbert Becaud) is not excessively upset about the divorce, he is sad, hates to be alone, and dislikes the sorts of wrenching changes that are being forced on him. Indeed, his ex-wife cannot get him to leave their shared quarters by the court deadline Read More

1973
La Maison Sous Les Arbres

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick Vincent, Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins, Karen Blanguernon

Synopsis: This English-language French production, directed by Rene Clement is a psychological/spy thriller, and features an excellent score by Gilbert Becaud. Faye Dunaway is Jill, the wife of a former industrial spy (played by Frank Langella). Her husband's employers are not perfectly reconciled to his Read More

6/9/71
$100 a Night

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Gerlinde Locker plays a singer trying to succeed in the gangster-ridden German nightclub circuit. To supplement her income, she works at a talent agency adjacent to a club run by mobster Rolf Kutschera. With the help of club musician Tommy Rupp, the girl is hired to sing for Kutschera, which Read More

1968
Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Fernandel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy with the 1962 French production The Devil and the Ten Commandments. Actually, there are only seven separate episodes in the film, covering such commandments as "Thou Read More

9/14/62
Babette s'en va-t-en Guerre

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Yves Vincent, Francis Blanche, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: Brigitte Bardot was at the height of her fame when she starred in this engagingly silly military comedy. Babette (Bardot) is a beautiful but unfortunately clueless young French woman who, in 1940, becomes a refugee when she seeks safe haven in England as the Germans move in to occupy her land. Read More

1959
Les Femmes Des Autres

Actors: Gilbert Becaud, Mireille Granelli, Michel Roux, Micheline Luccioni

1958
Croquemitoufle

Actors: Gilbert Becaud, Mireille Granelli

Synopsis: This lively comedy by Claude Barma is well-acted and original enough to charm most audiences. The story revolves around a man who finds out that his friend's wife has left him. He decides to go out looking for her but there is only one slight problem -- he has never met her and so he does not know Read More

1958
Casino De Paris

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gilbert Becaud, Caterina Valente, Vittorio De Sica, Grethe Weiser, Gregoire Aslan, Vera Valmont

Synopsis: This French-Italian musical starts out in the eponymous French gambling establishment. Vittorio de Sica plays Gordy, an ageing playwright who decides to transform a music-hall singer named Catherine (Caterina Valente) into a dramatic actress. Just as his protegee achieves stardom, Gordy dies. But Read More

10/31/57
Le Pays, d'ou Je Viens

Actors: Gilbert Becaud, Françoise Arnoul, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The old "mistaken identity" device is given a fresh slant in Marcel Carne's Le Pays d'Ou Ja Viens (The Country I Live In). Gilbert Becaud essays the dual role of a mild-mannered nobody and his exact double, a self-confidant musician. Mistaken for his more brash lookalike, the meek Becaud slowly Read More

1956