Gregoire AslanFilmography

Born:: Constantinople
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Armenian actor Gregoire Aslan was born in either Switzerland or Istanbul, depending upon which source one believes. He made his professional debut at 18 as a vocalist and drummer with a Paris dance band, then launched an acting career under the name of Koko Aslan. Shifting from comic to villainous...Read More

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Meetings with Remarkable Men

Actors: Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Athol Fugard, Gerry Sundquist, Donald Sumpter

Synopsis: Peter Brook, one of the pioneers of the experimental theatre movement of the 1950s and 1960s, was the director of Meetings with Remarkable Men. Brook tells the story of Asian mystic G. I. Gurdijeff, here played by Dragan Maksimovic. Gurdijeff devotes his entire existence, from youth to old age, in Read More

1979
The Return of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne

Synopsis: After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer Read More

1975
The Girl from Petrovka

Synopsis: A graceful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent in this comedy-drama. The KGB is most displeased and does everything it can to break them up and eventually, tragically, they succeed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Actors: David Garfield, John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Martin Shaw

Synopsis: The second of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's three Sinbad epics, this film finds the titular hero played by John Philip Law, while the principal villain, Koura, is portrayed by future Dr. Who Tom Baker. The plot sends Sinbad and his crew on a quest for a valuable and magical golden Read More

1973
Le Sex Shop

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Claude Piéplu, Natalie Delon, Claude Berri

Synopsis: French director Claude Berri wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy as Claude, a bookstore owner whose personal life, like his struggling business, is failing. Claude is trapped in a loveless marriage to Isabelle (Juliet Berto), who does not seem to possess any sexual attraction to her husband Read More

10/25/72
You Can't Win 'Em All

Actors: Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michele Mercier, Patrick Magee, Fikret Hakan

Synopsis: As the Ottoman Empire collapses throughout Turkey in 1922, a number of adventurers from all over the world sign on to protect the locals from thieves and marauders--for a hefty price. Two such mercenaries are Adam Dyer (Tony Curtis) and Josh Corey (Charles Bronson), who are hired by provincial Read More

1970
Checkerboard

Synopsis: A dying desert town becomes a flashpoint for racial violence in this bizarre, over-the-top drama from France. Cicada is a fetid, arid Dogpatch that had been slowly drying up ever since a nearby river was dammed up, sending the town's farmers packing. These days, Cicada has become home to a motley Read More

1969
A Flea in Her Ear

Actors: Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Rachel Roberts, John Williams

Synopsis: Taken from the 1907 comedy play by Georges Feydeau, A Flea In Her Ear is a comedic sex romp about a wife suspicious of her husband's activities away from home. Gabrielle (Rosemary Harris) is convinced her attorney husband Victor (Rex Harrison) is seeing another woman because of his inattention to Read More

1968
Mazel Tov Ou le Mariage

Actors: Claude Berri, Elisabeth Wiener, Louisa Colpeyn, Gregoire Aslan, Regine

Synopsis: The original French title of Marry Me, Marry Me was Mazel Tov ou le Marriage, which was more appropriate to the ethnic ambience of this Claude Berri confection. Director Berri effectively casts himself as the protagonist, a Jewish encyclopedia salesman who impregnates the daughter (Elisabeth Wiener Read More

1968
La Vingt-Cinquième Heure

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Serge Reggiani, Gregoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief Read More

4/26/67
McGuire, Go Home!

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg, Denholm Elliott, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart. In the late 1950s, the island of Cyprus is under the political control of Great Britain, but groups of Cypriot Read More

1966
A Man Could Get Killed

Actors: James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Robert Coote

Synopsis: This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the violent and baffling world of international espionage. When American businessman William Beddoes (James Garner) is traveling in Lisbon, he's mistaken for an English spy Read More

1966
Moment to Moment

Actors: Jean Seberg, Honor Blackman, Sean Garrison, Arthur Hill, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this suspense drama. Kay Stanton (Jean Seberg) is the wife of well-known psychiatrist Neil Stanton (Arthur Hill). Neil's international reputation often keeps him on the road Read More

1966
Our Man in Marrakesh

Actors: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Terry-Thomas, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Films like Bang, Bang, You're Dead helped kill the movie career of Tony Randall in the mid-1960s. Randall plays an innocent oil company representative who gets tied up with a gang of crooks in Morocco. The head criminals, played by Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski, plunge Randall into the middle of a Read More

1966
The Lost Command

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Maurice Ronet, Claudia Cardinale, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: In this wartime melodrama, Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is a French peasant who has worked his way up the military ladder during the French involvement in Indochina. Sent to Algeria, Raspeguy must mold a group of raw recruits into a competent fighting unit. He calls on Esclavier (Alain Delon Read More

1966
The Main Chance

Actors: Gregoire Aslan, Tracy Reed, Edward de Souza, Stanley Meadows, Jack Smethurst

Synopsis: In this drama, a former RAF pilot is hired to fly a suspicious package from France to England. Trouble ensues when the pilot decides to keep it for himself without realizing that his employer anticipated his treachery and planted a bomb on the plane. Fortunately, the boss's secretary intervenes Read More

1966
Le Meravigliose Avventure di Marco Polo

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Horst Buchholz, Elsa Martinelli, Omar Sharif, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a star-studded, epic retelling of the story of the famed thirteenth-century Venitian explorer. Filmed on location in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Egypt and Afghanistan, the film stars Read More

12/2/65
Aimez-Vous Les Femmes?

Actors: Sophie Daumier, Guy Bedos, Gregoire Aslan, Edwige Feuillère

Synopsis: While visiting a vegetarian restaurant, a young writer finds a corpse in the restroom. When he returns with the police, the body is gone. The writer is left with the unlucky fellow's hat -- which leads a certain beautiful woman to believe that his identity is the same as the dead man's. Not only Read More

5/13/64
Crooks in Cloisters

Actors: Ronald Fraser, Barbara Windsor, Gregoire Aslan, Bernard Cribbins, Davy Kaye

Synopsis: In this comedy, crooks on the lam hide-out in an abandoned island monastery. Along with their leader, the robbers put on monks' habits and begin living a quiet pastoral existence centered around raising animals and crops. It takes them a while to get the hang of it. As they learn, they are Read More

1964
Une Ravissante Idiote

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Marc Tennberg, Gregoire Aslan, Hélene Dieudonné, André Luguet

Synopsis: French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot stars as Penny, a scatterbrained young lady who is a beautician to the wife (Denise Provence) of British security chief Dumfrey (Andre Luguet). Harry (Anthony Perkins) is a young man of Russian origin enamoured by Penny--who is more than what she seems. Harry has Read More

1964
Paris When It Sizzles

Actors: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Noël Coward, Gregoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières, Christian Duvallex

Synopsis: Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie Read More

1964
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Actors: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Moira Lister, Ingrid Bergman, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their possession of an unusual car, a yellow Rolls Royce Phantom II. Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) is a diplomat who purchases the exquisite auto as a gift for his wife (Jeanne Read More

1964
Cleopatra

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau

Synopsis: In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Read More

1963
The Happy Thieves

Actors: Rex Harrison, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Wiseman, Gregoire Aslan, Alida Valli

Synopsis: The happy thieves in this international effort are Rex Harrision and Rita Hayworth, both specialists in swiping rare art objects. Their plan to pilfer a priceless Goya involves creating a public diversion at a nearby bullring. Oh, we forgot to tell you: the film was made on location in Madrid, the Read More

1962
Village of Daughters

Actors: Eric Sykes, Scilla Gabel, Gregoire Aslan, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: When a traveling salesman arrives to hawk his wares in an economically depressed Italian village, the last thing he expects is to be assailed by the most beautiful single girls in town, but that is exactly what happens. The reason for it stems from the fact that all but one of the town's eligible Read More

1962
The Rebel

Actors: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Margit Saad, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal appearances, and a string of theatrical films to his credit. In The Rebel (released in the US as Call Me Genius), Hancock plays a middle-class businessman who decides to chuck Read More

1961
Invasion Quartet

Actors: Bill Travers, Spike Milligan, John Le Mesurier, Gregoire Aslan, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: It's probably no surprise that Invasion Quartet has four leading actors; what might be surprising, especially to the unwary war-film fan, is that film is a comedy. British funster Spike Milligan joins the sobersided Bill Travers, John LeMesurier and Gregoire Aslan; the foursome are undercover Read More

1961
The Devil at 4 O'clock

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel Gregoire Aslan and Charlie Bernie Hamilton) -- lands on the island; Father Doonan (Tracy) manages to enlist their (reluctant) aid in working at a Read More

1961
King of Kings

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell, Harry Guardino, Viveca Lindfors, Rip Torn

Synopsis: One major film star referred to director Nicholas Ray as a "loser," because of Ray's alleged willingness to let his more temperamental actors walk all over him. Evidently, Ray had a very compliant and cooperative cast in King of Kings, inasmuch as the film emerged as one of the most disciplined Read More

1961
Sotto Dieci Bandiere

Actors: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German surface raider, which sails under friendly flags until moving in for the kill. Since so many nationalities were involved in making this film (both before and behind the Read More

8/14/60
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn, Lee Patterson, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: The Three Worlds of Gulliver is perhaps the least known of the Charles H. Schneer-Ray Harryhausen collaborations of the 1960s, perhaps because it was withdrawn from circulation so soon after its initial release. Kerwin Mathews, star of the Schneer-Harryhausen classic Seventh Voyage of Sinbad Read More

1960
Our Man in Havana

Actors: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward

Synopsis: Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information on Cuban affairs and recruits Jim to act Read More

1960
Killers of Kilimanjaro

Actors: Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Gregoire Aslan, Allan Cuthbertson

Synopsis: The late Anthony Newley's star was already rising when he shared billing just after Robert Taylor and before Anne Aubrey in this fast-paced adventure story set in Africa. Adamson (Taylor) is an engineer in charge of a project to set up a railroad track through East Africa, the first of its kind Read More

1960
The Criminal

Actors: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan, Margit Saad, Jill Bennett

Synopsis: Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top crook Stanley Baker plans a clever bank robbery. It goes off hitchless, but the clerk responsible for "laundering" the stolen money insists upon a bigger percentage of the Read More

1960
Les Tripes au Soleil

Actors: Gregoire Aslan, Jacques Richard, Toto Bissainthe

Synopsis: Guts in the Sun (Les Tripes au Soleil) proved too controversial to be released in its native France. The story takes place in a small Gallic village, where tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local Read More

5/6/59
The Snorkel

Actors: Peter Van Eyck, Mandy Miller, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Paul Decker (Peter Van Eyck) arranges what seems to be the perfect murder of his wife, while at her home in Italy. Lightly drugging her into unconsciousness, he seals the room she is in and turns on the gas, and then dons a diving snorkel with hoses drawing air from the outside -- he remains Read More

1958
The Roots of Heaven

Actors: Errol Flynn, Juliette Greco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Romain Gary's best-selling novel The Roots of Heaven was adapted to film in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color by producer Darryl F. Zanuck. Though billed third, Trevor Howard plays the central character, an idealist who has gone into Africa in hopes of saving the elephants from extinction. At first Read More

1958
Sea Fury

Actors: Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi, Gregoire Aslan, Francis de Wolff

Synopsis: Victor McLaglen made his last film appearance in the British Sea Fury. McLaglen plays the brawny captain of a salvage vessel, while Stanley Baker is his second in command. The two men battle over the affections of South American beauty Luciana Paluzzi. Baker has the advantage, but Luciana's father Read More

1958
Les Fanatiques

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Michel Auclair, Gregoire Aslan, Jose Lewgoy, Betty Schneider

Synopsis: Les Fantatiques is set in a mythical South American country. An anti-government faction intends to topple the present regime by whatever means necessary. One of the bolder revolutionaries plants a time-bomb on the plane bearing the President. The outcome of this act of terrorism, and the Read More

11/8/57
Casino De Paris

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
Windom's Way

Actors: Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry, Robert Flemyng, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Peter Finch plays Dr. Alec Windom, a British medico working in the remote Far Eastern island village of Selim. Feeling a strong bond with the natives, Dr. Windom champions their cause during a tense period of romantic upheaval. Eventually, he is forced to quell a native uprising--and to try to Read More

1957
L'Homme aux Clés d'Or

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Annie Girardot, Gregoire Aslan, Jean Rigaux

Synopsis: Director Leo Joannon, the man responsible for the much-maligned Laurel and Hardy swan song Atoll K (1951), demonstrates that he had some talent after all in L'Homme aux Clés d'Or (The Man With the Golden Keys). Pierre Fresnay stars as Professor Fournier, who devotes his spare time to raising money Read More

1956
Une Fille Epatante

Actors: Raymond Rouleau, Sophie Desmarets, Gregoire Aslan

1955
Mr. Arkadin

Actors: Orson Welles, Jack Watling, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Arden, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Also known as Mr. Arkadin, this flawed late effort by director Orson Welles recalls the structure of Citizen Kane, centering around an investigation into the past of a powerful millionaire. This time around, however, the millionaire is very much alive; in fact, it is Gregory Arkadin (Welles) Read More

1955
Joe Macbeth

Actors: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Gregoire Aslan, Sidney James

Synopsis: It took nerve to transpose Shakespeare's Macbeth into a 1930s gangster story using "tough guy" jargon, but Joe Macbeth very nearly pulls the trick off successfully. Paul Douglas plays Joe MacBeth, a successful mobster whose wife (Ruth Roman) has ambitions to be even more successful. Mrs. MacBeth Read More

1955
La Rafle Est Pour Ce Soir

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Christian Fourcade, Gregoire Aslan, Jeanne Fusier-Gir

1954
Cet Homme Est Dangereux

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Colette Dereal, Jacqueline Pierreux, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Eddie Constantine makes his second appearance as Peter Cheyney's hard-boiled FBI agent Lemmy Caution in Cet Homme est Dangereux. Curiously, when first we meet Lemmy, he is a crook on the lam. Actually, our hero is working undercover to entrap a French bank robber. Along the way, he becomes a Read More

1953
Innocents in Paris

Actors: Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, Claire Bloom, Claude Dauphin

Synopsis: Innocents in Paris is a series of anecdotes bundled together by geography. First we see the efforts by British diplomat Alastair Sim to loosen up Soviet-agent Peter Illing long enough to forge an economic plan between Russia and England. Then we watch as dotty artist Margaret Rutherford purchases Read More

1953
Un Acte d'Amour

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin, Barbara Laage, Robert Strauss, Gabrielle Dorziat

Synopsis: Act of Love was based on The Girl on the Via Flamina, a novel by Alfred Hayes. Kirk Douglas plays an American soldier, participating in the 1944 liberation of France. Making the acquaintance of impoverished Parisian girl Dany Robin, Douglas takes pity on the girl, pretending to be married to her Read More

1953
Le Secret D'Une Mere

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Gregoire Aslan

1952
Fortune in Diamonds

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond, Dennis Price, Gregoire Aslan, Charles Paton

Synopsis: The Adventurers is set in South Africa at the end of the Boer war. Commando Pieter Brandt (Jack Hawkins) comes across the dead body of a diamond courier. Brandt buries both the courier and his valuable cache of diamonds then heads back to his regiment. After the cessation of hostilities, Brandt Read More

1951
Une Enfant Dans La Tourmente

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Jacqueline Pierreux, Gerard Landry, Gregoire Aslan

1951
L'Auberge Rouge

Actors: Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Gregoire Aslan, Julien Carette, Jacques Charon

Synopsis: Autant-Lara's L'Auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) is black comedy at its very blackest. The scene is a rustic little inn in a remote rural area of France. The inn's proprietors Pierre (Carette) and Marie (Francoise Rosay) industriously support themselves by murdering the various stagecoach passengers Read More

1951
Cairo Road

Actors: Eric Portman, Laurence Harvey, Maria Mauban, Camelia, Karel Stepanek

Synopsis: Cairo Road is a standard British "police precinct" drama with a twist; this precinct is located in Cairo, Egypt. Eric Portman plays an Egyptian police chief who takes on the seemingly routine matter of a murdered Arab. Portman deduces that this was no ordinary street killing, and that the Arab was Read More

1950
Cage of Gold

Actors: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Maria Mauban, Madeleine Le Beau

Synopsis: Cage of Gold was a rare non-comic effort from Britain's Ealing Studios. Jean Simmons stars as Judith, who awakens the morning after her wedding to discover that her new husband has deserted her. Later on, she is told that her husband is dead. After a period of mourning, Judith remarries--only to Read More

1950
Occupe-Toi d'Amelie

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Julien Carette, André Bervil

Synopsis: This French comedy was released variously in the U.S. as Look After Amelie and Oh, Amelia. The eponymous heroine, played by Danielle Darrieux, is the potential bride of playboy Marcel (Jean Dessally). He wants to marry her to land an inheritance. Marcel's plans are blown to bits when Amelie falls Read More

12/16/49
Un Homme Marche Dans la Ville

Actors: Jean-Pierre Kerien, Robert Dalban, Ginette Leclerc, Yves Deniaud

Synopsis: Un Homme Marche Dans la Ville was Italian director Marcello Pagliero's first production in his adopted country of France. Filmed on location in a grimy seaside village, the story concentrates on a pugnacious longshoreman named Jean (J. P. Kerien). While endeavoring to help a troublesome friend Read More

1949
Sleeping Car to Trieste

Actors: Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick de Marney, Paul Dupuis, Rona Anderson

Synopsis: Sleeping Car to Trieste is a remake of one of the best railroad melodramas of the 1930s, Rome Express. The film's "maguffin" is a diary containing important political information. Stolen from a diplomat in Paris, the diary finds its way on board the Orient Express. Already, the two thieves have Read More

1945
Tourbillon De Paris

Actors: Claire Jordan, Ray Ventura, Paul Misraki

Synopsis: Originally Tourbillon de Paris, this film details the misadventures of a group of French military-school students. The plot is merely an excuse to showcase the considerable talents of bandleader Ray Ventura and his orchestra, most of whom play students so as to justify their presence in the film. Read More

1939

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