Pierre DuxFilmography

Born:: October 21, 1908 in France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: French actor Pierre Dux built his formidable stage reputation upon the classics, from Moliere's The Misanthrope to Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. From 1970 through 1979, Dux was the executive administrator of the legendary Comedie Francaise. His film work didn't always scale the heights of his live...Read More

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Plaisir d'amour

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Françoise Fabian, Dominique Blanc, Cecile Sanz De Alba

Synopsis: Flo is just thirteen and is away from home on vacation. Her mother Clo, her sister Jo, and her relative Do, are all very liberated women, very wealthy, and very determined to have their way. When they catch sight of Guillaume de Burlador (Pierre Arditi), a handsome, well-educated and somewhat Read More

1991
La Lectrice

Actors: Miou-Miou, Christian Ruche, Maria Casarés, Patrick Chesnais, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: At the suggestion of a friend, Constance (Miou-Miou) places an ad in the paper offering her services as a reader in this romantic comedy drama. Her job leads her to a variety of employers and occasional romantic involvement. Maria Casares plays the widow of an East European general who has Read More

4/21/89
La Vie Continue

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Pierre Dux, Michel Aumont, Giulia Salvatori

Synopsis: In this French melodrama, the unexpected, untimely death of her husband leaves Jeanne (Annie Girardot) struggling to come to terms with the implications of her new life and take care of her three children. Filmed in French, this movie is available with English subtitles or dubbing. ~ Iotis Read More

1981
Trois Hommes à Abattre

Actors: Alain Delon, Dalila di Lazzaro, Pierre Dux, Michel Auclair, Simone Renant

Synopsis: Michel Gerfaut (Alain Delon) makes his living playing poker. But when he stops to help an injured motorist on the side of the road one night, he unwittingly gets involved in a sinister arms deal cover-up. The capable Gerfaut goes on holiday, bringing his longtime girlfriend, Béa (Dalila Di Read More

1980
Plein Sud

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Clio Goldsmith, Jeanne Moreau, Guy Marchand, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: In his final film before taking his own life, Patrick Dewaere stars as Serge, a writer whose life is disrupted by an affair with the enigmatic Carol (Clio Goldsmith). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Section Spéciale

Actors: Louis Seigner, Michel Lonsdale, François Maistre, Ivo Garrani, Roland Bertin, Henri Serre, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to contemporary political persecution are inescapable. A young German naval officer is killed in occupied Paris. The supplicative Vichy government sets about to locate the Read More

4/23/75
La Horse

Actors: Jean Gabin, Elenore Hirt, André Weber, Christian Barbier, Pierre Dux, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: A grandfather (Jean Gabin) kills a gangster who comes looking for his grandson at the family farm. The boy was involved in hiding heroin for the mob, but the grandfather finds the dope before the gang can retrieve it. He buries the dead goon in the back yard and drives his car into the stream. Read More

2/22/70
La Main

Actors: Natalie Delon, Henri Serre, Michel Duchaussoy, Roger Hanin, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: This suspense story finds a severed hand leading to the psychological demise of the people who come in contact with it. The hand is removed when the murderers fail to stuff all of the victim's body into a trunk. The mastermind of the killing is murdered by his wife and her lover in a macabre scene Read More

12/17/69
Z

Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, François Perier

Synopsis: Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a political assassination. Zei (Yves Montand) is a scientist who is scheduled to give a speech against the use of the atomic bomb. On the way to the event, he is attacked outside Read More

1969
Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

1966
Patate

Actors: Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Anne Vernon, Pierre Dux, Sylvie Vartan

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a toy inventor travels to the factory of his childhood friend, now an industrial magnate, and tries to persuade him to lend financial backing to his newest invention. Unfortunately their reunion is marred by the reopening of old emotional wounds, but fortunately, the Read More

10/21/64
The Day and the Hour

Actors: Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Dux, Reggie Nalder

Synopsis: This French/Italian effort travelled under the titles Le Jour Et L'Heure, Il Giorno e L'Ora and Viviamo Oggi in Europe. In Great Britain, it was known as Today We Live. No matter the title, the film stars Simone Signoret as a world-weary French aristocrat who finds a purpose in life by joining the Read More

4/5/63
Aimez-Vous Brahms?

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jesse Royce Landis, Jackie Lane

Synopsis: Based on the Francoise Sagan novel Aimez vous Brahms?, Goodbye Again stars Ingrid Bergman as Paula Tessier, a successful Parisian interior decorator (with a personal wardrobe by Christian Dior) and Yves Montand as her roving-eye lover, Roger Demarest. Worried that she'll be left in the lurch by Read More

1961
Les Croulants Se Portent Bien

Actors: Fernand Gravey, Pierre Dux, Nadia Gray, Sophie Daumier

1961
Le Gorille Vous Salue Bien

Actors: Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel, René Lefèvre, Bella Darvi, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Lino Ventura stars in this French espionager as a secret agent known only as "The Gorilla". While it's never fully explained how our hero earned this simian nickname, it is perfectly clear that The Gorilla is much sought after by the police and the criminal underworld. The cops suspect that the Read More

1959
Les Vignes Du Seigneur

Actors: Fernandel, Pierre Dux, Simone Valere

Synopsis: Henri (Fernandel) returns to his homeland after spending several years abroad. Staying with a wealthy friend, he finds his friend is involved with a woman. The woman turns out to be Henri's former lover, and sparks rekindle between them. However, the flame goes out when Henri embarks on a harmless Read More

1958
Rencontre A Paris

Actors: Robert Lamoureux, Betsy Blair, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: American actress Betsy Blair, who in 1955 scored a significant success as Ernest Borgnine's vis-a-vis in Marty, spent most of the rest of her film career in Europe. One of her earliest French film efforts was Recontre a Paris (Meeting in Paris), in which Blair stars as a wealthy American girl on Read More

1956
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
Poisson d'avril

Actors: Bourvil, Annie Cordy, Pierre Dux, Denise Grey

1954
Gibier De Potence

Actors: Arletty, Georges Marchal, Nicole Courcel, Pierre Dux

1951
Ombre et Lumiere

Actors: Simone Signoret, Maria Casarés, Pierre Dux, Jacques Berthier

Synopsis: Caroline (Maria Casales) and Isabelle (Simone Signoret) are half-sisters with a long history of mutual animosity. Jacques (Jacques Berthier) is Caroline's lover, who jilts Caroline for her pianist half-sister Isabelle while Isabelle recuperates from a nervous breakdown. The envious Caroline tries Read More

1951
La Valse De Paris

Actors: Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay, Noelle Norman, Pierre Dux

5/5/50
Docteur Laennec

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Dux, Saturnin Fabre, Mireille Perrey, Jany Holt, Geymond Vital

Synopsis: Like his earlier Monsieur Vincent, Maurice Cloche's {#Docteur Laennec} is a lovingly rendered biography of a famed humanitarian. In this instance, the subject is the inventor of the stethoscope, who was forced to battle the hidebound medical hierarchy of his time to prove the far-reaching Read More

1949
Les Dernieres Vacances

Actors: Michel Francois, Odile Versois, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Set in the sunny south of France, this devilish drama chronicles the romantic entanglements between two vacationing families. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1947
Monsieur Vincent

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Lise Delamare, Gabrielle Dorziat, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: Pierre Fresnay stars as St. Vincent De Paul in this reverent but realistic French biopic. The film traces "Monsieur Vincent's" progress from his days of forced servitude in Algiers to his entry into the priesthood, culminating with his Herculean efforts on behalf of the ill and destitute in early Read More

1947
Patrie

Actors: Maria Mauban, Mireille Perrey, Pierre Dux, Louis Seigner

Synopsis: Sixteenth-century Flanders provides the colorful backdrop for this filmization of Sardou's play Patric. Pierre Blanchar plays the title character, a fearless swashbuckler who leads a revolt against the Spanish conquerors of Holland. Blanchar's chief aide, played by Jean Desailly, is utterly Read More

1946
Derniere Aventure

Actors: Annie Ducaux, Blanchette Brunoy, Jean Max, Pierre Dux

1941
Retour A L'Aube

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Dux, Jacques Dumesnil, Therese Dorny

Synopsis: Retour a L'Aube (Return to the Dawn) exists primarily as a showcase for the delectable Danielle Darrieux. Fascinated by train travel, Darrieux impulsively marries railroad stationmaster Pierre Dux. Upon receiving an inheritance from a relative in Budapest, our heroine seizes the opportunity to Read More

1938
Marie Des Angoisses

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Mireille Balin, Pierre Dux, Henri Rollan

1935
Le Monde Ou L'On S' Ennuie

Actors: Josseline Gael, André Luguet, Pierre Dux

1934