Raymond BussièresFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: French actor Raymond Bussières began his career in cabarets and on stage. During the early '40s, he began getting supporting roles in French films; later he began a long career playing character roles. Bussières usually played tragic blue-collar Parisians. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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Invitation Au Voyage

Actors: Laurent Malet, Nina Scott, Aurore Clément, Mario Adorf, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother (Laurent Malet) jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

5/19/82
Le Roi et l'Oiseau

Actors: Jean Martin, Pascal Mazzotti, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: A triumph of animation for both children and adults, this engaging story was adapted from the fairy tale of The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep by Hans Christian Andersen. Director Paul Grimault worked with the late and gifted Jacques Prevert to create the wit, humor, and political nuances that Read More

3/19/80
Les Sous-Doués

Actors: Maria Pacome, Hubert Deschamps, Tonie Marshall, Raymond Bussières, Michel Galabru, Daniel Auteuil

Synopsis: A few bumps in modern education provide an underlying, tongue-in-cheek theme for this enjoyable comedy by Claude Zidi. The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a Read More

1980
Le Dernier Melodrame

Actors: Michel Vitold, Edith Scob, Raymond Bussières, Juliette Mills, Luis Masson

Synopsis: Whether or not the title of this well-wrought film was intentional, this was indeed, the last melodrama made by director Georges Franju (1912-1987). The nostalgic story looks at the last days of a theatrical troupe as it travels around the French countryside performing in small towns in the 1950s. Read More

1980
La Carapate

Actors: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: While he is visiting his client Marcial (Victor Lanoux) in prison, leftist lawyer Duroc (Pierre Richard) is caught up in a prison riot. When Marcial takes him along during his jailbreak, Duroc is assumed by the authorities to have engineered the escape. The two of them are now both on the run. It Read More

1978
The New Avengers: The Lion and the Unicorn

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jean Claudio, Maurice Marsac

Synopsis: Unicorn (Jean Claudio), a top enemy agent, is accidentally killed by his own comrades during a shootout. To fool the Other Side, the New Avengers arrange an elaborate hoax to make it appear as though Unicorn is still alive. Unfortunately, the villains have captured a foreign Prince in hopes of Read More

1977
Le Paradis Des Riches

Actors: Raymond Bussières, Marcel Dalio, Germaine Delbat, Lucien Hubert

1977
Dracula Père et Fils

Actors: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Helene Breillat, Raymond Bussières, Catherine Breillat, Anna Gael

Synopsis: Christopher Lee dons the Count's legendary cape once again for this satirical French-made entry in the vampire genre (titled Dracula and Son for American release). It seems Dracula's son (Bernard Ménez) is a bit reluctant to carry on the family's blood-drinking tradition on account of severe Read More

1976
L'Aile Ou la Cuisse

Actors: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias, Julien Guiomar, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: In this comedy, Louis de Funes is a top restaurant critic, the head of an important French culinary guide. At the beginning of the film, he and his son (Coluche) are at odds, as the son prefers working as a circus clown to studying the fine arts of gastronomy. The two join forces, however, to Read More

1976
Jonah, Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, Dominique Labourier, Myriam Mezieres, Rufus, Roger Jendly

Synopsis: The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the radical idealism of the youth protests would finally take form in the world. In this film, eight people in their late tweties and early thirties try to keep the radical flames Read More

1976
La Soupe Froide

Actors: Julien Negulesco, Christine Laurent, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Sylvie Milhaud, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: Two girls move from Paris back to a small farm which was previously owned by their family. They make friends with two local men: a Franco-Italian boy, and a local townsman. The four remain friends until the half-Italian lad gets invited to help out on the farm and winds up bedding both of the Read More

1975
Mannen som slutade röka

Synopsis: The subtitle of this Swedish comedy is "Tage Danielsson's Divine Comedy." It recounts the trials of a man named Dante Alighieri (Gosta Ekman) as he attempts to quit smoking. He is worried about backsliding, so he hires a pair of private detectives to keep him from smoking even a single cigarette. Read More

1972
The Counterfeit Constable

Synopsis: In this French comedy, one little white lie leads to a series of whoppers as a Frenchman visiting London soon discovers. The French fellow has gone to London with his friends to catch a soccer match. He then must go to the dentist where, just for fun, he puts on a British policeman's uniform. Read More

1966
Up from the Beach

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Irina Demick, Marius Goring, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: This war-drama centers more on the effects of battle on civilians than it does on the bravery of the fighters as it tells the story of a courageous squadron of Yankee soldiers endeavoring to protect and bring to safety a village full of French civilians whom they saved from German captors Read More

1965
Allez France!

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Diana Dors, Colette Brosset, Robert Rollis, Catherine Sola, Pierre Olaf

Synopsis: Henri (Robert Dhery) joins a group of rowdy soccer fans who travel from France to London two days before he is supposed to be married, and he goes to the dentist after his two front teeth are knocked out in a melee with rival fans. Sight gags include a busload of drunken fans trying to evade the 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
Les Quatre Verités

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Leslie Caron, Anna Karina, Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret

Synopsis: The four "truths" are in this instance, four different romantic or dramatic vignettes in a slightly uneven compilation film. All four segments are loosely related to fables by the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. In the first fable "Death and the Woodcutter" directed by Luis Berlanga Read More

1/31/63
Copacabana Palace

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Claude Rich, Sylva Koscina, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: A stellar international cast compensates somewhat for the rambling plotlessness of The Girl Game. The film takes place during Carnival Time in Rio De Janeiro. As unconfined joy wafts its way through the streets, the lives of several fabulously wealthy visitors and a group of voluptuous Read More

11/4/62
A Cavallo Della Tigre

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Gian Maria Volontè, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role of Giacinto, a father and husband who has been driven to steal in order to survive. His ineptitude lands him in jail where he meets up with slightly more hardened criminals Read More

1962
Le Meraviglie Di Aladino

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Noëlle Adam, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Michele Mercier

Synopsis: Aladdin (Donald O'Connor) is a poor young man living in ancient Bagdad, who is given to flights of imagination, and taken with tales of the wealthy and powerful -- in many ways, he's still a boy, and so caught up in his daydreaming that he doesn't realize how his one-time childhood playmate Djalma Read More

10/31/61
Love at Night

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a widow falls in love with a much younger man who is only interested in her money. When her fortune is gone, her lover gets ready to leave. But then he meets the widow's 19-year-old daughter as she returns from a sanitarium. He is determined to seduce the young woman, but she is Read More

1961
Fanny

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz, Salvatore Baccaloni

Synopsis: Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's "Marseilles Trilogy". Pagnol's original, titled Cesar, ends with protagonist Marius returning to the sea, leaving behind his lover Fanny and their son. Expanding upon the Read More

1961
Parlez Moi D'Amour

Actors: Dalida, Jacques Sernas, Raymond Bussières, Mario Carotenuto

1960
Guinguette

Actors: Zizi Jeanmaire, Jean Pascal, Cristina Gajoni, Paul Meurisse

Synopsis: In this standard tale of a gold-hearted prostitute and her difficulties, Zizi Jeanmaire plays Guinguette, the former lady of the evening who has abandoned her profession for a better life. She finally has the means to open up a bar and dancehall away from the city but just when everything seems to Read More

3/4/59
Quai Du Point Du Jour

Actors: Dany Carrel, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Philippe Lemaire

1959
Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida

Actors: Louis de Funès, Paulette Dubost, Raymond Bussières

1958
Porte des Lilas

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: Port de Lilias was Rene Clair's first film since 1955, and his last until 1960. It is more serious than most of Clair's efforts, ending with a death that is all the more surprising in that the director never quite prepares us for it. Pierre Brasseur plays Juju, a likeable ne'er-do-well who Read More

9/20/57
L'Amour Mene Les Hommes

Actors: Magali Noël, Philippe Lemaire, Christian Marquand, Raymond Bussières

1957
Dedecek automobil

Actors: Ludek Munzar, Raymond Bussières, Radovan Lukavsky, Josef Hlinomaz

Synopsis: El Abuele Automovil was the title bestowed upon this Czechoslovakian production when it was entered into competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival. It was also distributed in English-language communities as Model T and The Grandfather Automobile. Set in the early 20th century, the story Read More

1957
Un Certain Monsieur Jo

Actors: Michel Simon, Genevieve Kervine, Jacques Morel, Raymond Bussières

1957
Les Delinquants

Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Raymond Bussières, Christine Carère

1957
L'Ami De La Famille

Actors: Darry Cowl, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Micheline Dax

Synopsis: A stage comedy by Jacques Sommet was the source for L'Ami de la Famille (Friend of the Family). Comedian Darry Cowl plays the title character, a lovesick young sap named Pierre. Talked out of committing suicide over an unhappy romance by his friend Paul (Raymond Bussieres), the grateful Pierre Read More

1957
Les Gaites De L'Escadrille

Actors: Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Gabriello, Pauline Carton

1957
Vacances Explosives

Actors: Arletty, Raymond Bussières, Marthe Mercadier

1956
Mon Cure Chez Les Pauvres

Actors: Yves Deniaud, Arletty, Raymond Bussières

1956
Cheri Bibi

Actors: Jean Richard, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: Originally a character in a Gaston Leroux novel, Cheri-Bibi was transformed into a popular French comic-strip character in the 1930s. The character was also featured in two films, the second of which was in 1955. Jean Richard plays the title character, a born loser who undergoes plastic surgery in Read More

5/26/55
Une Gosse Sensass

Actors: Jean Bretonniere, Genevieve Kervine, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre

1955
Bedevilled

Actors: Anne Baxter, Steve Forrest, Simone Renant, Maurice Teynac, Robert Christopher

Synopsis: In this dark drama, a young American is on his way to take his final vows as a priest when he encounters a troubled nightclub singer with a checkered past. He honestly wants to help her and soon falls for her and finds himself tempted by her seductive ways. But giving in to temptation could have Read More

1955
Casse Cou Mademoiselle

Actors: Raymond Bussières, Marthe Mercadier, Albert Prejean

1954
C'Est La Vie Parisienne

Actors: Claudine Dupuis, Raymond Bussières, Saturnin Fabre, Amedee

Synopsis: It's the Paris Life (C'est La Vie Parisienne) is set at the turn of the century. The point of the film is summed up by the old French adage which begins "Plus ca change": The more things change, the more they remain the same. Director Alfred Rode uses two romantic subplots -- one set in the 1890s Read More

1954
La Cage Aux Souris

Actors: Dany Carrel, Raymond Bussières, Michel Francois

1954
Ah! les Belles Bacchantes

Actors: Colette Brosset, Louis de Funès, Robert Dhéry, Raymond Bussières

1954
Une Nuit A Megeve

Actors: Jeanette Batti, Raymond Bussières, Jacques Morel

1953
Peek-a-Boo

Synopsis: A bevy of beautiful strippers team up with a handful of risqué comedians in this feature that documents a typical burlesque show from 1953. Filmed at the Follies Theater in Los Angeles, CA, Peek-a-Boo includes pulse-quickening dance numbers from Venus (billed as "the World's Most Exciting Body") Read More

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
La Loterie Du Bonheur

Actors: Yves Deniaud, Suzanne Dehelly, Raymond Bussières

1952
La Tournee Des Grands Ducs

Actors: Raymond Bussières, Denise Grey, Christian Duvaleix

1952
Casque D'Or

Actors: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, Paul Azäis

Synopsis: The Paris demimonde of 1900 is the setting for Casque d'Or. Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani), an honest woodworker, falls in love with Marie (Simone Signoret), the "moll" of minor crook Roland (William Sabatier). Gangster boss Felix Leca (Claude Dauphin) orders Georges and Roland to fight a duel to Read More

1952
Soyez Les Bienvenus

Actors: Raymond Bussières

1952
Nuits De Paris

Actors: Raymond Bussières

1951
Le Passage De Venus

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Pierre Larquey, Felix Oudart, Raymond Bussières

1951
Moumou

Actors: Raymond Bussières, Robert Murzeau, Jeanette Batti, Pierre Louis

1951
A Tale of Five Women

Actors: Bonar Colleano, Lana Morris, Barbara Kelly, Anne Vernon, Eva Bartok

Synopsis: Former Hollywood musical director (and erstwhile government spy) Boris Morros was one of the producers of the British Tale of Five Cities. Bonar Colleano stars as British soldier Bob Mitchell, who has picked up American habits and speech patterns while employed in the U.S. Suffering from amnesia Read More

1951
Le Costaud Des Batignolles

Actors: Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Armand Bernard

1951
Justice Est Faite

Actors: Valentine Tessier, Claude Nollier, Michel Auclair, Raymond Bussières, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: In Justice est Faite, French director Andre Cayatte and his favorite screenwriter Charles Spaak tackle the delicate issue of euthanasia. The story is related in flashback, from the vantage point of a murder trial. The central character is Marceline (Valentine Tessier), who kills her incurably ill Read More

1950
Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Stephen Murray, Pamela Brown, Carol Marsh, Felix Aylmer, Ernest Milton

Synopsis: Alice in Wonderland is a misfire attempt to retell the Lewis Carroll story in the style of the famous John Tenniel illustrations. The film is an uncomfortable blend of live actors in ill-fitting costumes, ugly life-sized puppets, and ragged stop-motion animation. Carol Marsh, as Alice, is the only Read More

1950
Just Me

Synopsis: In this drama, a free-spirited vagabond's life changes dramatically when he learns that he has inherited a fortune. Unfortunately, he also learns that he has also been named the estate's executor. He refuses and this causes problems for the other two heir who cannot claim their share until he Read More

1950
Ma Pomme

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Sophie Desmarets, Raymond Bussières, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Ma Pomme is not only the title of this charming Gallic comedy, but also the name of its principal character, a carefree tramp. As portrayed by Maurice Chevalier, Ma Pomme is a cheerful indigent who has voluntarily dropped out of the Mainstream, preferring to sing for his supper in the streets. His Read More

1950
Drame Au Vel D'Hiv'

Actors: Raymond Bussières

1949
Les Branquignols

Actors: Colette Brosset, Robert Dhéry, Pauline Carton, Madeleine Lambert, Raymond Bussières, Julien Carette, Mathilde Casadesus

Synopsis: The French Branquinol is a plotless, shapeless musicomedy revue in the tradition of "Hellzapoppin." The story, such as it is, concerns a theatrical troupe's efforts to stage a charity show. This plot peg is merely an excuse to present the "Branquinol" company at their most zany and uninhibited. Read More

1949
La Veuve Et L'Innocent

Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Yvette Andréyor, Jean Tissier, Raymond Bussières

1948
Cinq Tulipes Rouges

Actors: Suzanne Dehelly, Jean Brochard, Annette Poivre, Raymond Bussières

1948
Il Fiacre N. 13

Actors: Marcel Herrand, Ginette Leclerc, Leonardo Cortese, Vera Carmi, Roldano Lupi

Synopsis: Il Fiacre N. 13 is based on the novel of the same name by Xavier Montepin. The title translates as Cab No. 13, and the two-part story ("Il Castigo" and "Delitto") concerns the various amorous occupants of that cab. Several of the leading actors essay multiple roles to detail the intrigues arising Read More

1948
Marlene

Actors: Micheline Francey, Tino Rossi, Raymond Bussières

1948
They Are Not Angels

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: This French WW II film chronicles the invasion of France by scores of English paratroopers who have come to bedevil the Nazi troops before D-Day. Much of the story centers on the preparation of the troops and upon the planning of the invasion. The rest follows the paratroopers as they team-up with Read More

1948
Portrait of Innocence

Actors: Louise Carletti, Gilbert Gil, Pierre Larquey, André Brunot, Emile Genevois

Synopsis: In this sentimental story, several hard working school children do a series of odd jobs to earn enough money to repair the window they accidentally broke. Unfortunately, just as they have enough cash, a meany steals the money. The plucky children rally together, get it back and see that justice is Read More

1948
Fandango

Actors: Ludmilla Tcherina, Annette Poivre, Luis Mariano, Raymond Bussières

1948
Quai des Orfèvres

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Simone Renant

Synopsis: Following a three-year suspension from filmmaking after his Le Corbeau (1943) was judged too critical of his native France, director Henri-Georges Clouzot returned with this thriller that's equal parts crime drama and character study. Suzy Delair stars as Jenny Lamour, an ambitious music hall Read More

10/3/47
Les Portes De La Nuit

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Jean Vilar

Synopsis: Marcel Carne's 1946 production La Porte de la Nuit was released in the U.S. four years later as Gates of the Night. Scripted by Carne's longtime collaborator Jacques Prevert, the film is set in Paris just after its liberation from the Nazis. The script points out that this was not only a time for Read More

1946
Fausse Identite

Actors: Louise Carletti, Georges Rollin, Henri Nassiet, Raymond Bussières

1946
La Taverne Du Poisson Couronne

Actors: Michel Simon, Blanchette Brunoy, Jules Berry, Raymond Bussières

1946
Le Jugement Dernier

Actors: Michele Martin, Jean Davy, Raymond Bussières, Jean Brochard

Synopsis: Many critics felt that Le Jugement Dernier more closely resembled a wartime Russian film than a French production. Michele Martin plays Milia, resident of a mythical European country. When her homeland is overrun by Nazis and her father is killed, Milia vows revenge. She joins an underground Read More

1945
Children of Chaos

Actors: Janine Darcey, Serge Reggiani, Raymond Bussières, Jean Mercanton

Synopsis: French director Leo Joannon, the man who made such a mess of the valedictory Laurel & Hardy vehicle Atoll K, proved that he could direct after all in Children of Chaos. Essentially a Gallic variation on Boys Town, the film concentrates on a boy's reformatory. Jean-Victor (Rene Darcy), himself a Read More

1944
Vive La Liberte

Actors: Jeanne Manet, Raymond Bussières, Jean Mercure

Synopsis: It came as no surprise to filmgoers of 1946 that Vive la Liberte was a patriotic yarn of wartime France. The film details the exploits of the Maquis during the Nazi occupation years. Ostensibly based on fact, the script seems pretty incredible at times, a common shortcoming in "resistance" Read More

1944
L'Escalier Sans Fin

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine Renaud, Raymond Bussières

1943
L'Assassin Habite au 21

Actors: Suzy Delair, Pierre Fresnay, Noël Roquevert, Jean Tissier, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's maiden feature-length effort was the intricate mystery thriller The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (L'Assassin habite au 21). Businesslike homicide detective Wens (Pierre Fresnay) goes on the prowl for a methodical mass murderer, who seemingly manages to be everywhere Read More

8/7/42

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