Raymond RouleauFilmography

Deux Heures A Tuer

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Michel Simon, Raymond Rouleau, Jean-Roger Caussimon

Synopsis: Laurent (Pierre Brasseur) is a newspaper reporter sent to investigate a string of mysterious small-town murders. Although he fails to solve the crime, he uncovers a murder plot concocted by a wife and her lover to kill the woman's husband. The uneven feature careens from comedy to drama with some Read More

La Grande Frousse

Actors: Bourvil, Jean-Louis Barrault, Francis Blanche, Raymond Rouleau, Victor Francen

Synopsis: Triquet (Bourvil) is a policeman who is forced to retire early when he nabs too many crooks while he is not on the clock in this satirical crime comedy. He captures a criminal who is headed for the guillotine, but the condemned man escapes when the instrument of death malfunctions. Triquet is Read More

Les Amants de Teruel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ludmilla Tcherina, Rene-Louis Lafforgue

Synopsis: This puzzling experimental film is written and directed by Raymond Rouleau, who uses effects like changing color tones and masks to put across a drama within a dance drama. The set is a sound stage and the actors in this film are dancers on the stage, performing a mime-ballet derived from one Read More

Le Fric

Actors: Jean Pascal, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Raymond Rouleau, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: This routine story by director Maurice Cloche is about two gangs at war over the possession of a valuable cache of crude diamonds. As the gangs battle it out with each other, a young man is drawn into the conflict by his girlfriend, an aggressive sort of woman in her own way. Before the basically Read More

Les Sorcières de Salem

Crew: Director

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: American playwright Arthur Miller was still under an "unfriendly" cloud in 1958, so far as the anti-Communist brigades were concerned. Thus, the film version of Miller's stage play The Crucible was lensed in France. Drawing several parallels to the McCarthy era, Miller dramatizes the Salem Witch Read More

Une Fille Epatante

Actors: Raymond Rouleau, Sophie Desmarets, Gregoire Aslan

Les Intrigantes

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: The world of the theater is the backdrop for this sublimely assembled whodunit. A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes the prime suspect in the death of his assistant, who may or may not have been messing around with the director's wife (Jeanne Moreau). The wife helps her husband hide out from Read More

Dr. Schweitzer

Synopsis: African republic of Gabon was the focus of Dr. Albert Schweitzer who wished to found a hospital for the poor inhabitants as told in this fact-based account. (AKA Schweitzer: Jungle Doctor) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Brelan D'As

Actors: Michel Simon, Raymond Rouleau

Synopsis: The English-language title of this French "omnibus" film is Full House. Three stories by three famed detective-fiction writers are dramatized herein. In "The Alibi of Mr. Wens," S. A. Steeman's Belgian sleuth Mr. Wens (Raymond Rouleau) finds himself accused of murder. In "I Am an Easy Guy," Peter Read More

Il Est Minuit Docteur Schweitzer

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Pierre Fresnay, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: Humanitarian Albert Schweitzer still had a dozen years worth of good works left in him in 1952; thus, the title of this French biopic, which translates to It is Midnight, Dr. Schweitzer, was a trifle premature. Pierre Fresnay stars as Schweitzer, while Jeanne Moreau co-stars as Marie, his Read More

Tapage Nocturne

Actors: Simone Renant, Yves Vincent, Raymond Rouleau, Elina Labourdette

Massacre En Dentelles

Actors: Raymond Rouleau, Anne Vernon, Tilda Thamar, Bernard Lajarrige

Synopsis: Massacre en Dentelles (Massacre in Lace) concerns a devil-may-care reporter named George (Raymond Rouleau). Sent to Venice to get the goods on a gang of counterfeiters, George would much rather enjoy the city's many creature comforts. He finally gets down to work when he discovers a corpse, the Read More

Mefiez-Vous Des Blondes

Actors: Raymond Rouleau, Martine Carol, Yves Vincent

Les Femmes Sont Folles

Actors: Gaby Sylvia, Raymond Rouleau, Noël Roquevert, Yves Deniaud

Mission A Tanger

Actors: Mila Parély, Raymond Rouleau

Une Grande Fille Toute Simple

Actors: Madeleine Sologne, Jean Desailly, Raymond Rouleau, Andrée Clement, Jacques Francois

Synopsis: The French Just a Big, Simple Girl strives to emulate Pirandello by blurring the line between artifice and reality. The scene is a theater, where a group of actors are performing in a play. We have already been informed that there is a real-life romantic triangle going on backstage, but the actors Read More

L'Inconnu D'Un Soir

Actors: Nadia Gray, Lucienne Legrand, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Rouleau

L'Aventure Commence Demain

Actors: Isa Miranda, Raymond Rouleau, André Luguet

Synopsis: The title of this literally steamy melodrama translates as The Adventure Starts Tomorrow. The fabulous Isa Miranda heads the cast as what can euphemistically be termed an "adventuress." Together with her partner-in-crime Raymond Rouleau, Miranda sets her sites on famed explorer Andre Luguet. It Read More

Dernier Refuge

Actors: Gisèle Pascal, Mila Parély, Raymond Rouleau, Felicien Tramel

Vertiges

Actors: Micheline Francey, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Davy, Jacqueline Pierreux

Le Couple Ideal

Actors: Simone Signoret, Hélène Perdrière, Denise Grey, Raymond Rouleau

Synopsis: Raymond Rouleau stars in Le Couple Ideal as a French movie leading man, circa 1912. Slated to appear at a gala for President Armand Falieres, Rouleau is detained by the police at the behest of a scheming producer. To escape the clutches of the law and make it to the celebration on time, our hero Read More

Le Secret De Madame Clapain

Actors: Michele Alfa, Raymond Rouleau, Fernand Charpin

L'Aventure Est Au Coin De La Rue

Actors: Michele Alfa, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Parédès

Falbalas

Actors: Micheline Presle, Raymond Rouleau, Gabrielle Dorziat

Dernier Atout

Actors: Raymond Rouleau, Mireille Balin, Georges Rollin

L'Honorable Catherine

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Claude Genia, Raymond Rouleau, André Luguet

Synopsis: Originally released in France in 1943, The Honorable Catherine (L'Honorable Catherine) wasn't distributed in the U.S. until 1948. The ironically nicknamed title character, played by Edwige Feuillere, is a blackmailer who has made a comfortable living through her married lovers. Now ready to retire Read More

Monsieur Des Lourdines

Actors: Claude Genia, Mila Parély, Constant Remy, Raymond Rouleau

Mam'zelle Bonaparte

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Raymond Rouleau

L'Assassinat Du Pere Noel

Actors: Renée Faure, Marie-Helene Daste, Harry Baur, Raymond Rouleau

Synopsis: Originally released in 1941 as L'Assasinat du Pere Noel, this labyrinthine thriller was finally distributed in the U.S. in 1948, five years after its star, Harry Baur, died while in the custody of the Gestapo. Per the title, the film takes place at Christmastime in a small French village where the Read More

Premier Bal

Actors: Marie Déa, Gaby Sylvia, Fernand Ledoux, Raymond Rouleau

Documents Secrets

Actors: Marie Déa, Raymond Rouleau, Hugo Haas

Affair Lafont

Actors: Corinne Luchaire, Annie Ducaux, Raymond Rouleau, Roger Duchesne, Pauline Carton

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gina Kaus, The Affair Lafont is the tragic tale of two sisters. Claire (Corinne Luchaire) is 20 years old, unmarried and incredibly naïve; Catherine (Annie Ducaux), nearing thirty, is terrified that her husband will leave her because she's never borne him a child. When Claire Read More

Conflict

Actors: Corinne Luchaire, Annie Ducaux, Raymond Rouleau, Claude Dauphin, Roger Duchesne, Armand Bernard

Synopsis: This disturbing melodrama centers upon the relationship between two sisters. One sister is married, but unable to bear children; her husband, who wants kids, is ready to leave her. The other sister is single and pregnant. The baby's father left her. The married sister talks her sister in to giving Read More

Cups de Feu

Actors: Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau, Aimé Clariond, Ginette Leclerc

Le Duel

Actors: Yvonne Printemps, Raimu, Raymond Rouleau

Coups De Feu

Actors: Mireille Balin, Ginette Leclerc, Aimé Clariond, Raymond Rouleau

Synopsis: Gunshot is the brief and succinct English-language title for this heavy-breathing French melodrama. In love with the beautiful Ginette LeClerc, aristocratic Austrian army officer Aime Clariond is forced to keep up "appearances" by refusing to acknowledge her existence. What Clariond doesn't know Read More

Le Drame de Shanghai

Actors: Christiane Mardayne, Elina Labourdette, Raymond Rouleau, Dorville, Louis Jouvet, My Linh-Nam, Valery Inkijinoff

Synopsis: Shanghai Drama was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Le Drame de Shanghai. Director G. W. Pabst, best known for the erotic classics Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora's Box, seems artistically subdued in this standard tale of pre-WW2 intrigue. The villains are the Japanese, who Read More

L'Affaire Lafarge

Actors: Marcelle Chantal, Margo Lion, Pierre Renoir, Raymond Rouleau

Le Messager

Crew: Director

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Jean Gabin, Mona Goya, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Le Messager was the fourth directorial effort for prominent Gallic actor Raymond Rouleau. Adapted from a play by Henry Bernstein, the story comes to life when wealthy Englishwoman Betty Rowe is deserted by her French husband Jean Gabin in favor of his secretary Gaby Morlay. In "hell hath no fury" Read More

Trois Six Neuf

Crew: Director

Actors: Renée Saint-Cyr, Meg Lemonnier, René Lefèvre, Jean Wall

Le Coeur Dispose

Actors: Renée Saint-Cyr, Raymond Rouleau

Donogoo

Actors: Anny Ondra, Renée Saint-Cyr, Viktor Staal, Mila Parély, Raymond Rouleau, Will Dohm, Heinz Salfner

Synopsis: The exotically titled Donogoo Tonka starts out in Paris, as hero Pierre (Viktor Staal) and heroine Josette (Anny Ondra) join forces to hatch a moneymaking scheme. For a generous fee, Pierre and Josette offer to guide a wealthy banker to the legendary African "golden city" of Donogoo Tonka. The Read More

Les Beaux Jours

Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Simone Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Catherine Fontenay, Raymond Rouleau

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as Happy Days, Les Beaux Jours was Simone Simon's last French vehicle before she launched the Hollywood phase of her career. The story revolves around the lives and loves of a group of attractive young Parisian students. The most attractive, of course, is our girl Simon, who Read More

Vers L'Abime

Actors: Brigitte Helm, Françoise Rosay, Raymond Rouleau, Henry Roussell

Une Vie Perdue

Crew: Director

Actors: Yolande Laffon, Raymond Rouleau, Marcel Vallee

La Femme Nue

Actors: Raymond Rouleau, Constant Remy, Alice Field

Synopsis: The title translates as A Naked Woman, which, in a sense, sums up the character played by the beautiful Florette. A successful artist's model, Lolette (Florette) quits her job when she weds promising young painter Bernier (R. Rouleau). No sooner has he become successful than Bernier begins Read More

Suzanne

Actors: Yolande Laffon, Pauline Carton, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Max

Le Jugement De Minuit

Actors: Jean Galland, Raymond Rouleau