Pierre Brasseur
Known for: Acting
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli. On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Brasseur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Series
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Maurice Tardenois
1958
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Film
Children of Paradise
Frédérick Lemaître
1945
Film
Eyes Without a Face
Professor Génessier
1960
Series
La Joie de vivre
Self
1952
Series
La Brigade des maléfices
Diablevert
1971
Series
La Brigade des maléfices
Diablegris
1971
Film
Pétrus
Rodrigue
1946
Film
Il bell'Antonio
Alfio Magnano
1960
Film
Sans famille
Jeroboam Driscoll
1958
Film
Rencontres
Carl Krasner
1962
Film
Port of Shadows
Lucien
1938
Film
King of Hearts
General Géranium
1966
Film
Napoleon
Barras
1955
Film
Café de Paris
Le Rec
1938
Film
Un ange passe
Florisse
1970
Film
Un ange passe
1970
Film
Circulate!
Jean Dupont-Desroches
1931
Film
Le Plaisir
Julien Ledentu
1952
Film
Famous Love Affairs
le grand duc Ernest
1961
Film
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Faria
1968
Film
Heartbeat
Cousine (uncredited)
1938
Film
The Gates of Paris
Juju
1957
Film
Oasis
Antoine Vallin
1955
Film
Valse éternelle
1936
Film
A Matter of Resistance
Dimanche
1966
Macédoine
1971
Film
Spotlight on a Murderer
Comte de Kerloquen
1961
Film
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Gosselin
1971
Film
Grisou
Hagnauer
1938
Film
Cloportes
Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
1965
Film
Hercule
Bastien
1938
Film
Carthage in Flames
Sidone
1960
Film
Rocambole
Rocambole
1948
Film
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Commissioner of the Republic
1960
Film
Summer Light
Roland
1943
Film
Second Childhood
Frossard
1939
Film
Sixième étage
Jonval, the young cynic
1940
Film
Don't Tempt the Devil
Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
1963
Film
The Law
Don Cesare
1959
Film
Lucky Jo
Loudéac
1964
Film
Head Against the Wall
Dr. Varmont
1959
Opération Jericho
Jean-César Morin
Film
Goto, Island of Love
Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
1969
Film
Two Hours to Kill
Laurent
1966
Film
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Bird (voice)
1953
Film
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Pangloss
1960
Film
A Little Virtuous
Jules Polnick
1968
Film
The Bureaucrats
Monsieur Nègre
1959
Film
The Lovers of Verona
Raffaele
1949
Film
Millionaires for One Day
Francis
1949
Film
Backbiters
Le type de l'appareil à sous
1927
Film
Life Together
Pierre Carreau
1958
Film
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Constable of Montmorency
1961
Film
Crime Does Not Pay
Martin Fenayrou
1962
Film
La Nuit blanche
Pierre Taverny
1948
Film
Gates of the Night
Georges
1946
Film
Gosse de riche
Pierre Mougins
1938
Film
Clothing the Naked
Console Grotti
1954
Film
The Possessors
Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
1958
Film
A Very Handy Man
Simone Palumbo
1964
Film
Hitch-Hike
Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
1962
Film
A Young World
Le Grec
1966
Film
Black Humor
Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
1965
Film
Jamaican Man
Jacques Mervel
1950
Film
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Alexandre Dumas figlio
1938
Film
L'Or du duc
Adhémar de Talois-Minet
1965
Film
The Madman of Lab Four
Father Ballanchon
1967
Film
Emile's Boat
François Larmentiel
1962
Film
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Self
1954
Film
Land Without Stars
Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud
1946
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Self
1967
Film
L'Oncle de Pékin
Philippe
1934
Film
Behind These Walls
Jean-César Morin
1946
Film
The Amorous Garrison
Paul, rider
1934
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Invisible Man's Friend
1952
Film
Little One
Georges Darnetal
1935
Film
Lost Souvenirs
Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")
1950
Film
The Circular Triangle
Georges Richter
1964
Film
Une femme qui se partage
1937
Film
My Friend Victor
Edgar Flachon
1931
Film
Le père Lebonnard
Alfredo Lebonnard
1939
Film
Fortuna
Nissim Buzaglo
1966
Film
Adieu Léonard
Prosper Bonenfant
1943
Film
The Nina B. Affair
Berrera
1961
Film
la loi
Don Cesare
Weaker Sex
Jimmy
1933
Film
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
La Brunetière
1972
Film
Passé à vendre
Bob
1936
Film
Two Shy Ones
Vancouver
1943
Film
The Abominable Man of Customs
Russian killer
1963
Film
La Femme fatale
Jean Pleyard
1946
Film
Honeymoon Trip
Rudi
1933
Film
Madame Sans-Gêne
1925
Film
Moi et l'impératrice
Didier
1933
Film
Josefa's Loot
Mayor
1963
Film
Dirty Hands
Hoederer
1951
Film
Visages de femmes
Georges Legrand
1939
Film
Tower of Lust
Jehan Buridan
1955
A Father Without Knowing It
Jean
1932
Film
Skipper Next to God
Captain Joris KnAipper
1951
Film
The Revenge of Baccarat
Rocambole
1948
Film
The Drunkard
Maître Pierre Renneville
1953
Film
Confessions of a Newlywed
Edmond Trivelin
1937
Film
Caravane
Lt. de Tokay
1934
Film
Crimson Curtain
Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
1952
Film
Bluebeard
Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
1951
Film
Julie de Carneilhan
Hubert Espivant
1950
Film
Corsican Brothers
Tonio
1939
Film
Rasputin
Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine
1954
Film
Prête-moi ta femme
1936
Film
The Path of Honor
Philippe
1939
Film
A Rare Bird
Jean Berthier
1935
Film
Birds in Peru
Husband
1968
Film
Claudine at School
Doctor Dubois
1937
Feu!
Frémiet's ordinance
1927
Film
Noah's Ark
Bitru
1947
Film
Cruise for the Unknown One
Emile Fréchisse
1948
Film
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Patache
1965
Film
Le soleil a toujours raison
Gabriel
1943
Film
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
François Picault
1948
Film
Agent of Doom
Charlèz
1963
Film
Promise to the Unknown One
Lussac
1942
Incognito
Marcel
1934
Film
Three Argentines in Montmartre
Toninett
1941
Film
Last Desire
Frossard
1939
Film
Quadrille d'amour
Robert Lanclot
1935
Film
Le Mari rêvé
René Daroy /Achille Daroy
1936
Film
The Winner
Hunter
1932
Film
Portrait of a Murderer
Fabius / Jean
1949
Film
Love Around the House
'Douze Apôtres'
1947
Une faim de loup
1932
Film
La Reine des resquilleuses
Fred Woolson
1937
Film
Le Bébé de l'escadron
Max
1935
Film
Pas de panique
Fernand Toussaint
1966
Film
One Night's Song
Koretzky
1933
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Self
1969
Tobie Is an Angel
1940
Film
Quick
Maxime
1932
Film
The Virgin Bride
Georges Letournel, fils du mari de Jacqueline
1937
Film
La Croisée des chemins
Hubert Epervans
1942
Le Miroir aux alouettes
Jean Forestier
1935
Jonny, haute-couture
Jonny
1935
Film
Jeunesse d'abord
1936