Robert Le Vigan
Acting
Born: 1900-01-08 in Paris, France
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters". A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.
Known For
Port of Shadows
The Painter
The Lower Depths
l'acteur alcoolique
Boys' School
l'homme «invisible»
Harvest
Sergeant De Sault
It Happened at the Inn
Goupi-Tonkin
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Leon Villard
La Bandera
Fernando Lucas
Madame Bovary
Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
The Man from Nowhere
Le comte Papiano
Four Flights to Love
Edouard Bordenave
The Last Turning
Blackmailer cousin
Jenny
l'Albinos
The Marriage of Chiffon
The Heart of a Nation
Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
The Marriage of Chiffon
The usher
Maria Chapdelaine
Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
Golgotha
Jésus Christ
The Woman at the End of the World
Arlanger, l'Armateur
The Little King
One of the Legion
Leduc
Le Tunnel
Brooce
The Phantom Wagon
Le père Martin
The Fatted Calf
Grussgolt
Ernest the Rebel
Governor-President of Mariposa
Paris Romance
Business Is Business
Phinck
La orquídea
The World Will Shake
Le Greffier
Moon over Morocco
Donald Strawber
The Yellow Dog
le docteur Ernest Michoux
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
le professeur Léonard Bontagues
Hélène
Doctor Regnier
Louise
Le peintre Gaston
Bifur 3
Paul (uncredited)
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Grégori
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Mousquet
The Queen and the Cardinal
Cardinal Mazarin
La Grande Marnière
Fleury
El correo del rey
Peabody
Boubouroche
Potasse