Robert Le Vigan
Acting · Born 1900-01-08 · age 72 at death · Paris, France
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.
Titles
Port of Shadows
The Lower Depths
Boys' School
Harvest
It Happened at the Inn
La Bandera
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Madame Bovary
The Man from Nowhere
Four Flights to Love
The Last Turning
Jenny
The Marriage of Chiffon
The Heart of a Nation
Maria Chapdelaine
The Woman at the End of the World
Golgotha
The Little King
One of the Legion
Le Tunnel
The Phantom Wagon
The Fatted Calf
Ernest the Rebel
Paris Romance
Business Is Business
La orquídea
The World Will Shake
Moon over Morocco
The Yellow Dog
Hélène
Louise
Bifur 3
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
The Queen and the Cardinal
La Grande Marnière
El correo del rey
Boubouroche
An Ideal Woman
Street Without a Name
Famille nombreuse
L'affaire Coquelet
Le Prince des Six Jours
Romarin
Franco de port
The West
Patrouille blanche
The Midnight Airplane
Vie privée
Andorra or The Bronze Men
Chambre 13
The Ménard Collection
Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
The Little Thing
Dédé la musique
Tempête sur l'Asie
Ley del mar
Río Turbio
The Citadel of Silence