Robert Le Vigan
Known For
Acting
Born
1900-01-08 in Paris, France
Died
1972-10-12
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.
Most Known For
Famille nombreuse
as Chief Warrant Officer Sandri
Vie privée
as Rémi Géraud
Golgotha
as Jésus Christ
Four Flights to Love
as Edouard Bordenave
The World Will Shake
as Le Greffier
Patrouille blanche
Río Turbio
The Man from Nowhere
as Le comte Papiano
Port of Shadows
as The Painter
The West
as Taïeb el Haïn
Chambre 13
Madame Bovary
as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
The Lower Depths
as l'acteur alcoolique
It Happened at the Inn
as Goupi-Tonkin
Boys' School
as l'homme «invisible»
Le Tunnel
as Brooce
Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Leon Villard
Boubouroche
as Potasse
La Bandera
as Fernando Lucas
The Queen and the Cardinal
as Cardinal Mazarin