Michel Roux

Acting

Michel Roux

Born — Died

1929-07-22 — 2007-02-02

Place of birth

Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

73 titles

Michel Roux (22 July 1929 in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine - 2 February 2007 in Paris) was a French actor. He was also the French voice for many American and Italian actors, such as Jack Lemmon, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Tony Curtis. The main part of this actor's work was in theatre. Roux died of cardiac arrest at the age of 77 on February 2, 2007 in Paris. Source: Article "Michel Roux (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

Bon week-end Monsieur Bennett ! poster
NR

Mr. Bennett is a model citizen, a tender father and an irreproachable husband, he yearns for a quiet life. On a weekend he receives a visit from a strange man called Pédro Juarez. Mr. Bennett’s past suddenly resurfaces and his peaceful existence is turned upside down ...

Bon week-end Monsieur Bennett !

1994

Le Canard à l'orange poster
7.3

Liz and Hugh have been boasting of living in perfect harmony for fifteen years. But beneath the varnish of the ideal couple loom a weariness engendered by the routine and habits born of everyday life. A travel plan will soon strike the hour for settling scores ...

Le Canard à l'orange

1993

Something Fishy poster
6.0

A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn't been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist.

Something Fishy

1994

Allo, Maman ! poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Allo, Maman !

1991

Trois coups pour rire poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trois coups pour rire

1991

Max et Charlie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Max et Charlie

1998

1970s · 13 titles

Folie douce poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Folie douce

1973

L'École des contribuables poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

L'École des contribuables

1972

The Purloined Letter poster
NR

Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.

The Purloined Letter

1974

L'Amant de madame Vidal poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Amant de madame Vidal

1975

Attends-moi pour commencer poster
7.5

Viviane would like Eric to put a ring on her finger. The latter inexorably refuses. Norbert, his best friend and upstairs neighbor, has just married Rose, but seems to regret it. The eternal debate on marriage leads to a war of the sexes.

Attends-moi pour commencer

1977

Monsieur chasse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Monsieur chasse

1978

La Plume poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Plume

1978

Féfé de Broadway poster
5.6

Maria, a great tragedian, has desires for radical change in her career. Singing, dancing, changing registers and getting younger: it has become an obsession. To get there, she calls on her ex-lover Simon whom she left in the past, who has become a popular choreographer for stars on Broadway. The reunion is somewhat tormented ...

Féfé de Broadway

1979

Domino poster
NR

Lorette is married to Heller, a very jealous husband who has discovered a love letter from a former lover named François. He suspects (rightly so) Crémone, his best friend, and has vowed to destroy this rival. Lorette recruits a man, François Dominique, known as "Domino," to divert Heller's suspicions away from her former lover... who did indeed write the infamous letter. Domino will temporarily divert Heller's suspicions but will ultimately give rise to far more serious ones...

Domino

1976

No artwork available
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maître Bolbec et son mari

1973

L'Effet Glapion poster
NR

Blaise is a doctor, Monique, his wife, is his assistant. That Sunday, in Orleans, the doctor gone hunting, and Monique, finding herself alone, meditating on her monotonous life ... when the doorbell rings, she writes in panic: "I don't want to yell ! ". But she is already yelping, that is to say that she dreams, straddling the real and the imaginary, logic and vision, the concrete and the abstract ...

L'Effet Glapion

1975

Laurette ou l'Amour voleur poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Laurette ou l'Amour voleur

1973

Ubu Roi poster
NR

Pere Ubu, a monster of stupidity, is incapable of the slightest intelligence. But his bestial force is manipulated by a diabolical creature: Mother Ubu... This adaptation of Alfred Jarry's work is performed by the Petit Théâtre de Marionnettes de Nantes, with the voices of Jacques Fabri, Michel Roux, Roger Carel , and Antoine. Broadcasted on French TV.

Ubu Roi

1974

1950s · 13 titles

A Woman Like Satan poster
5.5

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.

A Woman Like Satan

1958

Holiday for Henrietta poster
7.1

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.

Holiday for Henrietta

1952

The Secret of Helene Marimon poster
4.2

At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Marimon and becomes her lover. He hides from her the fact that her husband is a comrade from the trenches, and only reveals the truth when he learns of Marimon's death. Outraged, Hélène drives him away. After many years, Jacques reappears to learn that Hélène had once given him a daughter. Hélène, unwilling to reveal anything to young Dominique, forces the man she loves to leave her country. Dominique not only gets her mother to talk, but also reunites those separated by fate.

The Secret of Helene Marimon

1954

Illicit Motherhood poster
3.0

A group of drifting youngsters train to commit petty thefts. A certain André puts them on the trail of a real hold-up. They might carry it out if a suicide attempt didn't stop them. A young woman throws herself into the river. They save her, comfort her, learn that she's pregnant. They surround her with their friendship. When André reappears and seizes Lucienne to throw her on the pavement, everyone unites to save her, and the kind-hearted Maurice offers to be the baby's loving father.

Illicit Motherhood

1953

The Price of Flesh poster
6.5

Christiane, a gullible young girl who wants to become a dancer, is lured by Daniel, a handsome, elegant talker. He takes her to Tangiers and forces her to work in a shady cabaret. Christiane is in for a rude awakening.

The Price of Flesh

1959

No artwork available
7.0

The incredible story of three promiscuous friends who share more things than they think. Ernest, Jobelin and Marjavel collect pranks and exchange wives and mistresses in the greatest secrecy. But their joyous merry-go-round threatens to collapse at the slightest misstep.

Le Plus Heureux des trois

1957

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon poster
8.0

Television adaptation of the comedy by Eugène Labiche and Edouard Martin, written in 1860. On the Buttes Chaumont plateau, transformed into the Gare de Lyon, Monsieur Perrichon, who has all the makings of an honest bourgeois, sets off on a pleasure trip with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He has no idea that his daughter's two official suitors will give this trip a fantastic turn.

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

1958

Piédalu député poster
5.0

In the 1953 elections, Piédalu was elected mayor of Marboue-Chambourcy. The esteem of his fellow citizens won him popularity, but he had to reckon with the wiles of his political opponents if he ran for deputy. The support of the son of one of his rivals, who loves Françoise Piédalu, and above all his stubborn common sense and natural malice, help him to overcome all obstacles.

Piédalu député

1954

La Belle au bois dormant poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Belle au bois dormant

1954

Croquemitoufle poster
4.5

Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.

Croquemitoufle

1959

The Chocolate Girl poster
8.0

Benjamine, the daughter of the chocolate maker Lapistole, has broken down in her car, spends a night at Paul Norman's, imposes herself casually and causes the break-up of the engagement of this peaceful civil servant with the daughter of his department head. A friend maintains contact between Paul and Benjamine, becomes the head of publicity at Lapistole and when Norman is dismissed through Benjamine's fault, brings his two friends closer and proves to them that they are made for each other.

The Chocolate Girl

1950

Leguignon the Healer poster
6.5

Having cured the local café owner, Diogène Leguignon becomes convinced that he is a healer and possesses the fluid. His wife sees the benefits of this gift and urges Diogene to exercise his power, particularly on a wealthy old man, M. Coq. Arlette Leguignon, however, is in love with a young doctor, who is violently opposed to her future father-in-law. Leguignon ends up condemned and, disgusted, no longer wants to look after others. When Mr. Coq dies, making him his legatee, Leguignon has to contend with the Coq family. This time, Doctor Martinet comes to his defense. The inheritance is used to build a clinic where Leguignon can carry out his experiments as a magnetizer.

Leguignon the Healer

1954

La joyeuse prison poster
8.0

Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle transforms the jail-house into a joyful prison, where all the inmates live amicably together. Among them, various colorful characters : a farmer, a poacher, a distiller, a forger, two pickpockets, a safe-cracker, a gangster and... a good-looking guy who pleases Rosette, Benoit's daughter, well. But too much leniency takes its toll : after Vauclin, the gangster, manages to escape and a complaint is filed against "the deplorable disorder reigning in the joyful prison", Benoit is given early retirement. He will know how to take advantage of his new status live a joyful life with his wife, his daughter and André, his son in law, in fact the nice-looking young prisoner who, in the meantime, has been cleared of all charges.

La joyeuse prison

1956

1940s · 6 titles

Children of Chaos poster
5.6

An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.

Children of Chaos

1944

White as Snow poster
6.7

Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having become the night concierge of a hotel, the thankful Léon lets Bob and his accomplices get into the pace. Jewels are stolen as a result.When he is accused, Leon refuses to incriminate his "friend". Fortunately, Charlotte, Léon's fiancé, manages to find evidence of Bob's guilt and thanks to a premium paid by the diamond dealer the two lovebirds can buy a grocer's shop and tie the knot.

White as Snow

1948

My First Love poster
9.0

Bob, a student, is very emotionally close to his mother Suzanne. He is alarmed when she seems about to begin a relationship with a novelist, regarding it as a betrayal.

My First Love

1945

Forbidden to the Public poster
7.0

Hervé Montagne, a famous but awfully self-satisfied playwright, is furious when he learns that the actress signed to lead in his latest play will not be able to play the part on account of pregnancy. All the more as no other great actress is available. Well, in fact there IS one, Gabrielle Tristan, a great name of the French stage. The only trouble is that she is Hervé's ex-wife and that they have not been on speaking terms for ten tears.

Forbidden to the Public

1949

Love Around the Clock poster
6.3

Symbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty bourgeois trying to escape from his mediocre life, to a frivolous mother, to a reveler in nightclubs, to a man stranded without money in a restaurant, to a young sportsman, to a singer tired of the selfishness of his listeners and to a condemned man. To each, she brings the imperative message of Time...

Love Around the Clock

1943

Impeccable Henri poster
7.0

Henri, a basically honest fellow, accepts to work for a gang of burglars only to revenge himself on Fournier-Salville, a wealthy businessman who once ruined him. His role will be to become Fournier-Saville's majordomo and at the same time to inform the burglars so as to facilitate their work. But once in the house he performs his task so well and so stylishly that he becomes indispensable. Moreover, Eve, the businessman's capricious daughter, does not remain insensible to his charms.

Impeccable Henri

1948

Series credits

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Vivement dimanche poster
3.6

No synopsis available yet.

Vivement dimanche

1998

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Numéro un poster
7.5

A French variety show.

Numéro un

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

World in Action poster
7.0

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

World in Action

1963

Le Grand Échiquier poster
8.0

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

Discorama poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Discorama

1959

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Samedi soir

1971

30 millions d'amis poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

30 millions d'amis

1976

At Theatre Tonight poster
7.0

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

At Theatre Tonight

1966

At Theatre Tonight poster
7.0

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

At Theatre Tonight

1966

At Theatre Tonight poster
7.0

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

At Theatre Tonight

1966

Recherche dans l'intérêt des familles poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Recherche dans l'intérêt des familles

1977

Behind the camera