Rolla Norman

Acting

Rolla Norman

Born — Died

1889-06-24 — 1971-11-18

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 5 titles

The Queen's Lover poster
6.8

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...

The Queen's Lover

1948

Notre-Dame de la Mouise poster
10.0

Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he must face a sinister band of deviants excited by a shady cabaret performer. The abbot resists, gradually builds his church and regenerates all the wretches with whom he lives and especially the hardest, Bibi.

Notre-Dame de la Mouise

1941

The Musicians of the Sky poster
7.5

A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.

The Musicians of the Sky

1940

Face au destin poster
9.0

Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.

Face au destin

1941

Stolen Affections poster
7.0

The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.

Stolen Affections

1948

1930s · 28 titles

The Aviator poster
8.3

Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against José in an airplane.

The Aviator

1931

Adieu Vienne poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adieu Vienne

1939

Mysteries of Paris poster
10.0

Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.

Mysteries of Paris

1935

Ballerina poster
6.3

As its title indicates, La Mort du Cygne is set in the special world of the ballet. Young dance student Rose Souris idolizes her teacher-role-model Mademoiselle Beaupré, and will do anything to help Mademoiselle Beaupré further herself. Thus, when rival ballerina Nathalie Karine lands a much-coveted role, Rose arranges an accident causing Nathalie to break her leg. The girl comes to regret her rash behavior when it appears as though Nathalie will never dance again.

Ballerina

1937

Maxim's Porter poster
7.0

The hunter at Maxim's, whose family is unaware of the profession, turns around and plans to marry his daughter to a marquis when he recognizes a regular in this nobility. Everyone meets at Maxim's where, unmasked, the hunter agrees to marry his daughter to the reveler but repentant Marquis.

Maxim's Porter

1939

Le Masque d'Hollywood poster
9.0

Dixie, a young Broadway dancer, leaves her fiancé Jimmy to go into the movies.

Le Masque d'Hollywood

1930

The Big House poster
7.0

French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.

The Big House

1931

No artwork available
9.0

A Scotland investigation into the sinister Lamberton family castle, where a servant was mysteriously killed and then a doctor strangled a few nights later. The servants are wrongly suspected and the truth provokes the suicide of the real culprit.

Quelqu'un a tué...

1934

Sous la Terreur poster
10.0

During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined.

Sous la Terreur

1936

One of the Legion poster
5.0

Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outside like a dog when she does business. While she sees a notary about an inheritance, he's seduced to a bar by a shady man. The rogue gets Fernand drunk, knocks him out and switches costumes and papers. He's now Robert Durand, a voluntary Foreign legion recruit. After failed attempts to explain, he tastes military life and finds it less disciplined and more enjoyable then, marriage. But will that last when his wife tracks him and his unit is sent to action in tribal Algeria?

One of the Legion

1936

Double Crime in the Maginot Line poster
5.8

Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct his own investigation if he wants to clear himself. His suspicions will fall on one of the three officers attached to his unit.

Double Crime in the Maginot Line

1937

La maison du mystère poster
10.0

Julien Villandrit owns a textile factory whose manager, Henri Corrandi, is his childhood friend. Both love the same woman, Régine de Bettigny, who grants her hand to Villandrit. Mad with jealousy, Corradin will use all means to break up the couple: he does not hesitate to compromise Régine, to send Julien to prison for a crime he did not commit, to spread misfortune. But despite a long and painful separation, Julien and Régine will find each other, still bound by the same love.

La maison du mystère

1934

Peace on the Rhine poster
8.5

During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.

Peace on the Rhine

1938

Antoinette poster
7.0

Ruined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the reimbursement of her fortune if she manages to support the banker for three months. She wins his bet, but falling in love with him, she tears up the check and marries him.

Antoinette

1932

The Trial of Mary Dugan poster
8.0

French-language remake of the 1929 film of the same name. Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's brother Jimmy, a newly-licensed attorney, jumps into the case to defend his sister. Jimmy's courtroom style is unconventional, but he seems to be holding his own against the prosecuting attorney—until a surprise testimony changes the course of the trial...

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1931

Rocambole poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rocambole

1933

The Yellow Dog poster
6.5

Maigret investigates in Concarneau where the passage of a yellow dog accompanies a series of murders, sowing terror in the population. The police seem helpless. It must be said that it has no significant evidence.

The Yellow Dog

1932

Cease Firing poster
10.0

When the war is over, a captain finds it very difficult to reintegrate into civilian life. Nothing happens, neither in journalism nor in insurance.

Cease Firing

1934

Lopez, le bandit poster
8.0

Lopez and his gang attack a ranch where he finds a man who once saved his life.

Lopez, le bandit

1930

Firmin de Saint-Pataclet poster
7.0

Firmin, who returned mute from the war of 14-18, has never displeased anyone for twenty years in terms of political life where low blows, jealousy and betrayal are rife in his Provençal village. But an explosion gives him the floor.

Firmin de Saint-Pataclet

1938

Checkmate poster
6.5

After his engagement party with beautiful Aline, Claude, a struggling writer, meets his two closest friends. The trio sets up a daring publicity stunt, involving a fake murder. The scheme backfires as the fake victim gets really dead.

Checkmate

1931

A Star Vanishes poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Star Vanishes

1932

Buster se marie poster
8.0

This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's 1931 comedy Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931). This film is presumed to be lost.

Buster se marie

1931

Le Clown Bux poster
8.0

Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.

Le Clown Bux

1935

No artwork available
9.0

The Count of Kerlor, to chastise his wife whom he believes to be unfaithful, entrusts his son to a couple of scoundrels. When he repents and wants to find the child, the carnies make their nephew sick. But the other little boy, in search of his comrade, is recognized by his reconciled parents.

The Two Boys

1936

La Cinquième Empreinte poster
8.0

Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigate. Jean, the victim's butler, Lucie as well as Florence are suspected in turns but the real murderer is finally identified thanks to his fingerprints.

La Cinquième Empreinte

1934

Les 3 tambours poster
10.0

12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.

Les 3 tambours

1939

Counter-Investigation poster
9.0

Undercover police officer Dan Hogan infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob. Hogan’s main objective is to identify the real criminals responsible for the murder of his younger brother. Along the way, he teams up with a woman named Nora Brady, whose own brother was falsely convicted of the same murder.

Counter-Investigation

1930

1920s · 12 titles

Salammbô poster
7.0

Based on the historical novel by Flaubert, "Salammbo" tells the story of the Mercenary War between Carthage and the Barbarians in the third century BC.

Salammbô

1926

Gribiche poster
6.2

Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.

Gribiche

1926

The Bastard poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Bastard

1925

La Grande Passion poster
8.0

This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby.

La Grande Passion

1928

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La veine

1928

L'Ile enchantée poster
9.0

The story takes place in Corsica, where a young business woman (Jacqueline Forzane) tries to construct an electric system for her steel plant. But this project is not welcomed by everyone...

L'Ile enchantée

1927

The Countess of Monsoreau poster
8.5

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.

The Countess of Monsoreau

1923

Le chant de l'amour triomphant poster
8.0

The story of two artists in love with the same woman.

Le chant de l'amour triomphant

1923

No artwork available
10.0

The atheism of a French doctor is tested when he sees for himself the miraculous healing powers of the shrine at Lourdes.

Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes

1924

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Miss Edith, Duchess

1929

Das letzte Fort poster
9.0

An adventure tale about three men tasked with defending a fort in the Syrian desert against advancing French troops. Tensions between Lieutenant Brand and the two soldiers, Croff and Gestino, escalate when the young Frenchwoman Yvonne arrives at the barracks.

Das letzte Fort

1929

L'Éternel féminin poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Éternel féminin

1921

1900s · 4 titles