Fred Pasquali

Acting

Fred Pasquali

Born — Died

1898-10-31 — 1991-06-12

Place of birth

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Known for

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

The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock poster
6.7

The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that ends tragically, the coming to France of a Hollywood actress, a lightship caught in a terrible storm...

The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock

1942

Signé Furax poster
4.9

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

Signé Furax

1981

The Turkey poster
7.1

Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.

The Turkey

1951

Make Room for Tomorrow poster
4.5

Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.

Make Room for Tomorrow

1979

The Small Timers poster
6.7

A gang of small time crooks, prosecuted by an stubborn police inspector, is unfairly accused of a breaking and entering. After being set free by the inspector's wife, she becomes their boss and starts planning their first big score.

The Small Timers

1978

Film credits

1970s · 10 titles

Make Room for Tomorrow poster
4.5

Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.

Make Room for Tomorrow

1979

The Small Timers poster
6.7

A gang of small time crooks, prosecuted by an stubborn police inspector, is unfairly accused of a breaking and entering. After being set free by the inspector's wife, she becomes their boss and starts planning their first big score.

The Small Timers

1978

Line Up and Lay Down poster
4.2

Erotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.

Line Up and Lay Down

1973

Aladdin and His Magic Lamp poster
6.5

He travels to Aladdin's village, identified as being near the border with China, where he enlists Aladdin's help by pretending to be his long-lost uncle and offering to leave his wealth to Aladdin. At one point, the Magician character tells the story of his travels to China, India and Persia and we see a montage of these adventures and it's kind of interesting because of the way it invokes other cultures of the era. There is some unnecessary padding throughout as characters break into songs that do nothing but tell parts of Once upon a time, somewhere in Africa, a local magician dreamed of owning the Magic Lamp. Thanks to a Magic Ball he learned that the Lamp could be found in an Asian village and that only the innocent hand of a young person could snatch it. He traveled to the place, a village called Three Hill City, close to the Chinese border. There lived Aladdin

Aladdin and His Magic Lamp

1970

The Three Musketeers poster
8.0

D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.

The Three Musketeers

1974

La Vénus de Milo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Vénus de Milo

1973

Dis bonjour à la dame !.. poster
4.0

Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...

Dis bonjour à la dame !..

1977

Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ? poster
7.0

Three weeks before his wedding to Virginie, Vincent receives a letter from Magasins Réunis telling him to pick up a gift. He goes there and receives a baby, Olivier, 18 months old...

Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?

1971

No artwork available
8.0

French TV dramatic film made early in Depardieu's career that includes Oscar winning character actress Gale Sondegaard in the supporting cast.

Tango

1970

L'Atlantide poster
7.0

Two young French officers get lost in the Sahara desert and find themselves prisoners of Antinéa, who rules over the lost city of Atlantis. Under her evil influence, one of them, blinded by his love for her, loses his mind and goes so far as to murder his comrade... Jean Kerchbron adapts Pierre Benoît's book for this film, which is more concerned with social reflection than fantasy.

L'Atlantide

1972

1960s · 8 titles

It's Not My Business poster
5.7

A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, who laments the meagre revenues his show is raking in. He then had the idea of meeting this fisherman to convince him to imitate Fernand Raynaud in his shows. It turns out that the Fernand Raynaud impersonator is in fact Fernand Raynaud himself, who has come for a week's incognito vacation in the provinces. Raynaud is finally persuaded to play the novice comedian, in order to further develop the script for his next film, Les cabotins à travers les âges.

It's Not My Business

1962

It's Not My Business poster
5.7

A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, who laments the meagre revenues his show is raking in. He then had the idea of meeting this fisherman to convince him to imitate Fernand Raynaud in his shows. It turns out that the Fernand Raynaud impersonator is in fact Fernand Raynaud himself, who has come for a week's incognito vacation in the provinces. Raynaud is finally persuaded to play the novice comedian, in order to further develop the script for his next film, Les cabotins à travers les âges.

It's Not My Business

1962

Light-Fingered George poster
6.6

Georges Lachaunaye is a member of an impoverished aristocratic family which needs money to live but of course doesn't want to work for it. He therefore has to think of something drastic in order for the family to survive. And then it comes to him: he'll rob the collection boxes in churches.

Light-Fingered George

1963

La 99ème Minute poster
8.0

Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partners... So, suicide, accident or crime? The investigation takes place before our eyes until the 99th minute. Let the masks fall!

La 99ème Minute

1966

La Honte de la famille poster
5.5

On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.

La Honte de la famille

1969

Tintin et la SGM poster
NR

This short animated advertising cartoon promotes the Société Générale des Minerais belges, a Belgian mining company. Tintin follows the company endeavours in Belgium, Congo, the USA, France and Japan.

Tintin et la SGM

1969

Aux frais de la princesse poster
5.0

The Eloi family, who have just won the "model family" competition, set off for winter sports. Also on the trip are Aunt Gabrielle and Dagobert, the village warden. For the eccentric little group, the initiation to the joys of skiing begins with a lot of excitement. The vacation gets complicated when a Hindu prince has a precious diamond stolen from the local hotel.

Aux frais de la princesse

1969

À rebrousse-poil poster
8.0

Two scientists have invented a kindness serum which can turn the fiercest human being into the sweetest kindest person. Testing the product on a wild lion proves successful. The "vaccination " becomes compulsory in the whole France, then in Europa. Mrs Durand ,who was a sour-tempered shrew, becomes tender and pampers her husband, happy as he has never been. The bossy colonel of the fourth floor surrounds his neighbors with attentions .But new problems appear, caused by this universal goodness:for instance, Mr Durand's boss's lover does not want to tell him she does not love him anymore for fear he may be grieved.Besides, a country in which people were not inoculated against nastiness becomes aggressive.

À rebrousse-poil

1961

1950s · 13 titles

The Turkey poster
7.1

Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.

The Turkey

1951

Fernandel the Dressmaker poster
6.3

A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?!

Fernandel the Dressmaker

1956

Sénéchal the Magnificent poster
6.8

Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?

Sénéchal the Magnificent

1957

No Vacation for Mr. Mayor poster
7.5

Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has already - and hurriedly - betrothed Annie to his business partner. To make matters worse the young lady suspects Philippe of being unfaithful. In order to thwart the wedding of Annie and his rival, Philippe hires two of his friends, the resourceful Beaudubec and Tracassin.

No Vacation for Mr. Mayor

1951

One Hundred Francs Per Second poster
6.0

Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's daughter, is fired. Some time later, Bourdinet launches a radio quiz show to boost his business. Philippe then decides to compete in the hope of telling the thousands of listeners what he thinks of the industrialist. A blow on the head having given him a gift of second sight, the competitor becomes impeccable and wins astronomical sums to the great despair of Bourdinet. Everything will work out in the end and Philippe will be able to marry Jacqueline.

One Hundred Francs Per Second

1953

Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés poster
7.0

Although suspected and hunted down by policeman Sherlock Coco and inspector Hector, the Pieds Nickelés (Croquignol, Filochard and Ribouldingue) manage to save the legacy of Monsieur Miradoux, who will be very grateful to them.

Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés

1950

The Crazy Hostel poster
7.5

As a favor to his grandmother, singer Rudy Hirigoyen agrees to sing incognito, under the name Romano, in the nightclub his cousin Gustave has just opened in a small seaside resort. The staff and musicians are students camping out in the pine forest near "L'Auberge Fleurie". Grandma has rented the apartment above the club to summer guests: Commandant Portafaux and his wife.

The Crazy Hostel

1957

We Will All Go to Paris poster
5.5

The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.

We Will All Go to Paris

1950

Les Amoureux de Marianne poster
5.3

Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of whom are running for parliament. Tempers flare and invective quickly escalates. In the end, Duboutois wins and Berton loses his position. Although futile and foolish, it's the excellent Mme Duboutois who brings peace to the situation, brings about reconciliation and helps the two children to unite.

Les Amoureux de Marianne

1953

A Girl in a Pocket poster
5.0

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.

A Girl in a Pocket

1957

My Seven Little Sins poster
5.5

The Count of Courvallon, whose gallant exploits have made the headlines, has uncoupled and lives in a pleasant estate in the C te. He has a son, Edouard, and a stylish valet, Antonio. This peaceful life is disrupted by a battalion of penniless girls living in a neighboring villa. Luisella has the nerve to introduce herself to André de Courvallon as his daughter, and immediately her comrades follow suit. The supposed father is not fooled, but his son takes it badly, especially as he has fallen in love with Luisella. Fairy tales always have happy endings.

My Seven Little Sins

1954

Cœur-sur-Mer poster
5.5

Endive-Meunier, a prosperous silk dealer from Lyon has an affair with his secretary he tries hard to keep secret. One day, he nevertheless accepts to accompany her to the seaside resort of Coeur-sur-Mer. Unfortunately for him, once there, he finds himself in the presence of Claudius Paquito, the popular barman of a fashionable club. The trouble is that the man is no other than one of his former employees he once fired for insolence...

Cœur-sur-Mer

1951

Les deux font la paire poster
5.7

Two third-rate actors, longing to be famous, try to make the headlines by feigning a murder.

Les deux font la paire

1955

1940s · 11 titles

The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock poster
6.7

The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that ends tragically, the coming to France of a Hollywood actress, a lightship caught in a terrible storm...

The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock

1942

The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell poster
6.4

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell

1943

My Last Mistress poster
6.8

A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet whom he convinces without difficulty to pose for him. Complications ensue when he starts to go blind.

My Last Mistress

1943

Thirty and Forty poster
5.0

The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon finds herself a suitor in the person of Mario, a dashing young songwriter. Bitterlin, who wishes his daughter to "evade the grip" of the young man, takes her away to Monte Carlo. There, the captain does what he had sworn he would never do, he gambles in a casino. And even more upsetting: Mario might well be hereabouts...

Thirty and Forty

1946

Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent poster
8.0

France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.

Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

1946

The Queer Assignment poster
4.7

A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.

The Queer Assignment

1945

Toute la famille était là! poster
8.0

Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does it in hiding, is that Victor writes songs and has made his debut as a singer in a cabaret. To make matters worse, the young man has a mistress. When word of it leaks out, the whole family are outraged. One night, as Victor goes back home, they are all here, waiting for him.

Toute la famille était là!

1948

La Parade du rire poster
10.0

A debate on the definition of the word laughter, organized by Madame de Saint-Jules and two academicians, illustrated by film extracts, turns into a huge battle of cream pies.

La Parade du rire

1948

A Star to the Sun poster
7.0

Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the gentleman. They get married but she forgot to tell her husband that her father is in fact the most famous poacher in the area.

A Star to the Sun

1943

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

Coup de tête poster
7.0

A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.

Coup de tête

1944

1930s · 12 titles

Rothchild poster
8.0

An ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his companions in misfortune, Rothchild, to organize a vast scam.

Rothchild

1934

The Call poster
8.0

The story of Charles de Foucauld, born September 15, 1858 in Strasbourg (France) and died December 1, 1916 in Tamanrasset in Algeria during the French colonial period, was a cavalry officer of the French army who became an explorer and geographer, then Catholic religious, priest, linguist and hermit in the Hoggar desert in Algeria.

The Call

1936

The Last Turning poster
6.5

Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...

The Last Turning

1939

La fusée poster
8.0

The rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social progress for his workers is undermined by the Board of Directors.

La fusée

1933

Lights of Paris poster
5.5

A celebrated singer in Paris meets a young woman and courts her by pretending to be a driving instructor.

Lights of Paris

1938

In the Service of the Tsar poster
10.0

At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.

In the Service of the Tsar

1936

I Sing for You Alone poster
8.0

Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while Marcello dubs him behind the scenes. The scam is successful but after a while Marcello summons the courage to go on stage himself.

I Sing for You Alone

1933

The Virgin Bride poster
6.1

Jacqueline Vignol, a flighty young woman, marries a womanizing widower, Albert Letournel, out of spite, but their marriage remains loveless and passionless.

The Virgin Bride

1937

Âme de clown poster
8.0

Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the new clown Teddy who seems to please the young lady a lot.

Âme de clown

1933

Un mauvais garçon poster
6.0

Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich man, Monsieur Feutrier. Jacqueline accepts and starts her career by defending Pierre Besnard, a bad Boy. Not only does she get the case dismissed but she falls in love with Pierre as well. But she is not famous for all that and sooner or later she will have to bring herself to marry Feutrier's son.

Un mauvais garçon

1936

To Be Loved poster
9.0

Gérard d'Ormoise, a young millionaire tired of the easy loves that his income earned him, takes the place of a friendly bartender. He marries the young and pretty duchess who first believed him to be an honest bartender, then a vulgar burglar.

To Be Loved

1933

Fantômas poster
6.3

The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the Marquise during the night. Inspector Juve is sent on his trail.

Fantômas

1932

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