Léon Courtois

Acting

Léon Courtois

Born 1878-01-24 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Acting credits

Napoleon poster
7.8

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Napoleon

1927

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La gitanilla

1924

À Nous la Liberté poster
7.0

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.

À Nous la Liberté

1931

À nous deux, madame la vie poster
9.5

Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.

À nous deux, madame la vie

1937

Crimson Dynasty poster
6.3

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.

Crimson Dynasty

1935

Under the Roofs of Paris poster
6.6

In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.

Under the Roofs of Paris

1930

The Rooster of the Regiment poster
6.3

The story is about a lieutenant, nicknamed "the Rooster of the Regiment", a married man, who just can't help running after any woman passing around, and one of his friend, who always has "good ideas" to give him a hand to come out of "ubuesque" situations.

The Rooster of the Regiment

1933

Captain Fracasse poster
6.5

A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits

Captain Fracasse

1929

The Darling of Paris poster
7.7

In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit.

The Darling of Paris

1931

Madame Sans-Gêne poster
10.0

A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.

Madame Sans-Gêne

1925

Un coup de téléphone poster
9.0

A man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge on her husband, he lands up consoling her in bed, and then consoling the mistress of the husband as well.

Un coup de téléphone

1932

Le Prince charmant poster
7.0

Unkwown to the vast majority, Count Patrice is the crown prince of Simenia. One day he sails for the East on his yacht "Bengal" in the company of Christiane, a beautiful princess, in love with him. Chance has it that Patrice sets Anar, an Oriental beauty, free from the harem where she is held captive. Love is born between the two young people, which infuriates Christiane. Mad with jealousy, the vexed woman sets about preventing Patrice and Anar from marrying... by all means fair or foul!

Le Prince charmant

1925

Sergeant X poster
9.0

A military wife remarries after she thinks her Russian husband has died in battle, and when he returns alive he enlists in the Foreign Legion rather than disrupt her new happiness.

Sergeant X

1932

No artwork available
8.0

A very rich businessman, knight of the Legion of Honor, bets that he can start his career from scratch. After all kinds of adventures, he climbs the ladder of society and, having become rich again, finds love and a new fortune.

Naked as a Worm

1933

White as snow poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

White as snow

1931

Fun in the Barracks poster
6.4

Based on the popular stage play by Georges Courteline. The film is set in 1885. It focuses on a group of troops, a mix of regulars and reservists, and their different responses to the daily military routines. A crisis emerges when a General pays a visit while two deserters are still absent.

Fun in the Barracks

1932

L'Agonie des aigles poster
6.4

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement on half-pay. Useless and idle, they have lost their prestige and keep meeting in the hope of the Emperor’s return. When Napoleon dies, they decide to plot the rise to power of Napoleon II.

L'Agonie des aigles

1933

Les Bateliers de la Volga poster
10.0

In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a colonel, he allows himself to be condemned so as not to compromise the latter. He manages to escape and hides in the guise of a poor boatman. One day, the truth comes out, the colonel commits suicide and the lovers are finally reunited.

Les Bateliers de la Volga

1935

That scoundrel Morin poster
10.0

Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.

That scoundrel Morin

1932

Fleur d'amour poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fleur d'amour

1927

Sans famille poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sans famille

1925

Rio's yellow house poster
9.0

When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.

Rio's yellow house

1931

English as it is spoken poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

English as it is spoken

1931

The Midnight Gentleman poster
7.0

A young reveler, heavily in debt, finds a job in Pondicherry, but he must be married, and he has only twenty-four hours to do so. After an evening of revelry, he finds himself locked in with his friend's fiancée, leading to a marriage made possible by a miraculous inheritance.

The Midnight Gentleman

1931