Eddie Constantine

Acting

Eddie Constantine

Born — Died

1917-10-29 — 1993-02-25

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

Eddie Constantine  (born Edward Constantinowsky; October 29, 1917, Los Angeles, California – February 25, 1993, Wiesbaden, Germany) was an American-born French actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe. He became well-known for a series of French B movies in which he played secret agent Lemmy Caution and is now best remembered for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's philosophical science fiction film Alphaville. Constantine also appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (as himself in Beware of a Holy Whore 1971), Lars von Trier, and Mika Kaurismäki. He continued reprising the role of Lemmy Caution well into his 70s; his final appearance as the character was in Jean-Luc Godard'…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

1980s · 10 titles

The Long Good Friday poster
7.2

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

The Long Good Friday

1980

Freak Orlando poster
5.4

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout.

Freak Orlando

1981

Snow poster
6.0

Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.

Snow

1981

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long poster
5.9

A Finnish taxi driver in Berlin gets in over his head when he accepts a fare from two men with briefcases full of money stolen from ruthless gangsters.

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

1987

Exit... But No Panic poster
4.4

A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.

Exit... But No Panic

1980

Neapolitan Boy in New York poster
5.0

The story of Nino, a street boy from Naples, and his friend Matumba, a boy from New York who wants to emigrate to Naples.

Neapolitan Boy in New York

1984

Seifenblasen poster
9.0

Leo, a young filmmaker, quarrels with the screenplay author about the explosive plot, has problems with his girlfriend Katrin, and to top it all, the department of education doesn't want to subsidize his film although the television people are interested in it. In other words, a lot of problems for Leo. An influential politician who thinks he has recognized himself in the film story is responsible for it all.

Seifenblasen

1985

The Nightmare Woman poster
9.0

A Berlin woman in her early thirties is trying to handle her psychological problems and childhood trauma with the help of her psychiatrist. She is ashamed and overwhelmed by her masochistic sex fantasies.

The Nightmare Woman

1981

Freckled Max and the Spooks poster
6.0

A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by mysterious and sometimes a bit ridiculous scary creatures. Although each one of them is different, they all share one thing: they feel lonely and they are desperate for a little love and affection.

Freckled Max and the Spooks

1987

Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold poster
6.8

When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting.

Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold

1980

1970s · 10 titles

The Third Generation poster
6.0

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

The Third Generation

1979

Raid on Entebbe poster
6.0

Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.

Raid on Entebbe

1976

It Lives Again poster
5.4

Maternity wards echo with the patter of tiny claws as more murderous baby-faced monsters are born. But rather than kill their monstrous offspring during delivery, cursed parents flee to secret incubation hideouts.

It Lives Again

1978

Beware of a Holy Whore poster
6.2

Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a purposeful way to spend their time waiting, so they drink heavily. However, as booze is downed and frustration sets in, morale hits rock bottom.

Beware of a Holy Whore

1971

Ticket of No Return poster
6.4

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

Ticket of No Return

1979

Haytabo poster
6.8

A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with the structure and formula of an immortality drug.

Haytabo

1971

A Second Spring poster
7.3

An aging gossip columnist, tired of the social life of the Roman Dolce-vita set, goes to New York with hopes of a literary career. He marries a nurse, but succumbs to his former mistress.

A Second Spring

1975

No Panic poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

No Panic

1973

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perlico - Perlaco

1971

A Whale That Had a Toothache poster
6.7

Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people.

A Whale That Had a Toothache

1975

1960s · 23 titles

Cléo from 5 to 7 poster
7.7

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Cléo from 5 to 7

1962

Alphaville poster
6.9

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

Alphaville

1965

The Seven Deadly Sins poster
5.9

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.

The Seven Deadly Sins

1962

Lucky Jo poster
6.7

Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredictable happens to Jo and gets one of them arrested. While Jo is in prison once again, they decide they'd better do without him in future. He decides to help them secretly...and unfortunately.

Lucky Jo

1964

Attack of the Robots poster
5.4

Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses. The trail of these mindless automata leads him to the lair of a seductive villainess who has formulated a computer-powered plot to overthrow the governments of Europe. 'Cartes sur table' is at once an homage to classical Hollywood thrillers and a playful riff on the newly-popular James Bond films.

Attack of the Robots

1966

License to Kill poster
7.0

Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying apparatus. An international crime gang is very interested in stealing this equipement to sell it to the higher bidder of lawless nations. Menaced, the scientist, who was friends with Nick Carter's father, calls Nick for help. At Nice airport, Nick Carter escapes death, but that night he is unable to stop Formenter's murder. He suspects Bruno, Formenter's adoptive son, and Tonio, the owner of a bar near Formentier's home. Bruno is actually after Formenter's heritage, and for that he tries to kill Catherine, Formentier's granddaughter. Therefore, Nick Carter finds himself against more than a gang, but he will uncover the plots, in time to break every gangster apart.

License to Kill

1964

As If It Were Raining poster
6.1

By chance, writer Eddie Ross comes to the aid of a young woman on the street, a good deed that lands him a job with a strange underground character known only as Martínez.

As If It Were Raining

1963

Hail! Mafia poster
7.4

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.

Hail! Mafia

1965

Fiancés on the Bridge poster
6.5

A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.

Fiancés on the Bridge

1962

Lions Love poster
5.9

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Lions Love

1969

How Not to Rob a Department Store poster
4.5

To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs.

How Not to Rob a Department Store

1965

Your Turn, Darling poster
5.1

In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy Caution. Lots of two fisted action.

Your Turn, Darling

1963

The Men in the Family poster
5.1

Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he didn't have a family of rare originality. The day Gabriel Pelletier is asked by the firm's management to welcome and accommodate an important American industrialist who has come to Paris to handle a major contract, he realizes the difficulties that lie ahead. How will Mr. Strumberger, who has the reputation of a fierce puritan, react to the behavior of the various members of the family?

The Men in the Family

1968

The Empire of Night poster
6.0

Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villains try to take over every nightclub in town for their own nefarious purposes, Eddie sings a new tune with his fists. The story takes several unexpected turns, but Constantine remains in charge throughout.

The Empire of Night

1962

Ladies First poster
5.2

An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the beautiful widow of Griffin's late partner.

Ladies First

1963

Bombs on Monte Carlo poster
6.2

In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen.

Bombs on Monte Carlo

1960

Nick Carter and Red Club poster
5.2

A secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen from a secret factory, and a dastardly plot.

Nick Carter and Red Club

1965

Lykke og krone poster
9.0

Depicts the royal houses of Europe (Norwegian, British, Belgian and Dutch) as well as Iran and the Principality of Monaco.

Lykke og krone

1962

The Great Chase poster
4.2

A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.

The Great Chase

1968

Ladies' Man poster
5.9

A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail of three women of the local upper middle class.

Ladies' Man

1962

How Do You Like My Sister? poster
7.0

The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds.

How Do You Like My Sister?

1964

There's Going to Be a Party poster
7.0

FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Soon he has trouble with a violant gang, and is involved with a young French reporter, Michèle Laurent. Finally, the chief of the Secret Service tells Lewis that Lemoine never existed. Instead of ending his mission there, the real trouble starts.

There's Going to Be a Party

1960

La Paresse poster
5.5

Jean-Luc Godard's short segment made for “Les sept péchés capitaux”.

La Paresse

1962

1950s · 11 titles

Diamond Machine poster
3.5

A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case.

Diamond Machine

1955

5 Against the House poster
5.9

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

5 Against the House

1955

Poison Ivy poster
6.1

FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.

Poison Ivy

1953

Passport to Shame poster
6.1

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

Passport to Shame

1958

The Treasure of San Teresa poster
6.4

After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.

The Treasure of San Teresa

1959

Give 'em Hell poster
5.2

During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer and adventurer Johnny Jordan is looking for a new gig. His opportunity comes in the form of a local shipping tycoon and importer Moreno who offers Johnny a job after Johnny saves Moreno from an armed mugger on the waterfront.

Give 'em Hell

1955

Riff Raff Girls poster
5.3

Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...

Riff Raff Girls

1959

Dames Don't Care poster
5.6

Lemmy Caution is on the trail of a women who may or may not be mixed up in a blackmail scheme.

Dames Don't Care

1954

Dishonorable Discharge poster
5.7

Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his services to survive. Perez, a drug trafficker, calls on him to command Henry's yacht, on which a group of would-be treasure seekers are embarking.

Dishonorable Discharge

1957

The Big Bluff poster
5.7

A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To help the owner of an oil field, he launches a vast investment campaign, with the help of a few friends, to benefit the French people. A rival group, led by Serge Colonna and Dominique Ardan, tried to buy the land from him, because according to an expert, there was no oil to exploit. But the expert had lied, and Colonna had just signed the purchase contract. Eddie, with the help of Dominique, whom he has seduced in the meantime, snatches the famous paper from Colonna's hands. The oil can flow.

The Big Bluff

1957

Good Evening Paris poster
10.0

A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one.

Good Evening Paris

1956

Series credits

No artwork available
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Die Drehscheibe

1964

ZDF-Fernsehgarten poster
2.8

No synopsis available yet.

ZDF-Fernsehgarten

1986

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

3 nach 9

1974

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

No artwork available
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Was bin ich?

1955

No artwork available
8.5

A 30-minute weekly cultural magazine program. The head of aspekte, Wolgang Herles, describes the program as follows: "For 40 years, "aspekte" has repeatedly set out to enrich television with cultural contrasts. "aspekte" understands culture not as the sum of facts and events, but as the taste, the sound, the rhythms of the times. It has proven itself as a journal of true luxury and fashions as well as an instrument of public education and information."

aspekte

1965

Cinépanorama poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Cinépanorama

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Système 2

1975

Ciné regards poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ciné regards

1978

Musik aus Studio B poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Musik aus Studio B

1961

Stars in der Manege poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Stars in der Manege

1959

Cadet Rousselle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cadet Rousselle

1971

Frankenstein's Aunt poster
7.4

Frankenstein's Aunt is the protagonist of three novels - two by Allan Rune Pettersson and a seven-episode TV miniseries based on the first one. The story is a humorous homage to the Universal Horror Frankenstein films.

Frankenstein's Aunt

1987

World on a Wire poster
7.3

In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.

World on a Wire

1973

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wünsch dir was

1969

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vergißmeinnicht

1964

Rivalen der Rennbahn poster
7.5

Rivalen Der Rennbahn is a German serial.

Rivalen der Rennbahn

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bei Bio

1983

Around the World with Orson Welles poster
7.1

A six-part British television travel series written, directed, and presented by Orson Welles for ITV in 1955. Filmed entirely in Europe, the series follows Welles through Vienna, the Basque Country, Madrid, Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and London’s Chelsea Pensioners, blending travelogue, cultural portraiture, and personal essay. Moving between documentary observation and reflective commentary, the episodes combine interviews, local history, and Welles’s distinctive narration into a series that functions as both travel film and cinematic essay.

Around the World with Orson Welles

1955

Roncalli poster
NR

Roncalli is a German television series.

Roncalli

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Telezirkus

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

TV Intim

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sonntagsgespräch

1985