René Navarre

Acting

René Navarre

Born — Died

1877-07-08 — 1968-02-08

Place of birth

Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

René Navarre (8 July 1877 – 8 February 1968) was a French actor of the silent era. He appeared in 109 films between 1910 and 1946, and was often credited simply as Navarre. His most famous role was probably the master criminal Fantômas.

Known for

Fantômas poster
NR

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve’s tireless persecution.

Fantômas

1913

Chéri-Bibi poster
5.0

An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.

Chéri-Bibi

1938

Belphégor poster
8.0

Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.

Belphégor

1927

Tragic Error poster
6.1

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.

Tragic Error

1913

Méphisto poster
6.6

On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...

Méphisto

1931

His Uncle from Normandy poster
10.0

A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy. There he discovers, with the discomfort of an old dusty century-old house, the sweetness of life, the love of a beautiful girl and the pleasure of doing nothing.

His Uncle from Normandy

1939

Film credits

1930s · 10 titles

Chéri-Bibi poster
5.0

An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.

Chéri-Bibi

1938

Méphisto poster
6.6

On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...

Méphisto

1931

His Uncle from Normandy poster
10.0

A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy. There he discovers, with the discomfort of an old dusty century-old house, the sweetness of life, the love of a beautiful girl and the pleasure of doing nothing.

His Uncle from Normandy

1939

Monsieur Coccinelle poster
4.4

An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a fairground magician, will return to her once more.

Monsieur Coccinelle

1938

La Belle Revanche poster
7.0

A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in driving away the one she loves. The young woman regains a taste for life thanks to her work and her friends.

La Belle Revanche

1939

Judex poster
7.0

Judex the vigilante enjoins crooked banker Maurice-Ernest Favraux to distribute his ill-gotten fortune to the city's poor. The thugs decide to kidnap the financier's daughter.

Judex

1934

Le train d'amour poster
9.0

A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted to the latter's fiancée. The "sick", meanwhile, feels weaknesses for the wife.

Le train d'amour

1935

The Enchanted Road poster
7.0

The son of two teachers hits the road and becomes a singing success after being taken in as a protege by a kooky countess.

The Enchanted Road

1938

Mam'zelle Spahi poster
8.0

Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.

Mam'zelle Spahi

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

1920s · 9 titles

Belphégor poster
8.0

Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.

Belphégor

1927

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mon oncle

1925

Ferragus poster
10.0

An adaptation of the first part of Balzac's History of the Thirteen, centered on the secret society of the Thirteen and helmed by René Navarre in the titular role of the former convict who became a sublime father.

Ferragus

1923

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Way Through the Night

1929

La Réponse du destin poster
8.0

Leopoldo Quintana is a lawyer who, determined to reach power and capable of anything to get what he wants, uses blackmail and shady maneuvers to be appointed congressman for the Balearic Islands, then minister, and finally President of the Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government.

La Réponse du destin

1926

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le gardien du feu

1924

Vidocq poster
9.0

François Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde, mistress of a rich man named Ouvrard, and his children have disappeared. He offers his services to the chief of intelligence service and begins a fight against the Aristo, chief of the gang of the children of the sun. After a few years, he dismantles the gang, and finds both his sons. One has become a blackguard, the other a famous organist who is about to be knighted and will soon get married to his beloved.

Vidocq

1923

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Justicière

1925

No artwork available
8.0

This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting in 1793.

Jean Chouan

1926

1910s · 35 titles

Tragic Error poster
6.1

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.

Tragic Error

1913

Fantômas poster
7.0

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.

Fantômas

1913

No artwork available
8.0

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Le Poison

1911

The Living Dead poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Living Dead

1912

No artwork available
8.0

On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.

L'Accident

1912

The Obsession poster
5.8

A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to die. The woman doesn't know if it's her son or her husband (Rene Navarre) but history buffs will know who it is as it's April 10, 1912 and the husband is about to board the Titanic.

The Obsession

1912

L'Intruse poster
6.8

A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.

L'Intruse

1913

No artwork available
7.0

A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.

The Dungeon

1912

La Cassette de l'émigrée poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Cassette de l'émigrée

1912

The Secret of Forçat poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Secret of Forçat

1913

No artwork available
NR

Silent film

Cheri Bibi

1913

No artwork available
7.0

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Le Chef-lieu de canton

1911

No artwork available
NR

the man who has come a long way

The Man Who Has Come a Long Way

1916

The Cavalry poster
7.0

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

The Cavalry

1914

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Toledo Chest

1914

At the Hour of Dawn poster
8.0

When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in time to rescue his beloved and save the city.

At the Hour of Dawn

1914

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bébé veut payer ses dettes

1912

No artwork available
9.0

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

A General Strike

1911

No artwork available
8.0

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Le Pont sur l'abîme

1912

The Trust, or The Battles for Money poster
5.5

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.

The Trust, or The Battles for Money

1911

No artwork available
NR

A beginning of a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade from 1911-1913

Life As It Is

1911

No artwork available
8.0

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

Le Mariage de l'aînée

1911

No artwork available
5.8

The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.

André Chénier

1910

No artwork available
8.0

Part of Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series

The Fate of Mothers

1912

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike

1910

The Seneschal's Diamond poster
9.0

A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she can part with it. They waylay her and carry her off to a house where they demand from her the diamond. With a smile she shows them the receipt for a registered package as she had deemed it safer to send it by this means. Later she takes them off their guard and escapes. An exciting automobile chase now takes place, ending with the car in which the would-be diamond robbers are seated being hurled over the cliff to destruction.

The Seneschal's Diamond

1914

No artwork available
8.0

If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.

A Race for Millions

1912

The Open Eyes poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Open Eyes

1913

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jeunes filles d'hier et d'aujourd'hui

1915

No artwork available
NR

The patriotic melodrama, set during WWI, revolves around a thief played by René Navarre.

The Great Breath

1915

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The New Dawn

1919

No artwork available
NR

The story revolves around a smuggler (René Navarre) who rescues a young lady trapped in the canyon. Some rock-climbing shots at the beginning of the film.

The Smuggler

1912

Manon de Montmartre poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Manon de Montmartre

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Les Braves Gens

1912

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Juve contre Fantômas

1913

Series credits

Behind the camera