
Acting
Louis Navarre
Born
1936-11-20 (89)
Place of birth
Lyon, Rhône, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
39 titles
Louis Navarre is a French actor whose career developed in both film and television from the late 1960s onward. Trained in theatre, he quickly established himself as a reliable character actor, valued for the precision of his performance and his ability to adapt to a wide range of settings. In cinema, he worked with several major French directors, appearing in productions that have since become emblematic. His filmography reflects a consistent presence in both popular films and more auteur‑driven works, where he provided a discreet yet essential contribution. In parallel, Louis Navarre took part in numerous television dramas, particularly in police and historical series. He notably appeared …
Known for
7.1The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
6.9Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967
7.1Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
La Grande Bouffe
1973
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Un curé de choc
1974
8.5Schulmeister, l’espion de l’empereur (Schulmeister, the Emperor's Spy) is a French historical adventure television series consisting of 13 episodes (1971–1974), inspired by the real life of Charles Louis Schulmeister, a famous spy in the service of Napoleon I. It alternates between historical facts and fiction, offering a fictionalized portrait of a cunning spy, loyal to Napoleon, and always ready to turn a situation to his advantage.
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
1971
7.3Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
Film credits
1990s · 3 titles
7.3Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
5.0A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Love, Math and Sex
1997
3.3The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.
Sidecar
1997
1980s · 7 titles
5.4Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti wants only to flee her wife to find her mistress Valerie. Misunderstandings when Vallier joined them. They must flee in the desert a jealous husband...
It's Not Me, It's Him
1980
6.3A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation.
Shot Pattern
1982
6.6Famous men are being kidnapped for their genes, to impregnate women and give birth to gifted babies.
Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel ?
1980
3.3With the dangerous smoothness of a tiger stalking his prey, Peter has circled the au pair Michèle. She quickly succumbs to his fascinating charisma and experiences for the first time a hitherto unknown, tender security. "I'll kill you," says Peter, as gently as cold-bloodedly. A macabre joke or a serious warning?
The Kiss of the Tiger
1988
4.6La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...
Elle voit des nains partout !
1982
5.0A young astrology enthusiast inherits an industrial business. Before any decision, he carefully studies the sign of his interlocutors.
Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
1982
5.5With the help of journalist Diane Castelain, Parisian police inspectors Leo Gorce and Gu Arenas are trying to solve the murder of a member of the French Parliament, but some dangerous powerful people try to make sure that doesn't happen.
Night Patrol
1984
1970s · 22 titles
7.1Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
La Grande Bouffe
1973
7.0A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
The Magnificent One
1973
6.6With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
7.6Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
I... for Icarus
1979
4.8A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".
The Pink Telephone
1975
6.1The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?
The Wild Goose Chase
1975
6.7Antoine, an accountant by trade, becomes a private detective to support his family. His wanderings lead him to transport a cargo of malachite to Le Havre, in the hope of a large bonus. With the help of his family, and despite a few mishaps, Antoine achieves his goal.
Impossible Is Not French
1974
7.0Imitating stars from French pop music is the only leisure activity of a village girl. She decides to go to Paris with her mother in order to try her luck in show business industry.
As Easy as Pie
1977
5.1Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
Loving in the Rain
1974
9.0At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
L'Exercice du pouvoir
1978
5.2Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
Scoundrel in White
1972
6.4Michel Martenot (Louis Velle) works in a bank consumption, is recommended and intended for children. His professional skills were appreciated by his boss and promoted Michel. He becomes deputy director of an agency in central Paris. Unfortunately, not having a driving license means that you will have to track a lot of time commuting to public transport. To start the business on his family and professional life.
Le Permis de conduire
1974
6.4Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
Too Shy to Try
1978
6.6In a seaside villa, under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows.
Attention, the Kids Are Watching
1978
5.2In a small French village, an angel appears disguised as a beautiful young blond.
The Marvelous Visit
1974
4.4An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.
Gloria Mundi
1976
6.3A Salvation Army lieutenant and an accordion player fall in love, only to be repeatedly separated by circumstance. Reuniting in Marseille, they build a life and have a child, but fate continues to intervene as their relationship unfolds through cycles of separation and reunion.
Ursule and Grelu
1974
5.7After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.
It's Tough for Everybody
1975
5.5Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi, an Italian who is down on his luck. Though he moved to France to find work, he was robbed of his money and papers and is stranded. When he helps her bury her dogs, which her neighbour has poisoned for barking, their relationship grows to a new level.
Dear Louise
1972
6.0A loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.
Martin and Lea
1979
6.2In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative. Leonie finds herself attracted to Leon, a Belgian who was a mercenary in Katanga in 1964, wounded and carrying psychological scars as well. The other men continually play practical jokes on Leon, some of them cruel. As Leon courts Leonie, his horrid mother brings him emotional distress as do his memories of war. Can the two of them get past these obstacles?
Franz
1972
4.3Two friends, Arthur and Jérôme, want to make a film. After much hesitation, they give up their primary aspirations and opt for a trendy theme: eroticism! Benefiting from a tidy sum of money, all they have to do is find the ideal cast. But the tandem is far from imagining that this somewhat crazy project will completely change their existence.
Et avec les oreilles qu'est-ce que vous faites?
1974
Series credits
7.1The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
6.9Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Un curé de choc
1974
8.5Schulmeister, l’espion de l’empereur (Schulmeister, the Emperor's Spy) is a French historical adventure television series consisting of 13 episodes (1971–1974), inspired by the real life of Charles Louis Schulmeister, a famous spy in the service of Napoleon I. It alternates between historical facts and fiction, offering a fictionalized portrait of a cunning spy, loyal to Napoleon, and always ready to turn a situation to his advantage.
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Recherche dans l'intérêt des familles
1977


