Robert Burnier

Acting

Robert Burnier

Born — Died

1897-05-19 — 1974-04-24

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 8 titles

The Champagne Murders poster
5.5

A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.

The Champagne Murders

1967

Bluebeard poster
6.4

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

Bluebeard

1963

The Blue Panther poster
5.0

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.

The Blue Panther

1965

The American Beauty poster
6.0

Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.

The American Beauty

1961

Panurge's Sheep poster
5.5

Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?

Panurge's Sheep

1961

Ruy Blas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ruy Blas

1965

Ophélia poster
6.8

A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.

Ophélia

1963

Night Out poster
10.0

Saturday evening. We have a date with friends and Pierrot has finally obtained his mother's slightly worried authorization. He runs down the indefinite staircase of the immaculate H.L.M., planted firmly in the mud of the suburbs, to meet up with the others. The others are older than him on the whole, but what they have in common is the desire for something to change, this weekend, and for things to get moving. This is especially true for those with scooters who, in close ranks, can scare pedestrians, hug cars and taunt the marshals. Pierrot will be taken in rump like the girls, Thérèse behind Jacquy, Monette behind Christian.

Night Out

1961

1950s · 11 titles

The Count of Bragelonne poster
6.0

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.

The Count of Bragelonne

1954

The Bureaucrats poster
5.9

The gifts and bequests department is particularly eccentric, including Lahrier, a fervent absentee and songwriter in his spare time.

The Bureaucrats

1959

More Whiskey for Callaghan poster
6.5

Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate the theft. But his tracks soon lead him to the welcoming skies of the Côte d'Azur. There, he decides to infiltrate a network of aristocratic spies.

More Whiskey for Callaghan

1955

The Price of Flesh poster
6.5

Christiane, a gullible young girl who wants to become a dancer, is lured by Daniel, a handsome, elegant talker. He takes her to Tangiers and forces her to work in a shady cabaret. Christiane is in for a rude awakening.

The Price of Flesh

1959

The Roundup is for Tonight poster
8.8

Three sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle, who bamboozled the impresario Mortimer so well that he made her his wife; the story of the sad little Simon, deprived of a father and unable to stand the mockery of his friends; and the story of the daughter of an ex-convict who - by golly - steals a statue on the day of her First Communion.

The Roundup is for Tonight

1954

Dakota 308 poster
10.0

A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the Camargue. On arrival, we find nails instead of gold!

Dakota 308

1951

The Amazing Mr. Callaghan poster
5.0

A ship, La Circé, has sunk and it might possibly be criminal . The vessel belongs to Storata ,who asks the insurance company for a hundred million Francs .Callaghan is working for them and he investigates on dry land and on the sea. The brilliant detective discovers that Storata has scuttled his ship himself to swindle insurance.

The Amazing Mr. Callaghan

1955

La Belle au bois dormant poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Belle au bois dormant

1954

Love, Madame poster
5.0

Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.

Love, Madame

1952

Rasputin poster
6.5

Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.

Rasputin

1954

Leguignon the Healer poster
6.5

Having cured the local café owner, Diogène Leguignon becomes convinced that he is a healer and possesses the fluid. His wife sees the benefits of this gift and urges Diogene to exercise his power, particularly on a wealthy old man, M. Coq. Arlette Leguignon, however, is in love with a young doctor, who is violently opposed to her future father-in-law. Leguignon ends up condemned and, disgusted, no longer wants to look after others. When Mr. Coq dies, making him his legatee, Leguignon has to contend with the Coq family. This time, Doctor Martinet comes to his defense. The inheritance is used to build a clinic where Leguignon can carry out his experiments as a magnetizer.

Leguignon the Healer

1954

1930s · 12 titles

Make Up poster
8.0

Misfortunes and disarray of the little clown Leroy who is upstaged by a comrade, Bertini, and sees himself abandoned by his girlfriend Ginette, preferring his collaborator to him.

Make Up

1932

Nothing But Lies poster
10.0

Two husbands claim to be Freemasons so they can go out at night. Where do they go, if not to the lodge, the Masonic lodge? In reality, one goes to visit a pretty and particularly welcoming concierge in his dressing room, and the other spends his evenings in the dressing room of a little music-hall actress.

Nothing But Lies

1933

Let's Get Married poster
9.0

Gisèle accidentally marries her stalker when she thinks she is signing a hotel register in a foreign country.

Let's Get Married

1931

Ciboulette poster
8.0

Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulette and Antonin, a young spoiled aristocrat.

Ciboulette

1933

Shout It from the House Tops poster
9.0

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

Shout It from the House Tops

1932

Miche poster
7.0

Miche, a young girl from the town of Senlis, goes to Paris to pose for a painter, Jacques de Peyrière. During her sitting, Jacques tries to kiss her, and Miche, insulted and afraid, flees the studio. Later in St. Moritz, Miche sees Jacques among the other skiers. She decides to leave immediately.

Miche

1932

Quand te tues-tu? poster
10.0

Leon lives with Gaby. One of their friends, Xavier, is determined to kill himself. But Leon will inherit several millions if he marries a widow, so he gives Gaby in marriage to Xavier.

Quand te tues-tu?

1931

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's poster
8.0

A man is a hunter at Maxim's restaurant. He lives in the provinces and his family is unaware of his profession. As soon as he has enough money, he quits his job and goes home for his daughter's wedding to a marquis. This one is a regular at the restaurant and the man tries to prevent the wedding before the truth is discovered.

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's

1933

No artwork available
10.0

A young man drowning in debts must make a rich marriage to pay them off. But his friend compromises the plan until there is one that she likes and she herself has found a new protector.

A Fly in the Ointment

1934

Coralie and Company poster
8.0

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

Coralie and Company

1934

No artwork available
7.0

Bariole gives cheap singing lessons, which annoys the official teachers.

Bariole

1933

No artwork available
10.0

Hélène is a telephone operator in love with her boss, who has never looked at her. She follows him to the Côte d'Azur and passes herself off as a great lady. Brodier falls madly in love with her.

Côte d'Azur

1932

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