Denise Gence

Acting

Denise Gence

Born — Died

1924-03-08 — 2011-09-29

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

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

Les Cent Livres des Hommes poster
10.0

Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

1970

The Devil and the Ten Commandments poster
5.7

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

1962

La Comédie-Française poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Comédie-Française

1952

Buffet Froid poster
7.0

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Buffet Froid

1979

Airs de France poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Airs de France

1955

Film credits

1970s · 20 titles

Buffet Froid poster
7.0

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Buffet Froid

1979

Électre poster
8.0

During the long journey that brought him home victorious in the Trojan War, Agamemnon fell in love with one of his captives, Cassander, daughter of Priam, with whom he had children. The reception in Argos, more than ten years later, was icy. Annoyed by the double indelicacy of her husband, Clytemnestra, his wife who had meanwhile become the mistress of Aegisthus, killed him with the help of her lover. Aegisthus then became the regent and ensured the prosperity of the city alongside his mistress, the widowed queen. But Electra, one of the daughters of Agamemnon, has always foreseen the murder and adultery of her mother. Solitary, wild, she lives in the royal palace awaiting the return of Orestes, her brother who has taken refuge since childhood with an uncle, in order to take revenge. Electra can begin, the crimes of the Atreides family continue quietly, as planned.

Électre

1972

Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon

1975

Ondine poster
9.0

In the forest, knight-errant Hans meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man.

Ondine

1975

Tartuffe poster
9.0

A filmed version of Molière's play.

Tartuffe

1973

Histoire vraie poster
10.0

A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.

Histoire vraie

1978

Le Tartuffe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Tartuffe

1973

That's Show Business poster
6.7

Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis

That's Show Business

1975

Les Fausses Confidences poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Fausses Confidences

1971

La Vérité de Mme Langlois poster
8.0

Is Thérèse guilty? Accused of her husband's murder, she confides in the investigating judge—the only man who has ever truly listened to her. Beyond the crime story, the film explores the strange bonds that form between people and the twists and turns of the human psyche.

La Vérité de Mme Langlois

1977

Le Sexe faible poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Sexe faible

1974

Le Mariage de Figaro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Mariage de Figaro

1977

Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu poster
NR

An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual adaptation and the portrait of the dandy and reclusive writer, all in black and white signed Claude Santelli, evoking the mystery, the intimate, and the fatality of existence.

Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu

1971

Un fil à la patte poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un fil à la patte

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Docteur noir

1975

La Trilogie de la Villégiature poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Trilogie de la Villégiature

1979

Ruy Blas poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ruy Blas

1972

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

George Dandin

1973

Les Femmes savantes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Femmes savantes

1978

Monsieur Bébé poster
6.0

In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money to act as his mother and becomes emotionally involved in a milieu unfamiliar to her.

Monsieur Bébé

1974

1960s · 12 titles

The Devil and the Ten Commandments poster
5.7

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

1962

Lamiel poster
5.2

Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through her, as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Defiant and rebellious, Lamiel goes to Paris to escape boredom and to know love.

Lamiel

1967

The Double Bed poster
3.4

Various sketches centered on alcove stories.

The Double Bed

1965

Ruy Blas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ruy Blas

1965

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie

1968

No artwork available
NR

A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.

Huckleberry Finn

1967

La Commère poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Commère

1969

Normal Life poster
9.0

The dramatic affair between Dr. Jean-Pierre Cazot and a young French woman, Laurence, a survivor of a death camp, who is expecting an unwanted child.

Normal Life

1966

The Dance poster
5.0

The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir.

The Dance

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie

1968

Amphitryon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amphitryon

1967

Port-Royal poster
NR

1661, the Assemblée du Clergé de France obliged all clergy to sign a form testifying to their submission to the decisions of the Holy See. In 1664, the Archbishop of Paris wanted to impose this decision on the nuns of Port-Royal. Among them was Sister Angélique de Saint Jean, admired by the very young Sister Françoise, who looked to her for comfort.

Port-Royal

1960

Series credits

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

Les Cent Livres des Hommes poster
10.0

Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

1970

Les Cent Livres des Hommes poster
10.0

Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

1970

La Comédie-Française poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Comédie-Française

1952

La Comédie-Française poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Comédie-Française

1952

Airs de France poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Airs de France

1955

Les Hauts de Hurlevent poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Hauts de Hurlevent

1968