Adrien Cayla-Legrand

Acting

Adrien Cayla-Legrand

Born 1919-03-26 · Cassagnes-Bégonhès, Aveyron, France

Acting credits

The Day of the Jackal poster
7.5

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

The Day of the Jackal

1973

The Night of the Generals poster
6.8

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

The Night of the Generals

1967

Any Number Can Win poster
7.2

Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

Any Number Can Win

1963

The Christmas Tree poster
6.2

A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.

The Christmas Tree

1969

The Granddaughter's Model poster
3.7

Four young women embark on a journey of sexual awakening.

The Granddaughter's Model

1971

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning poster
5.7

The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

1965

Out of It poster
6.5

The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.

Out of It

1978

Male Hunt poster
6.5

A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.

Male Hunt

1964

People in Luck poster
5.5

A light French comedy of 5 segments.

People in Luck

1963

The Pebbles of Etratat poster
4.0

Following a car breakdown, Miss Annie, director of a weight loss center, meets a certain Mr. Kelvo, a car champion. But instead of helping her, he rapes her. She decides to take revenge and follows him.

The Pebbles of Etratat

1972

Thank Heaven for Small Favors poster
6.6

Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

1963

Idiot in Paris poster
6.6

Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...

Idiot in Paris

1967

Les Culottes rouges poster
6.6

Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.

Les Culottes rouges

1962

The Good and the Bad poster
5.6

The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.

The Good and the Bad

1976

Salut Berthe ! poster
4.9

Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.

Salut Berthe !

1968

The Executioner of Hearts poster
5.1

While filming on location in Tahiti, a small-time actor seizes an opportunity to make it big, but the attention may be more than he bargained for.

The Executioner of Hearts

1983

Trouble Among Widows poster
7.4

When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death as a deliverance. At the funeral, she meets Judith, widow too, and she soon realises that her husband had been leading a double life. A short while later, the pharmacy is broken into, but nothing is stolen. Police Inspector Laforêt is put in charge of the case. Isabelle becomes suspicious when Judith offers to buy the pharmacy.

Trouble Among Widows

1964