Claude Cerval

Acting

Claude Cerval

Born — Died

1921-02-21 — 1972-07-25

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Claude Cerval (21 February 1921 – 25 July 1972) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1955 to 1971. After his secondary studies, he took drama lessons with, among others, Louis Jouvet. He then performed in cabarets and at the theater, notably at the Odéon, before joining the Théâtre national populaire. He worked in cinema and television as well. He was well remembered for his performance in the role of the detestable Count of Nansac in the ORTF series Jacquou le Croquant in 1969. He died of heart failure at the age of 51. Source: Article "Claude Cerval" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known for

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf 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

Belle de Jour poster
7.3

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Belle de Jour

1967

The Big Risk poster
7.0

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.

The Big Risk

1960

The Upper Hand poster
6.2

In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.

The Upper Hand

1966

Vidocq poster
9.0

François Vidocq has been sentenced to eight years' hard labor for a crime he didn't commit. Escaped with the help of his faithful friends Desfossés and Fil de fer, the convict is pursued by his lifelong enemy: the policeman Flambart. Between scams and disguises, Vidocq initially leads an undercover life in 19th-century Paris. Eventually, the two men team up to fight criminals... And Vidocq succumbs to Annette's charms.

Vidocq

1967

The Milky Way poster
7.1

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.

The Milky Way

1969

Film credits

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 25 titles

Belle de Jour poster
7.3

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Belle de Jour

1967

The Big Risk poster
7.0

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.

The Big Risk

1960

The Upper Hand poster
6.2

In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.

The Upper Hand

1966

The Milky Way poster
7.1

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.

The Milky Way

1969

FX 18, Secret Agent poster
5.4

Secret agent FX-18 goes undercover to break up an espionage ring.

FX 18, Secret Agent

1964

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

Crime on a Summer Morning poster
6.4

An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore.

Crime on a Summer Morning

1965

The Love Game poster
6.3

Victor and Suzanne are a couple at odds about commitment. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a painter with an inspired creative side who finds it difficult to understand Suzanne's point of view. They are happy together; what is the problem? So when a friend comes into the picture and proposes to Suzanne, Victor suddenly realizes that Suzanne was right. Without a formal commitment, the suddenly insecure man does not like the view from the opposite shore.

The Love Game

1960

Symphony for a Massacre poster
6.7

A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.

Symphony for a Massacre

1963

Beru and These Women poster
4.8

Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Béru calls Commissaire San Antonio to the rescue, and the two men discover that Laurenzi's hotel is home to a "brothel" whose director, Madame Albertine, soon reveals to the two policemen that Laurenzi was having an ongoing relationship with Helga, one of the boarders, and Mr. Max, a regular guest of the house.

Beru and These Women

1968

That Man in Istanbul poster
5.7

An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.

That Man in Istanbul

1965

Germinal poster
7.8

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.

Germinal

1963

The Sword and the Balance poster
7.7

Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.

The Sword and the Balance

1963

L'Ennemi dans l'ombre poster
7.0

The director of the French Ministry of the Interior summons Serge Cazals, an Interpol agent, to unmask the leaders of an organization that sells military intelligence and has just made a name for itself with the assassination of Secret Service ace Georges Dandieu. Cazals is soon spotted by his adversaries and dangerously threatened. Through an intermediary in the organization, he obtains a telephone number that leads him to various leads, but to no avail. He then decides to set a trap, with the help of his friend Violaine.

L'Ennemi dans l'ombre

1960

L'Ennemi dans l'ombre poster
7.0

The director of the French Ministry of the Interior summons Serge Cazals, an Interpol agent, to unmask the leaders of an organization that sells military intelligence and has just made a name for itself with the assassination of Secret Service ace Georges Dandieu. Cazals is soon spotted by his adversaries and dangerously threatened. Through an intermediary in the organization, he obtains a telephone number that leads him to various leads, but to no avail. He then decides to set a trap, with the help of his friend Violaine.

L'Ennemi dans l'ombre

1960

The Empire of Night poster
6.0

Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villains try to take over every nightclub in town for their own nefarious purposes, Eddie sings a new tune with his fists. The story takes several unexpected turns, but Constantine remains in charge throughout.

The Empire of Night

1962

Danger in the Middle East poster
7.0

A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.

Danger in the Middle East

1960

Love + Fear = Torment poster
4.2

"Love + fear = Torment" exposes the secret world of the French model studios, and the men who try to corrupt them. Mobsters become involved when fifty-thousand dollars worth of uncut gems are stolen. A model studio becomes terrorized as one of the models innocently befriends one of the mobsters.

Love + Fear = Torment

1967

There's Going to Be a Party poster
7.0

FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Soon he has trouble with a violant gang, and is involved with a young French reporter, Michèle Laurent. Finally, the chief of the Secret Service tells Lewis that Lemoine never existed. Instead of ending his mission there, the real trouble starts.

There's Going to Be a Party

1960

Young Girls of Good Families poster
10.0

A young kleptomaniac girl befriends a rich heiress whom she admires and goes with her to Saint-Tropez.

Young Girls of Good Families

1963

The Girl Can't Stop poster
4.3

A shipbuilder is ruined. All he has left is a mortgaged house, a mortgaged yacht and a mortgaged wife. Precisely, there is a young vivacious, banker in his spare time, a little sadistic on the edges, ready to take the mortgage in question. Helped by his damned soul, a Turk, brother of his mistress, the builder throws his wife in the arms of the viveur. Which falls madly in love with Thassoula. The Turk kills Giorgian's uncle. Held by blackmail, he realizes that, decidedly, he has gone too far. Too late.

The Girl Can't Stop

1965

Le commissaire mène l’enquête poster
8.0

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Le commissaire mène l’enquête

1965

The Slave poster
4.1

While entertaining her lover one weekend, a woman's marriage is threatened by the sudden appearance of her evil step-brother. Beyond using her home to hide from the police after his recent heist, he also blackmails her in to a horrendous weekend filled with debauchery and violence. After her ordeal she is anything but bored.

The Slave

1967

The Woman Is a Stranger poster
6.3

The psychotic son of a film producer becomes obsessed with a beautiful blonde starlet while in Cannes, lures her to his hotel room and strangles her. His mother finds out, but can she keep her mouth shut to protect her son? Meanwhile, the young killer meets another pretty blonde...

The Woman Is a Stranger

1968

Ophélia poster
6.8

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

Ophélia

1963

1950s · 7 titles

The Cousins poster
6.8

Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.

The Cousins

1959

Bob le Flambeur poster
7.3

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

Bob le Flambeur

1956

Le Beau Serge poster
6.9

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

Le Beau Serge

1959

A Missionary poster
10.0

Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.

A Missionary

1955

The Irony of Money poster
5.6

The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris.

The Irony of Money

1957

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

Girl Merchants poster
2.5

A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.

Girl Merchants

1957

Series credits

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf 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

Vidocq poster
9.0

François Vidocq has been sentenced to eight years' hard labor for a crime he didn't commit. Escaped with the help of his faithful friends Desfossés and Fil de fer, the convict is pursued by his lifelong enemy: the policeman Flambart. Between scams and disguises, Vidocq initially leads an undercover life in 19th-century Paris. Eventually, the two men team up to fight criminals... And Vidocq succumbs to Annette's charms.

Vidocq

1967

Jacquou le Croquant poster
7.4

Adapted from the novel by Eugène Le Roy, this series tells the life of Jacquou Féral, a peasant who revolted against the Count of Nansac in Périgord in 1819.

Jacquou le Croquant

1969

Sial IV poster
5.0

Sial IV is a Swiss television miniseries by Greek filmmaker and writer Adonis Kyrou, adapted from the speculative fiction novel Deadly Image (AKA The Uncertain Midnight) by British author Edmund Cooper. It tells the story of Denis Lange (Henri Gilabert), a fallout shelter engineer who is accidentally trapped in suspended animation as war breaks out in 1970, only to awaken in the early 2100s in Sial IV, an underground city in which humankind lives a life of leisure, having discharged all responsibility to androids. Assigned the android Diana as his personal assistant, Denis ventures through this unsettling idyll, eventually finding a small but tenacious group of resistors who seek to uncover the truth about the compound and its ruler, the mysterious Machiavelli.

Sial IV

1969