Jacques Legras

Acting

Jacques Legras

Born — Died

1923-10-25 — 2006-03-15

Place of birth

Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Known for

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

La Chance aux chansons poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La Chance aux chansons

1984

30 millions d'amis poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

30 millions d'amis

1976

Les Jeux de 20 heures poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Jeux de 20 heures

1976

Hibernatus poster
6.7

Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.

Hibernatus

1969

The Little Bather poster
6.6

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

The Little Bather

1968

Film credits

1980s · 12 titles

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose poster
6.2

The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose

1983

The Defective Detective poster
7.2

Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.

The Defective Detective

1984

Vous habitez chez vos parents ? poster
3.9

Three generations, the Chic, the Bumpkin and the New confront in a bourgeois family in Paris.

Vous habitez chez vos parents ?

1983

My Pastor Among the Thais poster
3.9

Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.

My Pastor Among the Thais

1983

What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men? poster
8.0

Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends imagine a gambit to find them, at the moment where father and son enjoy pleasures of single life.

What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men?

1980

Le Vol d'Icare poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Le Vol d'Icare

1980

How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired poster
5.0

A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy amateur philosopher who quotes the Koran. Man's habit of picking up young white women makes many young white men jealous...

How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

1989

Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent poster
4.0

Three thirty-year-old friends with a strong appetite for women and leisure life, supported by different people, live very well. Until one of them is forced to work. His two mates will do everything to free him from this calvary.

Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent

1981

Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers poster
4.9

Five young conscripts lead a peaceful life in the barracks of a small town. Their officer is an eccentric man who lets them spend their time listening to music. The atmosphere changes completely with the arrival of a new officer who wants to prepare them for major maneuvers.

Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers

1981

No artwork available
4.5

A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...

Doctor Lerne, Subgod

1983

Te marre pas... c'est pour rire ! poster
5.0

A 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

Don't Forget Your Father in the Cloakroom... poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Don't Forget Your Father in the Cloakroom...

1982

1970s · 23 titles

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons poster
6.8

The Dalton brothers are to receive their dead uncle's fortune if they eliminate the judge and jury responsible for his execution. And to accomplish this task, they must enlist the help of Lucky Luke.

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons

1978

Daisy Town poster
6.9

When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop there and to build their town on this very spot. Houses soon spring up like mushrooms, immediately followed by a bank, a saloon, a prison, etc. Daisy Town is born. Unfortunately a city does not go without its bad boys and the peaceful place is soon turned into a lawless place. To restore law and order, a lawman is needed. Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, will be this man: all the villains had better watch out!

Daisy Town

1971

A Slightly Pregnant Man poster
5.7

Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.

A Slightly Pregnant Man

1973

The Four Charlots Musketeers 2 poster
4.9

This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

The Four Charlots Musketeers 2

1974

The Four Charlots Musketeers poster
5.2

This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

The Four Charlots Musketeers

1974

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun poster
5.2

Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

1970

Le Roi des bricoleurs poster
4.3

Goumic, an industrialist and his wife Anne lose their big house when their town's mayor coerces them to sell it for a low price.

Le Roi des bricoleurs

1977

Le Permis de conduire poster
6.4

Michel 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

The Associate poster
6.5

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.

The Associate

1979

Charlots Go to Spain poster
5.1

Four friends from Paris are living misadventures of all sorts in Spain when their group of travelers is forced to split due to a travel scam.

Charlots Go to Spain

1972

The Suburbs Are Everywhere poster
5.0

He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't see much of each other and spend much of their time in commuter trains. They try desperately to change job locations to be more often together, but... The plot is not the important thing in the film ; what makes it emblematic of the early and mid-seventies is the insouciant atmosphere. The '74 oil crisis had not yet morphed into a recession, and life was good - even though it was as hard as ever to find a home near one's workplace (or the reverse) ! Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin are both excellent. The movie is not an all-time great, but it captures the "zeitgeist" of French life in the Seventies.

The Suburbs Are Everywhere

1973

The Stud poster
4.9

Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...

The Stud

1970

Catherine & Co. poster
3.2

Catherine, a young British prostitute living in Paris, decides to start her own "company" after learning the basics of big businesscom from her clients. She encounters both interest and setbacks in her search for investors.

Catherine & Co.

1975

Sex Shop poster
5.6

On the advice of a friend, Claude, married to the charming Isabelle and father of two, decided to transform his library, hardly flourishing, into a sex shop. This change of activity proves to be very lucrative and sharpens his desire to spice up his married life through various erotic experiences. Claude asks his wife to share with him the audacity he dreams of. Soon, the household meets a dentist and his wife and is engaged, without much success, to new discoveries. Isabelle, full of good will, tries to follow her husband ...

Sex Shop

1972

The Carpathian Castle poster
6.0

In 1898, strange things happen in a castle not far from the small village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. Twenty years earlier, the castle had been abandoned due to some nefarious dealings there but a shepherd sees smoke coming out of the chimney, which stirs up the village with whispers Chort (a demon) is now occupying the place. Count Franz de Télek, a visitor to the area, becomes intrigued by all this turmoil and decides to investigate. Made for French television and based on the 1892 Jules Verne novel of the same name.

The Carpathian Castle

1976

Drôles de zèbres poster
3.7

Two unemployed men, heavily in debt due to losses at the racetrack, are hired by a criminal mastermind to harass the guests of a hotel he hopes to purchase at a below-market price in order to access a tunnel below the building that leads directly to a nearby bank.

Drôles de zèbres

1977

Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears poster
5.3

Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...

Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears

1979

La Gueule de l’emploi poster
3.5

Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way.

La Gueule de l’emploi

1974

Le piège à cons poster
4.3

Ten years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing "soixante-huitard" falls in with some young radicals who are influenced by a book he had written. But does he still have the guts to translate his ideas into acts against the state? And is he still attractive to younger chicks?

Le piège à cons

1979

Shut Up, Gulli poster
6.7

A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany.

Shut Up, Gulli

1974

The Groper poster
3.5

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.

The Groper

1976

Mad Race to Cote d'Azur poster
4.5

A surgeon saves an notorious mobster's life. This could be the answer to the doctor's problems, as he is engaged to an unbearable, hysterical woman. The mobster agrees to assassinate her. Except for one thing. The mobster has the wrong target, a young, innocent journalist who resembles his fiancee. When the surgeon discovers they are after the wrong woman, he takes off in a mad race to Cote d'Azur to save the wrong woman from being murdered.

Mad Race to Cote d'Azur

1975

Parisian Life poster
6.0

Two young Parisians, Raoul de Gardefeu and Bobinet, are in love with Metella, a beautiful young woman aspiring to high society. Metella rejects them both in favour of a richer and older man.

Parisian Life

1977

1960s · 16 titles

Hibernatus poster
6.7

Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.

Hibernatus

1969

The Little Bather poster
6.6

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

The Little Bather

1968

Lady L poster
5.8

Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.

Lady L

1965

The Restaurant poster
6.8

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

The Restaurant

1966

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

O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo poster
6.8

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay.

O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

1966

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

A Mouse with the Men poster
5.8

Marcel and Francis are busy people. Marcel owns a café and spend all his nights running from meetings to meetings with members from the high society... at least, that's what he say to his barman! Francis leaves his home, loving wife and adorable daughter, frequently to attend meetings and demonstration with customers. His boss trusts him so much that his agenda is always full... at least, that's what he say to his wife! In fact, Marcel and Francis' incomes come from their night job: thieves! Here at least, they are professional. Troubles arise when, during one robbery, they encounter a young, high-pitched voice, candid girl who takes the decision to become their associate in crime... for the fun!

A Mouse with the Men

1964

Your Money or Your Life poster
6.0

Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.

Your Money or Your Life

1966

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus poster
7.0

Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of the bus that takes him from the station to his notary's home, he decides to buy it. What follows is a bewildering chase between the agents of the Strasbourg transport authority, the capitalists, the naive peasant and his lucid, pretty fiancée.

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus

1969

Public School poster
6.0

A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.

Public School

1965

Three Disordered Children poster
5.3

A man falsely recognize two teenagers and one child as his own children in order to avoid jail so his life becomes more and more chaotic.

Three Disordered Children

1966

Under Your Hat poster
4.0

An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.

Under Your Hat

1965

Faites donc plaisir aux amis poster
5.8

Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South America, believe he's not only the boss, but also his wife's husband.

Faites donc plaisir aux amis

1969

Les Gros Bras poster
3.8

Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé chase after the real bracelet, disrupting the life of a grand palace. Finally, Madame Andromèze finds her bracelet, which has been declared genuine. The original thief resurfaces and steals the jewel again.

Les Gros Bras

1963

Would-Be Gentleman poster
9.0

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

Would-Be Gentleman

1968

1950s · 7 titles

Peek-a-boo poster
5.2

A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.

Peek-a-boo

1954

The Three Musketeers poster
6.3

The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.

The Three Musketeers

1953

Bernard and the Lion poster
5.9

The carefree Bertrand, gamekeeper for a castellan, puts himself in danger when he discovers that his boss is the leader of a gang of counterfeiters.

Bernard and the Lion

1951

Men Think Only of That poster
6.2

Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusiastically accepts the proposal of Don Juan to make his sentimental education.

Men Think Only of That

1954

Love Is Not a Sin poster
6.8

A building, a landing, two tenants: he, Jacques Loursier, is president of the U.R.A.F (Union and Resistance Anti-Woman); she, Eliane Cahuzac, is president of the Association for the Triumph and Independence of Women. Unaware of each other until then, a cold war begins between the two parties. An attempt at conciliation fails then, after many adventures, love triumphs.

Love Is Not a Sin

1952

Service Entrance poster
6.2

Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer and his squatter friends. They all want to know what happened to her, so to satisfy their curiosity, Marie-Lou starts recounting her unfortunate experiences as a housemaid. On account of adverse circumstances, she tells them, she lost all of the jobs she had in five different families. To crown it all, the young man she has fallen in love with, a brilliant artist, is in prison...

Service Entrance

1954

La demoiselle et son revenant poster
7.0

Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which upsets Jules Petitpas, a single inventor, her eccentric but kind-hearted neighbor. Jules pledges to help her by creating a potion that will cure her. Unfortunately he dies before being able to achieve his aim. But a promise is a promise, and the good man comes back to the land of the living as an ... ectoplasm! And he manages to involve a whole tribe of ghosts to assist him in the noble task of saving the young lady. All is well that ends well.

La demoiselle et son revenant

1952

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