Gabriel Signoret

Acting

Gabriel Signoret

Born — Died

1878-11-15 — 1937-03-16

Place of birth

Marseille, Bouches du Rhône, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 16 titles

Culprit poster
7.3

A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.

Culprit

1937

Let's Make a Dream poster
6.9

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.

Let's Make a Dream

1936

Le Billet de mille poster
9.0

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

Le Billet de mille

1935

The Bureaucrats poster
6.5

A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks.

The Bureaucrats

1936

Ménilmontant poster
7.0

Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.

Ménilmontant

1936

Sacrifice of Honor poster
8.0

Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship, steaming through dangerous waters during WWI. Among the passengers is heroine Jeanne (Annabella), who was once in love with first-officer D'Artelles (Robert Vidalin) but he now seems strangely preoccupied. It turns out that the ship is on a secret mission, which ultimately dooms the vessel to a Lusitania-like death. After the sinking, Captain De Corlaix (Victor Francen) faces a court-martial, and it is at this point that the film clarifies several baffling plot points. Despite its complexity, the story is fairly believable, with the exception of the grafted-on romantic subplot.

Sacrifice of Honor

1935

No artwork available
10.0

Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings. But love wins. Defeated, the parents accept this union which shocked their petty bourgeois but honest spirit.

Trois pour cent

1934

The Flame poster
8.0

A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son is taken from her to be brought up in the best conditions, she keeps thinking about him. When she finds him, twenty years later, she can not adapt to the environment to which he now belongs.

The Flame

1936

Asile de nuit poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Asile de nuit

1930

Bourrachon poster
9.0

The pharmacist Bourrachon learns that his wife Adrienne deceives him with Dr. Rigal, whose specialties he sells in his pharmacy. His sister, the authoritarian Mrs. Bruneau, urged him to divorce and introduced Geneviève to substitute Adrienne. But after five months of marriage, Geneviève gives birth to a child whose real father turns out to be Henri, the salesman of the Bourrachon pharmacy. Mrs Bruneau will then try to persuade her brother to bring an action disavowal of paternity for the honor of the family and especially to protect the inheritance of his own daughters. But Bourrachon will eventually become attached to the child and endorse his paternity.

Bourrachon

1935

27, rue de la Paix poster
6.2

A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everything seems to confirm the husband's guilt, however a journalist disappears with the evidence.

27, rue de la Paix

1936

No artwork available
7.2

19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...

Nights of Fire

1937

Arsène Lupin, Detective poster
6.0

Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in addition to being a gentleman thief. As a detective he happens to cooperate with police in order to unveil the criminal activities of a villain. When he succeeds the villain returns the favour. The unmasked Arsène Lupin manages to escape with the villain's gangster moll as his new companion.

Arsène Lupin, Detective

1937

The New Men poster
6.4

Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Clemenceau yield to the entreaties of Lyautey, we are witnessing the arrival of settlers on Moroccan soil with the rapid rise of one of them: the ambitious Bourron. Similarly it has conquered the land from scratch, Bourron could conquer a woman, Christiane, who followed him not without confessing his love for another man. It is this love that Bourron will use later to acquire a forest of olive trees, which he believed to be the symbol of its success. Christiane accept but never forgive her husband...

The New Men

1936

The New Men poster
6.4

Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Clemenceau yield to the entreaties of Lyautey, we are witnessing the arrival of settlers on Moroccan soil with the rapid rise of one of them: the ambitious Bourron. Similarly it has conquered the land from scratch, Bourron could conquer a woman, Christiane, who followed him not without confessing his love for another man. It is this love that Bourron will use later to acquire a forest of olive trees, which he believed to be the symbol of its success. Christiane accept but never forgive her husband...

The New Men

1936

Symphonie D'Amour poster
7.0

A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.

Symphonie D'Amour

1936

1920s · 15 titles

No artwork available
7.0

Following her father's advice, Hélène Haviland (Sandra Milovanoff) accepts the marriage proposal of Fellaire de Sizac (Abel Tarride). Later she finds Dr. Groult (Henri Fabert), one of their friends, trying to kill her husband by poisoning slowly over a long period of time. It's painful but she keeps silence...

Jocaste

1925

She Played and Paid poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

She Played and Paid

1920

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Ornière

1925

The Bread Peddler poster
7.5

The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and Geneviève Félix. It is based on Xavier de Montépin's novel of the same title.

The Bread Peddler

1923

Le Silence poster
7.0

The tragedy of a man, about to kill himself, contemplating his past in a series of flashbacks.

Le Silence

1920

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Flipotte

1920

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Roger la Honte

1922

Prometheus, Banker poster
6.2

A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.

Prometheus, Banker

1921

L'Enfant des Halles poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Enfant des Halles

1924

Le Rêve poster
10.0

During this harsh winter, as Christmas approaches, Angélique, a poor child, is found by an old couple, Hubertine and Hubert. But this couple is not the richest, and the life of this small family is hard and laborious. Angélique likes to escape to the city, to dream. One day, she meets Félicien, with whom she falls in love. But she is told that this handsome man is the bishop's son, so marrying him is impossible.

Le Rêve

1921

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Secret of Lone Star

1920

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Père Goriot

1922

The Cradle of God poster
7.0

A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He devotes his great talents to writing a shockingly blasphemous book, debunking all religion, and then embarks on a trip to Jerusalem. Far from reconciling him to God, the sight of all the different sects worshipping in that ancient city only serves to embitter him and deepen his unbelief. One day, wandering in the country, he loses his way and stops to ask directions at a small house. The inhabitants are a poor but devout family whose daughter, Ruth, revives his broken heart. At the risk of losing her, he confesses to her his loss of faith, and she gently declares that meditation on the Gospels will heal him. He sorrowfully tells her that he wishes he could believe as she does, but it is impossible.

The Cradle of God

1926

No artwork available
8.0

Based on the play by Pierre Wolff.

Le Secret de Polichinelle

1923

Les Deux Gosses poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Deux Gosses

1924

1910s · 12 titles

The Cigarette poster
6.8

A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

The Cigarette

1919

No artwork available
NR

The bold young Prince of Spain, Don Carlos, has always caused jealousy at the court of King Philip II. Now even the Grand Inquisitor is out to get him.

Don Carlos

1910

No artwork available
7.0

A soldier during World War 1 wants to be reunited with his family for Christmas.

Le Noël du poilu

1915

The Blindness of Youth poster
9.0

"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.

The Blindness of Youth

1917

Mothers of France poster
4.7

A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.

Mothers of France

1916

Infatuation poster
9.0

Flora Nys, a poor flower girl of Paris faces hard times. Her rent overdue, Le Baron, the landlord, oppresses her and puts before her a shady proposition. Indignantly she orders him out of her room. When she takes up her flowers, preparatory to going forth to sell them, she discovers that Le Baron has trampled on them. Tempted by her poverty she steals a fur in a department store.

Infatuation

1918

No artwork available
8.0

During the WWI, Jeannette (Musidora) finds refuge in the South France, among other women. She starts the correspondence with a soldier of the front line and sends him a parcel.

The Story of Midinette

1915

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The King of the Sea

1917

L'Étoile du génie poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Étoile du génie

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Fernand Pradier (Gabriel Signoret) is an honest merchant and a simple person at heart who tries to make her daughter Germaine (Gabrielle Robinne) happy. She is engaged to a rich banker St-Bris (René Alexandre). However, the fiance once belonged to a criminal organization and, despite his efforts of rehabilitation, one of his ancient accomplices makes their engagement impossible. Eventually imprisoned, she escapes with the help of a beautiful typist (Stacia Napierkowska)...

The King of Prison

1913

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tears of Forgiveness

1919

No artwork available
6.2

An honest worker is made redundant, but he will solve his problems by marrying the employer's daughter.

Struggle for Life

1914