Louis Velle

Acting

Louis Velle

Born — Died

1926-05-29 — 2023-02-02

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Louis Velle, born May 29, 1926 in Paris, is a French actor. Trained at the Conservatoire and at the Cours Simon, he has been married since 1949 to the writer, director and actress Frédérique Hébrard, with whom he had three children Catherine, Nicolas and François, director and screenwriter. If he began his career in the cinema, it was through television that he would rise to fame. Still quite discreet in L'Abonné de la ligne U (1964), the 1970s brought him a certain notoriety with La Demoiselle d'Avignon, L'Homme qui retour de loin and also Docteur Caraïbes. We can also mention The Strange Monsieur Duvallier (1979). A few years later, Louis Velle is still very present on the small screen wit…

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 10 titles

Touch and Go poster
5.2

North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.

Touch and Go

1971

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

Ferraille et chiffons poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ferraille et chiffons

1972

When the City Awakes poster
4.6

An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.

When the City Awakes

1975

Un mari, c'est un mari poster
4.5

Ludovique wanted to spend her holidays with her husband Jean,alone together. But she will have to stand her whole family and relations.

Un mari, c'est un mari

1976

Docteur Caraïbes poster
10.0

The islands of the Caribbean Sea. Tiberio, an astonishing junk dealer, runs a store selling bits and pieces of wreckage fished here and there... A certain Jeff, a sailor with a passion for the bottle... "works" with Tiberio, perfecting old maps showing ships with precious cargoes lying around. Jeff is attacked with a machine gun by "the sea lice" gangsters led by a certain Nero, in the service of a disturbing character, Denniger, who haunts the area aboard his yacht. A young local doctor, nicknamed Doctor Caraïbe, comes to Jeff's rescue.

Docteur Caraïbes

1970

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

Les murs ont des oreilles poster
7.3

A writer separated from his wife moves to the countryside with his secretary and children. From his office, he can hear everything that is going on.

Les murs ont des oreilles

1974

The Angels poster
6.0

Larry, who is awaiting a large inheritance, lives with his uncle who hopes to receive part of the hefty sum. He meets another specimen of its kind, weak, lazy and eager to show off, who lives on the hooks of an elderly woman. The two thugs sympathize and cause, by game, a fatal accident. From perverse games to silly games, they enter a deadly spiral.

The Angels

1973

Nina poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nina

1979

1960s · 8 titles

Frontier Hellcat poster
6.4

Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace. Alternate English Title: Amongst Vultures.

Frontier Hellcat

1964

Because, Because of a Woman poster
5.1

A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.

Because, Because of a Woman

1963

L'Amour des 4 colonels poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Amour des 4 colonels

1969

Over the Wall poster
7.3

Simone and Jean have just married and, looking for a home in the Paris region, are lucky enough to find a house with a garden in a residential suburb. Expecting their first child, the young couple began to observe how the parents of neighboring families were raising theirs.

Over the Wall

1961

L'Âge heureux poster
7.0

The young heroines are the "Petits Rats de l'Opéra" =pupil of the opera of Paris ballet class .One of them,Delphine,wants to be a ballerina.It's her wildest dream.But alas,in the wake of a night on the roof of the opera -a forbidden place- ,she is fired -and however she was not alone on that roof,her friends were with her!Delphine is desperate and she hides the terrible truth from her mother .What will become of her?

L'Âge heureux

1966

Unfaithful Night poster
9.0

Jérôme and Florence, married for five years, come to spend a week's vacation in the Camargue, the very place where they first fell in love. The young woman sees the trip as a pilgrimage to her roots, and a crucial test for rekindling her husband's love and attention. Jérôme, passionate about the great outdoors, space and horses, embarks on exhausting hikes. In the evening, as soon as he gets into bed at the hotel, he falls asleep from exhaustion.

Unfaithful Night

1968

Soldier Martin poster
6.3

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.

Soldier Martin

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les choses voient

1963

1950s · 11 titles

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

Intermediate Landing in Paris poster
6.0

Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Meanwhile Michèle's uncle Albert who works in the freight department sets out to tackle a drug trafficking outfit.

Intermediate Landing in Paris

1955

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet poster
6.0

A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why...

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet

1955

L'oeil en coulisse poster
10.0

Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd happily met. Tonin liked the asylum. His friends are charming, and there's a neighbor, Martine, a young cinema extra, whom Tonin finds to his liking. Through his electrician friend, Tonin gets a job on the radio, and through his young neighbor, he even gets a job as an extra in the cinema.

L'oeil en coulisse

1953

The Inspector Likes a Fight poster
4.0

To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a revolutionary engine. He sets out to compromise the police investigation and the actions of the document smugglers seeking to recover the plans.

The Inspector Likes a Fight

1957

My Seven Little Sins poster
5.5

The Count of Courvallon, whose gallant exploits have made the headlines, has uncoupled and lives in a pleasant estate in the C te. He has a son, Edouard, and a stylish valet, Antonio. This peaceful life is disrupted by a battalion of penniless girls living in a neighboring villa. Luisella has the nerve to introduce herself to André de Courvallon as his daughter, and immediately her comrades follow suit. The supposed father is not fooled, but his son takes it badly, especially as he has fallen in love with Luisella. Fairy tales always have happy endings.

My Seven Little Sins

1954

The Best Part poster
7.1

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...

The Best Part

1955

Une vie de garçon poster
5.5

Determined to marry, but without enthusiasm, Bernard chose Lysiane Laborie. To bid a fitting farewell to his wild youth, he buried his bachelorhood. Then his friend Bobby, with Lysiane's consent, persuades Bernard that he's marrying not a candid young girl, but Lily the Strychnine, a volcanic creature. The future husband discovers the joke and responds by introducing himself as a notorious gangster. Confrontations with thugs lead them all to the station. Bernard and Lysiane fall into each other's arms.

Une vie de garçon

1953

Let's Be Daring, Madame poster
5.5

Two couples of friends who have arranged to meet in the woods get lost and find themselves in an embarrassing situation: the husband of one with the wife of the other? Each couple tries to get through this forced cohabitation honestly, but everything is turned upside down when two young Sunday gangsters appear. What follows is a cross-country chase through the woods, which leads the whole gang back to the house, where one of the couples manages to leave, free at last, on an old tandem, bound for... Africa!

Let's Be Daring, Madame

1957

Matrimonial Agency poster
5.6

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

Matrimonial Agency

1952

Inspecteur Grey poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Inspecteur Grey

1956

Series credits

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Samedi soir

1971

30 millions d'amis poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

30 millions d'amis

1976

At Theatre Tonight poster
7.0

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

At Theatre Tonight

1966

the famous escapes poster
7.0

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.

the famous escapes

1972

The Castle of Olive Trees poster
6.8

The Castle of Olive Trees is the ancestral home of the "Laborie de Sauveterre". Located at "Châteauneuf-du-Pape", it holds many mysteries and legends. Like every summer "Estelle Laborie" goes there to take some time off. But this summer she take an important decision: run from Paris and stay here at the castle definitively. Little does she knows that her arrival will awake a lot of drama and secrets, beginning with this enigmatic "Pierre Séverin" who wants to demolish the castle to the ground, to make an amusement parc "Cigaleland". She will learn unfortunately that this "Pierre Séverin" is also knowned as "Marceau" the little boy of the steward of the castle when her father was the master of the domain. That steward also died in terrible circumstance. However Estelle decides to face this vengeance and save the castle with the aid of archaeologist "Raphaël Fauconnier"...

The Castle of Olive Trees

1993

La Demoiselle d'Avignon poster
7.3

Koba is a princess, a real one. To meet up the men she loves, she finds herself in Paris... François is a diplomat. He thinks he loves a student. Little does he know that his Cinderella wears a crown. To find her again he becomes ambassador of France in her country: Kurland...

La Demoiselle d'Avignon

1972

Le 16 à Kerbriant poster
9.0

The story takes place in Brittany in 1944, a few weeks before the Allied landings in Normandy. Blanche Lacassagne and her daughter-in-law Anne leave Paris to take refuge at their family farm in Kerbriant, a village in southern Morbihan. Once there, they discover that their phone line has been mistakenly connected to the Kommandantur’s line. The Resistance quickly seizes this opportunity to eavesdrop on the German officers’ conversations.

Le 16 à Kerbriant

1972

Comment ne pas épouser un milliardaire poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Comment ne pas épouser un milliardaire

1966

L'Homme qui revient de loin poster
10.0

The story of a rich and arrogant owner of a French château who disappears suddenly, leaving the direction of his company to his younger brother and his ambitious wife Fanny. But soon, the ghost of the missing brother arrives to disrupt the couple’s dream life.

L'Homme qui revient de loin

1972

Le Grand Batre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Grand Batre

1997

L'Étrange Monsieur Duvallier poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Étrange Monsieur Duvallier

1979

Le Mari de l'ambassadeur poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Mari de l'ambassadeur

1990

Les Châtaigniers du désert poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Châtaigniers du désert

2010

Behind the camera