
Acting
Francis Lax
Born — Died
1930-04-16 — 2013-03-13
Place of birth
Paris, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
51 titles
French actor and voice actor, born 16 April 1930 and died 13 March 2013 in Paris. He was known for dubbing Tom Selleck (Magnum), David Soul (Starsky & Hutch), Harrison Ford (Star Wars), Shaggy (Scooby-Doo), George Jetson (The Jetsons), Ranger Smith (Yogi Bear), Brainy and Clumsy (The Smurfs) or Snarf (Thundercats) as well as several characters of the Muppet Show.
Known for
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Champs-Elysées
1982
7.0At 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
7.1The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Les Jeux de 20 heures
1976
6.6Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."
Lucky Luke
1984
6.0Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.
A Year in Provence
1993
Film credits
1990s · 6 titles
7.1In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
L.627
1992
7.0A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her dream and go to the city. The second, Joelle, wants to leave town for the countryside.
Marie's Counter
1998
9.0Three friends finish a meal washed down with plenty of wine. The host proposes a riddle: It's the story of a guy who goes to a restaurant. He reads the menu and orders pelican. The waiter serves him, the guy tastes the pelican, and he commits suicide. Why?
Le Pélican
1992
10.0The wonder of Christmas lights the world when kindhearted Sandman uses his magic sand to make toys come alive. One little doll named April gets sprinkled and is delighted that she can now talk, walk and sing. She takes off for an adventure into the real world, only to find that not everyone is as nice as the Sandman, especially the clumsy grinch, Bootlace, who wants to capture her and all the other real toys to sell to the highest bidder. But it is Christmas Eve, a time for miracles, and April and the Sandman are about to save the toys and make children's dreams come true.
April and the Sandman
1994
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Trois partout
1990
NRA French adaptation of Neil Simon's play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", staged by Jacques Rosny.
Panier de crabes
1999
1980s · 8 titles
6.5This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once more enthused by music than by sculpting holy icons.
Rock and Torah
1983
5.4Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office.
Fais gaffe à la gaffe !
1981
6.7One night when the moon was blue, in the land of the Smurfs, a stork left a strange little basket containing a baby Smurf on the doorstep of a house.
Le bébé schtroumpf
1984
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Les p'tits schtroumpfs
1988
7.0The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.
Manon Roland
1989
In an elevator, a group of young people are in conversation...
Une nuit rêvée pour un poisson banal
1980
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Beaufils et fils
1980
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Un dîner intime
1983
1970s · 13 titles
5.3Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
1973
5.6An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.
The Bottom Line
1976
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Le Gentleman des Antipodes
1976
6.4Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
Too Shy to Try
1978
6.0Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
The Nada Gang
1974
5.8Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
A Cloud in the Teeth
1974
6.5August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, but often he feel they ridicule and persecute him. Isolated Strindberg venture successfully in alchemical experiments.
Inferno
1973
9.0At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
L'Exercice du pouvoir
1978
8.5A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the vehicle is stationary in a traffic jam, the driver refuses: while restarting, the bus hits the car in front of it. The bus driver attacks Mehdi whom he holds responsible for the incident, claiming that it is forbidden to “talk to the stagehand”. Mehdi is implicated in court and his lawyer tries to draw attention to the living conditions of immigrant workers.
Le Bougnoul
1975
7.0Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.
An Invitation to the Hunt
1974
6.8Japanese Beetle helps the lonely Blue Racer make friends with humans. Beetle tries everything from making him a pet who can sing and do tricks, disguising him as a dog, and joining a hippie parade. However, all plans fail.
Blue Racer Blues
1972
NRThanks to his gifts of clairvoyance, the son of a former servant of a noble family makes his fortune and buys the mansion where he spent his childhood. But he is obsessed by the memory of this house, because the owners were, one by one, victims of an evil spirit. With a troupe of actors, he attempts to reconstruct the dramatic scenes he witnessed.
Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead
1975
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Le Rabat-joie
1978
1960s · 8 titles
6.2Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.
A Very Curious Girl
1969
7.4During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
Fortunate
1960
5.5A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way.
The Hotshots
1968
5.5In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.
Coplan, Agent 005
1964
6.2A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out have been involved in espionage (maybe).
If I Were a Spy
1967
6.6Antoine 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
7.8A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
1967
This is a story that is less a developed tale than a thumbnail sketch about imaginary events on a kibbutz in Palestine. Set in the period just before Israel gained its status as an independent nation, the drama shows the occupants of the kibbutz engaged in typical hard work. They have to find a source of water, construct their buildings, and do all the chores needed to stay alive, and these pressures as well as the times in which they live cause tensions to rise. The mix of kibbutzim covers a wide range of personality types, from the deeply religious to the ingrained soldier.
Give Me Ten Desperate Men
1962
Series credits
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Champs-Elysées
1982
7.0At 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
7.1The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Les Jeux de 20 heures
1976
6.6Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."
Lucky Luke
1984
6.0Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.
A Year in Provence
1993
A French-language anthology of seven famous, fantastic, and psychological stories by beloved American author Henry James.
Henry James Stories
1976
7.3No synopsis available yet.
The Tales of the Perched Cat
1994
9.0No synopsis available yet.
La Mort d'un touriste
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cupido
1991
7.0Inspired by the book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by painter Giorgio Vasari, this historical soap opera, in which betrayals, kidnappings, murders and police investigations are interwoven, relates the discovery by the Italians of the secret of Flemish painting around 1470.
Le Secret des Flamands
1974
7.1In 1822, Toussaint Rouveyre, a former captain in Napoleon's army, returned to his village in the Ardèche after the defeat at Waterloo and a seven-year stay in America. There, he reunited with his family, persecuted by the Restoration regime. In order for his father to give him his share of the inheritance in advance of his permanent move to America, he needs the consent of his younger brother Antoine, a carpenter who is on the Compagnons' Tour de France. When Toussaint learns that his brother, a member of the Compagnons du Devoir (Devoirants) association, has been killed by a companion from the rival association, the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté (Gavots), he is determined to find the murderer, a certain Tourangeau Sans-Quartier, and avenge his brother. To find this man, he joins the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté incognito.
Ardéchois, cœur fidèle
1974
NR1, rue Sésame is a French children's television series based on the popular U.S. children's program Sesame Street. The show first aired January 4, 1978 at 6:25 p.m. on TF1. Its musical director was Roger Elcourt, composer Jean Morlier. The series was executive produced by Michel Berthier from TF1 and Lutrelle Horne from CTW. The show ran for a total of 82 episodes and ceased production in June 1982. The series is occasionally called Bonjour Sésame, or la Rue Sésame. In October 2005, a new series by Sesame Workshop was launched, called 5, Rue Sésame.
1, rue Sésame
1978


