Personal Info
Birth date
1898-03-06 (127 Years)
Day of death
1991-05-23
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Also known as
René Paul Louis Lefèvre
René Lefèvre
Biography
René Lefèvre, born René Paul Louis Lefèvre, (March 6, 1898 in Nice - May 23, 1991 in Poissy) was a French actor and writer. Throughout his career, he worked with several notable directors, like Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, and René Clair. Description above from the Wikipedia article René Lefèvre (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
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Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
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Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television seriesAngelique and the King
6.5
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Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.The Body of My Enemy
6.416
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A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce.Le Doulos
7.41
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Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?He Who Must Die
6.1
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Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.The Crime of Monsieur Lange
7.054
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A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?Opéra-musette
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The itinerant musician Lampluche, having found a musical score on the banks of a river and a full wallet, was taken to the neighboring town for the famous composer Maxence Leroy. The inhabitants of the small town only dream of music, so Lampluche is very well received. But Maxence Leroy arrives in the city.Rue de Paris
6.704
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Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.Shock Troops
6.702
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A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.Bel Ami
6.7
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In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries Duroy.Three Women
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The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.Sa meilleure cliente
4.5
Overview:
It is one thing to open a beauty salon (which Edwige and her young lover Gaston have just done) but it is another to keep it on its feet.To best promote their speciality, fountain-of-youth treatments, Edwige decides to apply to the letter the old slogan "It pays to advertise" by posing as... Gaston's mother, a sixty-year-old woman, miraculously grown younger.Be Beautiful and Shut Up
5.5
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A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.Vogue, mon coeur
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Ginette is always squabbling with her mother and she cannot take it any more. One day, she asks Jim Ashbury to intervene and this is how the son of a wealthy lord gets involved in the life of a pretty Jane Doe. Charmed by Ginette, Jim invites her to a cruise on the Mediterranean. It does not take long before Cupid sends his arrows at the two young people but things are not so simple for all that. Jim indeed fears Ginette might want to marry him for money, which is totally wrong. Fortunately, Lord Ashbury manages to persuade his stubborn son of his error.The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans
6
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Set in Brussels, where Suzanne Beulemans, the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester, the son of a rival brewer. The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée. But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young woman. Albert learns Séraphin's secret that he is having an affair with a worker and that they have had a child. He promises Séraphin that he will never reveal any of it to Suzanne, but she is told by Isabelle, her maid.The Companions of Baal
7
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Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.À la Belle Frégate
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It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy and he does not know how to go with women. One day, he meets Yvonne and falls in love with her. But, alas, she prefers his good friend René. Another suitor, Pierre, owns the "À la Belle frégate" a café where Yvonne works as a waitress. Madam(e )Juliette, pretends she helps Yvonne and tries to make her an "entraineuse"(hostess) for less-than -handsome guests. But the girl knows better and will choose one of her suitors.Le Million
6.9
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Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.A Blonde Like That
8.5
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Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the young woman in the Indian sector of Tamazunchale. They get to know each other and Myra tells the young man what drove her to flee her father. But she's run out of money and expects her adventure to come to an end soon. Then she meets a man named Doc, who suggests she contact an old Indian sorcerer.Lady Killer
7
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Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again. But he's not so sexy without his uniform, and Madeleine and him do not belong to the same milieu.Comme un poisson dans l'eau
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When his uncle Paul died, Lucien Berlemont inherited a telescope and a sextant, which only aggravated his aversion to the high seas. At the age of 20, he began taking clandestine navigation courses. During his vacations in St-Lunac, even Mr. Dumesnil's daughters struggled to distract him from his marine reveries. But one evening, he inadvertently finds himself locked up with Marie-Angeline; the consequences of this prolonged evening force him to make a decision and commit himself, for better or for worse, to one of the Dumesnil girls.The Mask of the Gorilla
5.9
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Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.The Mark Of The Day
8
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In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young engineer Larzac, newly appointed to the mine, will soon oppose the authoritarian and conservative methods of his superior Dubard. Georges Gohelle would like to marry Marie Bréhard, but housing difficulties thwart their plans. Brezza, a Polish immigrant, who must return to his country, would like to hate his marriage to Louise Gohelle. Roger, Marie's little brother, has just turned 14. He does not want to go down to the mine as his elders have always done. He will however have to resign himself to it. Marles evokes for him the social struggles of 1906. Roger is injured during a landslide. In front of his family and his friend Marles, who had come to the hospital, he announced his decision to continue his profession. Larzac, invited to the Marles, reveals that he refused a quiet position at the Charbonnages de Paris. He too stays.The Southern Trail
5
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As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lonely, ailing men. She meets her husband's partner who tries to kill her. Hélène does not report him to the police but is curious to learn the reasons for his action. Before dying of a terrible fever, the man confesses that he murdered her husband.Provisional Liberty
4
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Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.Moon over Morocco
5.7
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When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...Acting
2012Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo as Self
1978Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
1977A Sea Urchin in the Pocket as Nelly's grandfather
1976The Body of My Enemy as Pierre Leclercq
1971Samedi soir (1 Episode) as Self
1970The Companions of Baal as Pépère
1969La cravache d' or (25 Episodes) as Flavien Genêt
1968L'homme de l'ombre (6 Episodes) as Le patron
1967La bonne peinture as Moudru
1967Shock Troops as Colonel Guers
1966Angelique and the King as Colbert
1964Un gosse de la butte as M. Bosquet, retraité et client habituel du café
1963The Blockhead Fair as Inspector
1963A Blonde Like That as Doc
1962Le Doulos as Gilbert Varnove
1962Comme un poisson dans l'eau as Unknown
1958The Mask of the Gorilla as Commissioner Blavet
1958Provisional Liberty as Benoît
1958Be Beautiful and Shut Up as Monsieur Raphael
1958Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Félix, Louis Falconnet, Benjamin
1957In Six Easy Lessons as Count Norbert de Cazaubon
1957He Who Must Die as Yannakos
1957La Garçonne as Professeur Vignabos
1955Bel Ami as The Banker Walter
1952Three Women as Monsieur Cachelin (segment "Coralie")
1952Alone in the World as François Hermenault
1949L'Escadron blanc as L'adjudant Devars
1949The Mark Of The Day as Dubard
1947Sky Battalion as François
1945Box of Dreams as Marc
1943Arlette et l'Amour as Notary
1943À la Belle Frégate as Jean
1942The Woman I Loved the Most as Georges, industrialist's son
1942Opéra-musette as Marcel Lampluche
1940The Musicians of the Sky as Victor
1939Petite peste as Jacques Chantelouve
1939Feux de joie as Roland
1939Place de la Concorde as Ripotot
1938Sommes-nous défendus? as Unknown
1938The Southern Trail as L'instituteur Saillant
1938Nuits de princes as Wassili Wronsky
1937Lady Killer as René Dauphin, l'ami de Lucien
1937Le Choc en retour as Max de Bellecour
1937My Aunts and I as Eloi
1937Trois... six... neuf as Pierre
1936Le coup de trois as Monsieur Popolka
1936The Crime of Monsieur Lange as Monsieur Lange
1935Vogue, mon coeur as Unknown
1935Les Époux scandaleux as Jean
1934L'amour en cage as Unknown
1934Les Deux Canards as Unknown
1934An Ideal Woman as Unknown
1933Paprika as Unknown
1932Buridan's Donkey as Unknown
1932Sa meilleure cliente as Gaston
1932Orange Blossom as Unknown
1932Mr, Mrs and Bibi as Unknown
1932Seul as Eugène Bricot
1932A Dog That Pays Off as René (as René Lefebvre)
1931Moon over Morocco as Jacques Le Guérantec
1931Jean of the Moon as Unknown
1931Le Million as Michel Bouflette
1931My Friend Victor as Victor de Fleury
1930The Road to Paradise as Jean
1930Marius à Paris as Bonichon's son
1930The Two Worlds as Unknown
1930Le Ruisseau as Client
1930Rapacity as Unknown
1929Ces dames aux chapeaux verts as Ulysse Hiacinthe
1929Pivoine as Unknown
1928L'Eau du Nil as Arthur de Sorgepoix
1928The Maelstrom of Paris as Faverger
1927The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans as Seraphím Meulemeester
Writing
1959Rue de Paris ... Novel
1959Twelve Hours by the Clock ... Dialogue
1945Box of Dreams ... Writer
1942Opéra-musette ... Screenplay