Personal Info
Birth date
1883-12-18 (141 Years)
Day of death
1946-09-20
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Toulon, France
Also known as
Jules Auguste Muraire
Jules Raimu
Raimu
Biography
Raimu was the stage name for the French actor Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946). He is most famous for playing César in the Marseilles trilogy (Marius, Fanny and César).
Filmography
The Strange Monsieur Victor
6.9
Overview:
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...Fanny
7.429
Overview:
Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she accepts a marriage proposal from the aging widower Honoré Panisse.Life Dances On
7
Overview:
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.The Well-Digger's Daughter
6.9
Overview:
A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.The Baker's Wife
7.5
Overview:
In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore. Therefore, the villagers, who initially laughed at his cuckoldry, take the matter very seriously (they want the bread) and organize a plan to find Aurelie and to bring her back to the bakery.Marius
7.361
Overview:
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.César
7.6
Overview:
Leaping forward twenty years, the trilo'gy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.The Heart of a Nation
5.8
Overview:
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.Strangers in the House
7
Overview:
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.The Pearls of the Crown
6.2
Overview:
The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.Gribouille
5.091
Overview:
Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house. While he tries to keep her identity a secret for his family her presence leads to a number of unfortunate incidents.Tartarin of Tarascon
7
Overview:
Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. Even though the locals know he has never been to Africa, they keep hoping he will leave one day. After a misunderstanding, and much gossip, everyone thinks that Tartarin plans to actually take the trip.Little Nothings
7
Overview:
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.Let's Make a Dream
7.1
Overview:
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.The Chocolate Girl
NYR
Overview:
A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands up marrying her.Black and White
6
Overview:
A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.Mam'zelle Nitouche
5.5
Overview:
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior's brother... To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before...!Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
8
Overview:
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, plays, interviews and letters, the film pays tribute to the major author and popular filmmaker, who made his life a work and his work a life's project.The Eternal Husband
7.7
Overview:
An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance.The Benefactor
7.2
Overview:
A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.Midnight in Paris
6.2
Overview:
On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start investigating a missing person report, La Souris concocts a plan to secure his find.Colonel Chabert
6.9
Overview:
The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.Fun in the Barracks
6.2
Overview:
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.The Duel
NYR
Overview:
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought back on the straight and narrow by a missionary, the priest blesses his brother's marriage.Hoboes in Paradise
7
Overview:
In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.The King
NYR
Overview:
King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier, the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier, is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.Parade in 7 Nights
4.5
Overview:
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.The Man Who Seeks the Truth
NYR
Overview:
Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean's sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.Stars Never Die
NYR
Overview:
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raimu, Harry Baur, Louis Salou and Marguerite Moreno. Francois Perier's narration links the various vignettes together. In its own way, Les Etoiles ne Maurent Jamais can be seen as a precursor to those now-ubiquitous "tributes" on such cable services as American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies.Dawn Over France
7.7
Overview:
The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin and blacksmith by profession, to revolt. With his companion Samplan, he finds himself at the head of a handful of soldiers dissatisfied with their fate and a band of brigands. They steal money from the rich to give it to the poor, like highwaymen, vindicators with a big heart. In their eyes, things cannot go on like this, in this country which seems given over to the decadence of the nobility and the whims of an indolent king. Gaspard and his troupe are responsible for making it known.Acting
2019Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol as Self / C. Olivier / A. Castanier / ... (archive footage)
1957Stars Never Die as Self (archive footage)
1948La Vie de Raimu as Lui-même
1946The Eternal Husband as Nicolas Pavlovitch
1945Hoboes in Paradise as Boule
1943Colonel Chabert as Colonel Hyacinthe Chabert
1943The Heart of a Nation as Uncle Jules Froment
1942Little Nothings as Charpillon
1942The Benefactor as Monsieur Moulinet
1942Midnight in Paris as Antonin Ramatuel / Monsieur La Souris
1942L'Arlésienne as Marc
1942Strangers in the House as Maître Hector Loursat
1941Parade in 7 Nights as Vicar Maffre
1941The Duel as Father Bolène
1940The Well-Digger's Daughter as Pascal Amoretti
1940The Man Who Seeks the Truth as Jean Vernet
1939Last Desire as Cesare
1939Second Childhood as Georges
1939Monsieur Brotonneau as Unknown
1939Cocoanut as Loulou Barbentane
1938Heroes of the Marne as Bernard Lefrançois
1938The Baker's Wife as Aimable Castanier
1938The New Rich as Legendre
1938The Strange Monsieur Victor as Victor Agardanne
1937The Kings of Sport as Acteur
1937Gribouille as Camille Morestan
1937Life Dances On as Francois Patusset
1937La Chaste Suzanne as Monsieur des Aubrays
1937The Pearls of the Crown as L'industriel du midi
1937Confessions of a Newlywed as Jules Papillot
1937Armchair 47 as Juste Auguste Theillard
1936Let's Make a Dream as Le Mari
1936The King as M. Bourdier
1936The Twins of Brighton as Beaugérard père et les deux fils Achille
1936The Secret of Polichinelle as Mr. Jouvenel
1936César as César Ollivier
1935Dawn Over France as Samplan
1935School for Coquettes as Labaume
1934I Have an Idea as Aubrey Harrington
1934Tartarin of Tarascon as Tartarin de Tarascon
1934Midnight, Place Pigalle as Monsieur Prosper
1934Ces messieurs de la Santé as Gédéon - Jules Taffard
1933Charlemagne as Charlemagne
1933Theodore and Company as Clodomir
1932Fanny as César Olivier
1932Fun in the Barracks as Captain Hurluret
1932The Chocolate Girl as Félicien Bédarride
1931Marius as César Ollivier
1931Mam'zelle Nitouche as Célestin / Floridor
1931Black and White as Marcel Desnoyers
1912Godasse Fumiste as Unknown