Personal Info
Birth date
1892-06-30 (133 Years)
Day of death
1963-11-21
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Philippeville, Constantine, France [now Skikda, Algeria]
Also known as
Gustave Pierre Blanchard
Pierre Blanchar
Biography
Pierre Blanchar (30 June 1892 – 21 November 1963) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar. He played Napoleon in the 1938 British film A Royal Divorce alongside Ruth Chatterton as Josephine. He later appeared alongside Michèle Morgan in the 1946 film Pastoral Symphony. Source: Article "Pierre Blanchar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
Zero for Conduct
6.909
Overview:
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.Sky Battalion
6
Overview:
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.The Black Monocle
5.929
Overview:
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle.Dr. Laennec
5.7
Overview:
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.Homeland
5
Overview:
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to power. Now, the count's lieutenant, has an affair with Elisabeth, Rysoor's wife. For the time being, the count, who thinks of his homeland first, turns a blind eye. But such a relationship might well undermine the whole rebellion movement.Pastoral Symphony
6.2
Overview:
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
6.5
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For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.The Liberation of Paris
6
Overview:
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.Katia
6.4
Overview:
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.The Hunchback
NYR
Overview:
The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years before.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 Cupid Club
NYR
Overview:
Isabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly after, a murder is committed of which Isabelle's best friend is suspected. To save her, Isabelle is forced, despite her reluctance, to ask Flip for help, who agrees to look for the culprit.Night in December
5
Overview:
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...A Woman of No Importance
NYR
Overview:
A young lord who has abandoned his pregnant mistress hires his son, twenty years later, as secretary. He will try to fix his mistake.Secrets
7
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A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, but Michel, without any magic power, turns out to be a wonderful teacher and he wins them all over,not only the student but everyone, from the grumpy dowager to the clueless gorgeous blonde girl. But the best is yet to come:the boy's mother -a married woman- falls in love with the newcomer. And she becomes jealous of her young blonde goddaughter who has a romance with MichelIris perdue et retrouvée
NYR
Overview:
To save her brother compromised in a case of forgery in writing, Iris agrees to marry a shady financier, lover of her sister-in-law. A young painter, in love with her, persuades her to flee with him, but tired of the life of an artist, Iris returns to her family....Secrets of a Ballerina
5.3
Overview:
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay...Riff Raff Girls
5.8
Overview:
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...Courier of Lyons
6.8
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A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.Le Joueur
NYR
Overview:
Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love.Jocelyn
7
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Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem. A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution. He befriends a youth who turns out to be a girl. But his former bishop calls Jocelyn back to duty.Crime and Punishment
6.75
Overview:
Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.Culprit
7
Overview:
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.The Dreamy Mouth
4
Overview:
The story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra is performed. Romaine, a mysterious woman, is in the concert hall. Pierre, her husband, is first violin of the Orchester Colonne. That evening, she discovers Marcel, a brilliant concerto soloist, and falls in love with him. Pierre and Marcel are friends, which complicates the situation. Pierre invites his friend to the house, without suspecting what will happen. The young woman, trying to find a clever pretext for a one-on-one meeting, quickly reveals her feelings to Marcel.The Man from Nowhere
6.763
Overview:
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.A Royal Divorce
NYR
Overview:
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.The Beautiful Sailor
5.6
Overview:
A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love with Marinette.Lovers and Thieves
NYR
Overview:
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fortunately meets love.Acting
TBAGeorges Méliès as Voix
1961The Black Monocle as Le marquis de Villemaur
1959Katia as Koubaroff
1959Riff Raff Girls as Le Pirate
1959Discorama (1 Episode) as Self
1950My Friend Sainfoin as Sainfoin
1949Dr. Laennec as Dr. Laennec
1949The Cupid Club as Flip
1948After Love as François Mésaule
1947Sky Battalion as Captain Ferane
1946Homeland as Le comte de Rysoor
1946Pastoral Symphony as Pastor John Martens
1945Le Journal de la Résistance as Himself - Narrator
1944The Hunchback as Knight Henri de Lagardère
1944The Liberation of Paris as (voice)
1943Secrets of a Ballerina as Gérard de Clergue
1943Secrets as René
1942La Neige sur les pas as Marc Romanay
1942Pontcarral, Empire Colonel as Pontcarral
1941Night in December as Pierre Darmont
1941La Prière aux étoiles as Pierre Florent
1940Two Women as Domitien Van Bergen
1938A Royal Divorce as Napoléon Bonaparte
1938Le Joueur as Alexeï Nikitine
1938The Strange Monsieur Victor as Bastien Robineau
1937Courier of Lyons as Pierre-Joseph Lesurques
1937Life Dances On as Thierry Raynal
1937The Queen of Spades as Hermann
1937Street of Shadows as Grégor Courdane alias : Condoyan
1937A Woman of No Importance as Unknown
1937The Man from Nowhere as Mathias Pascal / Adrien Meis
1937Culprit as Jérôme Lescuyer
1935Lovers and Thieves as Claude Brévin
1935Les Bateliers de la Volga as Lieutenant Vadime Borzin
1935Crime and Punishment as Raskolnikov
1935The Devil in the Bottle as Keave
1935Turandot, princesse de Chine as Kalaf
1934L’Or as François Berthier
1934At the End of the World as Jean Arnaud
1934Iris perdue et retrouvée as Unknown
1933Zero for Conduct as Supervisor (uncredited)
1933The Old Devil as Jean Trapeau
1932The Beautiful Sailor as Sylvestre
1932The Dreamy Mouth as Pierre, le mari
1932The Mistress of Atlantis as Le capitaine de Saint-Avit
1932Wooden Crosses as Adjudant Gilbert Demachy
1929Wedding March as Unknown
1929Captain Fracasse as Captain Fracasse
1928La valse de l'adieu as Unknown
1927The Chess Player as Boleslas Vorowski
1925La terre promise as David
1924The Thruster as Unknown
1923Heritage as Xavier
1923Geneviève as Alphonse de Lamartine
1922Jocelyn as Unknown
Camera
1945Le Journal de la Résistance ... Camera Operator