Personal Info
Birth date
1929-01-13 (96 Years)
Day of death
1997-11-30
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Paris, France
Also known as
Francoise Prevost
Françoise Prevost
Françoise Prévost
Biography
Françoise Prévost (13 January 1930 – 30 November 1997) was a French actress, journalist and author. She was the daughter of writer Marcelle Auclair. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1949 and 1985. Prévost was born and died in Paris, France. She made her film debut at 18, in Jean de la Lune. After several minor roles she emerged with the Nouvelle Vague, with roles of weight in films by Pierre Kast, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco and Jacques Rivette. Starting from 1960s she was also pretty active in the Italian cinema, starring in leading roles in dramas, comedies and genre films. In 1975 Prévost gained critical appreciation and commercial success as an author, with an autobiographical book about her struggle against an incurable disease, Ma vie en plus. Source: Article "Françoise Prévost (actress)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
Apostrophes
8.5
Overview:
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.Spirits of the Dead
6.284
Overview:
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.Enter Inspector Maigret
7.5
Overview:
After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to Lausanne where the suspect is found murdered.The Pink Telephone
4.7
Overview:
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".Winter Wind
7.1
Overview:
Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid for the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia.The Condemned of Altona
7
Overview:
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past.The Three Musketeers
6.3
Overview:
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 Hideout
2
Overview:
A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way to retrieve his haul.L'Amour nu
4.6
Overview:
Claire, a UNESCO interpreter, begins a romance with an oceanographer named Simon. Their relationship is challenged when Claire receives a breast cancer diagnosis. Faced with her illness and the potential for a mastectomy, she struggles with her self-image and decides to push Simon away, believing the diagnosis will change their future together.Van der Valk and the Rich
NYR
Overview:
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. When he gets to know his woman, he is fascinated by the thought of running away with her.The Angels
4
Overview:
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.Sign of the Lion
7
Overview:
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.The Enemy General
5.5
Overview:
OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.Over the Wall
6
Overview:
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.That Night
5
Overview:
Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cynical man, who openly covets Sylvie.Mais où sont passées les jeunes filles en fleurs ?
NYR
Overview:
Two students, one of whom is still a virgin, spend a few days on vacation in the castle of the aunt of one of them.Time Out for Love
5.3
Overview:
Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. She is saved by her doctor and Ann, a young American nurse, who takes up residence in Michèle's apartment to keep an eye on her patient.Leathernose
5
Overview:
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decides to become a Casanova-like seductor. When he meets true love, cynical Roger does not believe in it and lets pure Judith marry an old marquis. But once Judith's husband dies, he sees Judith again, shows her his disfigured face, which does not discourage the young woman from loving him. Nevertheless, he distances himself from her foreverEin Mann im schönsten Alter
1
Overview:
Richard Mertens, a successful magazine editor with a cold, empty marriage to Lucy, seeks excitement through an affair with younger colleague Eva. Yet his need for status traps him in superficiality, undermining genuine connection. A legal battle with old friend Ferrow, won through perjury, reveals Mertens’s moral emptiness, shattering his relationship with Eva. Alone, he finds solace only in listening to bartender Brigitte.Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
NYR
Overview:
A flurry of anonymous letters and two suicides leads Inspector Van der Valk to a mission in Drente where small-town hysteria may just lead to one of the century's most wanted criminals.Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
NYR
Overview:
Munich-based graphic artist Lukas is an artist with no fixed abode and no desire for commitment, who never stays in the same place for long. His only possessions are his duck, his clothes and a few everyday objects with which he moves from apartment to apartment as a lodger. There he prefers to devote himself entirely to his amorous adventures. With his unconventional manner, he drives philistines, aristocrats and the nouveau riche up the wall.Johnny Hamlet
6.304
Overview:
On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and who asks him to avenge him. Back in the family ranch, Johnny finds that not only has his father been killed but that Gertrude, his mother, has married her late husband's brother Claude. The latter is now the owner of the ranch and of all the properties of the deceased. Polonius, a ruthless bandit, is supposed to have killed Johnny's father. But couldn't it be Claude...?Clara de Montargis
NYR
Overview:
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.Italian Secret Service
6.7
Overview:
A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.Your Sweet Body to Kill
6
Overview:
Tells the story of a husband who wants to kill his unfaithful wife. He has many murderous fantasies in which he murders her. After the disposal of her beautiful dead body our hero loses an incriminating suitcase. It's time to get the crime evidence back.Portuguese Vacation
5.6
Overview:
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.The Game of Truth
5.9
Overview:
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?Galia
5
Overview:
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. The woman, Nicole, tells Galia that she intended to drown herself, having left a suicide note for her husband, Greg. Having settled Nicole in her apartment, Galia sets out to recover the suicide note, but waits so that she can observe Greg’s reaction. When Greg appears unmoved by the note, Galia decides to wait for him at the art gallery where he works...The Sea
6.3
Overview:
A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a young man. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can get off the ground, an alluring woman with a spontaneous sexuality and care free attitude joins the triangle and the boy is slowly pushed out of the picture.Acting
1981Merry-Go-Round as Renee Novick
1980Le Soleil en face as Jeanne
1977Mala, Love and Death as Adalgisa Belli
1975The Pink Telephone as Françoise Castejac, épouse de Benoît
1975The Return of the Exorcist as Barbara
1975Van der Valk and the Scapegoat as Arlette van der Valk
1975Mais où sont passées les jeunes filles en fleurs ? as Mme de Saintange
1975Apostrophes (1 Episode) as Self
1974Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter as Arlette van der Valk
1974The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine as The Abbess
1974La prova d'amore as Angela Mother
1973Van der Valk and the Rich as Arlette van der Valk
1973The Angels as Anne
1973When Love Is Lust as Giulia Sanfelice
1971Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima as Laura Gaudenzi
1971The Hideout as Charlotte
1971The Beasts as Clara Borsetti
1970The Lovemakers as Virginia
1970Mont-Dragon as La comtesse Germaine de Boismenil
1970Your Sweet Body to Kill as Diana Ardington
1970Un caso di coscienza as Sandra Solfi
1969Winter Wind as Unknown
1969Les vieilles lunes as Unknown
1969The Fourth Wall as Cristiana
1969Rabbit in the Pit as Francine Pouliard
1969La donna a una dimensione as Paola
1969A Woman on Fire as Clara Frisotti
1968Spirits of the Dead as Friend of Countess (segment "Metzengerstein")
1968Johnny Hamlet as Gertry
1968Italian Secret Service as Elvira Spallanzani
1967The Other One as Simone
1967Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te as Paolo's Mother
1966Enter Inspector Maigret as Simone
1966Via Macau as Colette
1966The Murder Clinic as Gisèle
1966Galia as Nicole
1965The Glass Cage as Unknown
1964Ein Mann im schönsten Alter as Lucy
1963Portuguese Vacation as Françoise
1963A Sentimental Attempt as Carla
1963The Verona Trial as Frau Beetz
1963Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn as Lilli
1962The Condemned of Altona as Leni von Gerlach
1962Bon Voyage! as The Girl
1962Sign of the Lion as Hélène (uncredited)
1962The Sea as La Donna
1961Paris Belongs to Us as Terry Yordan
1961The Game of Truth as Guylaine de Fleury
1961The Girl with the Golden Eyes as Eléonore San Real
1961Over the Wall as Lucienne, mother
1961The Season for Love as Françoise
1961Playtime as Anne de Limeuil
1961Time Out for Love as Gladys
1961Payroll as Katie Pearson
1960Thank You, Natercia as Françoise
1960The Enemy General as Nicole
1960Women Are Like That as Isabelle
1960Le Bel Âge as Françoise
1958That Night as Secretary
1953The Three Musketeers as Ketty
1952Leathernose as A young guest
1951Clara de Montargis as Unknown
1951Miracles Only Happen Once as (uncredited)
1949Jean de la Lune as (uncredited)
Writing
1981L'Amour nu ... Writer