Personal Info
Birth date
1898-05-03 (127 Years)
Day of death
1963-03-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Lyon, Rhône, France
Also known as
-Antoine Balpêtré
Biography
Antoine Balpêtré (3 May 1898 – 28 March 1963) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in 52 films between 1933 and 1963. Source: Article "Antoine Balpêtré" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
Le Corbeau
7.559
Overview:
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.Diary of a Country Priest
7.558
Overview:
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.The Counterfeiters of Paris
7.009
Overview:
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.Le Rouge et le Noir
6.3
Overview:
It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control.Le Plaisir
7.6
Overview:
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.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 Murderer Lives at Number 21
7.289
Overview:
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.Lust of the Vampire
6.363
Overview:
A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.Justice Is Done
6.5
Overview:
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.The Burning Court
5
Overview:
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.The Case of Dr. Laurent
6.911
Overview:
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.If Paris Were Told to Us
5.7
Overview:
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.Before the Deluge
6.3
Overview:
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le deluge." Set in 1950, the film concentrates on five Parisian adolescents. Certain that the next war will herald the apocalypse, the youngster make plans to run off to a desert island and set up a new society. This, however, will require money, which is why the boys decide to pull off a "necessary" robbery. Idealism collapses in the face of cold reality, as the five youths suffer from the consequences of their actions. Avant le Deluge was one of a group of films cowritten by director Andre Cayatte and Charles Spaak which endeavored to explore the touchy social issues of the day: others in the Cayatte-Spaak canon include the euthanasia-themed Justice est Faite and the capital-punishment tract Nous sommes tous des assassins.Black Dossier
6.2
Overview:
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal.Carnival of Sinners
6.708
Overview:
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.House of Ricordi
6.2
Overview:
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.A Mistress for the Summer
5.5
Overview:
Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear.Stain on the Snow
6.1
Overview:
La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.Tempest in the Flesh
3.7
Overview:
A dam is under construction in the Pyrénées mountains. All the workers only have eyes for pretty, sensual Clara, the canteen waitress. And what she exchanges with many of them is more than just looks, this is for sure. Nevertheless, despite her frivolity, Clara falls truly in love with Tonio Borelli, the site foreman. The latter takes her to Paris and they marry. But Clara soon realizes that the call of the flesh still consumes her...God Needs Men
6.2
Overview:
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.We Are All Murderers
6.8
Overview:
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.Mathias Sandorf
5.8
Overview:
1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. The people see him as their liberator. Denounced by his banker, Mathias is arrested and sentenced to death. He manages to escape and takes refuge in a fishing village where he prepares a new uprising.Millionaires for One Day
5.6
Overview:
A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify.Dawn Over France
6.75
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.Story of San Michele
4
Overview:
A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician, psychiatrist, and adventurer as he travels the distances from Lapland to his Villa San Michele on Capri, with special stops in Paris and Rome. Personal physician to Queen Victoria, also physician to the Swedish royal family (he spent his last years living in the Royal Palace in Sweden), "Axel Munthe" knew everyone from the poorest clients to the most well-endowed. His love of animals, his support of bird sanctuaries, his involvement with architecture as he constructs his impressive villa throughout five summers, and his interests in archaeology and hypnotism are all explored.The Duel
NYR
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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.A Free Woman
6.7
Overview:
Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.Happy Arenas
NYR
Overview:
A watchman with a sensitive heart, Fernand falls in love with Violette and Pervenche, two of the daughters of his boss, Maître Arno. At a bullfight starring three attractive Spaniards, the girls and their sister Marguerite - with whom Fernand's companion Rémy is in love - compete in charm, to the despair of both suitors. Followed by Marina, a pretty girl who seems to take a keen interest in Fernand, the two friends decide to retire to Les Martigues, far from their belles. But soon annoyed by Marina's insistence, Fernand returns to Maître Arno's manade, while Rémy decides to become a bullfighter to win back Marguerite.La salamandre d'or
NYR
Overview:
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.Acting
1963L’espionne sera à Nouméa as Unknown
1963Mathias Sandorf as Professor Ernst Bathory
1962La salamandre d'or as Bishop
1962Story of San Michele as Leblanc
1962The Burning Court as Dr. Hermann
1961The Counterfeiters of Paris as Lucas Malvoisin
1960A Mistress for the Summer as The Poet
1959Katia as Kilbatchich
1959This Desired Body as M. Messardier
1958Happy Arenas as The tramp
1957Lust of the Vampire as Professor Julien du Grand
1957The Case of Dr. Laurent as le docteur René Vanolle
1956If Paris Were Told to Us as Verlaine
1955Il piccolo vetraio as Neroni
1955Black Dossier as Dutoit
1954A Free Woman as Collega di Liana (uncredited)
1954House of Ricordi as Dottor Fleury (uncredited)
1954Le Rouge et le Noir as Abbot Pirard
1954Die... We'll Do the Rest as Mayor
1954Before the Deluge as Albert Dutoit
1954Stain on the Snow as Holtz
1954Tempest in the Flesh as Sébastien
1952The Road to Damascus as Gamaliel
1952Son of the Hunchback as Pérolle
1952We Are All Murderers as Dr. Albert Dutoit
1952Le Plaisir as Monsieur Poulain
1951Beautiful Love as Mr. Moulin senior
1951Diary of a Country Priest as Dr. Delbende
1950God Needs Men as Father Gourvennec
1950Justice Is Done as President of the tribunal
1950No More Vacation for the Good Lord as The police inspector
1949Summer Storm as Mr. Arbelot
1949Millionaires for One Day as Toubib
1949The Hell of Lost Pilots as Reverend Father Spach
1949Suzanne and Her Brigands as Bevardel
1949Les paysans noirs as The doctor
1949Fantomas Against Fantomas as le président du conseil
1948The Figurehead as Father Morfouage
1948Fort De La Solitude as Commissioner
1946Tainted as Louberger
1943Le Corbeau as le docteur Delorme
1943Carnival of Sinners as Denis
1943Picpus as Le grand patron
1942The Murderer Lives at Number 21 as Albert (uncredited)
1941The Duel as Bugnet constructor
1939The World Will Shake as Unknown
1935Dawn Over France as Cabasse
1934La maison du mystère as Rudeberg
1933L'Agonie des aigles as Commander Thiéry