Personal Info
Birth date
1922-05-28 (103 Years)
Day of death
2015-03-27
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Salies-du-Salat, Haute-Garonne, France
Also known as
-André Thorent
Biography
André Thorent was born on May 28, 1922 in Salies-du-Salat, Haute-Garonne, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Le Samouraï (1967), Allô police (1966) and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978). He died on March 27, 2015 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
Filmography
Paganini
5.3
Overview:
Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.Le Samouraï
7.758
Overview:
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.The Sicilian Clan
7.6
Overview:
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.Madame Bovary
6.3
Overview:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
6.6
Overview:
Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.Paris Belongs to Us
6.5
Overview:
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.Paradise for All
6
Overview:
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.Twist Again in Moscow
6.076
Overview:
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party auditor who suspects that all is not above board, and he must keep out of sight and out of trouble his interloping and troublesome young brother-in-law, who arrives unannounced with barrels of rotten herring.Be Beautiful and Shut Up
5.36
Overview:
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.Make Room for Tomorrow
3
Overview:
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.By the Pricking of My Thumbs
6.184
Overview:
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.Cloportes
6.314
Overview:
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.Sachs' Disease
6.4
Overview:
Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other...Day Off
5.4
Overview:
Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.State of Grace
3
Overview:
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...Nightmare
5.8
Overview:
A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail and eventually tracks her down to the bar she had visited. As the dragnet around her closes in, it becomes apparent that the young woman's stepmother is behind the effort to locate her. But questions over why she is hiding out and what she is hiding from begin to take on more importance as the history of the young woman starts to surface.The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
5.067
Overview:
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.Life Upside Down
6.8
Overview:
A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality.Head Against the Wall
6.8
Overview:
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.The Man with Connections
5.767
Overview:
Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent for basic training outside Paris before being shipped off to Algeria. His stops in Morocco and Algeria are uneventful as far as military action goes. He returns home with few bad memories of his army life ...December
10
Overview:
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.Raging Fists
NYR
Overview:
Tony and Nanar, two teenagers who met in reform school, are part of a gang of idle, penniless youngsters from the Paris suburbs. Together, they go to dances and plan mischief. The muse of the gang, B.B. La Brune, organizes leisure activities when she's not up to no good. Unemployed and penniless, they all dream of consumption and possession. Until the day a fight turns ugly: Tony, trying to reason with Nanar, pulls the trigger.A Cloud in the Teeth
5.4
Overview:
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.Un amour de jeunesse
NYR
Overview:
Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier...Acting
2010Douze hommes en colère as Juré n°9
2005By the Pricking of My Thumbs as le curé du Châtelard
2003Nickel and Dime as Lucien, l'oncle de Jacques
2001Day Off as Agency director
1999Sachs' Disease as Mr. Guénot
1991Madame Bovary as Dr. Canivet
1990Paganini as Galvano
1989Manon Roland as Unknown
1989Catherine de Médicis as Tavannes
1986State of Grace as Florian
1986Twist Again in Moscow as Fedor
1984Dialogues des Carmélites as Javelinot, le médecin
1983Song of Autumn as Monsieur Marcel
1982Paradise for All as M. Borne
1980Nightmare as Hugo
1980La Traque (4 Episodes) as Artois
1979Make Room for Tomorrow as Le maître d'hôtel espagnol
1978Les coucous as Le gardien
1978Émile Zola ou la Conscience humaine (4 Episodes) as Allemane Allemane
1978Get Out Your Handkerchiefs as Le professeur
1977Un amour de jeunesse as Colonel
1977Appelez-moi maître as M. Frise
1975The Brigade as Advocate General Drussaens
1975Raging Fists as Commissioner
1974A Cloud in the Teeth as Commissioner-jewelry
1973The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot as Unknown
1973December as Le général Michon
1972On n'arrête pas le printemps as Unknown
1971Fric-Frac as Fernand
1970« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur as Francis
1970The Man with Connections as Commander
1969L'Amour des 4 colonels as Ikonenko
1969The Sicilian Clan as L'inspecteur Bordier
1967Le Samouraï as Policeman / Taxi Driver
1966Allô Police (36 Episodes) as le commissaire adjoint et officier de police Francin.
1965Les Dossiers de Jérôme Randax (3 Episodes) as Thulin
1965Cloportes as Gangster client of the cabaret
1965So Young a Peace as Unknown
1964Life Upside Down as Le docteur
1964Six personnages en quête d'auteur as Unknown
1963La Demoiselle de Coeur as Unknown
1961Paris Belongs to Us as Bernard
1959Julie la rousse as José
1959Head Against the Wall as Unknown
1958Be Beautiful and Shut Up as Le chauffeur de Charlemagne