Maurice Escande
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1892-11-14
Place of Birth:Paris, France
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Bifur 3 (1945)
Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.

Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one...

Luck (1931)
A beautiful widow gambles away her fortune at baccarat and is forced her to sell her jewels and ask Victor for hospitality. Victor tries to seduce...

Mr Poirier's Son-in-Law (1933)
This is the story of a wealthy bourgeois who marries his only child, a daughter, to a penniless nobleman because he hopes to use his son-in-law to...

Les Époux scandaleux (1935)
A couple get married, not out of love, but to get away from their families. When they run out of gas and have to stop at a mountain hotel, they...

Jeunes filles à marier (1935)
Well-to-do Simone replaces her music-hall friend Yahne when her wealthy uncle visits from America.

Dora Nelson (1935)
Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her...

The Two Boys (1936)
The Count of Kerlor, to chastise his wife whom he believes to be unfaithful, entrusts his son to a couple of scoundrels. When he repents and wants to...

Seven Men, One Woman (1936)
At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of...

Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise (1936)
After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertaining tourists in Breton garb, lands up appearing in...

Les Demi-Vierges (1936)
Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée. But learning that the young girl's life has...

Les Petites Alliées (1936)
A young girl has left her family and lives as best she can on the generosity of her lovers. A naval officer introduces her to Toulon in a special...

La Danseuse rouge (1937)
Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in spite of herself, in the nets of the secret...

Liberté (1938)
Fictionalized biography of the sculptor Bartholdi.

Café de Paris (1938)
This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in...

The Woman I Loved the Most (1942)
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his...

Moulin Rouge (1940)
A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.

La Belle Revanche (1939)
A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in...

The Black Diamond (1941)
A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father.

Patricia (1942)
Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt...

Paris - New-York (1940)
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of...

Captain Fracasse (1943)
Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role:...

Life of Pleasure (1944)
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".

Farandole (1945)
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands....

Father Goriot (1945)
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.

Hyménée (1947)
Although Pierre is married, he is in love with his sister in law Marianne, while he is loved by his cousin Agnés, a spinster. Marianne loves...

The Devil Who Limped (1948)
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838),...

The Animals (1963)
Frédéric Rossif selected animal footage from 300,000 m of film, and structured his film in nine parts, from the creation of the world...

Monsignor (1949)
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a...

Love and Companionship (1950)
The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South...

Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle (1952)
In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is already coveted by the king's brother.

The Messenger (1937)
Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels...

Des quintuplés au pensionnat (1953)
In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champrès' son.

Simone (1918)
Simone has been brought up by her widowed father and Hermance, the old governess. She loves her father and worships her dead mother. But nobody has...

The Green Domino (1935)
After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love with him.

Check on the King (1945)
Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom...

La Dame aux camélias (1953)
Young and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He manages to persuade her to give up her life as a...

Cinderella (1937)
An unemployed maid is hired in a music hall to wash the floors. The whim of a screenwriter makes her go on stage in the most basic outfit. A...

Rooster in dough (1952)
A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his...

Madame Sans-Gêne (1941)
Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name.

Man to Men (1948)
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

Queen's Necklace (1946)
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la...

Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent (1946)
France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of...

La Renégate (1948)
In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father....

The Tomboy (1936)
The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man...

Comment épouser un premier ministre (1964)
Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame...

Napoleon (1955)
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location...

The Two Girls (1936)
Two girls, Ginette and Gaby, have just run away, outraged by the mistreatment of their governess. After many adventures, they will find their father,...

La Marseillaise (1938)
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the...

If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
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...

The Strange Madame X (1951)
Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her...

Son altesse impériale (1933)
Prince Boris, engaged to marry Princess Dorothea, meets and falls in love with journalist Monique in Cannes.