Eddie Constantine

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-10-29 (76 years old)

Deathday

1993-02-25

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Eddie Constantine

Biography

Eddie Constantine  (born Edward Constantinowsky; October 29, 1917, Los Angeles, California – February 25, 1993, Wiesbaden, Germany) was an American-born French actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe. He became well-known for a series of French B movies in which he played secret agent Lemmy Caution and is now best remembered for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's philosophical science fiction film Alphaville. Constantine also appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (as himself in Beware of a Holy Whore 1971), Lars von Trier, and Mika Kaurismäki. He continued reprising the role of Lemmy Caution well into his 70s; his final a...

Acting

1971

Haytabo

as Professor

1965

1965

Alphaville

as Lemmy Caution

1991

Europa

as Colonel Harris

1978

It Lives Again

as Dr. Forrest

1966

1980

1958

Passport to Shame

as Johnny McVey

1957

Dishonorable Discharge

as Captain Burt Brickford

1954

Dames Don't Care

as Lemmy Caution

1977

The Model Couple

as Docteur Goldberg

1956

1991

1959

1961

Fiancés on the Bridge

as The Sprinkler

1962

The Seven Deadly Sins

as Self (segment "La paresse")

2018

The Image Book

as (archive footage)

1979

1979

1958

Incognito

as Robert 'Bob' Stanley

1981

Snow

as Pierrot

1953

Poison Ivy

as Lemmy Caution

1968

1980

1953

This Man Is Dangerous

as Lemmy Caution

1959

Riff Raff Girls

as Interpol Agent Williams

1959

1965

Hail! Mafia

as Rudy Hamberg

1983

The Mikado Project

as Beppo Bourbon

1964

Lucky Jo

as Lucky Jo

1982

1960

Bombs on Monte Carlo

as Kapitän Eddie Cronen

1965

1961

Destination Fury

as Felice Esposito

1964

License to Kill

as Nick Carter

1955

Give 'em Hell

as Johnny Jordan

1955

Diamond Machine

as Lemmy Caution

1965

1958

Hoppla, jetzt kommt Eddie

as Eddie Petersen

1980

Panic Time

as Lemmy Caution

1983

Non Stop Trouble with Spies

as Gregori Ustinov

1964

1956

Man and Child

as Fred Barker

1955

Headlines of Destruction

as Barney Morgan

1954

Jailbirds

as Franco Cesari

1956

Les Truands

as Jim Esposito

1971

Supergirl

as Party Guest

1954

Yours Truly, Blake

as Larry Blake

1957

The Big Bluff

as Eddie F. Morgan, adventurer and bluffer

1969

1955

5 Against the House

as Casino Robber (uncredited)

1977

1962

A Swelled Head

as Napoléon Dubois aka 'Naps'

1966

Residence for Spies

as Dan Leyton

1984

Rambo Zambo

as Harry

1982

Hochkant

as Er (He)

1956

1975

1998

In and Out of Fashion

as Self (archive footage)

1961

1965

How Not to Rob a Department Store

as Consumer at the bar (uncredited)

1981

Freak Orlando

as Säulenheiliger

1963

Your Turn, Darling

as Lemmy Caution

1962

La Paresse

as Self

1978

Tarzana

as Police Inspector

1975

A Second Spring

as Frank Cabot

1970

Malatesta

as Malatesta

1960

Women Are Like That

as Lemmy Caution

1962

Ladies' Man

as Lemmy Caution

1963

1961

It Means That Much to Me

as Eddie MacAvoy

1991

The Making of Europa

as Self / Colonel Harris

1984

1981

Die Hinrichtung

as Showagent

1989

Europe in the Evening

as Mr. Hardayle

1984

Springtime in Vienna

as Lemmy Caution

1979

Victor

as Father

1962

1960

Ravishing

as Eddie (uncredited)

1962

Cléo from 5 to 7

as The Sprinkler / Actor in Silent Film

1953

1969

Lions Love

as Eddie

1960

There's Going to Be a Party

as John Lewis / John Jarvis

1986

Makaroni Blues

as Lemmy Caution

1963

Ladies First

as Bobby Carao

1989

1962

We Will Go to Deauville

as Friend of Pin-Up Girl (uncredited)

1976

Raid on Entebbe

as Capt. Becaud

1960

Jack of Spades

as Patrick

2009

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

as Self (archive footage)

1964

1956

Tonight the Skirts Fly

as Howard l'homme attendant Marlène au bar (uncredited)

1973

Geen paniek

as Bill Silkstocking

1983

La Bête noire

as Le patron du bar américain

2015

Every Day Words Disappear

as (archive footage)

1959

Zwischen Glück und Krone

as Self (archive footage)

1993

Dark Galaxy

as (archive footage)

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