Pierre Brasseur

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-12-22 (67 years old)

Deathday

1972-08-16

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Pierre Brasseur

Biography

Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur ...

Acting

1945

Children of Paradise

as Frédérick Lemaître

1966

1960

Eyes Without a Face

as Professor Génessier

1962

Emile's Boat

as François Larmentiel

1958

The Possessors

as Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif

1955

Napoleon

as Barras

1952

Le Plaisir

as Julien Ledentu

1946

1943

Summer Light

as Roland

1938

1938

1961

Spotlight on a Murderer

as Comte de Keraudren

1950

Julie de Carneilhan

as Hubert Espivant

1966

King of Hearts

as General Géranium

1949

Portrait of a Murderer

as Fabius / Jean

1949

1952

Crimson Curtain

as Ludovic Arn / Macbeth

1933

1959

The Law

as Don Cesare

1931

My Friend Victor

as Edgar Flachon

1931

Circulate!

as Jean Dupont-Desroches

1934

Incognito

as Marcel

1937

1938

Gosse de riche

as Pierre Mougins

1963

Don't Tempt the Devil

as Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré

1939

Visages de femmes

as Georges Legrand

1942

La Croisée des chemins

as Hubert Epervans

1940

Sixième étage

as Jonval, the young cynic

1946

La Femme fatale

as Jean Pleyard

1960

Handsome Antonio

as Alfio Magnano

1948

Cruise for the Unknown One

as Emile Fréchisse

1950

Lost Souvenirs

as Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")

1951

Skipper Next to God

as Captain Joris KnAipper

1958

Life Together

as Pierre Carreau

1952

Torticola versus Frankensberg

as Invisible Man's Friend

1962

Hitch-Hike

as Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly

1955

Tower of Lust

as Jehan Buridan

1960

The Dialogue of the Carmelites

as Commissioner of the Republic

1968

A Little Virtuous

as Jules Polnick

1938

Grisou

as Hagnauer

1946

Pétrus

as Rodrigue

1966

1946

Behind These Walls

as Jean-César Morin

1967

The Madman of Lab Four

as Father Ballanchon

1959

Head Against the Wall

as Dr. Varmont

1960

1963

1964

Lucky Jo

as Loudéac

1951

Dirty Hands

as Hoederer

1961

1939

1962

Crime Does Not Pay

as Martin Fenayrou

1968

Birds in Peru

as Husband

1932

The Winner

as Hunter

1963

Agent of Doom

as Charlèz

1938

Heartbeat

as Cousine (uncredited)

1934

Caravane

as Lt. de Tokay

1969

Goto, Island of Love

as Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III

1948

Rocambole

as Rocambole

1963

1948

1964

The Circular Triangle

as Georges Richter

1937

Claudine at School

as Doctor Dubois

1966

Fortuna

as Nissim Buzaglo

1946

Land Without Stars

as Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud

1965

Black Humor

as Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'

1934

1961

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

as Constable of Montmorency

1937

The Virgin Bride

as Georges Letournel, le fils du mari de Jacqueline

1934

The Amorous Garrison

as Paul, rider

1938

Hercule

as Bastien

1947

Noah's Ark

as Bitru

1959

The Bureaucrats

as Monsieur Nègre

1943

Two Shy Ones

as Vancouver

1965

L'or du duc

as Le Maharadjah (l'oncle)

1964

A Very Handy Man

as Simone Palumbo

1935

A Rare Bird

as Jean Berthier

1935

Little One

as Georges Darnetal

1951

Bluebeard

as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue

1937

Confessions of a Newlywed

as Edmond Trivelin

1950

Jamaican Man

as Jacques Mervel

1939

1933

Tell Me Tonight

as Koretzky

1961

Famous Love Affairs

as le grand duc Ernest

1938

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi

as Alexandre Dumas figlio

1970

Un ange passe

as Florisse

1943

Adieu Léonard

as Prosper Bonenfant

1962

Rencontres

as Carl Krasner

1955

Oasis

as Antoine Vallin

1954

Clothing the Naked

as Console Grotti

1939

Le père Lebonnard

as Alfredo Lebonnard

1966

A Young World

as Le Grec

1953

The Drunkard

as Maître Pierre Renneville

1932

Quick

as Maxime

1948

The Secret of Monte-Cristo

as François Picault

1948

La Nuit blanche

as Pierre Taverny

1947

Love Around the House

as 'Douze Apôtres'

1935

Le Miroir aux alouettes

as Jean Forestier

1939

Second Childhood

as Frossard

1939

Last Desire

as Frossard

1935

Quadrille d'amour

as Robert Lanclot

1933

1958

Sans famille

as Jeroboam Driscoll

1954

Rasputin

as Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine

1927

Feu!

as Frémiet's ordinance

1965

Cloportes

as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver

1966

Pas de panique

as Fernand Toussaint

Production

1970

Un ange passe

as Writer

1938

Grisou

as Dialogue

1938

Grisou

as Theatre Play

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