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Paul Préboist
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Paul Préboist

actor (1927-1997)
February 21, 1927 (March 4, 1997)
Fr. 1985. Comedy by Richard Balducci with Paul Préboist, Marion Game, Henri Génès. A letter carrier fights against the municipal council that turns a blind eye to the pollution of their village.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1983. Comedy by Alain Payet with Paul Préboist, Jean Tolzac, Roger Carel. An emir settles with his harem in the home of a kind music publisher.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1983. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Claude Brialy with Paul Courtois, Alice Sapritch, Bernadette Lafont. The tribulations of a young mischievous orphan who is entrusted to the guardianship of an old and surly cousin.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1983. Comedy by Michel Caputo with Paul Préboist, Franck Capillery, Jean-Marie Vauclin. To escape from spies, a young inventor takes refuge in a barrack where he mingles with new recruits.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1983. Comedy by Jean-Claude Roy with Joël Prévost, Paul Préboist, Caroline Berg. After trying in vain to have their ideas or talent accepted on television, three young people decide to establish their own underground channel.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1982. Drama by Robert Hossein with Lino Ventura, Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet. A former convict is pursued by the unwavering hatred of a police officer.
Runtime: 187 min.
Fr. 1982. Comedy by Jean Yanne with Jean Yanne, Coluche, Michel Serrault. During a visit by Julius Caesar to North Africa, a modest garage owner is drawn into a political plot.
Runtime: 97 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1981. Comedy by François Leterrier with Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel, Philippe Léotard. After a quarrel with his wife, a Parisian executive decides to spend his vacation in a hippie community.
Runtime: 85 min.
Runtime: 89 min.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 96 min.

Adventure for Two

V.O.: À nous deux
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1975. Comedy by Claude Pierson with Michel Galabru, Paul Préboist, Roger Carel. Children try to stop developers from building on a vacant lot.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1974. Comedy by Michel Gérard with Michel Galabru, Paul Préboist, Alice Sapritch. On vacation in Alsace, a couple and their two grown children experience various ups and downs.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1974. Police comedy by Raoul André with Michel Galabru, Daniel Prévost, Darry Cowl. The misadventures of two unemployed actors mistakenly hired as detectives by an industrialist.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1974. Police comedy by Claude Vital with Jacques Dutronc, Mireille Darc, Axelle Abbadie. In order to avoid the takeover of the American crime syndicate, the wife of the dying head of the French underworld recruits a lowly canvasser to ensure the succession.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1974. Comedy by André Hunebelle, Jacques Besnard with Gérard Rinaldi, Gérard Filipelli, Jean Sarrus. The valets of adventurous musketeers strive to protect their masters in their mad schemes.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1974. Comedy by André Hunebelle, Jacques Besnard with Gérard Rinaldi, Gérard Filipelli, Jean Sarrus. At a moment's notice, four valets take the place of their musketeer masters and leave for England to retrieve a jewel that the French queen has unwisely given to her lover.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 90 min.

Ah, si mon moine voulait...

V.O.: L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
Can. 1973. Sketches by Claude Pierson with Gilles Latulippe, Jean-Marie Proslier, Darry Cowl. Six naughty stories involving religious people.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1972. Police comedy by Jacques Besnard with Michel Serrault, Rosy Varte, Michel Galabru. The new owners of a bar in Marseille discover that the establishment is used as a depot for drug trafficking.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1972. Comedy by Michel Gérard with Paul Préboist, Alice Sapritch, Michel Galabru. Three crooks disguised as priests lure a clergyman into a robbery they plan to carry out in a castle.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1972. Police comedy by Georges Lautner with Jean Lefebvre, Michel Galabru, Charles Southwood. Hippies who recently arrived in a village are immediately suspected in the death of the castle's butler.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1972. Comedy by Claude Zidi with Gérard Rinaldi, Jean-Guy Fechner, Jean Sarrus. Four eccentric friends get involved in sports competitions.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Serge Korber with Louis de Funès, Geraldine Chaplin, Olivier de Funès. A motorist and his passengers accidentally leave the road and perch on a tree at the side of a cliff.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Jacques Deray with Alain Delon, Paul Meurisse, Nathalie Delon. A musician, who became a priest once he believed himself a widower, has his wife reappear in his life and threaten to become a prostitute if he pushes her away.
Runtime: 85 min.

Delusions of Grandeur

V.O.: La Folie des grandeurs
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch. Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman decides to plot his revenge by passing off his valet as a nephew returning from America.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1971. Dramatic comedy by Gérard Brach with Jean-Pierre Cassel, John McEnery, Claude Jade. The close friendship between two friends deteriorates because of a woman.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1970. Comedy by Gérard Brach with Michel Simon, Patricia d'Arbanville, Paul Préboist. An elderly professor, living alone with a servant, has his habits disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a young stranger.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1970. Comedy by Pierre Richard with Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Marie-Christine Barrault. An absent-minded boy gets a job in an advertising agency, thanks to his mother's influence on the firm's director.
Runtime: 83 min.

The Troops on Vacation

V.O.: Le Gendarme en balade
Fr. 1970. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre. Retired armed police officers try to relive their past adventures.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Band

V.O.: L'Homme orchestre
Fr. 1970. Musical by Serge Korber with Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Olivier de Funès. The director of a ballet company must take care of the baby of one of his dancers.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1969. Police comedy by Richard Balducci with Michel Galabru, Claude Rollet, Rosy Varte. The son of a Marseilles mobster makes his career with the police.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Édouard Molinaro with Jacques Brel, Claude Jade, Paul Frankeur. In France during the reign of Louis XV, a country doctor leads a merry life with cheerful companions.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1968. Police comedy by Guy Lefranc with Gérard Barray, Jean Richard, Maria Mauban. A commissioner and a detective finally get the better of a gang of drug dealers.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1967. Comedy by Édouard Molinaro with Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Claude Gensac. An industrialist learns that his accountant is stealing from him and is his daughter's lover.
Runtime: 82 min.

The Two of Us

V.O.: Le Vieil Homme et l'enfant
Fr. 1967. Dramatic comedy by Claude Berri with Michel Simon, Alain Cohen, Luce Fabiole. Threatened by Nazi persecution, a Jewish child is entrusted to the care of an old peasant couple.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1967. Comedy by Jacques Besnard with Jean Lefebvre, Bernard Blier, Pierre Brasseur. The inventor of a euphoric gas is kidnapped by commercial spies.
Runtime: 90 min.

Commissaire San Antonio

V.O.: Sale Temps pour les mouches
Fr. 1966. Police comedy by Guy Lefranc with Gérard Barray, Jean Richard, Philippe Clay. A police officer infiltrates a gang responsible for the kidnapping of two scientists.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Restaurant

V.O.: Le Grand Restaurant
Fr. 1966. Police comedy by Jacques Besnard with Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Rosa Maria Rodriguez. The owner of a restaurant is drawn into a police adventure following the disappearance of a customer.
Runtime: 95 min.

Don't Look Now

V.O.: La Grande Vadrouille
Fr. 1966. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Louis de Funès, Bourvil, Terry-Thomas. A house painter and a conductor help British pilotescape from the Germans.
Runtime: 125 min.
Fr. 1966. Comedy by Serge Korber with Jean Lefebvre, Dany Carrel, Bernard Blier. The adventures of a naive and simpleton peasant visiting Paris.
Runtime: 87 min.
Runtime: 93 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1961. Comedy by René Clair with Bourvil, Philippe Noiret, Annie Fratellini. Speculators who want to buy up all the property in a small village to turn it into a residential estate come up against a stubborn old farmer who refuses to sell his farm.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1961. Drama by Jean Prat with Mireille Darc, Michel Piccoli, Paul Frankeur. The daughter of a master of arms becomes the second wife of an aristocrat whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances.
Runtime: 83 min.
Fr. 1960. Comedy by Pierre Chevalier with Fernand Raynaud, Gib Grossac, Danièle Lebrun. In order to forcefully gain the confidence of a famous criminal, a modest police officer changes his identity and lets himself be imprisoned with the criminal.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1959. Thriller by Jacques Becker with Philippe Leroy, Jean Kéraudy, Marc Michel. The escape attempt of four inmates is jeopardized by the arrival of a new cellmate.
Runtime: 132 min.
Fr. 1959. Satire by Marc Allégret with Pierre Fresnay, Darry Cowl, Anne Collette. The victim of a wrongful conviction decides to commit petty theft to compensate.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1959. Comedy by Pierre Chevalier with Fernand Raynaud, Anne Auberson, Pierre Bertin. In order to move into a mansion with four friends, a young man pretends to be a distinguished old lady.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1958. Comedy by Pierre Chevalier with Fernand Raynaud, Pascale Roberts, Jean-Roger Caussimon. Coming to Paris on business, a good dressmaker from Lyon is mistaken for a famous gangster.
Runtime: 95 min.

Gates of Paris

V.O.: Porte des lilas
Fr. 1957. Dramatic comedy by René Clair with Pierre Brasseur, Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel. For a few days, a poor man shelters a bandit being hunted by the police.
Runtime: 98 min.

La Fille Élisa

V.O.: Élisa
Fr. 1956. Drama by Roger Richebé with Dany Carrel, Serge Reggiani, Marthe Mercadier. The love between a prostitute and a young blind man blossoms, until the day he learns the truth about her.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1956. Drama by Alex Joffé with Jean-Marc Thibault, Barbara Laage, Paul Frankeur. The second thoughts of a mechanic who forgot to screw the steering nut of a car.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1952. Comedy by Marcel Aboulker with Viviane Romance, Jacques Grello, Jacques Fabbri. In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1948. Police comedy by Jacques Daroy with Paul Meurisse, Liliane Bert, Arlette Merry. While resting in France, a South American dictator disappears despite the police surveillance that is focused on him.
Runtime: 95 min.

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