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Roland Lesaffre

Roland Lesaffre

French actor
June 26, 1927 (February 3, 2009)

The Passion of Bernadette

V.O.: La Passion de Bernadette
Fr. 1989. Religious drama by Jean Delannoy with Sydney Penny, Emmanuelle Riva, Malka Ribowska. The young Bernadette Soubirous enters a convent after witnessing apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1987. Religious drama by Jean Delannoy with Sydney Penny, Jean-Marc Bory, Roland Lesaffre. The story of the Virgin's apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes in 1858.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1983. Crime drama by Daniel Martineau with Roland Lesaffre, Raymond Pellegrin, Daniel Russo. Feeling threatened by the police, an escapee takes a newlywed couple hostage in a small country hotel.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1971. Adventures by Pierre Lambert with Pierre Brice, Roland Lesaffre, Yanti Somer. In Africa, a truck driver gets involved in criminal adventures.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1970. Comedy by Marcel Camus with Bourvil, Peter McEnery, Sophie Desmarets. In 1943, a Norman innkeeper unwittingly gets involved in the escape of a British aviator and the theft of documents from the German headquarters.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1970. Crime drama by Marcel Carné with Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Catherine Rouvel. An investigating judge indicts police officers whose brutality caused the death of a defendant.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Raoul André with Jean Lefebvre, Annie Cordy, Francis Blanche. To impress a beautiful girl, a shy perfumer wants to become a gangster.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 1968. Crime drama by René Jolivet with Hans Meyer, Serge Nubret, Jean Vinci. In an African country, the police investigate an arms deal and the disappearance of a child.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1967. Psychological drama by Marcel Carné with Christian Hay, Haydée Politoff, Yves Beneyton. A young woman from Nice follows a boy in Paris who claims to be a photographer for an important magazine.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1966. Crime drama by Sergio Gobbi with Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Massimi, Alain Barrière. The rivalry of two criminal gangs involved in the theft of a shipment of gold.
Runtime: 91 min.

Three Rooms in Manhattan

V.O.: Trois Chambres à Manhattan
Fr. 1965. Psychological drama by Marcel Carné with Annie Girardot, Maurice Ronet, O.E. Hasse. In New York, a French actor abandoned by his wife begins an affair with an Italian diplomat's wife.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1963. Crime drama by Sergio Gobbi with Paul Guers, Félix Marten, Roland Lesaffre. A former bandit tries to give up his tumultuous life.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1962. Police comedy by Marcel Carné with Paul Meurisse, Dany Saval, Jean Richard. A young girl covets the loot of a former bandit.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1962. Drama by Edmond T. Gréville with Danik Patisson, Georges Rivière, Magali Noël. In Brittany, an unmarried school principal falls in love with a teacher, which exacerbates his wife's jealousy.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1961. Crime drama by Edmond T. Gréville with Dawn Addams, Jean Servais, Claude Brasseur. A middle-aged man marries a young actress who will give him a hard time.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1959. War drama by Paul Mesnier with Roland Lesaffre, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Annie Andrel. In August 1944, a few hours before D-Day, the city of Saint-Malo lived its last days under Nazi occupation.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1958. Psychological drama by Marcel Carné with Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier, Laurent Terzieff. While studying in Paris, a son of a bourgeois family associates with young bohemians and falls in love with a teenager who has run away from home to enjoy her freedom.
Runtime: 125 min.
Fr. 1957. Comedy by Tony Saytor with Sophie Desmarets, Marie Daems, Pierre Destailles. The director of a real estate agency plans a scam.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 1957. Mores drama by Hervé Bromberger with Raymond Pellegrin, Madeleine Robinson, Estella Blain. During her first night on call in a hospital, a nurse witnesses dramatic events.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1957. Crime drama by Yves Allégret with Robert Hossein, Antonella Lualdi, André Luguet. A gang leader falls in love with a young woman without suspecting that she holds information that could compromise him.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1956. Crime drama by Pierre Billon with Anne Vernon, Frank Villard, Dora Doll. A squire dies of poisoning after proposing to a schoolteacher.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1956. Social drama by Ralph Habib with Raymond Pellegrin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Silvana Pampanini. Two teenagers escape from a reformatory and land in Paris, where they survive by committing a few petty thefts.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1955. Police comedy by Alfred Hitchcock with Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Charles Vanel. An ex-thief tries to prove his innocence after a series of sensational robberies.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1954. Sentimental drama by Marcel Carné with Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Lesaffre. A young boxer whose trainer sacrifices himself to make him a great champion, falls in love with a worldly woman, while considering abandoning his career.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1953. Drama by Jean-Pierre Melville with Philippe Lemaire, Juliette Gréco, Yvonne Sanson. An ex-novice tries to convince an unscrupulous man to marry her sister whom he seduced.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1953. Drama by Marcel Carné with Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby. A truck driver kills the husband of the woman he loves and is blackmailed.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1953. Psychological drama by Jean Grémillon with Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Marc Cassot. A young doctor sacrifices her love for her vocation.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1951. Mores drama by Jacques Becker with Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin. In the underworld, at the beginning of the 20th century, two men fight over a woman nicknamed ""Golden Helmet.""
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1951. Poetic drama by Marcel Carné with Gérard Philipe, Suzanne Cloutier, Yves Robert. A young man who stole for his love interest, is imprisoned and escapes in dreams every night to the land of oblivion.
Runtime: 106 min.

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