Alain Mottet
Actor
- Born
- December 30, 1928 · Lyon, Rhône, France
- Died
- October 31, 2017 (age 88)
Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France – 31 October 2017 in Paris, France) was a French actor.
Alain Mottet appeared in dozens of films, often in secondary roles. He appeared in three films with José Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in L'Affaire de la malle à Gouffé. In 1969, in L'Armée des ombres, he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned.
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For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series Vidocq in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker including on several episodes of Au théâtre ce soir. One of his most notable TV roles was as Shazénian in the fairytale Shéhérazade, shown at the end of 1971: on a flying horse, he walks with Claude Jade into the night sky.
In parallel to his screen career, he also continued to work on stage, most notably in plays by Jean Le Poulain, Roger Planchon, André Barsacq and Georges Wilson. He was part of the cast of the Comédie-Française from 1986 to 1988.
Married to Françoise Hirsch (1930-2017), until his death on 31 October 2017, he is the father of Christine Mottet and actor and musician Pierre Mottet.
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Known for
Acting31
- 2013L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes as Self
- 2010L'appel du 18 juin as Maréchal Pétain
- 2003Mata Hari, la vraie histoire as Me Clunet
- 2002Aram as Miran Sarkissian
- 1991Venus and Lulu as Marceau le comédien
- 1990My New Partner II as Le préfet
- 1983Un dimanche de flics as Director
- 1980Inspector Blunder as Dumeze, le directeur de la police
- 1980Le Curé de Tours as M. de Bourbonne
- 1978
