Robert Le Vigan
Actor
- Born
- January 8, 1900 · Paris, France
- Died
- October 12, 1972 (age 72)
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Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".
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A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.
Known for
Port of Shadows
May 17, 1938
The Lower Depths
December 11, 1936
Boys' School
April 5, 1938
Harvest
October 28, 1937
It Happened at the Inn
April 14, 1943
Who Killed Santa Claus?
October 16, 1941
La Bandera
September 25, 1935
Madame Bovary
January 4, 1934
The Man from Nowhere
February 18, 1937
Four Flights to Love
October 27, 1939
The Last Turning
May 17, 1939
Jenny
September 18, 1936
Acting61
- 2021Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit as lui-même
- 1954Río Turbio
- 1951La orquídea
- 1951El correo del rey as Peabody
- 1950Ley del mar as Rafael
- 1945Bifur 3 as Paul (uncredited)
- 1945La Grande Marnière as Fleury
- 1944The Ménard Collection as Amédée Garbure
- 1943The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil as Grégori
- 1943Don't Shout it from the Rooftops as le professeur Léonard Bontagues