Robert Le Vigan
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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".
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.
Acting
Movie
Port of Shadows
as The Painter
1938
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The Lower Depths
as l'acteur alcoolique
1936
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Boys' School
as l'homme «invisible»
1938
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It Happened at the Inn
as Goupi-Tonkin
1943
Movie
Harvest
as Sergeant De Sault
1937
Movie
Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Leon Villard
1941
Movie
La Bandera
as Fernando Lucas
1935
Movie
Madame Bovary
as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
1934
Movie
The Man from Nowhere
as Le comte Papiano
1937
Movie
Four Flights to Love
as Edouard Bordenave
1939
Movie
The Last Turning
as Blackmailer cousin
1939
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Jenny
as l'Albinos
1936
Movie
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942
Movie
The Heart of a Nation
as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
1943
Movie
The Marriage of Chiffon
as The usher
1942
Movie
Maria Chapdelaine
as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
1934
Movie
The Woman at the End of the World
as Arlanger, l'Armateur
1938
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Golgotha
as Jésus Christ
1935
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The Little King
1933
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One of the Legion
as Leduc
1936
Movie
Le Tunnel
as Brooce
1933
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The Phantom Wagon
as Le père Martin
1939
Movie
The Fatted Calf
as Grussgolt
1939
Movie
Ernest the Rebel
as Governor-President of Mariposa
1938