Robert Le Vigan
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Born: January 8, 1900
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Filmography
as lui-même
as Peabody
as Rafael
as Paul (uncredited)
as Fleury
as Amédée Garbure
as Grégori
as le professeur Léonard Bontagues
as Goupi-Tonkin
as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
as Phinck
as The usher
as Asnurri
as Rémi Géraud
as Leon Villard
as Fernand the American
as Edouard Bordenave
as Le père Martin
as Blackmailer cousin
as Le Greffier
as Le peintre Gaston
as Grussgolt
as Governor-President of Mariposa
as Doctor
as Roger
as The Painter
as l'homme «invisible»
as Taïeb el Haïn
as Arlanger, l'Armateur
as Sergeant De Sault
as Granoff, prison Chief (uncredited)
as Henri
as Le comte Papiano
as l'acteur alcoolique
as Doctor Regnier
as Leduc
as l'Albinos
as Charles Davis
as Cardinal Mazarin
as Fernando Lucas
as Jésus Christ
as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
as Fouilloux, a spectator
as Vanoël
as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
as Brooce
as Mousquet
as Potasse
as le docteur Ernest Michoux
as Donald Strawber