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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.592 |
| Birthday | 1900-01-08 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As |
1941
Who Killed Santa Claus?
6.684/19
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1937
Harvest
6.7/31
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1936
The Lower Depths
7.29/69
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The Lower Depths
1938
Port of Shadows
7.4/257
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Port of Shadows
1939
Paradis perdu
6.107/14
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Paradis perdu
1935
Behold the Man
7.3/6
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1935
The Queen and the Cardinal
6/1
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1935
La Bandera
5.763/19
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1943
It Happened at the Inn
6.838/34
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1936
Jenny
5.923/13
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1933
Le Tunnel
6/4
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1936
One of the Legion
5/4
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1931
Moon over Morocco
5.7/3
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1932
The Yellow Dog
0/0
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1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
6/10
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1942
Business Is Business
6.5/4
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1938
Boys' School
7.3/46
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1939
The Last Turning
6.429/14
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1939
The Phantom Wagon
7.2/5
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wr...
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The Phantom Wagon
1943
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
5/2
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
1933
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
7.5/2
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1936
Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
0/0
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1938
The Little Thing
0/0
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1937
The Man from Nowhere
6.694/18
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The Man from Nowhere
1942
Dédé la musique
0/0
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1934
Maria Chapdelaine
7.8/8
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1938
Tempête sur l'Asie
0/0
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1939
The Fatted Calf
6.7/3
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1945
La Grande Marnière
0/1
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1951
Ley del mar
0/0
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1951
La orquídea
5/4
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1936
Hélène
1/1
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1938
The Woman at the End of the World
6.2/6
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1939
Louise
5.3/3
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Louise
1933
Knock
8/1
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1934
Madame Bovary
5.529/17
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Madame Bovary
1954
Río Turbio
0/0
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Río Turbio
1933
Boubouroche
0/0
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Boubouroche
1945
Bifur 3
4.5/2
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1933
The Little King
6/5
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1934
An Ideal Woman
0/0
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An Ideal Woman
1934
Street Without a Name
0/0
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1934
Famille nombreuse
0/0
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1935
L'affaire Coquelet
0/0
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1936
Le Prince des Six Jours
0/0
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1937
Romarin
0/0
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1937
Franco de port
0/0
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1938
The West
0/0
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1938
The Midnight Airplane
0/0
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1938
Ernest the Rebel
5.5/4
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Ernest the Rebel
1939
The Fatted Calf
6.7/3
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whos...
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The Fatted Calf
1939
The World Will Shake
6.7/3
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The World Will Shake
1941
Paris Romance
5/4
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Paris Romance
2021
Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit
0/0
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Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit
1942
Chambre 13
0/0
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Chambre 13
1942
Patrouille blanche
0/0
An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam project for hydroelectric power that may threaten t...
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Patrouille blanche
1942
Vie privée
0/0
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Vie privée
1942
Andorra or The Bronze Men
0/0
A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.
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Andorra or The Bronze Men
1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
6/10
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The Marriage of Chiffon
1942
Business Is Business
6.5/4
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Business Is Business
1943
Immortal France
5.75/8
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussia...
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Immortal France
1943
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
5.8/2
A banker who lost everything in the stock market is on the verge of committing suicide when the Devil appears to him and offers to give him a fortune...
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The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
1944
The Ménard Collection
0/0
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of i...
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