Raimu
Raimu was the stage name for the French actor Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946). He is most famous for playing César in the Marseilles trilogy (Marius, Fanny and César).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.242 |
| Birthday | 1883-12-18 |
| Place of Birth | Toulon, France |
| Also Known As | Jules Auguste Muraire, |
1931
Marius
7.2/77
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosper...
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Marius
1932
Fanny
7.3/59
Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s departure—and her realization that she’s pregnant. Panisse...
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Fanny
1938
The Baker's Wife
7.5/70
In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a sheph...
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The Baker's Wife
1936
César
7.5/57
Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the...
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César
1939
Cocoanut
6.5/4
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in th...
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Cocoanut
1935
School for Coquettes
5/1
Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners and behavi...
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School for Coquettes
1931
Black and White
6/9
A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.
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Black and White
1935
Dawn Over France
7.7/3
The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin...
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Dawn Over France
1937
Life Dances On
6.9/28
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she...
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Life Dances On
1946
The Eternal Husband
7.7/3
An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his las...
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The Eternal Husband
1940
The Well-Digger's Daughter
6.9/32
A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
1936
Let's Make a Dream
6.9/14
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to w...
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Let's Make a Dream
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
1942
Little Nothings
7/2
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have...
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Little Nothings
1932
Fun in the Barracks
6.2/10
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
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Fun in the Barracks
1934
Tartarin of Tarascon
7/4
Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a...
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Tartarin of Tarascon
1942
The Benefactor
7.2/6
A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
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The Benefactor
1938
The Strange Monsieur Victor
6.9/16
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and consider...
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
1937
Gribouille
5/10
Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she...
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Gribouille
1942
L'Arlésienne
6.8/4
In the Camargue a local young playboy named Frédéri falls in love with a young woman from Arles. His family thinks she is unsuitable as a wife because...
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L'Arlésienne
1934
Ces messieurs de la Santé
7.5/4
Banker Jules Taffard (Jules Raimu), a true financier, is a shrewd money-handler. Imprisoned for an alleged swindle, his trial seems to be upsetting th...
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Ces messieurs de la Santé
1937
The Kings of Sport
6.3/11
Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporation's annual race.
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The Kings of Sport
1937
Armchair 47
6.1/4
A young man marries the daughter of a famous actress, but is visibly more attracted to his stepmother. She manages, not without difficulty, to reconne...
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Armchair 47
1942
Midnight in Paris
6.2/12
On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start...
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Midnight in Paris
1943
Colonel Chabert
6.9/8
The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a politi...
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Colonel Chabert
1933
Theodore and Company
0/0
Chénérol, a wealthy merchant, one day discovers that his wife is having an affair and that his nephew is playing with him. Indeed, the latter, Théodor...
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Theodore and Company
1937
La Chaste Suzanne
0/0
Madame Pomarel becomes the winner of a prize of virtue awarded by the Academy of Moral Sciences which Monsieur des Aubrais is a prominent member. In r...
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La Chaste Suzanne
1936
The King
0/0
King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris...
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The King
1942
Strangers in the House
7.028/18
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brill...
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Strangers in the House
1938
The New Rich
7/1
The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in indu...
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The New Rich
1937
Confessions of a Newlywed
5.4/5
A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a...
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Confessions of a Newlywed
1932
The Chocolate Girl
0/0
A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands up marrying her.
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The Chocolate Girl
1938
Heroes of the Marne
6/1
Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between h...
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Heroes of the Marne
1936
The Twins of Brighton
7/2
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
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The Twins of Brighton
1945
Hoboes in Paradise
8/2
In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents t...
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Hoboes in Paradise
1941
The Duel
0/0
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought bac...
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The Duel
1934
I Have an Idea
0/0
Aubrey is a debt-ridden man. One day, he has the idea of faking his death and taking on the role of a deceased cousin about to receive a beautiful i...
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I Have an Idea
1912
Godasse Fumiste
4/1
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Godasse Fumiste
1957
Stars Never Die
0/0
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raimu...
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Stars Never Die
2019
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
8/5
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, p...
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Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
1933
Charlemagne
0/0
After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning t...
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Charlemagne
1939
Last Desire
0/0
Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandone...
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Last Desire
1939
Second Childhood
0/0
Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the much-...
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Second Childhood
1931
Mam'zelle Nitouche
5.5/2
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to ch...
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Mam'zelle Nitouche
1948
La vie de Raimu
0/0
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La vie de Raimu
1934
Midnight, Place Pigalle
0/0
After retiring as a butler in a nightclub where he made his fortune, Prosper decides to return to his job after the death of his wife. Now ruined, he...
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Midnight, Place Pigalle
1936
The Secret of Polichinelle
0/0
Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The "secret" in question is an illegitimate child, the offspring of young-and-foolish Henri...
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The Secret of Polichinelle
1939
Monsieur Brotonneau
0/0
A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husband back again.
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Monsieur Brotonneau
1940
The Man Who Seeks the Truth
0/0
Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and tha...
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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
1941
Parade in 7 Nights
4.5/2
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
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Parade in 7 Nights
1937
The Pearls of the Crown
6.1/17
The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.
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