Lucien Baroux
Lucien Baroux (born Marcel Lucien Barou) (Toulouse, 21 September 1888 – Hossegor, 21 May 1968) was a French actor. He began his career working in the theatre, moving on to a long career in films from the 1930s.
In the field of musical comedy he created roles in Brummell in 1931 (Jim), Déshabillez-vous ! in 1928 (Dumontel), Passionément in 1926 (Captain Harris), and J'adore ça in 1925 (Jacques Cocardier). He appeared as Laurent XVII in the 1935 film and 1956 recording of La mascotte.
He took part in the complete recording of Le Malade imaginaire (as Monsieur Diafoirus), in 1964 starring Michel Galabru on L'Encyclopédie Sonore Hachette.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.291 |
| Birthday | 1888-09-21 |
| Place of Birth | Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France |
| Also Known As | Marcel Lucien Edouard Barou, Lucien Barou, |
1958
Les Misérables
7.1/98
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1938
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
5.667/9
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
1962
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
5.442/26
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1956
Murderers and Thieves
6.2/13
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
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Murderers and Thieves
1935
Baccara
7.6/5
A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.
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Baccara
1939
Behind the Facade
7.833/6
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildi...
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Behind the Facade
1936
The Bureaucrats
5.75/2
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The Bureaucrats
1950
First Communion
6.1/15
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First Communion
1936
Adventure in Paris
6/2
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Adventure in Paris
1935
What a Funny Kid!
6.75/4
Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.
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What a Funny Kid!
1945
Check on the King
0/0
Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Lo...
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Check on the King
1949
Valse brillante
0/0
A prima donna hires a man to pretend to be her lover so as to protect her from an unwelcome suitor. Unbeknownst to her, he is a tenor in disguise.
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Valse brillante
1948
Nine Boys, One Heart
6/1
During the Christmas season, Christine, a singer and her friends find themselves penniless. She falls asleep and dreams that she goes to heaven, follo...
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Nine Boys, One Heart
1954
Trois jours de bringue à Paris
5.5/2
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Trois jours de bringue à Paris
1942
Prince Charming
0/0
Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man.
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Prince Charming
1941
Bearer Check
1/1
Returning from America where he received a large inheritance, Alaric would like to have a wedding before returning to the family home where his sister...
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Bearer Check
1935
Inspector of the Red Cars
1/1
Bernard, Sleeper Coach conductor and automobile inventor, is confused to be the racing car company president, and falls in love with a countess, who i...
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Inspector of the Red Cars
1952
Ils sont dans les vignes...
5/1
In 1935, in the Burgundian village of Valromey, Commissioner Desbordes was the very unpopular leader of the anti-alcoholic league. His own brother, Pi...
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Ils sont dans les vignes...
1936
Forty Little Mothers
6/2
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Forty Little Mothers
1935
Mysteries of Paris
0/0
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Mysteries of Paris
1931
Ronny
5/2
Käthe von Nagy plays Ronny, who designs the costumes for the upcoming premiere of an opera written by the young prince of Perusa (Willy Fritsch) and h...
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Ronny
1945
The French Way
5/5
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
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The French Way
1934
My Heart Is Calling You
0/0
Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, t...
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My Heart Is Calling You
1931
Dragnet Night
5.8/6
A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-c...
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Dragnet Night
1926
What for?
0/0
Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The managers of a music-hall notice him. He ta...
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What for?
1940
Miquette
0/0
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Miquette
1933
Dream Castle
6.5/4
A film actress falls for an extra on her set, he turns out to be a prince.
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Dream Castle
1936
La Marraine de Charley
5/1
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La Marraine de Charley
1932
Vous serez ma femme
0/0
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Vous serez ma femme
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
1955
Napoleon
6.3/17
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Napoleon
1934
C'était un musicien
0/0
When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he f...
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C'était un musicien
1947
The Fan
0/0
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The Fan
1939
Fire in the Straw
0/0
Antoine Vautier is a failed actor. A director hires Christian, Antoine's son, for a film. He immediately becomes a star. Antoine suffers from it. Chri...
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Fire in the Straw
1956
Les Truands
4.5/2
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a h...
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Les Truands
1937
The Gateway Streak
1/1
A brave man accidentally gives some good tips to a client who immediately hires him as a secretary. But he is kidnapped by a rival bank and there is a...
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The Gateway Streak
1932
Should We Wed Them?
0/0
Professor Bock is to inaugurate the museum, the construction of which was donated by a generous patron who remains anonymous. He learns that it is his...
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Should We Wed Them?
1956
The Carrots Are Cooked
3/1
Two ambitious parents decide to change their name for a foreign patronymic so that their young son Edmond can win fame easier. He's a eleven-year-old...
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The Carrots Are Cooked
1931
Ronny
0/0
Ronny is a young designer on her way to the capital of the Ruritanian Kingdom of Perusa with the costumes she has created for the operetta written by...
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Ronny
1932
The Beautiful Adventure
0/0
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The Beautiful Adventure
1932
The Champion Cook
0/0
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The Champion Cook
1935
La Mascotte
0/0
The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of the good King Laurent XVII whose finances are in ba...
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La Mascotte
2018
Clouzot : The Early Works
0/0
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Clouzot : The Early Works
1933
All for Love
4/1
A famous tenor manages to charm away a lovely young lady who was just about to be married to the opera director.
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1930
Tenderness
0/0
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Tenderness
1931
The woman and the nightingale
0/0
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1934
The Amorous Garrison
7/2
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The Amorous Garrison
1934
Ces messieurs de la Santé
7.5/4
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Ces messieurs de la Santé
1934
Maître Bolbec et son mari
6.5/1
Maître Bolbec is a famous lawyer but the dress she is wearing is not the one her husband would like her to see. When she realizes that he is cheating...
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Maître Bolbec et son mari
1935
Le Billet de mille
0/0
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
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Le Billet de mille
1935
Arènes joyeuses
0/0
Cabissol, the Mayor of Martigues, a town in the South of France, wishes to organize a bullfight as part of the coming festivities. But that is not cou...
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Arènes joyeuses
1935
Les Sœurs Hortensia
0/0
Aline's father encourages his daughter's extra-marital love affair with a rich Argentinian. Aline's husband meets a little dancer, Marie, who looks li...
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Les Sœurs Hortensia
1936
Daddy's Girl
2/1
After winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her father.
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Daddy's Girl
1936
Une gueule en or
0/0
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed...
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Une gueule en or
1937
L'Ange du foyer
0/0
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with C...
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L'Ange du foyer
1938
4 A.M.
0/0
Monsieur Durand-Bidon's mother-in-law is decidedly cantankerous. She never ceases - she who is a duchess - to reproach the latter for his low origins....
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4 A.M.
1938
Monsieur Breloque a disparu
0/0
The brave Monsieur Breloque has a friend, Pierre Martel, a private detective. When the latter asks him to replace him for a while, Breloque, although...
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Monsieur Breloque a disparu
1938
Un fichu métier
0/0
Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron P...
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Un fichu métier
1940
Moulin Rouge
5/1
A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
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Moulin Rouge
1942
The Woman I Loved the Most
8/1
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life...
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The Woman I Loved the Most
1942
L'Ange Gardien
10/1
A former colonial official lives far from Paris with a dry cousin who pays attention to his heritage. He never took care of his son, married to a sing...
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L'Ange Gardien
1942
Soyez les bienvenus
0/0
Before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boisleroi, well off, lived in their castle while their son Jacques courted Geneviève, the manager's daughter. On mobiliza...
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Soyez les bienvenus
1942
The Big Fight
0/0
The formidable K.O. Bouillon killed trainer Victor's colt during a boxing fight. Strongly affected, Victor returns to the south to find his wife and a...
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The Big Fight
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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The Ménard Collection
1947
La Nuit de Sybille
0/0
Two burglars enter a house where a young woman has illegally settled. In exchange for her silence, she asks them to play the role of her parents so th...
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La Nuit de Sybille
1950
Round of Hours
0/0
A singer who has become voiceless is forced to leave his wife and children. He will become famous again as a clown.
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Round of Hours
1950
Banco de prince
0/0
Josette, the daughter of a hotel-casino owner on the French Riviera is wooed by Pradier, a young gambler she (and everyone else) mistakes for the Prin...
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Banco de prince
1951
Paris Still Sings!
0/0
A famous comedian decrees that his fortune will go to whoever collects as many pop star autographs as quickly as possible. When he dies, two cousins ...
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Paris Still Sings!
1951
Nocturnal Uproar
0/0
Armand Varescot, a rich and tyrannical old man, is killed by his young and pretty secretary, Caroline, while he was trying to abuse her. To avoid scan...
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Nocturnal Uproar
1952
Pleasures of Paris
0/0
Jean-Pierre, a pianist, is also the composer of a revue he would very much like Maroni, a famous theater producer, to put on. Maroni is not interested...
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Pleasures of Paris
1964
La Mégère apprivoisée
4/1
The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
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La Mégère apprivoisée
1933
Une idée folle
0/0
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Une idée folle
1931
The girl and the boy
0/0
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The girl and the boy
1963
Le mari ne compte pas
4.5/2
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Le mari ne compte pas
1957
L'Habit vert
0/0
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L'Habit vert
1958
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
8/1
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Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1956
These Sacred Holidays
3.5/2
Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake hi...
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These Sacred Holidays
1955
Villa Sans-Souci
0/0
The whimsical Jean Latour wins a competition for a month's holiday on the Côte d'Azur. When he arrives at the "Villa Sans Souci", he discovers that th...
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