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
Hélène
Doctor Regnier
Madame Bovary
Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
Chambre 13
The Last Turning
Blackmailer cousin
Port of Shadows
The Painter
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Leon Villard
Boys' School
l'homme «invisible»
Paris Romance
The Marriage of Chiffon
The Marriage of Chiffon
The usher
It Happened at the Inn
Goupi-Tonkin
Four Flights to Love
Edouard Bordenave
Moon over Morocco
Donald Strawber
Tempête sur l'Asie
The West
Taïeb el Haïn
La Grande Marnière
Fleury
The Fatted Calf
Grussgolt
Bifur 3
Paul (uncredited)
The Citadel of Silence
Granoff, prison Chief (uncredited)
The Lower Depths
l'acteur alcoolique
Harvest
Sergeant De Sault
The Man from Nowhere
Le comte Papiano
Maria Chapdelaine
Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
Patrouille blanche
One of the Legion
Leduc
The Heart of a Nation
Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
An Ideal Woman
The Phantom Wagon
Le père Martin
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Grégori
Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
Charles Davis
Le Tunnel
Brooce
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Mousquet
Street Without a Name
Vanoël
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
le professeur Léonard Bontagues
Franco de port
Henri
The Ménard Collection
Amédée Garbure
La Bandera
Fernando Lucas
The Yellow Dog
le docteur Ernest Michoux
Behold the Man
Jésus Christ
Andorra or The Bronze Men
Asnurri
The Little King
Louise
Le peintre Gaston
L'affaire Coquelet
The Queen and the Cardinal
Cardinal Mazarin
El correo del rey
Peabody
The Midnight Airplane
Doctor
Business Is Business
Phinck
The Woman at the End of the World
Arlanger, l'Armateur
Ernest the Rebel
Governor-President of Mariposa
The Little Thing
Roger
Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit
lui-même
The World Will Shake
Le Greffier
Río Turbio
Dédé la musique
Fernand the American
Ley del mar
Rafael
Vie privée
Rémi Géraud
Famille nombreuse
Chief Warrant Officer Sandri
La orquídea
Jenny
l'Albinos
Le Prince des Six Jours
Boubouroche
Potasse