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