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