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The Oldest Profession
''The Oldest Profession'' (french: Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde) is a 1967 internationally co-produced comedy film. It features contributions from six different film directors, each one doing a segment on prostitution through the ages. Plot *''The Prehistoric Era'' – the cavewoman Brit is unable to attract a visiting trader until the wall painter Rak has the idea of making up her face. *''Roman Nights'' - in Ancient Rome, the emperor Flavius makes an excuse to leave the empress Domitilla and go with the poet Menippus to a brothel. There he meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who proves to be his wife. *''Mademoiselle Mimi'' - during the French Revolution, Philibert asks to visit Mimi and from her window watches an old aristocrat being guillotined, saying it was his childless uncle. Promising to pay her as soon as the lawyers have settled the estate, he disappears. *''The Gay Nineties'' – in Paris in the 1890s, Nini goes to bed with a lonely old man and, looking through ...
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Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Biography Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist. Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer; his best-known work in this vein was possibly for '' Nana'' (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film. As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless". In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from then on he had no popular successes. On 18 June 1989, he came to public notice again, controversially, when he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the National Front and the oldest member of the assembly. In his maiden speech, in July 1989, he caused a scandal by expressing his "conce ...
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Enrico Maria Salerno
Enrico Maria Salerno (September 18, 1926 – February 28, 1994) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He was also the voice of Clint Eastwood in the Italian version of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy films, and the voice of Christ in '' The Gospel According to St. Matthew'' directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Biography Enrico Maria Salerno was born in Milan on 18 September 1926, son of Antonino Salerno, an Italian lawyer originally from Erice (in province of Trapani, Sicily) and Milka Storff, a Yugoslav violinist. At only 17, he joined the Italian Social Republic as an officer of the Republican National Guard at the AA.UU. "Varese". With the fall of the Italian Social Republic is imprisoned in the concentration camp of Coltano, near Pisa. Actually the real name of the actor was Enrico. It was during the first theatrical experiences that he decided to place the name of Mary alongside his name, probably as an affectionate tribute to his mother Milka (correspond ...
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Nadia Gray
Nadia Gray (born Nadia Kujnir; 23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress. Biography Gray was born into a Jewish family in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, and her mother was from Akkerman (Bessarabia). She left Romania for Paris in the late 1940s to escape the Communist takeover after World War II. Her film debut was in ''L'Inconnu d'un soir'' in 1949. Perhaps her best-known role was in the Federico Fellini film '' La Dolce Vita'' (1960). She played a guest role in an episode of the television series ''The Prisoner'' ("The Chimes of Big Ben", 1967). Personal life She was first married to N. Goldenberg (later Herescu), a wealthy businessman from Chișinău, then to Constantin Cantacuzino, a Romanian aristocrat who was one of Romania's top fighter aces of the war. They were married from 1946 to his death in 1958. Her third husband was Manhattan attorney Herbert Silverman. They were married from 1967 to her death in 1994. She died in New ...
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Siegfried Schürenberg
Siegfried Schürenberg (12 January 1900 – 31 August 1993) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1933 and 1974. He was born in Detmold, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany in 1993, at age 93. Although he never played leading roles, he was a well-known supporting actor who played the role of Sir John in numerous Edgar Wallace films during the 1960s. He was also a busy dubbing actor, for example as the German voice for Clark Gable in most of his films, including Rhett Butler in '' Gone with the Wind''. Selected filmography * '' Master of the World'' (1934) * '' Forget Me Not'' (1935) * '' The Higher Command'' (1935) * '' Asew'' (1935) * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) * ''To New Shores'' (1937) * ''The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (1937) * ''Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) * '' Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * ''Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * ''Madame Butterfly'' (1939) * '' The Green Emperor'' (1939) * ''Conchita and the Engineer'' ...
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Tilly Lauenstein
Tilly Lauenstein (1916–2002) was a German film and television actress. She appeared as Gerda Hofer in the b/w tv series "Alle Meine Tiere" as wife of vetenary surgeon Dr. Karl Hofer (Gustav Knuth). Partial filmography * ''Herbstmanöver'' (1936) - Magd * ''Das große Abenteuer'' (1938) * ''Chemistry and Love'' (1948) - Martina Höller * ''Das Mädchen Christine'' (1949) - Courasche * '' Anonymous Letters'' (1949) - Anita Grauberg * '' The Stronger Woman'' (1953) - Dr. Hanna Claassen * '' Stresemann'' (1957) * '' Escape from Sahara'' (1958) * ''Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11'' (1958) - Thekla - Aging Call Girl * '' For Love and Others'' (1959) - Maria von Stammer * '' Menschen im Hotel'' (1959) - Madame Grusinskaja (voice, uncredited) * '' Sweetheart of the Gods'' (1960) * '' The Last Witness'' (1960) - Aufseherin * ' (1961) - Frau Schlösser * ''Adorable Julia'' (1962) - Evie, Julias Zofe * ''Only a woman'' (1962) - Mrs. Starke * ''Black Market of Love'' (1966) - Countess * ''The Ol ...
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Martin Held
Martin Held (1908–1992) was a German television and film actor. Partial filmography * '' Dark Eyes'' (1951) - Alexander Grabner * ''Homesick for You'' (1952) - Direktor Petermann * '' Canaris Master Spy'' (1954) - Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich * ''Alibi'' (1955) - Dr. Kurt Overbeck * ''Before Sundown'' (1956) - Erich Klamroth * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1956) - Dr. Obermüller * ' (1956) - Falkenstein * ''Spy for Germany'' (1956) - Erich Gimpel * ' (1957) - Herbert Burkhardt * ''The Fox of Paris'' (1957) - Gen. Quade * ''Nasser Asphalt'' (''Wet Asphalt'') (1958) - Cesar Boyd * '' My Daughter Patricia'' (1959) - Heinz Roland, Apotheker * ''Roses for the Prosecutor'' (1959) - Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Wilhelm Schramm * ' (''Bumerang'') (1960) - Hauptkommissar Stern * '' The Last Witness'' (1960) - Direktor Werner Rameil * ''The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi'' (1961) - Frédéric René Saint-Claude * '' The Last of Mrs. Cheyney'' (1961) - Charles * ''The Dream of Lieschen Mueller'' ...
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Raquel Welch
Jo Raquel Welch ( Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress. She first won attention for her role in '' Fantastic Voyage'' (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made '' One Million Years B.C.'' (1966). Although she had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became best-selling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in '' Bedazzled'' (1967), '' Bandolero!'' (1968), ''100 Rifles'' (1969), ''Myra Breckinridge'' (1970) and '' Hannie Caulder'' (1971). She made several television variety specials. Through her portrayal of strong female characters, which helped in her breaking the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood's vigorous promoti ...
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Jacques Monod (actor)
Jacques Monod (21 August 1918 – 25 December 1985) was a French actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1947 to 1985. Filmography References External links * 1918 births 1985 deaths French male film actors French expatriates in Morocco {{France-film-actor-stub ...
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Jean Richard (actor)
Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's ''Maigret'' in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities. Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80. Filmography *1947: '' Six heures à perdre'' (directed by Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte) – Le sergent de ville *1949: '' Mission à Tanger'' (directed by André Hunebelle) – Le président *1949: '' I Like Only You'' – Un passager de l'avion *1950: '' Le Roi Pandore'' (directed by André Berthomieu) – Quichenette *1950: ''Adémaï au poteau-frontière'' (directed by Paul Colline) *1951: '' The King ...
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Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Early life Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. Career In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film ''Le coup du berger'' ('' Fool's Mate'') by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French '' nouvelle vague'' and a star. He appeared in films of ''nouvelle vague'' directors such as Claude Chabrol ('' Le Beau Serge'', 1958; '' Les Cousins'', 1959), Louis Malle ('' Ascenseur pour l'échafaud'', 1958; '' Les Amants'', 1958), François Truffaut (''Les 400 Coups'', 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (''Une femme est une femme'', 1961), Éric Rohmer ('' Claire's Knee'', 1970), as well as in ...
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Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Moreau began playing small roles in films in 1949, later achieving prominence with starring roles in Louis Malle's '' Elevator to the Gallows'' (1958), Michelangelo Antonioni's ''La Notte'' (1961), and François Truffaut's '' Jules et Jim'' (1962). Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continued to appear in films into her 80s. Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world". She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for '' Seven Days... Seven Nights'' (1960), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for '' Viva Maria!'' (1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for ''The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea'' (1992). She was also the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship ...
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Giancarlo Cobelli
Giancarlo Cobelli (12 December 1929 – 16 March 2012) was an Italian actor and stage director. He was considered one of the most important directors of Italian theatre. Early life Born in Milan, Cobelli studied acting at Giorgio Strehler's Piccolo Teatro, then obtained some success as actor and mime, on stage and on television. Cobelli later was primarily active as theater director, especially devoting himself to operas alongside names such as Riccardo Muti, Roberto Abbado Roberto Abbado (born 30 December 1954, Milan) is an Italian opera and symphonic music conductor. Currently he is Artistic Partner of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In 2015 he has been appointed music director of Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia ... and Riccardo Chailly. Career He won several UBU Awards as best director. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cobelli, Giancarlo Italian male film actors 1929 births 2012 deaths Italian male stage actors Italian theatre directors Ita ...
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