Andrex (1907–1989) was a French
film actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...
.
[Andrew p.125] Andrex was a close friend of the comedian
Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born near Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan ...
and appeared in many films alongside him.
He was married to the actress
Ginette Baudin
Ginette Baudin (1921–1971) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.471 She was married to the actor Andrex.
Selected filmography
* ''The Stairs Without End'' (1943)
* ''Son of France'' (1946)
* ''The Beautiful Trip'' (1947)
* ''The Unexpect ...
.
Partial filmography
* ''Toine'' (1932)
* ''Le coq du régiment'' (1933)
* ''Les Bleus de la marine'' (1934) - Le lieutenant
* ''
Angèle'' (1934) - Louis
* ''
Toni'' (1935) - Gabi
* ''Ferdinand le noceur'' (1935) - Un client du bordel (uncredited)
* ''La brigade en jupons'' (1936)
* ''
Josette'' (1937) - Lucien
* ''Les dégourdis de la 11ème'' (1937) - Le sergent
* ''Ignace'' (1937) - Serge de Montroc
* ''
Life Dances On'' (1937) - Paul
* ''
Gribouille
Marie-France Gaîté (born 17 July 1941 in Lyon, France – died 18 January 1968), better known as Gribouille was a singer, musician, and songwriter.
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As a teenager, she suffered from a mental disorder, and for a time was confined ag ...
'' (1937) - Robert
* ''L'affaire du courrier de Lyon'' (1937) - L'avocat de Lesurques
* ''
La Marseillaise
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du ...
'' (1938) - Honoré Arnaud
* ''
The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (1938) - Robert Cerani
* ''
Barnabé'' (1938) - André Dubreuil
* ''Vacances payées'' (1938) - Gangster #1
* ''Le dompteur'' (1938) - Bertrand
* ''
Hôtel du Nord'' (1938) - Kenel
* ''Les gangsters du château d'If'' (1939) - Bimbo
* ''
The Five Cents of Lavarede'' (1939) - Jim Strong
* ''
Behind the Facade'' (1939) - André Laurent, l'employé de banque
* ''
Nightclub Hostess'' (1939) - Marcel
* ''
Fric-Frac'' (1939) - Petit-Louis
* ''
Extenuating Circumstances'' (1939) - Môme de Dieu (Kid of God)
* ''Une idée à l'eau'' (1940) - Le deuxième scénariste
* ''
Parade en sept nuits'' (1941) - Tonin - le séducteur
* ''Le club des soupirants'' (1941) - Maxime
* ''Un chapeau de paille d'Italie'' (1941) - Achille de Rosalba
* ''Simplet'' (1942) - Rascasse
* ''Les petits riens'' (1942) - Mesnard
* ''
A Woman in the Night
''A Woman in the Night'' (French: ''Une femme dans la nuit'') is a 1943 French drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant and Claude Dauphin.Rège p.469
The film's sets were designed by the art dire ...
'' (1943) - Le charbonnier
* ''La bonne étoile'' (1943) - Maurice Carissol
* ''Le mistral'' (1943) - Charles
* ''
Madly in Love'' (1943) - Ulysse
* ''
Madame et son flirt'' (1946) - Gérard Sauvaget
* ''
The Woman in Red'' (1947) - Le chef des gangsters
* ''
The Three Cousins'' (1947) - Claude
* ''
Manon
''Manon'' () is an ''opéra comique'' in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel '' L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was fi ...
'' (1949) - Le trafiquant
* ''
The Heroic Monsieur Boniface'' (1949) - Charlie
* ''Uniformes et grandes manoeuvres'' (1950) - André Duroc
* ''
The Sleepwalker'' (1951) - Charlie, le chef des gangsters
* ''Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité'' (1951) - Tisalé
* ''La Table-aux-crevés'' (1951) - Frédéric Gari
* ''
The Sheep Has Five Legs'' (1954) - Un marin
* ''
Spring, Autumn and Love'' (1955) - Blancard
* ''
Four Days in Paris'' (1955) - Le brigadier
* ''
If Paris Were Told to Us'' (1956) - Paulus
* ''
If All the Guys in the World'' (1956) - Le docteur Lagarrigue
* ''Les promesses dangereuses'' (1956)
* ''
The Virtuous Bigamist'' (1956) - Frédéric
* ''
Honoré de Marseille
''Honoré de Marseille'' is a 1956 French comedy film by Maurice Régamey.
Plot
The story begins in 600 BC with the landing in a calque of a Phocéenne galley commanded by the warrior Honorius who, married by mistake the daughter of the Ligurian ...
'' (1956) - Pastèque
* ''Vacances explosives!'' (1957) - Joe Ravello dit Monsieur Jo
* ''Paris clandestin'' (1957) - Max
* ''
C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles
''C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles'' is a French film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger, it was released in cinemas on October 16, 1957.
Plot
A young woman is distraught that she can't marry the man she loves but finds happiness whilst appearin ...
'' (1957) - Andrex (uncredited)
* ''La p... sentimentale'' (1958) - Tony - le souteneur
* ''
Interpol Against X
''Interpol Against X'' (French: ''Interpol contre X'') is a 1960 French crime film directed by Maurice Boutel and starring Howard Vernon, Maria Vincent and Andrex.Rège p.137 It is also known by the alternative title of ''Dossier AST-555''.
Ca ...
'' (1960) - Mathias
* ''
Cocagne
Cocagne () is a Canadian community, formerly part of an eponymous local service district (LSD) and later incorporated rural community, in Kent County, New Brunswick.
History
It was named after Cockaigne, a mythical paradise in medieval Fre ...
'' (1961) - Amedee
* ''
Magnet of Doom
''Magnet of Doom'' (french: L'Aîné des Ferchaux, "The Elder Ferchaux"), also known as ''An Honorable Young Man'', is a 1963 French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, based on the novel of the same title by Georges Simenon.
Synopsis
In Paris ...
'' (1963) - M. Andrei
* ''
Monsieur
( ; ; pl. ; ; 1512, from Middle French , literally "my lord") is an honorific title that was used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the French royal court. It has now become the customary French title of respec ...
'' (1964) - Antoine
* ''
L'Âge ingrat'' (1964) - Le camionneur (uncredited)
* ''
Your Money or Your Life'' (1966) - Le chef de convoi
* ''La honte de la famille'' (1969) - Etouvant
* ''Charles and Lucie'' (1979) - Le patron du bar 'Quand même' (uncredited)
* ''
Cap Canaille
Cap Canaille is a headland situated in the Bouches-du-Rhône ''département'', in southern France, on the Mediterranean Sea coast between the towns Cassis and La Ciotat and about 27 km (16 mi) from the centre of Marseille. At , it is t ...
'' (1983) - Pascal Andreucci (final film role)
References
Bibliography
* Andrew, Dudley. ''Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film''. Princeton University Press, 1995.
External links
*
1907 births
1989 deaths
French male film actors
Male actors from Marseille
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