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Lucas Gridoux (16 April 1896 – 22 April 1952) was a
Romania
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n-born French
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stage and film actor
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.Lanzoni p. 99
Biography
He was born in 1896 in Herța, at the time in Dorohoi County,Kingdom of Romania
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. After emigrating to France, Gridoux began his film career in 1931, playing mainly in roles of traitors. In 1935, he was Judas
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in Julien Duvivier's Golgotha
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, and then in 1937, Inspector Slimane, a sworn enemy of Jean Gabin
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in Pépé le Moko, by the same director.
He died in 1952 at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
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History
The Salpêtri ...
in Paris, and was buried at the city's Père Lachaise Cemetery
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.
Selected filmography
* ''American Love
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Reception
AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewi ...
'' (1931)
* ''Golgotha
Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early mediev ...
'' (1935)
* '' Pépé le Moko'' (1937)
* '' The Cheat'' (1937)
* '' The Citadel of Silence'' (1937)
* '' Beethoven's Great Love'' (1937)
* '' The Men Without Names'' (1937)
* '' Storm Over Asia'' (1938)
* '' Rail Pirates'' (1938)
* '' The Queen's Necklace'' (1946)
* ''The Captain
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'' (1946)
* ''Panic
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(Panique)'' (1947)
* '' Secret Cargo'' (1947)
* '' The Scarlet Bazaar'' (1947)
* '' Dilemma of Two Angels'' (1948)
* '' Oriental Port'' (1950)
* '' The Case of Doctor Galloy'' (1951)
References
Bibliography
* Lanzoni, Rémi Fournier. ''French Cinema: From its Beginnings to the Present''. Continuum, 2004.External links
* 1896 births 1952 deaths French male film actors Romanian male film actors People from Chernivtsi Oblast Romanian emigrants to France Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery {{France-actor-stub