Maurice de Canonge (March 18, 1894 – January 10, 1979) was a French
actor
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and
film director
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.
[Oscherwitz & Higgins p.222] He is also sometimes known by the name Maurice Cannon.
Selected filmography
Director
* ''
Stowaway Olive'' (1931)
* ''
Olive se marie'' (1931)
* ''
Monsieur cambriole'' (1931)
* ''
Le secret de l'émeraude'' (1935)
* ''
Inspector Grey'' (1936)
* ''
À minuit, le 7'' (1937)
* ''
Boulot the Aviator'' (1937)
* ''
Un soir à Marseille'' (1938)
* ''
Grisou'' (1938)
* ''
Saint Theresa of Lisieux'' (1938)
* ''
Captain Benoit'' (1938)
* ''
Thérèse Martin
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Persons
Therese
* Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773–1839), member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg
* Therese of ...
'' (1939)
* ''
The Last Metro'' (1945)
* ''
Special Mission'' (1946)
* ''
A Cop'' (1947)
* ''
Judicial Error'' (1948)
* ''
La Bataille du feu'' (1949)
* ''
Last Hour, Special Edition'' (1949)
* ''
The Man from Jamaica'' (1950)
* ''
The Two Girls'' (1951)
* ''
In the Land of the Sun'' (1952)
* ''
Love Always Love'' (1952)
* ''
Boum sur Paris'' (1953)
* ''
The Price of Love'' (1955)
* ''
Three of the Canebière'' (1955)
* ''
Three Sailors'' (1957)
* ''
Federal Police
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'' (1958)
* ''
Happy Arenas'' (1958)
Actor
* ''La nouvelle aurore'' (1919) - Fric-Frac
* ''Les parias de l'amour'' (1921)
* ''Rapax'' (1922)
* ''
Trilby
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'' (1923) - Zouzou
* ''
Shadows of Paris'' (1924) - Robert, A Taxi Driver
* ''
The Side Show of Life'' (1924) - Horatio Bakkus
* ''
The Alaskan
''The Alaskan'' is a 1924 American silent film, silent adventure drama film based on a novel by James Oliver Curwood set in northwoods country, as his novels tend to be, in this case Alaska. The film was produced and released by Paramount Pictu ...
'' (1924) - Tautuk
* ''
Love's Wilderness'' (1924) - Pierre Bazin
* ''
Peter Pan
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'' (1924) - Cookson
* ''
The Little French Girl'' (1925) - Jerry Hamble
* ''
The Nude Woman'' (1926) - Rouchard
* ''
Forbidden Hours
''Forbidden Hours'' is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont as a vehicle for Mexican-born star Ramon Novarro. It was the second of four films to pair Novarro with leading lady Renée Adorée.
Plot
Set in the fi ...
'' (1928) - Minor Role (uncredited)
* ''L'évadée'' (1929) - Drackson
* ''Quand nous étions deux'' (1930) - Rouchard
* ''Amours viennoises'' (1931) - Muller
* ''Les quatre vagabonds'' (1931) - Novac
* ''Olive se marie'' (1931)
* ''Olive passager clandestin'' (1931) - Olive
* ''Un de la montagne'' (1934) - Le directeur de l'hôtel (uncredited)
* ''
Adémaï in the Middle Ages'' (1935) - Un officier anglais
* ''Le coup de trois'' (1936) - Le marchand de poissons
* ''
The Call of Silence
''The Call of Silence'', also screened as ''The Call'' (French: ''L'Appel du Silence''), is a 1936 French drama film directed by Léon Poirier and starring Jean Yonnel, Pierre de Guingand and Jacqueline Francell. It is a biography based on the li ...
'' (1936)
* ''Le grand refrain'' (1936)
* ''La bataille du feu'' (1949)
* ''Dernière heure, édition spéciale'' (1949) - (uncredited)
* ''
Me and the Colonel'' (1958) - Hollander (uncredited)
* ''
The Roots of Heaven'' (1958) - Haas
* ''
Cervantes
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'' (1967)
* ''
Hot Line'' (1968) - Director of Hotel (uncredited)
* ''
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!'' (1971) - 1st Client (final film role)
References
Bibliography
* Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
*
1894 births
1979 deaths
French film directors
French male film actors
French male silent film actors
20th-century French male actors
Actors from Toulon
Male actors from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Mass media people from Toulon
Filmmakers from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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