Maurice Escande (14 November 1892 – 10 February 1973) was a French stage and film actor. In 1948 he starred in the film ''
The Lame Devil'' under
Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre (aesthetic), boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French ac ...
.
Selected filmography
*1917: ''Un vol étrange'' (Short)
*1918: ''
Simone'' - Michel Mignier
*1920: ''L'essor'' - Max de Chéroy
*1921: ''Mademoiselle de La Seiglière'' - Raoul de Vaubert
*1921: ''Fromont jeune et Risler aîné'' - Fromont jeune
*1921: ''Les trois lys'' (Short)
*1922: ''La ferme du choquart'' - Le marquis de Montaillé
*1922: ''Molière, sa vie, son oeuvre''
*1923: ''Les deux soldats'' - Julien Farjol
*1924: ''Un gentleman neurasthénique''
*1925: ''Nantas'' - Desfondettes
*1925: ''La damnation de Faust''
*1931: ''
Luck
Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The Naturalism (philosophy), naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at a ...
''
*1932: ''
Kiss Me'' - Gaston
*1932: ''Chassé-croisé''
*1932: ''
The Three Musketeers
''The Three Musketeers'' () is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is the first of the author's three d'Artagnan Romances. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in col ...
'' - Buckingham
*1932: ''Totoche et compagnie''
*1933: ''Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier'' - Hector de Montmeyran
*1933: ''Son altesse impériale'' - Le comte Symoff
*1933: ''Jeunes filles à marier'' - John Gordon
*1935: ''
The Scandalous Couple'' - Desbonnières
*1935: ''
Dora Nelson'' - Santini
*1935: ''
Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia (18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spoleto.
Her family arranged ...
'' - Jean Borgia, Duke of Gandie
*1935: ''
The Green Domino'' (''Le domino vert'') - Henri Bruquier - un critique d'art
*1935: ''Un soir à la Comédie Française'' (Documentary)
*1936: ''Le collier du grand duc'' - L'inspecteur
*1936: ''
La Garçonne'' (''La garçonne'') - Lucien Vigneret
*1936: ''Les deux gamines'' - Pierre Manin
*1936: ''
Sept hommes, une femme'' - Bizulier
*1936: ''
The Two Boys'' - Georges de Kerlor
*1936: ''Tout va très bien madame la marquise'' - Le marquis des Esnards
*1936: ''Les demi vierges'' - Julien de Suberceaux
*1936: ''Les petites alliées'' - Le duc de Lestissac
*1937: ''
The Red Dancer'' - Ursac
*1937: ''
Cinderella
"Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a Folklore, folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. The protagonist is a you ...
'' - Gilbert
*1937: ''
The Messenger'' - Géo
*1938: ''
La Marseillaise
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by the First French Republic against Austria, and was originally titled "".
The French Na ...
'' - Le seigneur du village
*1938: ''
Liberty
Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The concept of liberty can vary depending on perspective and context. In the Constitutional ...
'' - Auguste Bartholdi
*1938: ''
Café de Paris'' - Le marquis de Perelli
*1939: ''La belle revanche'' - Jacques Dorcel
*1940: ''
Paris-New York'' - Conrad
*1941: ''
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge (, ; ) is a cabaret in Paris, on Boulevard de Clichy, at Place Blanche, the intersection of, and terminus of Rue Blanche.
In 1889, the Moulin Rouge was co-founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Olympia (Par ...
'' - Colorado
*1941: ''
The Black Diamond'' - Guy de Fresnoy
*1941: ''
Madame Sans-Gêne'' - Le comte de Neipperg
*1942: ''
The Woman I Loved Most
''The Woman I Loved Most'' (French: ''La femme que j'ai le plus aimée'') is a 1942 French drama film directed by Robert Vernay and starring Arletty, Mireille Balin and Lucien Baroux. https://www.unifrance.org/film/2824/la-femme-que-j-ai-le-pl ...
'' - Gaëtan
*1942: ''Étoiles de demain'' (Short, Documentary)
*1942: ''
Patricia'' - André Vernon
*1943: ''
Captain Fracasse'' - Le marquis des Bruyères / Il marchese di Bruyeres
*1944: ''La vie de plaisir'' - Le comte Roger de Boëldieu - un mondain, le fiancé d'Hélène
*1945: ''
Farandole'' - Le procureur
*1945: ''
Father Goriot'' - Monsieur de Restaud
*1945: ''Échec au roy'' - Le roi Louis XIV
*1945: ''
Bifur 3'' - Alvarez
*1946: ''
The Captain'' - Le prince de Condé
*1946: ''
The Queen's Necklace'' - Le cardinal de Rohan
*1947: ''
Hymenée'' - L'industriel Pierre Vairon
*1948: ''
The Renegade'' - Le caïd Tahmar
*1948: ''
Man to Men
''Man to Men'' (French: ''D'homme à hommes'') is a 1948 French-Swiss historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Jean-Louis Barrault, Bernard Blier and Hélène Perdrière. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. ...
'' - Jérôme de Lormel
*1948: ''
The Lame Devil'' (''Le diable boîteux'') - Randall
*1949: ''
Monseigneur
(plural: Messeigneurs or Monseigneurs) is an honorific in the French language, abbreviated Mgr., Msgr. In English use it is a title before the name of a French prelate, a member of a royal family or other dignitary.
''Monsignor'' is both a tit ...
'' - Le duc de Saint Germain
*1950: ''Amour et compagnie'' - M. Lecourtois
*1951: ''
L'Étrange Madame X'' - Jacques Voisin-Larive
*1951: ''Coq en pâte'' - Me Jacques Lion
*1952: ''Buridan, héros de la tour de Nesle'' - Enguerrand de Marigny
*1952: ''Jouons le jeu'' - l'acteur (segment 'L'optimisme')
*1953: ''
Quintuplets in the Boarding School'' - Le comte
*1953: ''
The Lady of the Camellias'' - Le duc
*1955: ''
Caroline and the Rebels'' - (uncredited)
*1955: ''
Napoléon'' - Louis XV (uncredited)
*1956: ''
If Paris Were Told to Us'' (''Si Paris nous était conté'')
*1955: ''Le fils de Caroline Chérie'' - Le Baron de Grimm
*1960: ''Antigone'' (TV Movie)
*1963: ''Les animaux''
*1964: ''Comment épouser un premier ministre'' - Grandbourg
*1966: ''
Martin Soldat'' (''Martin soldat'') - Le président du jury pour la Comédie-Française
*1971: ''Le cinéma de papa'' - Le metteur en scène académicien (final film role)
External links
His grave in Montrouge Cemetery (Paris).
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Les gens du cinéma*
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French male film actors
1892 births
1973 deaths
French male stage actors
French male silent film actors
Male actors from Paris
Administrators of the Comédie-Française
Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
20th-century French male actors
French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni