Pierre Alcover (14 March 1893 – 14 November 1957) was a French stage and
film actor
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.
He starred in 40 films between 1918 and 1943.
In 1920 he starred in the film ''
Champi-Tortu''. One of his most notable performances was in Marcel L'Herbier's 1928 film ''
L'Argent'', as the corrupt banker Saccard.
He was the second husband of the film actress
Gabrielle Colonna-Romano, and they are buried together in the cimetière de Rueil-Malmaison.
Selected filmography
* ''
Marion Delorme'' (1918)
* ''
L'Hirondelle et la Mésange'' (1920)
* ''
En plongée'' (1926)
* ''
L'Argent'' (1928)
* ''
La Petite Lise'' (''Little Lise'') (1930)
* ''
Le Mariage de Mlle Beulemans'' (''The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'') (1932)
* ''
Criminal
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'' (1933)
* ''
Theodore and Company'' (1933)
* ''
Bourrasque'' (1935)
* ''
Deuxième bureau
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'' (''Second Bureau'') (1935)
* ''
In the Service of the Tsar'' (1936)
* ''
Donogoo
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'' (1936)
* ''
La Citadelle du silence'' (''The Citadel of Silence'') (1937)
* ''
Un carnet de bal'' (''Life Dances On'') (1937)
* ''
Le Messager'' (''The Messenger'') (1937)
* ''
L'Homme de nulle part'' (''The Man from Nowhere'') (1937)
* ''
La Rue sans joie'' (''Street Without Joy'') (1938)
* ''
Nights of Princes'' (1938)
* ''
Ernest the Rebel'' (1938)
* ''
Le Colonel Chabert'' (1943)
External links
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1893 births
1957 deaths
French male film actors
French male silent film actors
20th-century French male actors
Troupe of the Comédie-Française
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