Robert Le Vigan
Actor
Biography
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Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".
A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.
Filmography
The Lower Depths
as l'acteur alcoolique 1936
Boys' School
as l'homme «invisible» 1938
It Happened at the Inn
as Goupi-Tonkin 1943
Harvest
as Sergeant De Sault 1937
Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Leon Villard 1941
La Bandera
as Fernando Lucas 1935
The Man from Nowhere
as Le comte Papiano 1937
Madame Bovary
as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant 1934
Four Flights to Love
as Edouard Bordenave 1939
The Last Turning
as Blackmailer cousin 1939
Jenny
as l'Albinos 1936
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942
The Heart of a Nation
as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited) 1943
The Marriage of Chiffon
as The usher 1942
Maria Chapdelaine
as Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux 1934
The Woman at the End of the World
as Arlanger, l'Armateur 1938