Léon Larive
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1886-06-28
Place of Birth:Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...

Madame Bovary (1934)
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new...

La Mascotte (1935)
The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of the good King Laurent XVII whose finances are in...

Zero for Conduct (1933)
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

The Lower Depths (1936)
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...

Two Timid Souls (1928)
Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to...

Bubble Gum (1931)
Boule de Gomme is a child actor. On the set of the film he is shooting he gets on the nerves of the director and of the all crew by being off the...

Un client de province (1932)
Doctor Planturel who is leaving for a vacation, hires a new servant too hastily. Now, Victor, the alleged domestic, is in fact a robber whose only...

Le soir des rois (1933)
Georges de Frileuse is a partier who inherits a castle and a ruby necklace when his aunt dies. On Twelfth Night, he invites a few friends over,...

Fat Man's Worries (1933)
A young lady whose husband has been seeing someone else decides to make him jealous by flirting with the unlikely prospect of a fat man.Is it worth...

Theodore and Company (1933)
Chénérol, a wealthy merchant, one day discovers that his wife is having an affair and that his nephew is playing with him. Indeed, the...

The Big Bluff (1933)
Roger Latour introduces himself to Wilky Studios as the famous thief Silver Jim, and offers to fulfill the role of king of the slums for whom the...

Casanova (1934)
Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in...

Minuit... place Pigalle (1928)
A Paris night club proprietor falls from grace and is reduced, after going away for a while, to working there in a menial position.

La dactylo se marie (1934)
A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble,...

L'Or dans la rue (1934)
A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket...

Bach the Detective (1936)
Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former...

Claudine at School (1937)
Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her small village school run by Miss Sergeant. A new...

Nuits de princes (1938)
In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and...

Rasputin (1938)
Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.

The Tale of the Fox (1941)
In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He...

Ça... c'est du sport (1938)
Trapon, a bank employee, is in love with Mrs. Lavator, who wants to marry off her two daughters before marrying her. As one of the two fiancés...

The Little Thing (1938)
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary...

The Train for Venice (1938)
Discovering his wife's relationship with a middle-class snob, a husband tries his best to break this relationship by the seducer himself and ends up...

Those of the Sky (1941)
An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes...

The Mayor's Dilemma (1939)
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the...

Le Château des 4 obèses (1939)
In a castle, one stormy evening, Doctor Carter and a whole merry company find themselves welcomed by the four brothers who hold the place. The four...

Paris Romance (1941)
Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a womanizing singer who made his mother...

Pontcarral, Empire Colonel (1942)
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the...

Cavalcade of Love (1939)
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that...

Ici l'on pêche (1941)
A painter has his daughter brought up by a couple of innkeepers who run an establishment on the edge of the water with the sign: Here we fish. Having...

Sacred Woods (1939)
Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the Legion of Honor award. One solution could be to...

La Grande Marnière (1945)
A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and...

The Honorable Catherine (1943)
Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband...

Cristobal's Gold (1940)
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless...

Fou d'amour (1943)
Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds...

Opéra-musette (1942)
The itinerant musician Lampluche, having found a musical score on the banks of a river and a full wallet, was taken to the neighboring town for the...

Voyage Without Hope (1943)
Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo ship is willing to smuggle him out out France for a...

The Traveler Without Luggage (1944)
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability...

The Hunchback (1944)
The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a...

The Bohemian Life (1945)
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer,...

The White Blackbird (1944)
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an...

The J3 (1946)
During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at selling cigarettes and silk stockings than at...

Master Love (1946)
Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his...

The Revenge of Roger (1946)
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died...

Homeland (1946)
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt...

Destiny (1946)
This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life.

Devil in the Flesh (1947)
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with...

La Carcasse et le Tord-cou (1948)
La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his...

The Crowned Fish Tavern (1947)
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer...

The Killer is Listening (1948)
April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true crime occurs.

Miquette (1950)
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships...

Here Is the Beauty (1950)
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit...

Wear His Heart on His Sleeve (1949)
Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One day he is fired for having accompanied...

The Secret of Mayerling (1949)
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are...

Return to Life (1949)
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second...

Rendezvous in July (1949)
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

Jamais deux sans trois (1951)
Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3....

Just Out (1949)
Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome author, Maréchal, another successful but bitter...

Les deux Monsieur de Madame (1951)
Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.

Le Roi des camelots (1951)
How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor,...

Without Leaving an Address (1951)
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.

A Night at a Honeymoon (1950)
Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police...

Paris Vice Squad (1951)
Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government...

Cherished by her concierge (1951)
Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretaker is Madame Motte, and the lady is in love...

Beauties of the Night (1952)
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

Trip to America (1951)
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the...

La Grande Passion (1928)
This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby.

Des quintuplés au pensionnat (1953)
In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champrès' son.

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

Yoshiwara (1937)
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love...

All That Is Not Worth Love (1931)
Tourneur's first film tells the story of a chemist, Jules Renaudin. He welcomes a young pregnant girl, Claire, who enters his pharmacy in despair one...

The Rules of the Game (1939)
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

I'll Get Back to Kandara (1956)
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his...

Crossroads (1938)
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper,...

Children of Paradise (1945)
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious...

Dr. Laennec (1949)
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.

Messieurs Ludovic (1946)
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will...

François Villon (1945)
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles.

Pasha's Wives (1939)
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows...

The Bellman (1945)
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to...

When You Read This Letter (1953)
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister....

Scandals of Clochemerle (1948)
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the...

The Mark Of The Day (1949)
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young...

Life Is Ours (1936)
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

La Marseillaise (1938)
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the...

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...

Frou-Frou (1955)
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me (1955)
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to...

Monsieur Coccinelle (1938)
An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a...

Le masque d'Hollywood (1930)
Dixie, a young Broadway dancer, leaves her fiancé Jimmy to go into the movies.

The Aviator (1931)
Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against...