Max Desrau
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1918-03-21
Place of Birth:Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
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Also Known As:Max-Robert Giel

The Magnificent One (1973)
A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time...

Small Local Trains (1960)
Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a...

Wonderful Mentality (1953)
Honoré, a valet, has an extremely logical mind and is unable to tell a lie. This comes in very fortunate for the family he works for.

His Father's Portrait (1953)
Paul has to leave his country home to collect his father's inheritance of a department store. A natural-born son, Paul's stepmother gives him a cold...

The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.

Snobs! (1962)
Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade...

The Comedy of Work (1988)
Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has...

Life is beautiful (1956)
Paris, 1956. Everything is going smoothly for Roger, married to Denise, and Paul, married to Monique, until the day they win a house in a radio...

Les Lumières du soir (1956)
A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.

Les Duraton (1956)
Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be...

L'oeil en coulisse (1953)
Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd...

Five Million in Cash (1957)
Philémon De Montfilet came first in his year in the prestigious engineering school "Poly Art Technique" because of an epidemic which brought...

My Darned Father (1958)
Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major couturier's during a collection presentation....

Qu'est-ce qui fait craquer les filles... (1982)
The owner of a casino and the owner of a luxury hotel in Deauville are eternal rivals.

The Busybody (1961)
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and...

Stop the Massacre (1959)
Promoted to wrestling champion by chance, Tonin, known as le Bourreau de l'Ardèche, moves to Paris. He is quickly snapped up by Monsieur Bob,...

The Motorcycle Cops (1959)
Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday...

En bordée (1958)
The two merrymakers Cartahu and Bailladrisse sail together on a cargo ship. When customs officers come aboard to conduct a search, Cartahu is unaware...

The Girls of La Rochelle (1962)
July 13, 1389. On the initiative of the Mayor, warned by a famous astrologer, the town of La Rochelle is getting ready - 400 years in advance! to...

Miss Catastrophe (1957)
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of...

Croquemitoufle (1959)
Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic...

The Heirs (1960)
Rival brother and sister Gaëtan and Chantal, the last heirs of the late billionaire financier Omar Porassis, use every trick in the book to try...

Les baratineurs (1965)
A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and...

Clodo (1971)
Clodo, a gentle mongrel dog, isn't having much luck. His shaggy appearance has earned him the name of hobo. Often scolded by his Parisian masters for...

Mimsy Were the Borogoves (1970)
Philippe and Sylvie bring home a small container they found on the way from school and strange things start happen...

The Boss of Champignol (1966)
Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him...

La bonne peinture (1967)
A light philosophical movie about a painter who has the ability to produce paintings that can feed people's stomach by watching them.

La Bonne Planque (1964)
Émile and Fredo are two crooks who have just committed an armed robbery in a Paris bank. To escape the police, Émile, accompanied by...

Les enquiquineurs (1966)
Monsieur Eloy, his wife and their ten-year-old son, Zizi, are off to their country home for the weekend. When they arrive, the two men settle into...

Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is...

The One Man Band (1970)
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his...

Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

Huckleberry Finn (1967)
A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.

Pétain (1993)
During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on...

The Executioner of Hearts (1983)
While filming on location in Tahiti, a small-time actor seizes an opportunity to make it big, but the attention may be more than he bargained for.

For a Cop's Hide (1981)
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.

Last Known Address (1970)
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A...

Deux Romains en Gaule (1967)
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine,...

Thank Heaven for Small Favors (1963)
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.

Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964)
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and...

Fais gaffe à la gaffe ! (1981)
Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office.

At Theatre Tonight (1966)
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days,...

La Poupée sanglante (1976)
Paris, 1925. Bénédict Masson, bookbinder and poet, is secretly in love with his neighbor, Christine. Christine works at the strange...