Alain Mottet

Biography

Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France – 31 October 2017 in Paris, France) was a French actor. Alain Mottet appeared in dozens of films, often in secondary roles. He appeared in three films with José Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in L'Affaire de la malle à Gouffé. In 1969, in L'Armée des ombres, he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned. For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series Vidocq in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker including on several episodes of Au théâtre ce soir. One of his most notable TV roles was as Shazénian in the fairytale Shéhérazade, shown at the end of 1971: on a flying horse, he walks with Claude Jade into the night sky. In parallel to his screen career, he also continued to work on stage, most notably in plays by Jean Le Poulain, Roger Planchon, André Barsacq and Georges Wilson. He was part of the cast of the Comédie-Française from 1986 to 1988. Married to Françoise Hirsch (1930-2017), until his death on 31 October 2017, he is the father of Christine Mottet and ac…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Army of Shadows (1969) — Le Commandant du Camp
2. The Fire Within (1963) — Urcel
3. Inspector Blunder (1980) — Dumeze, le directeur de la police
4. My New Partner II (1990) — Le préfet
5. The Pariah (1972) — 'Ficelle', henchman of Villanova
6. Last Known Address (1970) — Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend
7. Ho ! (1968) — Paul
8. The Good and the Bad (1976) — le commissaire Blanchot
9. Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre (1965) — Delma
10. Venus and Lulu (1991) — Marceau le comédien
11. One Way Ticket (1971) — Nitesse
12. Un dimanche de flics (1983) — Director
13. The Black Indies (1964) — James Starr
14. Question of Love (1978) — L'avocat général
15. The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1977) — Marc Ovet
16. Mata Hari, la vraie histoire (2003) — Me Clunet
17. Aram (2002) — Miran Sarkissian
18. Les Misérables (1972) — Thénardier
19. Vidocq (1967) — Inspecteur Flambart
20. Climates of Love (1962)
21. L'appel du 18 juin (2010) — Maréchal Pétain
22. Midi Première (1975) — Self
23. Shéhérazade (1971) — Shazénian
24. L'Affaire Lourdes (1967) — Jacomet
25. Murder on Demand (1977) — Jacques Lacarène
26. La main enchantée (1974) — Maître Chevassut
27. Madame Sans-Gêne (1974) — Fouché
28. Le dialogue dans le marécage (1973) — Sire Laurent
29. Le Curé de Tours (1980) — M. de Bourbonne
30. La Mort d'un touriste (1975) — L'inspecteur L'Héritier
31. Le Grand Secret (1989) — Hamblain
32. François Kléber (1995) — Le directeur de la police
33. Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires (1978) — Simon Jaumier
34. La Mort de Danton (1970) — Maximilien-Marie-Isidore De Robespierre
35. Domino (1976) — Héller
36. L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes (2013) — Self
37. Héloïse and Abélard (1973) — Besnard de Clairvaux
38. La Mort d'un champion (1972)