Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movies & TV Shows
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Port of Shadows (1938) — The Painter
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The Lower Depths (1936) — l'acteur alcoolique
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Boys' School (1938) — l'homme «invisible»
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Harvest (1937) — Sergeant De Sault
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It Happened at the Inn (1943) — Goupi-Tonkin
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La Bandera (1935) — Fernando Lucas
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Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941) — Leon Villard
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Madame Bovary (1934) — Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant
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The Man from Nowhere (1937) — Le comte Papiano
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Four Flights to Love (1939) — Edouard Bordenave
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The Last Turning (1939) — Blackmailer cousin
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Jenny (1936) — l'Albinos
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The Marriage of Chiffon (1942)
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The Heart of a Nation (1943) — Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
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Maria Chapdelaine (1934) — Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
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The Woman at the End of the World (1938) — Arlanger, l'Armateur
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Golgotha (1935) — Jésus Christ
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The Little King (1933)
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One of the Legion (1936) — Leduc
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Le Tunnel (1933) — Brooce
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The Phantom Wagon (1939) — Le père Martin
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The Fatted Calf (1939) — Grussgolt
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Ernest the Rebel (1938) — Governor-President of Mariposa
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Paris Romance (1941)
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Business Is Business (1942) — Phinck
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La orquídea (1951)
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The World Will Shake (1939) — Le Greffier
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Moon over Morocco (1931) — Donald Strawber
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The Yellow Dog (1932) — le docteur Ernest Michoux
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Hélène (1936) — Doctor Regnier
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Louise (1939) — Le peintre Gaston
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Bifur 3 (1945) — Paul (uncredited)
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The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil (1943) — Grégori
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops (1943) — le professeur Léonard Bontagues
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Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine (1933) — Mousquet
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The Queen and the Cardinal (1935) — Cardinal Mazarin
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La Grande Marnière (1945) — Fleury
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El correo del rey (1951) — Peabody
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Boubouroche (1933) — Potasse
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An Ideal Woman (1934)