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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 22, 1905
Died
August 16, 1972
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
- Пьер Брассёр
- Пьер Брассер
- Pierre-Albert Espinasse
Pierre Brasseur
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli. On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Brasseur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002
7.2
La Brunetière
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
1972
5.5
Diablevert
La Brigade des maléfices
1971
5.5
Diablegris
La Brigade des maléfices
1971
6.6
Gosselin
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
🎬
0.0
Macédoine
1971
0.0
Florisse
Un ange passe
1970
0.0
Un ange passe
1970
6.2
Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
Goto, Island of Love
1969
🎬
0.0
Self
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969
Credits
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
as Self (archive footage)
2002
7.5
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
as La Brunetière
1972
7.2
La Brigade des maléfices
as Diablevert
1971
5.5
La Brigade des maléfices
as Diablegris
1971
5.5
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as Gosselin
1971
6.6
🎬
Macédoine
1971
0.0
Un ange passe
as Florisse
1970
0.0
Un ange passe
1970
0.0
Goto, Island of Love
as Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
1969
6.2
🎬
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
as Self
1969
0.0
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
as Faria
1968
6.5
Birds in Peru
as Husband
1968
4.6
A Little Virtuous
as Jules Polnick
1968
6.1
The Madman of Lab Four
as Father Ballanchon
1967
5.9
🎬
The Birth of Children of Paradise
as Self
1967
0.0
King of Hearts
as General Géranium
1966
6.9
Pas de panique
as Fernand Toussaint
1966
0.0
A Young World
as Le Grec
1966
0.0
A Matter of Resistance
as Dimanche
1966
6.8
Two Hours to Kill
as Laurent
1966
6.3
Fortuna
as Nissim Buzaglo
1966
6.0
L'or du duc
as Adhémar de Talois-Minet
1965
1.0
Cloportes
as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
1965
6.2
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
as Patache
1965
0.0
Black Humor
as Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
1965
2.0
The Circular Triangle
as Georges Richter
1964
0.0
Lucky Jo
as Loudéac
1964
6.7
A Very Handy Man
as Simone Palumbo
1964
9.0
Josefa's Loot
as Mayor
1963
5.0
Agent of Doom
as Charlèz
1963
2.0
Don't Tempt the Devil
as Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
1963
6.1
The Abominable Man of Customs
as Russian killer
1963
5.0
Crime Does Not Pay
as Martin Fenayrou
1962
5.1
Hitch-Hike
as Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
1962
5.5
Emile's Boat
as François Larmentiel
1962
6.4
Rencontres
as Carl Krasner
1962
6.0
Famous Love Affairs
as le grand duc Ernest
1961
3.8
The Nina B. Affair
as Berrera
1961
4.8
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
as Constable of Montmorency
1961
5.2
Spotlight on a Murderer
as Comte de Kerloquen
1961
6.5
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Pangloss
1960
6.2
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as Commissioner of the Republic
1960
6.7
Il bell'Antonio
as Alfio Magnano
1960
7.1
Carthage in Flames
as Sidone
1960
5.1
Eyes Without a Face
as Professor Génessier
1960
7.6
The Bureaucrats
as Monsieur Nègre
1959
5.5
Head Against the Wall
as Dr. Varmont
1959
6.8
The Law
as Don Cesare
1959
5.8
The Possessors
as Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
1958
6.8
Life Together
as Pierre Carreau
1958
5.7
Sans famille
as Jeroboam Driscoll
1958
5.5
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
as Maurice Tardenois
1958
0.0
The Gates of Paris
as Juju
1957
6.5
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Napoleon
as Barras
1955
6.3
Oasis
as Antoine Vallin
1955
0.0
Tower of Lust
as Jehan Buridan
1955
4.7
Rasputin
as Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine
1954
5.0
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
as Self
1954
0.0
Clothing the Naked
as Console Grotti
1954
0.0
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
as Bird (voice)
1953
7.1
The Drunkard
as Maître Pierre Renneville
1953
0.0
Crimson Curtain
as Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
1952
6.2
🎬
Torticola versus Frankensberg
as Invisible Man's Friend
1952
4.0
Le Plaisir
as Julien Ledentu
1952
7.5
Bluebeard
as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
1951
5.3
Dirty Hands
as Hoederer
1951
4.4
Skipper Next to God
as Captain Joris KnAipper
1951
6.0
Jamaican Man
as Jacques Mervel
1950
0.0
Lost Souvenirs
as Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")
1950
5.2
Julie de Carneilhan
as Hubert Espivant
1950
0.0
Millionaires for One Day
as Francis
1949
5.6
Portrait of a Murderer
as Fabius / Jean
1949
5.7
The Lovers of Verona
as Raffaele
1949
4.8
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
as François Picault
1948
0.0
La Nuit blanche
as Pierre Taverny
1948
0.0
Cruise for the Unknown One
as Emile Fréchisse
1948
6.2
The Revenge of Baccarat
as Rocambole
1948
0.0
Rocambole
as Rocambole
1948
0.0
Noah's Ark
as Bitru
1947
5.0
Love Around the House
as 'Douze Apôtres'
1947
0.0
Gates of the Night
as Georges
1946
7.1
Pétrus
as Rodrigue
1946
5.9
La Femme fatale
as Jean Pleyard
1946
0.0
Land Without Stars
as Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud
1946
6.8
Behind These Walls
as Jean-César Morin
1946
5.8
Children of Paradise
as Frédérick Lemaître
1945
8.1
Adieu Léonard
as Prosper Bonenfant
1943
5.2
Summer Light
as Roland
1943
7.0
Two Shy Ones
as Vancouver
1943
0.0
Le soleil a toujours raison
as Gabriel
1943
6.0
La Croisée des chemins
as Hubert Epervans
1942
0.0
Promise to the Unknown One
as Lussac
1942
0.0
Three Argentines in Montmartre
as Toninett
1941
0.0
🎬
Tobie Is an Angel
1940
0.0
Sixième étage
as Jonval, the young cynic
1940
0.0
The Path of Honor
as Philippe
1939
9.0
Last Desire
as Frossard
1939
0.0
Second Childhood
as Frossard
1939
0.0
Corsican Brothers
as Tonio
1939
0.0
Le père Lebonnard
as Alfredo Lebonnard
1939
0.0
Visages de femmes
as Georges Legrand
1939
0.0
Café de Paris
as Le Rec
1938
7.7
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
as Alexandre Dumas figlio
1938
10.0
Gosse de riche
as Pierre Mougins
1938
0.0
Port of Shadows
as Lucien
1938
7.4
Grisou
as Hagnauer
1938
7.7
Heartbeat
as Cousine (uncredited)
1938
6.8
Hercule
as Bastien
1938
6.0
Claudine at School
as Doctor Dubois
1937
4.3
The Virgin Bride
as Georges Letournel, fils du mari de Jacqueline
1937
5.9
La Reine des resquilleuses
as Fred Woolson
1937
0.0
Confessions of a Newlywed
as Edmond Trivelin
1937
5.0
Une femme qui se partage
1937
0.0
Le Mari rêvé
as René Daroy /Achille Daroy
1936
0.0
Prête-moi ta femme
1936
0.0
Passé à vendre
as Bob
1936
0.0
Jeunesse d'abord
1936
0.0
Valse éternelle
1936
0.0
Le Bébé de l'escadron
as Max
1935
0.0
Little One
as Georges Darnetal
1935
0.0
A Rare Bird
as Jean Berthier
1935
6.7
🎬
Jonny, haute-couture
as Jonny
1935
0.0
🎬
Le Miroir aux alouettes
as Jean Forestier
1935
0.0
Quadrille d'amour
as Robert Lanclot
1935
0.0
Caravane
as Lt. de Tokay
1934
0.0
L'Oncle de Pékin
as Philippe
1934
0.0
The Amorous Garrison
as Paul, rider
1934
7.0
🎬
Incognito
as Marcel
1934
0.0
Moi et l'impératrice
as Didier
1933
0.0
Tell Me Tonight
as Koretzky
1933
5.0
Honeymoon Trip
as Rudi
1933
0.0
🎬
Weaker Sex
as Jimmy
1933
0.0
🎬
Une faim de loup
1932
0.0
Quick
as Maxime
1932
0.0
🎬
A Father Without Knowing It
as Jean
1932
0.0
The Winner
as Hunter
1932
0.0
Circulate!
as Jean Dupont-Desroches
1931
0.0
My Friend Victor
as Edgar Flachon
1931
10.0
Backbiters
as Le type de l'appareil à sous
1927
6.4
🎬
Feu!
as Frémiet's ordinance
1927
0.0
Madame Sans-Gêne
1925
0.0