Robert Le Vigan

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.

Known For

Port of Shadows

as The Painter

The Lower Depths

as l'acteur alcoolique

Boys' School

as l'homme «invisible»

Harvest

as Sergeant De Sault

It Happened at the Inn

as Goupi-Tonkin

Who Killed Santa Claus?

as Leon Villard

La Bandera

as Fernando Lucas

The Man from Nowhere

as Le comte Papiano

Madame Bovary

as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant

Four Flights to Love

as Edouard Bordenave