Hélène Duc

Hélène Duc

Birth : 1917-03-22, Bergerac, Dordogne, France

Death : 2014-11-23

History

Marcelle Duc (22 March 1917 – 23 November 2014), known professionally as Hélène Duc, was a French actress. She appeared in Edward and Caroline (1951), Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout (1973), and Tanguy (2001). Duc played the role of Mahaut, Countess of Artois in the 1972 miniseries Les Rois maudits, and later played Marguerite de Bouville in the 2005 adaptation of the same novels. In 1983, she performed at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse in a production of Chienne Dactylographe. She was named an officer of the Legion of Honour and Righteous Among the Nations in 2005. Duc was married to René Catroux, with whom she had two daughters. Source: Article "Hélène Duc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Hélène Duc

Movies

Tanguy
Grand-Mère
Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan.
Angel
Natacha
Léa is a strong person, but when she comes out of prison, she decides to get a fresh start. She would like to forget her cold and aloof father Vittorio Pastore, her young and irresponsible brother Samy for who she went in jail and the Zach's gang, the thug she used to love. But nothing elapses as she expected.
Les Sœurs Soleil
la dame chez le vétérinaire
This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadolescent daughter of a very conservative bourgeoisie couple gets the chance to appear in a raucous music video starring a raunchy, aging female rocker. When pipe-puffing patriarch and solid citizen Brice learns that his daughter Clemence has been to selected for the music video with tacky has-been rocker Gloria, he nearly comes unglued. His prim wife, Benedicte, the organist for the local congregation, has a different perspective and understands her daughter's eagerness. She quietly agrees to secretly accompany Clemence during the shoot. Once there, the two are filmed dancing around and having fun. Neither realize that they will become special-effects victims by time production on the film ends and find themselves apparently dancing amongst men who but for the presence of small rubber sea creatures, would be buck naked.
Des cadavres à la pelle
Aunt Gianni
Three friends, Robert, Michel and Jean, would be three happy men if Robert's aunt, who has inherited a magnificent nightclub, the King Club, in which they work, didn't torment them. Friendly and small-minded, they think they're tough and don't hesitate to traffic. Their latest find is not without imagination: to bring from Amsterdam diamonds hidden in the diaper of a baby of whom Michel is the father.
Samson le magnifique
Madame Brachart
Adaptation of a French boulevard play, in which a parvenu businessman marries a young lady from a noble family who need his money.There is no love lost between them.
Promised... sworn!
Bonne Maman
The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
Miss Mona
An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies.
Père Noël et fils
La chienlit
Madame Cornebugle
Alors... Heureux ?
L'examinateur Mlle Chaufour
Appelez-moi maître
Mme Gonzales
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Gastié-le-Roy mère
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...
Les Rois Maudits
Mahaut d'Artois
Set during the reigns of the last five kings of the Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, Tha Accursed Kings begins as the French King Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family when he persecutes the Knights Templar. The succession of monarchs that follows leads France and England to the Hundred Years' War.
Les assassins associés
Thérèse
The Great Chase
Albert's wife
A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.
Les malabars sont au parfum
Tante Berthe
Male Hunt
Madame Armande
A few stories about a marriages and it's problems.
Comment réussir en amour
La femme du directeur des Editions du Soleil
Famous Love Affairs
une marquise
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Picnic on the Grass
Isabelle, la secrétaire du biologiste
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself. A shepherd's flute conjures a windstorm that throws Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who wants to have a baby but is unimpressed with men.
The Happiest of Men
The worldly lawyer
An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
Edward and Caroline
L'invitée mélomane
Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas.
Paris Frills
Une employée de la maison de couture (uncredited)
Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.