Andrée Tainsy
Nacimiento : 1911-04-26, Etterbeek, Belgium
Muerte : 2004-12-19
Historia
Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (26 April 1911 – 19 December 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death.
She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium.
Andrée Tainsy attended Brussels' Conservatory, where she trained to become a theater performer in the early 1930s. She moved to Paris and made her debut with the Georges Pitoëff theatrical company in Les Voyageurs Sans Bagage (1937). Her film debut was ready in 1939 however, as World War II started, she fled to South America, where she reconnected with other artists who had also left. Her first experience in front of was in Chile a movie camera and in 1945 her movie career began starring in Jacques Remy's Le Moulin des Andes (Released in Chile as La Fruta Mordida).
Upon her return to France, after the end of the war, she resumed her theatrical activity with Les Amants de Noël and Joyeux Chagrins, both in 1948. Tainsy's career as an actress and comedian went on until the very end of her life. She worked until the day of her death. She appeared in a small role in Arnaud Desplechin's Rois et Reine on 22 December 2004, just three days after she died. Her cinema endeavors comprised works with several directors like Bertrand Tavernier, Woody Allen, Claude Chabrol, François Ozon and Arnaud Desplechin.
On 19 December 2004, after attending a presentation of a play by Pierre Desproges, she suffered a heart attack at her Parisian apartment. She was buried at Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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La grand-mère
Simbiosis de tragedia, comedia y melodrama que muestra la historia sentimental de Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), una madre burguesa que lleva una galería de arte, y de su antiguo amante, un violinista (Mathieu Amalric).
Mrs. Becker
Una serie de acontecimientos desencadenados por un evento nimio conecta las vidas de los protagonistas de esta película: una inmigrante rumana, un profesor de música, una actriz y su novio que es fotógrafo de guerra, así como el hermano de éste, que intenta por todos los medios no heredar la granja de su padre.
Suzanne
Durante años, el matrimonio formado por Marie y Jean ha pasado unas felices vacaciones en la región de las Landas, al oeste de Francia. Pero este verano, durante una siesta de Marie en la playa, su marido desaparece sin dejar rastro.
Mireille
Son los mejores amigos del mundo desde hace 20 años, durante los cuales Pierre ha hecho uso de su encanto, su excentricidad, su audacia y de un verdadero talento para gustar. 20 años durante los cuales Benoit ha trabajado para salir adelante en la vida, pagando las cuentas de su colega, y esperando prudentemente que aparezca el amor de su vida, deseando lo razonable. Marie, es tímida o más bien discreta, y cree saber lo que quiere. Ella está buscando a Pierre, pero se casa con Benoit... (FILMAFFINITY)
The old lady
Tras su separación de Anne, con quien comparte dos hijos, el pintor Philippe conoce en la calle a Justine, una mujer más joven que él, con la que inicia una relación. A pesar de que Philippe asegura que Justine ha sido su salvación, ella siente que no puede competir con la nostalgia de su vida anterior, mostrándose cada vez más celosa de su ex mujer y sus hijos.
Marthe
En una pequeña ciudad de provincias, el señor Lavoisier, el doctor Morasseau y el carnicero Filiol emprenden un importante negocio inmobiliario. El único obstáculo para llevarlo adelante lo plantean la señora Cuno y su hijo Louis, el cartero, que se niegan a vender su casa. Louis parece provocar la muerte del carnicero, lo que motiva la llegada del inspector Lavardin. La desaparición de la mujer del médico y de la amante del notario lo lleva a descubrir, mediante métodos poco convencionales, quién es el culpable.
Mrs. Graveline
Por sugerencia de su editor, el escritor Daniel Salmon, falto de inspiración, va a relajarse a la costa Mediterránea...
Propriétaire du cheval
When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl.
Jeanne
Two sisters, Camille and Madeleine, make up the story of a woman: Alice Constant, the servant of their grandfather who committed suicide at the age of 25.
Charlotte Fourcignie
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
Man (uncredited)
Rusia, principios del siglo XIX. En un pueblo ruso, Boris Grushenko vive obsesionado con la muerte y con su prima Sonia, aunque ella prefiere a Iván, uno de los hermanos de Boris. Pero Iván se casa, y Sonia, por despecho, contrae matrimonio con un rico comerciante de pescado. Obligado por su familia, Boris se alista en el ejército para luchar contra la Francia napoleónica e, inexplicablemente, se convierte en un héroe de guerra. Y, a pesar de ser un pacifista convencido, llegará a tener en sus manos el destino de Europa.
Mme Grose
A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children.
Madeleine Fourmet
En el distrito de Saint-Paul, en Lyon, Michel Descombes, un relojero de mediana edad, lleva una tranquila y aburrida vida de soltero en compañía de Bernard, suhijo adolescente. Abandonado por su mujer muchos años antes, ha criado a su hijo sin ayuda de nadie. Pero la ordenada vida del relojero cambia el día que recibe la inesperada visita de la policía para darle una mala noticia.
Clarisse de Saint-Clair
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young child. After a series of dizzy spells, he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-month pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous...
Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. One day, he finds himself in the presence of a young car accident victim for whom the only hope of survival would be a brain transplant. Marcilly, who has a heart condition and is terminally ill, decides to become the "donor". The operation is a success. But who is actually the patient discharged from the hospital: a young fellow with the brain of a young man or an old man in the body of a young one?
'Fraulein'
In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated reflection of a husband she only married to become a baroness. Thanks to the kindness of the village teacher, Guillou glimpses for a moment the existence of another world, of gentleness and tenderness.
The Grandmother
De vacaciones en el verano que cumple dieciséis años, en la casa de campo de su abuelo, Faustine, además de pasear y soñar, espía a sus vecinos, dos hermanos, Jean y Julien, sus hijos respectivos y la joven esposa de Julien. Observándolos, se familiariza con la vida y los ritos del amor. Soñando con Joachim, el hijo de Julien, comienza el despertar de su sensualidad. Antes de finalizar sus vacaciones, Faustine entra en la vida adulta, confrontando sus sueños y la realidad.
Yvonne
Jeanne, the owner of the bar restaurant
Émile reproduce el crimen que presenció cuando era pequeño: un estrangulador con pañuelo blanco. Es el autor de cinco crímenes gratuitos perpetrados contra mujeres desesperadas. Un periodista de televisión intenta descubrirle.
Nick's Mother
En un país regido por una corrupta democracia, donde el gobierno utiliza a la Policía y al Ejército para erradicar cualquier amenaza izquierdista, un diputado de la oposición es asesinado en plena calle cuando acababa de presidir un mitin de carácter pacifista. De la investigación del caso se encarga un joven magistrado consciente de que se trata de un crimen político cometido por dos sicarios a sueldo. Al mismo tiempo, un ambicioso periodista se servirá de métodos poco ortodoxos para acumular pruebas que inculpen a varios militantes de un partido de extrema derecha, los cuales, a su vez, atribuyen la responsabilidad del atentado a altos cargos de la policía y del ejército.
Julie Tesman
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
La mère de Ginette
Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc banknote. The sender, who remains anonymous, renews his gift day after day and Ginette grows accustomed to the situation. Her material situation improves but after a while she starts asking herself questions about the one who sends her the money and his/her intentions. Till obsession. To make it clear in her mind she eventually decides to investigate...
Habilleuse
El malvado criminal Fantomas, hombre de mil caras, capaz de transformarse en cualquier persona, descubre que un periodista, Fandón, ha publicado una entrevista falsa con él. Decidido a tomar cumplida venganza, Fantomas adopta los rasgos físicos del periodista y comete un sensacional crimen haciéndose pasar por él. Fandon da con sus huesos en la cárcel y nadie cree en su inocencia. Sin embargo, el famoso comisario Juve cree reconocer el sello del autor de Fantomas y está convencido de que éste se encuentra detrás de todo el asunto.
La paysanne
Una joven entra a trabajar como doncella en casa de una familia aristocrática. Adaptación de una novela de Octave Mirbeau que Jean Renoir ya había llevado al cine en su etapa americana.
La marchande de journaux
In this French murder mystery, a young journalist goes from a bad situation to much worse. He has been having problems in his relationship with his girlfriend, and one evening he goes out on a bender. Too drunk to remember how he got that way, he goes home to sleep it off. When he wakes up in the morning, he discovers that his hangover is the least of his problems -- he is now a suspect in a murder investigation. After getting back together with his girlfriend, he decides to hide out with a friend of his and let the heat cool down -- a big mistake, as he soon finds out.
Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
El comisario de policía Jules Maigret vuelve al pequeño pueblo donde transcurrió su infancia a petición de la condesa de Saint-Fiacre, que ha recibido una inquietante carta anónima.
Ludivine - la servante
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
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La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.
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Un director y un guionista están trabajando en el argumento de una película, pero se sienten algo bloqueados. Así, un periodista llamado Robert recibe un día una extraña invitación de una mujer de mediana edad llamada Rita. Mientras, Henriette, la novia de Robert, se ve involucrada por un timador. La idea se les ocurrió al guionista Henri Jeanson y al director Duvivier cuando estaban intentando crear su siguiente película conjunta. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
la femme de ménage
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
Madame Sabrier
A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.
Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang busy, Pivolo, their leader, has an idea : they are going to kidnap Aunt Faguet's doggy. Just for the fun of it. A few days pass after the crime is accomplished and one of them suddenly realizes that a reward is being offered by the aunt to anyone who would bring her her pet back. Mademoiselle Hélène, the kind-hearted social worker, does it for them and gives them the reward money, which is instantly exchanged for lollipops, nougat and merry-go-round and cinema tickets. So, why not continue? That's what they do, abducting several dogs, until they realize they are becoming ... too rich! They can't buy themselves luxurious gifts or else their parents are bound to suspect something. Instead, they decide to do good by helping poor people around them. One day, Pierrot, a member of the gang, gets run down by a cyclist and becomes blind.
Kitchen girl
Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.
During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
La balayeuse du cabaret
During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
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El inspector Juve decide enfrentarse al maestro del disfraz Fantomas, utilizando sus mismas armas. Cuarta entrega del serial dirigido por Louis Feuillade, basada en los folletines de Pierre Souvestre y Marcel Allain. En esta ocasión, la novela adaptada fue "El policía apache".
