Philippe Clay

Philippe Clay

Nacimiento : 1927-03-07, Paris, France

Muerte : 2007-12-13

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Philippe Clay, born Philippe Mathevet, (March 7, 1927 – December 13, 2007) was a French mime artist, singer and actor. He was known for his tall and slim silhouette (he was 1,90 m tall) and for his interpretations of songs by Charles Aznavour, Claude Nougaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Yanne, Léo Ferré, Jacques Datin, Jean-Claude Massoulier or Bernard Dimey. He interpreted “La Complainte des Apaches” for the TV series Les Brigades du Tigre, written by Henri Djian and composed by Claude Bolling. As an actor, he appeared in many movies (Bell, Book and Candle) and television films. One of his famous roles is in the Jean Renoir film, French Cancan, where he played Casimir le Serpentin (a character inspired by Valentin le désossé). Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippe Clay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Philippe Clay
Philippe Clay

Películas

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
Self (archive footage)
Dombey and Son
Jérémie
The dream of Charles Dombais, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, his wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
1974, une partie de campagne
Self
Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valery Gicard d'Estaing
Des croix sur la mer
On August 5, 1944, in Brittany, civilians fell into the hands of the German army. Among them, Jean Palu, a man like the others, who looks back on his life. Between failure and illness, he paints a bitter picture of his life.
Tuvalu
Karl
Anton, un joven aprendiz de monitor de natación, mantiene la ilusión de su padre ciego de que la piscina siga intacta y muy concurrida. Anton es un excéntrico solitario que sueña con navegar por los anchos mares rumbo a Tuvalu, sueño que comparte con Eva, joven de 18 años a quien le agrada mucho el carácter especial de Anton. El fallecimiento de su padre en la piscina al caerle un trozo de techo les impide salir al mar con el remolcador de Eva. El culpable de lo sucedido no es otro que Gregor, el hermano de Anton, cuyo objetivo es destruir la piscina, y de paso toda la ciudad, para reemplazarla por una nueva ciudad futurista. Anton tiene difícil la labor de salvar la piscina y mantenerla abierta, pero todo resultaría soportable si al menos se ganara el corazón de Eva.
The Freelancers
Le Chatelain
In this off-beat French comedy-drama, a quirky band of classical musicians prepare to play at a nobleman's New Year's Eve gala.
Marceeel!!!
After the death of his controlling wife, a retiree decides to take the trip of his dreams to Tahiti, in French Polynesia. All he needs is the money. Poker and the strange complicity of a talking cat will be his best assets to raise funds.
Krim
A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French housing project in search of his now teen-age daughter. His quest forms the basis of this gripping French drama. Krim is the fighter and Yasmine his estranged daughter. Krim finds his old apartment block, but it is abandoned and slated for destruction. He is terribly disappointed, for all Krim wants right now is to be happy and to have his daughter back. He sends messages back to his friend and mentor in prison telling him how wonderful it is to be out of jail. His friend, Eugene, a lifer, isn't fooled for a second and is very angry at Krim for lying to him. Meanwhile, Krim stumbles across Nora, a teen-age drug addict, who could be his long-lost daughter. Eventually, he locks her in an abandoned flat and helps her get off the junk cold-turkey. It is a terrible scene, but he succeeds and the two begin a new kind of relationship.
Le gourou occidental
André Doirmot, colloquially called "the father André," is the quack of Montgarçin village and its surroundings. Well known and appreciated by all, he continued the family tradition. André will be required to treat and cure the leader of a Japanese trust and his nephew. The Japanese then decided to market a new product: the elixir of Father Andrew. The figure of the brave French peasant invaded the screens, posters are put up, the commercials are made in Japanese, English, American, Arabic and even Russian! But father André lost his beautiful serenity.
L'herbe rouge
Mr. Perle
Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
A Good Little Devil
Le Juge
One of the comtesse de Ségur's most popular works,it tells the tale of an orphan ,Charles,mistreated by his wicked old cousin Madame Mac Miche;nevertheless,Charles has many friends including sweet blind young Juliette and her sister Marianne, Mac Miche's maid ,Betty,her boyfriend Donald ,and even the judge. (by dbdumonteil)
Salut la puce
Rigodo-Cartecolin, un marionnettiste
Robert Dumortier and his son "La Puce" live on a barge moored to an island of the Seine and Robert dreams of cruising remote and exotic seas.
Dos horas menos cuarto antes de Jesucristo
Herald of the arena
Julio Cesar esta disfrutando de unas lujosas vacaciones en una colonia Romana en el norte de Africa, mientras en Roma estalla una gran revuelta obrera. Un mecanico de nombre Ben-Hur, se elige a si mismo como dirigente sindical, pero termina siendo detenido en una manifestacion publica. El gobernador le da a elegir entre un innoble fin en la arena o una oportunidad participando en un complot para matar a Cesar.
Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx
L'ébéniste
The second sequel to "Ubu roi" (1965).
Shanks
Mr. Barton
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
The Three Musketeers
Richelieu
D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power. Animated film directed by John Halas.
El insolente
Dargnac
Un sanguinario hampón se evade de prisión tras asesinar a sus compañeros de celda y con un compañero de fechorias traman el asalto a un furgón lleno de lingotes de oro.
Les joyeux lurons
L'abbé Larivière
Three priests in cassocks visit a modest and naive country priest in a village in the South of France. They claim to be sent by the bishop for the purpose of recovering a precious reliquary currently in the hands of a vigorously anti-clerical squire. The non apostolic behavior of the three priests causes the disturbance in the village without altering the confidence of the priest. But the situation is complicated at the Sunday Mass: one is drunk on the sacristy, the other improvises a sermon not very Catholic and the third is a mess in the choir of singing. With the naive complicity of the priest, their scam is about to end ...
Pas folle la guêpe
Jack Bromfield
Armiamoci e partite!
generale McMaster
Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.
Pour un sourire
Nicolas
A deserter who has lost all hope meets with a little girl in a ruined city.
The Hotheads
Prêcheur
En el desierto de Africa del Norte se reúnen desertores del ejército, aventureros, hombres escapados de la justicia y peligrosos maleantes.
El hombre de Cocody
Renaud Lefranc
Las peripecias de un diplomático, quien de pronto se ve envuelto en un espinoso asunto de tráfico de diamantes y tiene que enfrentarse a los miembros de una secta secreta.
Musketeers of the Sea
Gosselin
Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventure movie directed by Steno.
Dans l'eau... qui fait des bulles!...
Vocals
Paul Ernzer, enólogo en quiebra, descubre el cadáver del hombre que le ha arruinado y que era el blanco de varias personas; la viuda del "ahogado", la mujer de Ernzer, algunos traficantes... (FILMAFFINITY)
Dans l'eau... qui fait des bulles!...
Jean-Louis Preminger (voice)
Paul Ernzer, enólogo en quiebra, descubre el cadáver del hombre que le ha arruinado y que era el blanco de varias personas; la viuda del "ahogado", la mujer de Ernzer, algunos traficantes... (FILMAFFINITY)
Lay Off Blondes
L'inspecteur Al Wheeler
Inspector Al Whecler, cool and relaxed, is given the task by the sheriff of a town in California of investigating the murders of two girls tattooed on their right arms. His investigations bring him to a funeral chamber run by the suspicious Rodinoft...
Take Me As I Am
Carlo
The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him.
The Night of the Hunted
Taretta
Un joven y desafortunado ladrón de Amberes, que trabaja para una banda liderada por Taretta, se pelea con su jefe y lo mata durante una pelea. Con la ayuda de su hermana, trata de deshacerse del cuerpo en el puerto, pero atrae la atención de un vigilante nocturno que busca sacar provecho de la situación.
Messieurs les ronds de cuir
Letondu
The Road to Shame
Tom
Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger
Drôles de phénomènes
The Butler Barns
Since the day their mother Aline remarried, Patrice and Eric, a joyful pair of twins, have been very happy. Indeed, François Chantour, their stepfather, is very kind and behaves like a big brother to them. Even if they are not very rich, the four of them live a cheerful life in their charming house. The trouble is that, in Lyon, the family on the boys'father's side are worried, especially the twins' grandmother, who fears Patrice and Eric are given a bad education. She therefore brings them to her big house in the hope of their improving their manners. A very unfortunate decision indeed.
Me enamoré de una bruja
French Singer at the Zodiac Club
Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak), miembro de una saga de hechiceros, entre los que se encuentran su tía Queenie (Elsa Lanchester) y su hermano Nicky (Jack Lemmon), se enamora locamente de un famoso editor, Sheperd Henderson (James Stewart), que está a punto de contraer matrimonio. La joven bruja no duda en utilizar uno de sus conjuros para conseguir que Sheperd deje a su prometida y se rinda a sus encantos. Todo sale según lo previsto pero, poco después, Gillian le confiesa la verdad sobre sus poderes a Shepherd que, indignado, pide ayuda a la extravagante señora De Pass para que rompa el hechizo. Tía Queenie toma cartas en el asunto e intenta utilizar la más poderosa magia para reunir a la pareja: el amor.
Totó en París
il finto maggiordomo
El vagabundo Totó vive en su árbol con vista panorámica. Un día, como por arte de magia, una misteriosa gitana le pone de camino a París. Allí se convertirá en el rico barón de Chemantel, cortejado por una hermosa mujer e invitado a los locales más exclusivos. No es un sueño, ni tampoco locura, es el plan criminal del verdadero barón asociado con un fino ladrón.
Nathalie
Adolphe Faisant
Haute Couture mannequin in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
It Happened on the 36 Candles
El jorobado de Notre Dame
Clopin Trouillefou
Adaptación del clásico de Victor Hugo, con una exuberante Gina Lollobrigida como Esmeralda y el siempre excelente Anthony Quinn interpretando al tierno jorobado enamorado de la bella zíngara.
Life is beautiful
le pasteur
French Cancan
Casimir le Serpentin
Tanto Nini, una guapa chica que trabaja en una lavandería, como otras atractivas jóvenes son contratadas por Monsieur Danglard para unirse a su compañía de teatro. Danglar tiene previsto abrir un nuevo cabaret en París, el Moulin Rouge, donde la gran atracción será el cancán. A pesar de que tiene novio, Nini es seducida por Danglard, pero su principal admirador es el príncipe Alexandre. Tras 15 años de estancia en los Estados Unidos, "French Cancan" supone el regreso de Renoir a su país.
Le crime du Bouif
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
Rome Express
A valuable painting has been stolen from an art gallery in Paris.. On a train travelling between Paris and Rome, Zutra, a mysterious and sinister character, tries to find the stolen painting.