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Pierre Dux is a Actor French born on 21 october 1908 at Paris (France)

Pierre Dux

Pierre Dux
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Nationality France
Birth 21 october 1908 at Paris (France)
Death 1 december 1990 (at 82 years) at Paris (France)

Pierre Dux (21 October 1908 – 1 December 1990) was a French actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990.

Biography

Fils de comédiens (sa mère Émilienne Dux), Pierre Dux entre à la Comédie-Française en 1929 dans le rôle de Figaro du Barbier de Séville. Il crée le rôle de l'annoncier du Soulier de satin de Paul Claudel, mis en scène par Jean-Louis Barrault en 1943.

En 1938, Pierre Dux, Fernand Ledoux et Alfred Adam, ouvrent un cours de théâtre dans un studio au dernier étage du Théâtre Pigalle.

En 1937, il met en scène L'Impromptu de Versailles de Molière, puis Ruy Blas de Victor Hugo et La Reine morte de Montherlant.

Sociétaire de la Comédie-Française de 1935 à son départ en 1945, il en est nommé administrateur général en 1944-1945 et de 1970 à 1979. Il obtient une réforme des statuts, puis une restauration de sa salle. De 1971 à 1979, il dirige, en même temps, le Théâtre de l'Odéon.

De 1948 à 1952, Marcel Karsenty et Pierre Dux prennent la direction du Théâtre de Paris.

De 1953 à 1956, il est professeur au Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris où il a comme élèves : Jean Rochefort, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Rich, Pierre Vernier, Catherine Samie.

Entre 1932 et 1990, il joue dans de nombreux films et séries télé.

Il est élu membre libre de l'Académie des beaux-arts, au fauteuil n 8 de Charles Kunstler, en 1978.

Peu de temps avant son décès, en 1990, il se voit attribuer le Molière du comédien pour son interprétation dans Quelque part dans cette vie d'Israël Horovitz.

Best films

The Royalists (1947)
(Actor)
The Horse (1970)
(Actor)
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
(Actor)
Friends of the family (1964)
(Actor)
Goodbye Again (1961)
(Actor)
Three Men to Destroy (1980)
(Actor)

Usually with

Marcel Achard
Marcel Achard
(6 films)
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras
(3 films)
Gabriel Gobin
Gabriel Gobin
(6 films)
Albert Michel
Albert Michel
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Pierre Dux (43 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

The Pleasure of Love, 1h42
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Pierre Arditi, Françoise Fabian, Pierre Dux, Dominique Blanc, Heinz Bennent, Jean-Jacques Moreau
Roles Cornélius
Rating58% 2.946742.946742.946742.946742.94674
Sur une île paradisiaque, Guillaume de Burlador devient le jouet de trois ravissantes femmes, qui le séduisent l'une après l'autre.
The Reader
The Reader (1988)
, 1h37
Directed by Michel Deville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Miou-Miou, Maria Casarès, Patrick Chesnais, Régis Royer, Pierre Dux, Brigitte Catillon
Roles le magistrat
Rating69% 3.488813.488813.488813.488813.48881
Constance is a young French woman who is dissatisfied with her mundane life, but has a talent for reading stories to others. As the movie opens, she happens to be reading a book called La Lectrice to her boyfriend, in which the main character, a woman named Marie, reads literature to others for a living. She becomes engrossed in the book to the point that she begins imagining herself as Marie: both Constance and Marie are played by Miou-Miou, and the movie weaves back and forth between the stories of Marie and Constance.
Monsieur Abel, 1h28
Directed by Jacques Doillon
Genres Drama
Actors Pierre Dux, Zouc, Jacques Denis, Dani, Lola Doillon, Jean Turlier
Roles Monsieur Abel

Monsieur Abel est, au départ, un streameur d'Alain Demouzon. À l'arrivée, ce n'est plus qu'un personnage, enlevé à ce roman, enlevé, pourrait-on dire, par Doillon, pour lui inventer une tout autre histoire. Jamais adaptation ne fut plus infidèle à l'original. Ce qui ne choque pas le moins du monde Alain Demouzon : « Monsieur Abel, dit-il, a bien vécu ce que j'ai dit de lui, avant de continuer ses folies chez Doillon. Je ne renie pas ce vieux fils perdu. Il n'est pas adapté, mais créé à l'image, recrée, poussé plus loin encore. Il est Monsieur Abel, dans un second épisode que j'aurais pu écrire » (Alain Remond).
Heat of Desire, 1h26
Directed by Luc Béraud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Clio Goldsmith, Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Guy Marchand, Pierre Dux, Mado Maurin
Roles Rognon - un membre du Redressement National
Rating56% 2.815132.815132.815132.815132.81513
Une jeune femme a pour amant, un ministre. Elle rompt cette relation avant de partir à Barcelone avec ce qu'elle pense être « le premier venu ». Universitaire, il la séduit et c'est le véritable coup de foudre mutuel. Mais la jeune femme semble être la proie d'inconnus.
La vie continue, 1h33
Directed by Moshé Mizrahi
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Pierre Dux, Giulia Salvatori, Michel Aumont, Paulette Dubost
Roles Max
Rating70% 3.5072453.5072453.5072453.5072453.507245
Jeanne, mère de deux enfants, perd son mari. Elle rencontre Pierre, abandonné par sa femme.
Three Men to Destroy, 1h35
Directed by Jacques Deray
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair, Pascale Roberts, Simone Renant, Pierre Dux
Roles Emmerich
Rating62% 3.146653.146653.146653.146653.14665
Michel Gerfaut is a handsome middle-aged man who lives in Paris, France. He has a beautiful girlfriend and works as a professional poker player. One night, as he is returning from yet another card game, he comes across a car accident. Noticing that the driver of the crashed car is still alive, he brings him to the hospital. On the following day, Gerfaut learns from the newspaper that the man died and that he, actually was shot. On top of that, he has been known as a public figure involved in dirty deals with weapons. Gradually, Gerfaut realizes that he has become a target for assassins who eliminate any possible witnesses.
Special Section, 1h50
Directed by Costa-Gavras, Denys Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Michael Lonsdale, Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Pierre Dux, Claude Piéplu, François Maistre
Roles Le procureur général Cavarroc
Rating75% 3.785233.785233.785233.785233.78523
In France during the German occupation, a young German naval officer is killed in Paris by a group of leftist activists. The compliant Vichy government seeks to appease the Germans by locating the perpetrators and agreeing to the execution of six people, and a special section is set up for this purpose. The section consists of judges who are too ambitious, cowardly or inhuman to refuse such work. The flames of totalitarianism must be stoked, even with innocent blood, and it is especially convenient to the government if the accused are thoroughly expendable in their eyes.
The Horse
The Horse (1970)
, 1h17
Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Jean Gabin, André Weber, Eléonore Hirt, Pierre Dux, Christian Barbier, Julien Guiomar
Roles Investigating judge
Rating68% 3.4424153.4424153.4424153.4424153.442415
In Normandy, the widower Auguste Maroilleur rules his family and his farm with an iron hand. Bien Phu, a disabled veteran of the war in Indochina, is a valued employee. Out shooting duck, Auguste and Bien Phu discover a huge cache of heroin. Auguste deduces that his grandson Henri, whose vacation job is on a ship, must be a courier. He destroys the drug, worth millions, and confines Henri to a cellar. When the gangsters cannot find their man or their merchandise, they try to destroy Auguste's livelihood and peace of mind. They burn a barn, brutally kill his cattle and rape his virgin granddaughter. He and Bien Phu fight back, eventually killing all five villains by shotgun and grenade. This private war does not go unnoticed and the police bring the whole family in for questioning. Following Auguste's orders, none of them give a thing away and all are released.
Z
Z (1969)
, 2h7
Directed by Costa-Gavras
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime, Politic
Themes Assassinat, Politique, Political films
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irène Papas, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François Périer
Roles Gendarmerie General Missou
Rating81% 4.097084.097084.097084.097084.09708
The story begins with the closing moments of a rather dull government lecture and slide show on agricultural policy, after which the leader of the security police of a right-wing military-dominated government (Dux) takes over the podium for an impassioned speech describing the government's program to combat leftism, using the metaphors of "a mildew of the mind", an infiltration of "isms", or "sunspots".
The Hand
The Hand (1969)

Directed by Henri Glaeser
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Nathalie Delon, Michel Duchaussoy, Henri Serre, Roger Hanin, Pierre Dux, Eléonore Hirt
Roles Le chiffonnier / Le psychanalyste
Rating64% 3.24783.24783.24783.24783.2478
La scène se passe dans une galerie d'art. Pierre et Sylvie essayent de mettre un cadavre d'homme dans une malle, la main de celui-ci est un obstacle à la fermeture du couvercle et Pierre la coupe avec une hache. Pierre se débarrasse du corps et Sylvie se charge de la main mais n'arrive pas à s'en défaire car elle a l'impression d'être constamment surveillée. Mais ceci n'est autre qu'un scénario que Philippe soumet au producteur Frascati...
Is Paris Burning?, 2h53
Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Kirk Douglas, Charles Boyer, Glenn Ford, Gert Fröbe, Leslie Caron, Yves Montand
Roles Cerat - Alexandre Parodi
Rating68% 3.4038953.4038953.4038953.4038953.403895
Shortly after the failed 1944 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (Billy Frick), he appoints General Dietrich von Choltitz (Gert Fröbe) as military governor of occupied Paris. Hitler believes von Choltitz will obey his order to not let the Allies capture Paris without the Germans destroying it completely, similar to the planned destruction of Warsaw.
Behold a Pale Horse, 1h58
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about anarchism, Politique, Films about religion, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin, Paolo Stoppa, Mildred Dunnock
Roles le père Estiban
Rating66% 3.343093.343093.343093.343093.34309
The movie opens with shots from the Spanish Civil War, and a line of Spanish refugees crossing the border into France after defeat by the Francoists, Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck) turns away from the border and back towards Spain. His friends stop him, saying "Manuel, the war is over!".
Friends of the family, 1h35
Directed by Robert Thomas
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Pierre Dux, Danielle Darrieux, Sylvie Vartan, Jean Marais, Anne Vernon, Jane Marken
Roles Leon "Patate" Rollo
Rating54% 2.739252.739252.739252.739252.73925
Léon Rollo, dit Patate, accompagné de sa femme et de sa fille qu'il adore, est un inventeur quasiment heureux . Son meilleur ami qui se prénomme Noël réussit tout ce qu'il entreprend et Patate est jaloux de sa chance exceptionnelle.
The Day and the Hour, 1h50
Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Jacques Herlin, Geneviève Page, Gabriel Gobin, Michel Piccoli
Roles Le commissaire divisionnaire Marboz - de la Police Judiciaire
Rating64% 3.2446853.2446853.2446853.2446853.244685
Sous l'Occupation, la rencontre fortuite d'un pilote américain tombé en France, Allan Morley, et de Thérèse Dutheil, une bourgeoise parisienne, mère de deux jeunes enfants dont le mari est prisonnier en Allemagne. Malgré elle, Thérèse l'accompagne en train à Toulouse, pour lui éviter d'être fait prisonnier par la Gestapo. Ils sont arrêtés puis relâchés par la police française. Au fil de cette poursuite, un amour naît entre eux, mais ils sont séparés par la Résistance dans les Pyrénées, qui fait "brutalement" passer Allan en Espagne, afin qu'il puisse rallier son unité en Angleterre. Après un bref adieu déchirant, la nouvelle du Débarquement est annoncée à la radio.
Goodbye Again, 2h
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, Jessie Royce Landis, Pierre Dux, Jocelyn Lane
Roles Maître Fleury
Rating69% 3.4973.4973.4973.4973.497
Paula Tessier (Bergman) is a 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the mistress of Roger Demarest (Montand), a "philandering business executive" who refuses to stop seeing other women. When Paula meets Philip (Perkins), the 25-year-old son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls in love with her and insists that the age difference will not matter. Paula resists the young man's advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young "Maisies". While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the May–December romance.