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Arthur French is a Actor American born on 6 november 1931 at New York City (USA)

Arthur French

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Birth name Arthur W. French, Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 6 november 1931 at New York City (USA)
Death 24 july 2021 (at 89 years)

Arthur W. French, Jr. (born November 6, 1931) is an American actor and director best known for his work in the theatre.

Best films

2 Days in New York (2012)
(Actor)

Usually with

Spike Lee
Spike Lee
(3 films)
Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy
(1 films)
Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky
(1 films)
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Filmography of Arthur French (25 films)

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Actor

The Book of Henry, 1h45
Directed by Colin Trevorrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Naomi Watts, Jacob Tremblay, Jaeden Martell, Dean Norris, Maddie Ziegler, Lee Pace
Roles Gus
Rating66% 3.318233.318233.318233.318233.31823
Susan Carpenter, une mère célibataire, vit avec ses deux jeunes fils : Henry et Peter. Henry est amoureux de Christina, la fille du commissaire de police qui vit dans la même rue que lui. Malheureusement, Henry découvre que Christina mène une vie difficile aux côtés d'un beau-père dangereux qui la maltraite. Il planifie alors un plan pour sauver Christina en écrivant en détails le plan dans un livre avant de mourir d'une tumeur au cerveau. Susan découvre le livre grâce à Peter et décide de mettre le plan à exécution afin de sauver Christina.
God's Pocket, 1h28
Directed by John Slattery
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Christina Hendricks, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eddie Marsan, Richard Jenkins, Eddie McGee
Roles Lucien 'Old Lucy' Edwards
Rating60% 3.0482053.0482053.0482053.0482053.048205
When a blue collar worker's stepson is killed in a mysterious accident, he tries to cover things up, but things become difficult when a reporter won't let the story die.
Movie 43
Movie 43 (2013)
, 1h34
Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Frères Farrelly, Brett Ratner, Rusty Cundieff, Steven Brill, Griffin Dunne, Bob Odenkirk, Steve Carr, Peter Farrelly, James Gunn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Richard Gere, Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Kate Winslet, Halle Berry, Common
Roles Old Man (segment "Veronica")
Rating43% 2.152832.152832.152832.152832.15283
Movie 43 is a series of different skits containing different scenes and scenarios.
2 Days in New York, 1h36
Directed by Julie Delpy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Dylan Baker, Julie Delpy, Kate Burton, Chris Rock, Malinda Williams, Brady Smith
Roles Lee Robinson
Rating59% 2.996582.996582.996582.996582.99658
Parisian Marion is living in New York with her son, in order to be closer to Jack, the boy's father (Marion's ex-boyfriend from 2 Days in Paris). She and her new boyfriend Mingus have a cozy relationship until the arrival of Marion's father, sister and sister's boyfriend, on vacation from France. The group's two days together are tested by "unwitting racism and sexual frankness", with no one left unscathed.
Red Hook Summer, 2h1
Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Clarke Peters, Nate Parker, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Colman Domingo, Heather Simms, James Ransone
Roles Mr. Curtis
Rating53% 2.6539752.6539752.6539752.6539752.653975
Flik Royale is a 13-year-old boy from Atlanta who is sent to live with his preacher grandfather, Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Forged
Forged (2010)

Directed by William Wedig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors David Castro, Margo Martindale, Manny Perez, Arthur French
Roles Old Man
Rating47% 2.38332.38332.38332.38332.3833
Set in the cold and industrial town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Forged follows Chuco (Manny Perez) on his quest to redeem himself after committing a horrific sin against his son, Machito (David Castro). After Chuco’s release from prison, the boy, now 13 years old, abused and homeless, seeks him out and simply mutters: “You killed my mother. Now I kill you.” As Chuco’s guilt and Machito’s need for a father take hold, they must both find a way to move past impossible circumstances to forge a bond that has been forever broken.
Zenith
Zenith (2010)
, 1h33
Directed by Vladan Nikolic
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Jason Robards, Peter Scanavino, Arthur French, Didier Flamand, Raynor Scheine, David Thornton
Roles Mateo
Rating54% 2.7050052.7050052.7050052.7050052.705005
In the post-apocalyptic year 2044, the population has been genetically altered to live in a constant state of happiness, but without sorrow, happiness dissipates, leaving only a feeling of never-ending paresthesia. Only pain can make people feel alive.
Please Give, 1h30
Directed by Nicole Holofcener
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Actors Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Amanda Peet, Rebecca Hall, Thomas Ian Nicholas
Roles Man Waiting for a Table
Rating65% 3.2968153.2968153.2968153.2968153.296815
Kate (Keener) and Alex (Platt) are a couple living in a New York City apartment with their teenage daughter, Abby (Sarah Steele). Kate and Alex own a furniture store specializing in used modern furniture, which they buy at estate sales. They have bought the apartment adjacent to theirs, but its occupant, the elderly and cranky Andra (Guilbert), will stay in it until she dies. Andra has two granddaughters, the dutiful and generous Rebecca (Hall), a breast cancer radiology technician, and the cynical, sharp-tongued Mary (Peet), a cosmetologist.
Kinsey
Kinsey (2004)
, 1h58
Directed by Bill Condon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Peter Sarsgaard, Chris O'Donnell, Will Denton, Timothy Hutton
Rating70% 3.5478053.5478053.5478053.5478053.547805
Professor Alfred Kinsey is being interviewed about his sexual history. Interspersed with the interview, are flashbacks from his childhood and young-adulthood. The young child years show his father, a lay minister, denouncing modern inventions as leading to sexual sin, then in early adolescence, humiliating him in a store by denouncing its keeper for showing him cigarettes, while his adolescence shows his experiences as a Boy Scout and a late teenage scene shows Kinsey disappointing his father by his chosen vocational intentions. It then shows adult Kinsey teaching at Indiana University as a professor of biology lecturing on gall wasps. Kinsey falls in love with a student in his class, whom he calls Mac, and marries her. Consummation of their marriage is difficult at first, because of a medical problem Mac has that is fixed easily with minor surgery, after which it is shown that she has an equally intense sexual appetite as her husband. Meanwhile, at the University, Professor Kinsey, who is affectionately called "Prok" by his graduate students, meets with students after hours to offer individual sexual advice. Later, in a fictional scene where his mother has just died and Alfred Jr. is back at his parents home with grieving friends and relatives, ex. his sister being too fat and thus unattractive to get a husband and his brother as a possible early boomerang generation man who moved back home after losing his business, Kinsey shocks his father by telling his "big secret": that he's doing a sex survey and want his father to contribute his own sexual history to it.
Music of the Heart, 1h58
Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Violon
Actors Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Aidan Quinn, Gloria Estefan, Cloris Leachman, Michael Angarano
Roles Ernie
Rating67% 3.3987653.3987653.3987653.3987653.398765
The film opens with violinist Roberta Guaspari having been deserted by her US Navy husband and feeling devastated, almost suicidal. Encouraged by her mother, she attempts to rebuild her life and a friend from student days recommends her to the head teacher of a school in the tough New York area of East Harlem. Despite a degree in music education, she has little experience in actual music teaching, but she's taken on as a substitute violin teacher. With a combination of toughness and determination, she inspires a group of kids, and their initially skeptical parents. The program slowly develops and attracts publicity.
The Associate, 1h54
Directed by Donald Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Timothy Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Eli Wallach, Austin Pendleton
Roles Plaza Men's Room Attendant
Rating61% 3.0520753.0520753.0520753.0520753.052075
Investment banker Laurel Ayres is a smart and single woman trying to make it up the Wall Street corporate ladder, until one day she finds out that she is passed over for a promotion because she is a woman. Unable to face the fact that her less smart male protege (Frank) has now become her boss, she quits and tries to start up her own company only to find out that the male dominated world of Wall Street is not interested in taking an African American woman seriously, and thus is forced to create a fictional white man (Robert S. Cutty) in order to be judged on her own merits. Ayres' financial wisdom is joined by the intelligent and computer-savvy secretary Sally Dugan, who also was not properly recognized for her talents. Together they are able to become the most successful independent stockbrokers in the world while helping a struggling high-tech computer company stay afloat.
Crooklyn
Crooklyn (1994)
, 1h55
Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, Zelda Harris, Chris Knowings, David Patrick Kelly, José Zúñiga
Roles West Indian Store Manager
Rating69% 3.498173.498173.498173.498173.49817
In 1973, nine-year-old Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris) and her brothers Clinton (Carlton Williams), Wendell (Sharif Rashed), Nate (Chris Knowings), and Joseph (Tse-Mach Washington) live in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The children live with their parents, Woody (Delroy Lindo), a struggling musician, and Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), a schoolteacher.
The Pickle
The Pickle (1993)
, 1h43
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about films
Actors Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon, Shelley Winters, Clotilde Courau, Barry Miller, Jerry Stiller
Roles Car Man
Rating44% 2.219752.219752.219752.219752.21975
Danny Aiello stars as Harry Stone, an NYC film director who has been living in Paris, France for the past ten years. Despite the fact that he still has a loyal fan base, his last three films were flops, and he returns to New York to hear a pitch from a studio executive. The movie turns out to be The Pickle, a science fiction film with an absurd storyline, but when the executive offers him "a ton of money," Harry immediately sells out his better judgment and agrees to direct the picture.
Malcolm X
Malcolm X (1992)
, 3h13
Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Assassinat, Politique, Films about racism, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Islam
Actors Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
Roles Pullman Porter
Rating76% 3.8483353.8483353.8483353.8483353.848335
Malcolm X divides the life of the African-American activist Malcolm X into three sections. The first section deals with the troubled childhood of Malcolm Little, whose father, a preacher, was murdered by the Black Legion and whose mother was institutionalized for insanity. Malcolm grows up and gets a job as a Pullman porter, calling himself Detroit Red. Getting involved with a Harlem gangster named West Indian Archie with whom he has a falling out, Malcolm flees to Boston and decides to become a burglar. He and his best friend, Shorty (played by Spike Lee) are arrested by the police and Malcolm is sentenced to a ten-year prison term. The second section follows Malcolm's life in prison, where a fellow inmate, Baines, introduces him to the teachings of the Nation of Islam.
Loose Cannons, 1h34
Directed by Bob Clark
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise, Ronny Cox, Nancy Travis, Robert Prosky
Roles Bus Driver
Rating49% 2.4528352.4528352.4528352.4528352.452835
A film is found that features young German officer Kirk Von Metz (Robert Prosky) sleeping with Adolf Hitler. Years later, Von Metz is running for chancellor of West Germany and arranges for the murder of anyone who has seen the film. The killings take place in the Washington D.C. area, and police officers MacArthur Stern (Gene Hackman) and Ellis Fielding (Dan Aykroyd) are sent to investigate the crimes.