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Charles Boyer is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer French born on 28 august 1899 at Figeac (France)

Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer
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Nationality France
Birth 28 august 1899 at Figeac (France)
Death 26 august 1978 (at 78 years) at Phoenix (USA)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur

Charles Boyer ([bwaye]; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised, in romantic dramas such as The Garden of Allah (1936), Algiers (1938), and Love Affair (1939). Another famous role was in the 1944 mystery-thriller Gaslight. He received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.

Biography

In addition to French and English, Boyer spoke Italian, German, and Spanish.

Boyer was the husband of British actress Pat Paterson, whom he met at a dinner party in 1934. The two became engaged after two weeks of courtship and were married three months later. Later, they would move from Hollywood to Paradise Valley, Arizona. The marriage lasted 44 years until her death. Boyer became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1942.

Boyer's only child, Michael Charles Boyer (9 December 1943 – 21 September 1965), committed suicide at age 21. He was playing Russian roulette after separating from his girlfriend.

On 26 August 1978, two days after his wife's death from cancer, and two days before his own 79th birthday, Boyer committed suicide with an overdose of Seconal while at a friend's home in Scottsdale. He was taken to the hospital in Phoenix, where he died. He was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, alongside his wife and son.

Best films

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
(Actor)
La Parisienne (1957)
(Actor)
Gaslight (1944)
(Actor)
Love Affair (1939)
(Actor)
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
(Actor)
The Fighting Lady (1944)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Charles Boyer (82 films)

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Actor

A Matter of Time, 1h37
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Charles Boyer, Isabella Rossellini, Tina Aumont, Fernando Rey
Roles Count Sanziani
Rating51% 2.559542.559542.559542.559542.55954
The film opens at a mid-1950s press conference, where scenes are shown for an upcoming film starring Nina (Liza Minnelli), a popular screen celebrity. While on her way to the conference, Nina looks at herself in an ornate mirror, which triggers a flashback to her arrival in Rome, when she was 19 years old. Her cousin, Valentina (Tina Aumont), has arranged for her to work as a chambermaid in a dilapidated hotel.
Stavisky
Stavisky (1974)
, 2h
Directed by Alain Resnais, Philippe Lopes-Curval, Jean Léon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anny Duperey, Roberto Bisacco, François Périer, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Rich
Roles Le baron Jean Raoul
Rating64% 3.2441753.2441753.2441753.2441753.244175
The core narrative of the film portrays the last months in the life of Serge Alexandre (Stavisky), from late 1933 to January 1934. We see glimpses of his operations as a "financial consultant", setting up a mysterious company to deal in international bonds, his 'laundering' of stolen jewellery, and his juggling of funds to stave off the discovery of fraudulent bonds that he has sold through the Crédit Municipal in Bayonne (municipal pawnbrokers); we see his activity as a theatre impresario in Paris, his casino gambling, his purchase of influence among the press, the police, and politicians, and always his extravagant lifestyle and desire to impress; we see his devotion to his glamorous wife Arlette, his exploitation of her beauty to lure funds from a Spanish revolutionary fascist, his contradictory accounts to his friends of events in his own past, and gleams of political idealism - which may yet be just expedients to create further webs of deception.
Lost Horizon, 2h30
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, Olivia Hussey, Charles Boyer
Roles The High Lama
Rating52% 2.6041652.6041652.6041652.6041652.604165
This version is much closer to the 1937 film than to the original James Hilton novel. It tells the story of a group of travellers whose airplane is hijacked while fleeing a bloody revolution. The airplane crash lands in an unexplored area of the Himalayas, where the party is rescued and taken to the lamasery of Shangri-La. Miraculously, Shangri-La, sheltered by mountains on all sides, is a temperate paradise amid the land of snows. Perfect health is the norm, and inhabitants live to very old age while maintaining a youthful appearance.
The Madwoman of Chaillot, 2h12
Directed by John Huston, Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Margaret Leighton, Yul Brynner, Giulietta Masina
Roles The Broker
Rating60% 3.0017253.0017253.0017253.0017253.001725
The story is of a modern society endangered by power and greed and the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
The April Fools, 1h35
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Myrna Loy, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Charles Boyer
Roles Andre Greenlaw
Rating60% 3.049273.049273.049273.049273.04927
Howard Brubaker (Lemmon) is married to Phyllis (Sally Kellerman), who doesn't love him. Catherine (Deneuve) is the stunning wife of an equally uncaring husband, Howard's philandering boss Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford).
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot, 1h36
Directed by Étienne Périer
Origin Espagne
Genres Comedy
Themes Spy films
Actors Charles Boyer, George Chakiris, Robert Taylor, Marie Dubois, Gerard Tichy, Maurice de Canonge
Roles Vostov
Rating50% 2.533982.533982.533982.533982.53398
An American and Russian agent find themselves duped by a double agent who works for both of them. Also involved are a naive IBM computer operator, and the telephone operator at the hot-line center in Stockholm.
Casino Royale, 2h11
Directed by Robert Parrish, John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Richard Talmadge, Joseph McGrath
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Politique, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, William Holden
Roles Legrand
Rating50% 2.5034052.5034052.5034052.5034052.503405
The story of Casino Royale is told in an episodic format. Val Guest oversaw the assembly of the sections, although he turned down the credit of "co-ordinating director".
Barefoot in the Park, 1h46
Directed by Gene Saks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, Herb Edelman, Mabel Albertson
Roles Victor Velasco
Rating70% 3.5008453.5008453.5008453.5008453.500845
Corie (Jane Fonda), a free spirited young woman, and Paul Bratter (Robert Redford), a more conservative, less free-spirited man, are a recently married couple, who move into a fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village (one of the ongoing jokes is the fact that everyone has to climb so many stairs to get to the apartment). Corie decorates the small, leaky apartment, turning it into a picturesque little home for the two. One of the many odd people living in the apartment building, the quirky Victor Velasco (Charles Boyer), befriends Corie, often even flirting with her. He lives in the attic of the building, once even climbing through the Bratters' apartment window to get to his. Victor helps Corie with the apartment, teaching her how to work the seemingly broken heating and plumbing.
How to Steal a Million, 2h3
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer, Marcel Dalio
Roles Bernard De Solnay
Rating74% 3.7495353.7495353.7495353.7495353.749535
Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith) is a highly skilled art forger who pretends to be an art collector. His daughter Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) disapproves of his forgeries and is afraid that he may get caught. At the beginning of the film, he loans a renowned statue of Cellini's Venus to the Kléber-Lafayette Museum as the centerpiece of an important upcoming exhibition. However, the statue had been made by Nicole's grandfather and would fail even a basic materials analysis.
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 Docteur Monod
Rating68% 3.4044853.4044853.4044853.4044853.404485
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.
A Very Special Favor, 1h45
Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Walter Slezak, Frank De Vol, Dick Shawn
Roles Michel Boullard
Rating61% 3.0968753.0968753.0968753.0968753.096875
Paul Chadwick (Hudson) is a wealthy American oilman who is in a Parisian court, where he is up against the opposing lawyer Michel Boullard (Charles Boyer). Paul wins the case, but only by seducing the judge, who happens to be a woman. Shortly after, Boullard sets out to New York, where he plans on reuniting with his daughter Lauren (Caron), whom he has not seen for over 25 years, since his American wife divorced him for flirting with another woman. On the plane, he meets Paul, to whom he complains about having lost because of his charm, a French quality. Paul apologizes for having hurt his French pride and offers a favor in return.
Love Is a Ball, 1h51
Directed by David Swift, David Swift
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Charles Boyer, Ricardo Montalbán, Telly Savalas, Ruth McDevitt
Roles M. Etienne Pimm
Rating59% 2.9977152.9977152.9977152.9977152.997715
Etienne Pimm (Charles Boyer) has an unusual way of making a living: he arranges for impoverished European aristocrats to marry unsuspecting rich women. He is then discreetly compensated for his efforts by the husbands. His latest target is Millicent "Milly" Mehaffey (Hope Lange), newly arrived on the Riviera. Pimm and his assistant Janine (Ulla Jacobsson) begin grooming the penniless Grand Duke Gaspard Ducluzeau (Ricardo Montalban) for Milly, hiring Julian Soames (John Wood) to teach him manners and English. As their target fancies herself a race car driver, Pimm recruits John Lathrop Davis (Glenn Ford), a (retired) champion many times over, to teach Gaspard to drive.
Adorable Julia, 1h37
Directed by Alfred Weidenmann
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Lilli Palmer, Charles Boyer, Jean Sorel, Charles Régnier, Jeanne Valérie, Tilly Lauenstein
Roles Michael Grosselyn
Rating66% 3.320323.320323.320323.320323.32032
Le film est une adaptation du roman de William Somerset Maugham intitulé La Comédienne (1937).
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 2h33
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Glenn Ford, Paul Henreid, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas
Roles Marcelo Desnoyers
Rating65% 3.2938353.2938353.2938353.2938353.293835
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le conflit entre les deux branches, l'une française et l'autre allemande, dont est issue une famille argentine, sur fond de nazisme et d'occupation de Paris.
Fanny
Fanny (1961)
, 2h14
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La provence, Films based on plays
Actors Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Georgette Anys, Lionel Jeffries
Roles Cesar
Rating67% 3.3971153.3971153.3971153.3971153.397115
César (Charles Boyer) is a barkeeper in Marseille in the early 1920s. His 19-year-old son Marius (Horst Buchholz) works for him at his bar, but wants nothing more than to go to sea and leave his boring existence behind. The only thing holding him back is Fanny (Leslie Caron), an 18-year-old girl with whom he grew up. Fanny works selling fish with her mother down at the waterfront. Fanny has been in love with Marius her whole life, and flirts with him, but Marius always rejects her.