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Mario David is a Actor, Director and Writer French born on 9 august 1927 at Charleville-Mézières (France)

Mario David

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Birth name Jacques Paul Jules Marie David
Nationality France
Birth 9 august 1927 at Charleville-Mézières (France)
Death 29 april 1996 (at 68 years) at Paris (France)

Mario David, de son vrai nom Jacques Paul Jules Marie David, est un acteur français, né le 9 août 1927 à Charleville-Mézières et mort le 29 avril 1996 à Paris.

Biography

Il débute très tôt sa carrière artistique dans le monde du cirque et du cabaret en y étant à la fois clown, acrobate et dompteur de fauves. Il effectue aussi une carrière honorable dans le culturisme qui lui permet de développer un physique imposant dont il tirera avantageusement parti dans la suite de sa carrière. Habitué aux seconds rôles, il endosse souvent le rôle du truand candide, de la brute naïve, de la force de la nature au cœur tendre.

Robert Dhéry l'engage dans sa célèbre troupe des Branquignols et, en 1954, Robert Hossein l'engage à son tour au Théâtre du Grand Guignol.

À la télévision, on le verra dans Les Cinq Dernières Minutes de Claude Loursais, dans Vidocq de Marcel Bluwal, dans La Tête des autres, de Raymond Rouleau, ou Les Saintes chéries de Jean Becker et dans Les Dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin de Claude Chabrol.

C'est surtout au cinéma qu'il deviendra une figure populaire grâce à ses nombreuses apparitions dans des seconds rôles, notamment aux côtés de Louis de Funès. On retient son apparition dans Oscar, d'Édouard Molinaro, où il se livre à une démonstration de pectoraux et triceps savoureuse. Il y incarne Philippe, le masseur un peu benêt et naïf, rôle qu'il tint d'abord au théâtre dans la pièce éponyme dès la mise en scène de Jacques Mauclair en 1958, puis de nouveau en 1971.

Il collaborera avec Robert Hossein dans la mise en scène théâtrale des grands moments de la Révolution française.

Il était marié à Françoise Cornu, avec qui il eut une fille prénommée Elisa.

Mario David meurt d'une embolie pulmonaire à l'Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière à Paris. Il est inhumé au cimetière du Louyat de Limoges (6e section).

Best films

The Troubles of Alfred (1972)
(Actor)
The Elusive Corporal (1962)
(Actor)
Up to His Ears (1965)
(Actor)
The Magnificent One (1973)
(Actor)
Shot Pattern (1982)
(Actor)
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)
(Actor)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mario David (84 films)

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Actor

Torment
Torment (1994)
, 1h40
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone, Marc Lavoine, André Wilms, Christiane Minazzoli
Roles Duhamel
Rating69% 3.495323.495323.495323.495323.49532
Paul (Cluzet) and Nelly (Béart) are a married couple who run a successful hotel. Paul begins to suspect Nelly of being unfaithful, and eventually descends into paranoia from which there is no escape. Instead of the usual final caption, "The End", L'Enfer finishes on a caption that reads "Without end..."
Stranger in the House, 1h40
Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Renée Faure, Cristiana Reali, François Perrot, Geneviève Page, Jean-Louis Richard
Roles Le père de Pascal Abecassis
Rating61% 3.053933.053933.053933.053933.05393
Me Jacques Emile Marie Loursat est un très brillant avocat qui a sombré dans l'alcoolisme à la suite du suicide de sa femme. Sa fille Isabelle, qui le rend responsable du décès de sa mère, ne lui parle plus depuis 10 ans.
L'Escargot noir, 1h28
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Crime
Actors Jean Poiret, Mario David, Stéphane Audran, Roger Dumas, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Louis Maury
Roles Mario, the inspector
Rating65% 3.299733.299733.299733.299733.29973
À Chinon, petite ville tranquille de Touraine, trois femmes sont tuées : l'épouse du pharmacien Picolet, celle de Pierre Tassin, puis Florence Saint-Martin. Étrangement, le tueur a laissé un escargot noir sur chacun des corps. L'inspecteur Lavardin enquête, assisté de Mario, policier dépêché de Tours. Il apprend qu'une autre femme a été assassinée à Paris trois mois plus tôt, dans les mêmes circonstances. Au fur et à mesure, il comprend que la clef du mystère réside dans le passé des victimes.
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
Directed by Jacques Ardouin, François Velle
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Denise Petitdidier, Annie Jouzier, Sabine Paturel, Jean-Claude Massoulier, Lucien Barjon, Michel Galabru
Roles Bob Grouillet, press officer

Un commando de cinq militantes féministes kidnappe un homme considéré comme macho.
The Hatter's Ghost, 2h4
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Erotic thriller films
Actors Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, François Cluzet, Isabelle Sadoyan, Aurore Clément
Roles le commissaire Pigeac
Rating70% 3.5319553.5319553.5319553.5319553.531955
Labbé, a hatter in a French provincial town, leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour Kachoudas, an Armenian tailor. After the hatter kills his own wife, he then kills six of her friends to stop them visiting her and prepares to murder a seventh when the intended victim dies naturally. As a substitute, he murders the maid. At the same time, Kachoudas is dying and Labbé confesses his crime to him. Then, after getting drunk he visits his favourite prostitute Berthe and kills her too, being found there in the morning by the police.
Shot Pattern, 1h28
Directed by Jean-Claude Missiaen
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Gérard Lanvin, Michel Constantin, Véronique Jannot, Mario David, Steve Kalfa, Pierre Londiche
Roles Felix Pejat
Rating57% 2.8841752.8841752.8841752.8841752.884175
Un soir, après avoir dîné au restaurant avec son amie Carine, employée dans une parfumerie de luxe, Antoine, fripier aux puces de Clignancourt, la raccompagne jusqu'à la gare. Mais dans le train qui la ramène à Enghien-les-Bains, celle-ci est agressée par trois voyous patibulaires, Samson Balestra et ses deux acolytes, Daniel Verlot et Michel Poubennec, sous les yeux des autres voyageurs, pétrifiés. Un coup de karaté du plus brutal d'entre eux, Balestra, est fatal à la jeune femme. Alors que l'inspecteur Gagnon commence son enquête, Antoine, désemparé, revit sa rencontre avec Carine, quelques mois plus tôt...
Signé Furax, 1h30
Directed by Marc Simenon
Genres Comedy
Actors Maurice Risch, Pierre Tchernia, Michel Galabru, Pierre Tornade, Maurice Chevit, Bernard Haller
Roles Un agent au barrage
Rating53% 2.66722.66722.66722.66722.6672
L'Obélisque de la Place de la Concorde à Paris et divers autres monuments français sont remplacés par des imitations. Ces odieux crimes contre le patrimoine national sont tous accompagnés de la mention « Signé Furax », criminel célèbre. L'enquête est confiée au commissaire Fouvreaux...
Hothead
Hothead (1979)
, 1h32
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Dominique Cheminal
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Patrick Dewaere, Jean Bouise, Michel Aumont, France Dougnac, Maurice Barrier, Dorothée Jemma
Roles Rumin, healer
Rating71% 3.5944353.5944353.5944353.5944353.594435
François Perrin is a belligerent factory worker who plays football for a local amateur team, in a club owned by a rich businessman who also owns the factory where Perrin, as well as most of the population of Trincamp, works. His attitude doesn't endear him to anyone, and the situation is not helped when, at a training session, he pushes Berthier, the star and captain of the team, who demands that Perrin be expelled. Soon thereafter, he is also fired from his job, and the whole town turns against him and he is even prohibited from entering the local bar. When a drunk Berthier tries to rape a woman one night, Perrin is immediately framed for the deed, and ends up in jail after being brutalized by the police. Two months later, the Trincamp team is to participate in an important game for the France's Cup, but the bus carrying the team gets into an accident, and out of desperation to replace the injured players, Perrin is released from jail to help out the team. While on the way to the stadium, he manages to evade police and finds the rape victim and confront her. Rather than resulting in conflict, he actually finds someone who believes him, since she was not positive in her earlier identification, and she decides to investigate the testimonies that convicted Perrin, while he goes on to play and scores both of his team's goals in a very tight victory. Perrin is now the town's hero, and he uses that position and the knowledge of who did what and who made false reports to the police to plot a subtle but effective revenge on those who have wronged him.
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space, 1h27
Directed by Jean Girault
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Comic science fiction
Themes French war films, Fiction sur la gendarmerie, La provence, The Troops of St. Tropez, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, France Rumilly, Jean-Pierre Rambal, Guy Grosso
Roles der Dieb der Ölkanne
Rating62% 3.1437453.1437453.1437453.1437453.143745
The actions once again take place in the small French town of Saint-Tropez. While driving with one of his gendarmes, Cruchot (Louis de Funes) has to stop in order to fix the car. The gendarme wanders away and sees a flying saucer in a field which then flies away. He tries to tell Cruchot and the rest of the station, but they don't believe him. Shortly after, the same occurs with Cruchot and the chief of the gendarmes. This time it is Cruchot who wanders away and sees the saucer, however the chief does not believe him. Later on, when the same gendarme is doing paperwork in the office, a young man appears in front of him and says that he is a part of an alien expedition which has arrived to Saint-Tropez in order to examine humanity as people from all around the globe go to Saint-Tropez during the summer. The alien demonstrates its shapeshifting ability by transforming into the same gendarme it is talking to. The gendarme runs and tells Cruchot, who doesn't believe him. In the midst of the racket, the chief comes and sends the gendarme away. The chief reveals that he is actually an alien disguised as the chief, and when Cruchot doesn't believe him the alien becomes agitated and uses laser vision to cause damage to Cruchot's room. He relents when a watch on his hand flashes red and drinks something out of a flask. The alien begins coughing and upon hitting it on the back, Cruchot discovers it makes a metallic sound. Later on when the real chief arrives, Cruchot stabs him with a screwdriver thinking that it is the alien. The chief orders Cruchot out, since the supervisor will come in tomorrow to check up on the station. During the check up, Cruchot notices the same watch on the supervisor as on the alien he saw last night and attempts to attack him. The gendarmes hold him back while the alien supervisor flees, and the real supervisor arrive. Cruchot once again stabs the real supervisor thinking he is an alien. He is arrested, but escapes the station.
The Discord, 1h37
Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Louis de Funès, Annie Girardot, Maurice Risch, Julien Guiomar, Geneviève Fontanel, Jean-Jacques Moreau
Roles Le camionneur
Rating63% 3.199293.199293.199293.199293.19929
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze, maire libéral-conservateur d'une ville de province, est un industriel au bord de la faillite quand son usine, spécialisée dans la lutte anti-pollution, obtient d'un groupe japonais une commande énorme qui peut sauver son entreprise : 3 000 appareils de dépollution de l'air, les CX‑22, à livrer sous 90 jours. Mais il manque d'espace pour produire et stocker ces appareils car l'usine est sous-dimensionnée.
Violette Nozière, 2h4
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Lisa Langlois, Jean-François Garreaud, Guy Hoffmann
Roles Directeur de la prison
Rating70% 3.541713.541713.541713.541713.54171
Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) is a French teen in the 1930s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents, father Baptiste Nozière (Jean Carmet) and mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran). Rebelling against her "mean and petty" petit-bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings.
Animal
Animal (1977)
, 1h40
Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Films about films
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Jane Birkin, Raymond Gérôme, Dany Saval, Charles Gérard
Roles Santos, le gitan
Rating64% 3.245783.245783.245783.245783.24578
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
That Obscure Object of Desire, 1h42
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Erotic films
Actors Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Milena Vukotic, María Asquerino, Julien Bertheau
Roles (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.8964353.8964353.8964353.8964353.896435
A dysfunctional and sometimes violent romance happens between Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a middle-aged, wealthy Frenchman, and a young, impoverished and beautiful flamenco dancer from Seville, Conchita, played by Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina. The two actresses each appear unpredictably in separate scenes, and differ not only physically, but temperamentally as well.
Drôles de zèbres, 1h30
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Alice Sapritch, Patrick Préjean, Sim, Coluche, Jean-Paul Tribout, Michel Leeb
Roles Grégorian
Rating36% 1.8471151.8471151.8471151.8471151.847115
Deux chômeurs, ruinés par des paris hippiques, se font passer pour des agents spéciaux auprès d'un industriel qui leur demande de faire fuir les clients d'un hôtel qu'il désire racheter ensuite à bas prix, celui-ci comportant un souterrain qui mène directement dans la banque des émirs en Suisse. Ils découvrent bientôt que le directeur de l'hôtel a mis au point une substance dopante pour les chevaux qui lui permet de gagner facilement aux courses...