Paul Amiot
Paul Amiot (29 March 1886 – 26 January 1979) was a French film actor. His career spanned some 63 years and he appeared in nearly 100 films between 1910 and 1973.
In 1920 he appeared in Robert Péguy's Être aimé pour soi-même. He was noted for his consistent roles as a figures of authority. He regularly played police inspectors or detectives, lawyers and physicians. He starred in some 100 films between 1908 and 1930. On his death in 1979 he donated his body to scientific research.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.002 |
| Birthday | 1886-03-29 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As |
1973
The Last Train
6.6/58
Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
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The Last Train
1970
Le Cercle Rouge
7.6/662
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a cha...
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Le Cercle Rouge
1936
Taras Bulba
0/0
In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
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Taras Bulba
1939
Savage Brigade
0/0
The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again bu...
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Savage Brigade
1932
Lilac
5.4/5
Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces...
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Lilac
1935
Stradivarius
0/0
A French-language version of Stradivari (1935).
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Stradivarius
1931
Verdun, memories of history
7/1
A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.
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Verdun, memories of history
1933
Mannequins
0/0
A traumatic nightmare for a glove salesman who falls asleep on his counter at night and the wax models begin to come to life...
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Mannequins
1934
Ces messieurs de la Santé
7.5/4
Banker Jules Taffard, a true financier, is a shrewd money-handler. Imprisoned for an alleged swindle, his trial seems to be upsetting those in the gov...
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Ces messieurs de la Santé
1934
Fedora
5/3
Fedora swears to avenge the death of her fiancé, Prince Yarischkine, killed by Ipanoff who fled to Paris. She finds Ipanoff whom she falls in love wit...
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Fedora
1934
La cinquième empreinte
0/0
Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Fo...
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La cinquième empreinte
1934
3 of the navy
0/0
The sentimental and comic adventures of three sailors, during a stopover of their ship in Toulon, are grafted onto a story of stolen documents, which...
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3 of the navy
1934
Moscow Nights
4/4
During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming...
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Moscow Nights
1935
Gangster malgré lui
0/0
The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist a...
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Gangster malgré lui
1935
Moïse et Salomon parfumeurs
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Brothers Moïse and Salomon run a modest bazaar near the Butte Montmartre, under the sign of "everything for nothing". There are office items, perfumes...
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Moïse et Salomon parfumeurs
1935
Dawn Over France
7.7/3
The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin...
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Dawn Over France
1936
Sous la Terreur
0/0
During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relat...
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Sous la Terreur
1936
One of the Legion
5/4
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outs...
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One of the Legion
1936
Mr. Nobody
7.5/2
For some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture whilst executing one daring robbery after another. No...
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Mr. Nobody
1937
À nous deux, madame la vie
9/1
Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years...
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À nous deux, madame la vie
1937
The Citadel of Silence
0/0
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to...
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The Citadel of Silence
1938
Bouquets from Nicholas
0/0
A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to smuggle drugs.
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Bouquets from Nicholas
1938
Marked Girls
5/4
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not...
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Marked Girls
1939
Cordial Agreement
5.4/5
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and Franc...
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Cordial Agreement
1923
The Hunted Beast
0/0
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The Hunted Beast
1947
The Royalists
7/4
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent...
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The Royalists
1946
L'ange qu'on m'a donné
0/0
During the 1940 exodus, a young girl takes in a baby to whom she becomes deeply attached.
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L'ange qu'on m'a donné
1945
La Route du bagne
0/0
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of har...
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La Route du bagne
1945
Resistance
0/0
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought t...
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Resistance
1973
The Inheritor
6.3/87
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his fath...
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The Inheritor
1946
Martin Roumagnac
6.6/16
The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa....
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Martin Roumagnac
1947
Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain
0/0
In an aero-naval base, a marine engineer who was about to deliver the name of a redoubtable spy is murdered. Shortly afterwards three different men ap...
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Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain
1947
Mirror
6.3/5
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang lea...
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Mirror
1950
Orpheus
7.6/259
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Orpheus
1947
Fantômas
5/6
The invincible bandit faces his daughter, courageous and honest, who wants to end his criminal activities. With a young journalist, her fiancé, she di...
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Fantômas
1947
La Grande Maguet
0/0
The orphan Catherine Maguet, nicknamed "La grande Maguet", was taken in by a young and good chatelaine, Suzanne de Norvaisis. Edmond, the husband of t...
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La Grande Maguet
1947
Third at Heart
0/0
Maitre de Latour Martin had been reported missing during the war. Peace returned, he finds his two wives. Guilty of bigamy, he shelters the ladies in...
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Third at Heart
1947
Secret Cargo
2/1
In a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug trafficking. Are involved in various intrigues, a gypsy orchestr...
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Secret Cargo
1949
Du Guesclin
5.1/8
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
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Du Guesclin
1952
Run Away Mr. Perle
5.3/3
Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who po...
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Run Away Mr. Perle
1963
Germinal
7.4/6
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...
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Germinal
1932
Happy Hearts
9/1
A silent film theater projectionist is kidnapped by a gangster group, so he can show them footage of a Dutch jewel dealer they want to steal from. The...
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Happy Hearts
1938
I Accuse
6.4/28
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in sc...
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I Accuse
1973
The Son
5.1/4
Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her...
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The Son
1954
Flesh and the Woman
4.1/7
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty...
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Flesh and the Woman
1939
Three from St. Cyr
5.1/4
Three students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert.
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Three from St. Cyr
1938
Crossroads
5.4/9
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, a...
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Crossroads
1934
Toboggan
0/0
Toboggan, the 1934 Henri Decoin French boxing sports romantic love triangle melodrama (about a washed up boxer who makes a comeback for a sexy dancer,...
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Toboggan
1917
Will
0/0
The story takes place in the Parisian "High Society" of the time. Two long-time friends become enemies because of a beautiful girl.
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Will
1935
Flight Into Darkness
6.2/6
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a ma...
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Flight Into Darkness
1942
Midnight in Paris
6.2/12
On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start...
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Midnight in Paris
1936
Mr. Nobody
7.5/2
For some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture whilst executing one daring robbery after another. No...
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Mr. Nobody
1944
L'aventure est au coin de la rue
4.2/2
A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts...
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L'aventure est au coin de la rue
1956
Nest of Spies
0/0
The mysterious death of a well-known criminal sparks an investigation into national security.
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Nest of Spies
1935
Justin de Marseille
6.2/13
A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bou...
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Justin de Marseille
1963
The Sword and the Balance
7.6/12
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pas...
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The Sword and the Balance
1964
Graduation Year
8/1
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the p...
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Graduation Year
1927
Fleur d'amour
0/0
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Fleur d'amour
1927
Napoleon
7.8/190
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his f...
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Napoleon
1936
The King
0/0
King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris...
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The King
1934
Obsession
0/0
A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife is interned. His brother, needing his signature for...
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Obsession
1934
L'École des contribuables
10/1
A bureaucrat, tax assessor, specialized in tax return and fraud, complains about his son-in-law's inactivity. He'd rather have thought twice before ur...
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L'École des contribuables
1941
Madame Sans-Gêne
1/1
Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
1936
The New Men
6/4
Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Cle...
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The New Men
1946
Queen's Necklace
1/1
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte",...
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Queen's Necklace
1931
The Dream
0/0
In the snow as bells toll, a hooded figure makes its way through the streets to a church.
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The Dream
1961
Famous Love Affairs
4.2/4
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Famous Love Affairs
1961
The Count of Monte Cristo
7.1/32
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison,...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
1948
Impasse of Two Angels
5.6/5
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives h...
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Impasse of Two Angels
1938
The Postmaster's Daughter
0/0
A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing a...
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The Postmaster's Daughter
1938
The Postmaster's Daughter
0/0
A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing a...
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The Postmaster's Daughter
1938
The Lafarge Case
5.8/2
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husb...
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The Lafarge Case
1926
Jean Chouan
0/0
This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting...
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Jean Chouan
1912
The Queen's Necklace
0/0
Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
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The Queen's Necklace
1929
The best mistress
0/0
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The best mistress
1922
Rapax
0/0
Widow Simone d'Argentières lives in Neuilly with her son Jean and her friend Hélène Castillon, whose brother Georges wants to marry Simone. Both the c...
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Rapax
1932
Un homme sans nom
0/0
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Un homme sans nom
1951
Dakota 308
0/0
A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the Camargue. On arrival, we find nails instead of gold!
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Dakota 308
1951
La Peau d’un homme
0/0
Simone's friend is murdered and the young woman is implicated. A journalist, Bernard Landry, succeeds in proving her innocence before being himself un...
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La Peau d’un homme
1948
The Queen's Lover
6.9/14
Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who...
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The Queen's Lover
1973
Where There's Smoke
5.8/6
An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party...
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Where There's Smoke
1940
Blood Red Rose
0/0
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Blood Red Rose
1922
Les parias de l'amour
0/0
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Les parias de l'amour
1928
Verdun: Visions of History
7.2/4
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
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Verdun: Visions of History
1933
Le Voleur
0/0
A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
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Le Voleur
1911
The Siege of Calais
0/0
Historical film set during the Hundred Year War.
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