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Michel Magne is a Actor, Producer, Sound and Compositor French born on 20 march 1930 at Lisieux (France)

Michel Magne

Michel Magne
Michel Magne participated to 66 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 28 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Sound

A Woman in White, 1h50
Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors Marie-Josée Nat, Claude Gensac, Jean Valmont, Paloma Matta, Jean-Pierre Dorat, Robert Benoît
Rating63% 3.1543253.1543253.1543253.1543253.154325
Claude Sauvage, une jeune gynécologue tenace, tient la chronique de quelques mois d'internat dans un hôpital parisien. Vie privée et carrière médicale, elle consigne ses doutes et désirs dans une société où la place et le sort des femmes demeurent à cette époque un enjeu secondaire. L'itinéraire personnel de Claude croise à travers le cas de quelques patientes le débat alors crucial sur l'ambition professionnelle féminine, la contraception et le droit à l'avortement.

Producer

A Monkey in Winter, 1h39
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Noël Roquevert, Paul Frankeur, Gabrielle Dorziat
Roles Producer
Rating74% 3.7018153.7018153.7018153.7018153.701815
Albert Quentin is a reformed alcoholic who once swore never to drink again. He has kept this promise to his wife for many years although as the owner of a small hotel he had opportunities galore to break it.

Sound

The Devil and the Ten Commandments, 2h7
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Claude Rich, Michel Simon, Louis de Funès, Micheline Presle, Françoise Arnoul, Lucien Baroux
Roles Music Director
Rating66% 3.3329453.3329453.3329453.3329453.332945
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken. The episodes are either mini-dramas. The version available in Germany and Japan has eight episodes.
Any Number Can Win, 1h58
Directed by Costa-Gavras, Claude Pinoteau, Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes La provence, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Maurice Biraud, Viviane Romance, Henri Virlogeux, Jean Carmet
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating72% 3.6456153.6456153.6456153.6456153.645615
Charles comes out of prison after serving five years for attempted robbery. His wife wants him to go legit but he immediately starts making plans for robbing the gambling casino at Cannes.
Crooks in Clover, 1h45
Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Cooking films, Gangster films
Actors Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Jean Lefebvre, Francis Blanche, Venantino Venantini, Sabine Sinjen
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating76% 3.847753.847753.847753.847753.84775
Fernand Naudin (Lino Ventura) is an ex-gangster, who now deals in agricultural machinery and lives in Montauban. His modest, quiet life is disrupted when his childhood friend, nicknamed "The Mexican", who has become the Boss of a gangster organisation, summons him to his death bed. He has to take care of his friend's "business" and of his daughter, Patricia, who only thinks about having fun and has never been kept in a college for more than six months. Mister Folace (Francis Blanche) watches after "The Mexican"'s camp followers with a benevolent neutrality, as he don't feel really concerned by the upcoming quarrel about the succession, like Jean (Robert Dalban), butler and former housebreaker.
Angelique
Angelique (1964)
, 1h55
Directed by Bernard Borderie
Origin France
Genres Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Giuliano Gemma, Charles Régnier, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66% 3.349623.349623.349623.349623.34962
In Mid-17th century France: young Louis XIV is struggling for his throne, beggars and thieves haunt Paris and brigands roam the countryside. Fifth child of an impoverished country nobleman, Angélique de Sancé de Monteloup grows up in the Poitou marshlands. Her logical destiny would be to marry a poor country nobleman, have children and spend her life fighting for a meagre subsistence. Destiny has other plans in store for her. At 17, on returning from her education in a convent, she finds herself betrothed to the rich count Jeoffrey de Peyrac (Jeoffrey Comte de Peyrac de Morens, Lord of Toulouse), 12 years her senior, lame, scarred and reputed to be a wizard. For the sake of her family, Angélique reluctantly agrees to the match but refuses the advances of her husband. Peyrac respects her decision and does not pursue his claim to conjugal rights, wishing rather to seduce than use force.
OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok, 1h58
Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Kerwin Mathews, Pier Angeli, Robert Hossein, Dominique Wilms, Gamil Ratib, Henri Virlogeux
Roles Music
Rating57% 2.8666052.8666052.8666052.8666052.866605
Secret Agent OSS 117, Colonel Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (Kerwin Mathews) is sent to Thailand following the murder of OSS agent Christopher Lemmon. Lemmon had been investigating the break out of plague epidemics in India following health workers inoculating the locals to protect them from cholera. Lemmon had discovered that the medicine made in Hogby Laboratories in Bangkok had been switched with plague germs infecting the population with fatal results.
Fantomas
Fantomas (1964)
, 1h44
Directed by André Hunebelle, Jacques Besnard
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam, Robert Dalban, Marie-Hélène Arnaud
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating68% 3.447893.447893.447893.447893.44789
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance. In the first episode of the series he is unhappy with Fandor, because of a fictitious interview the journalist wrote about him. He takes his revenge by abducting Fandor and threatening to kill him. He then uses his formidable makeup skills to commit a spectacular crime while disguised like Fandor. When commissaire Juve joins the chase, chameleon-like Fantômas promptly commits a crime wearing a mask looking like Juve. In the end Fandor, Juve and Fandor's girlfriend Hélène are all on the master criminal's trail, all to no avail as the man of a thousand masks finally manages to escape.
The Monocle's Sour Laugh, 1h40
Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Paul Meurisse, Robert Dalban, Marcel Dalio, Barbara Steele, Edward Meeks, Pierre Richard
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62% 3.1244653.1244653.1244653.1244653.124465
Le commandant Dromard, alias « Le Monocle », est chargé par les services secrets français d'enquêter sur des attentats qui visent le personnel et les installations de la recherche atomique mondiale. Le Colonel, chef de Dromard, lui désigne deux suspects, un homme, un certain Bergourian et une femme. Accompagné du sergent Poussin, il surveille un suspect en prenant le bateau vers Hong Kong. Bergourian y est assassiné dès sa descente du bateau. La femme ne semble pas étrangère à cet assassinat...
Angelique and the King, 1h40
Directed by Bernard Borderie
Origin France
Genres Swashbuckler, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Estella Blain, Sami Frey, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.294333.294333.294333.294333.29433
In the third film of the Angelique series, the title character is sent on a mission by King Louis XIV of France. Later she learns that rumors are spreading that she is the King's mistress. In addition, she learns a secret.
The Sleeping Car Murder, 1h35
Directed by Costa-Gavras
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Mondy
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.591273.591273.591273.591273.59127
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
Fantomas Unleashed, 1h39
Directed by André Hunebelle, Jacques Besnard
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam, Robert Dalban, Marie-Hélène Arnaud
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67% 3.398123.398123.398123.398123.39812
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre. Journalist Fandor develops an ingenious scheme whereby he disguises himself as Lefebvre and attends a scientific conference in Rome, Italy to lure Fantômas into attempting to kidnap him.
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer, 1h39
Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, François Maistre, Raymond Pellegrin, Perrette Pradier, Annie Anderson
Roles Music
Rating59% 2.9500652.9500652.9500652.9500652.950065
Secret Agent OSS 117, Colonel Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (Frederick Stafford) has his Alpine ski holiday interrupted to receive a briefing on a series of suicide attacks performed by trusted assistants of their targets that they blow up with themselves. Using the cover of a journalist named Hubert Delacroix, de La Bath flies to Brazil to meet his contact Thomas Ellis (Claude Carliez) who believes the killers have been drugged and hypnotised to perform their assassinations.
Angelique: The Road To Versailles, 1h40
Directed by Bernard Borderie
Origin France
Genres Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Michèle Mercier, Claude Giraud, Jean Rochefort, Robert Hossein, Sami Frey, Noël Roquevert
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66% 3.3001553.3001553.3001553.3001553.300155
After the execution of Jeoffrey de Peyrac, Angélique finds refuge at the Cour des Miracles and the boss Calembredaine, he turns out to be her childhood friend and first love Nicolas. With his help she finds back her children. After a fight between two rivalling gangs, Nicolas is shot and Angélique is arrested and sent to the Châtelet. She asks the captain to let her go rescue her children, he agrees but she has to come back to spend the night with him. Angélique goes to the headquarters of the Grand Coërse and rescues her children. She brings them to Barbe and asks her to take care of them because she has a debt to pay. Angélique returns to the Châtelet where the captain is waiting for her. He tries to kiss her but they struggle and he falls down. She escapes and flees to Barbe who now works in an old run-down inn called "Le coq Hardi".
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard, 1h45
Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Raymond Pellegrin, Françoise Christophe, Henri Serre
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67% 3.350313.350313.350313.350313.35031
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply. Journalist Fandor and commissaire Juve are invited to Scotland by Lord McRashley (played by Jean-Roger Caussimon). Lord McRashley, one of Fantômas' potential victims, uses his castle as the headquarters to set up a trap for the menace called Fantômas.