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José Artur

José Artur

Acting
1927-05-20
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France

Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles

#1Champs-Elysées

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Self

6.8 / 10
Talk

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#2Apostrophes

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Self

8.5 / 10
Talk

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

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#3Numéro un

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Self

7.5 / 10
Reality

A French variety show.

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#4Discorama

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes as Self

8.0 / 10
Talk

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#5À bout portant

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Self - Interviewer

8.0 / 10
Documentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#6Z

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Editor-in-Chief of the Newspaper (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
ThrillerCrimeDrama

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.

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#7Maso and Miso Go Boating

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

5.3 / 10
Documentary

The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.

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#8The Sleeping Car Murders

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Un journaliste (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
CrimeThrillerMystery

Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police, led by Inspector Grazzi, investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one among them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the others start turning up dead. It's up to the remaining two to solve the case, lest they become the next victims.

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#9Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Reginus

6.1 / 10
Comedy

In ancient Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the locals who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.

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#10The American

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
Drama

A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.

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#11Grain of Sand

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Lucien Pommier

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Delphine Seyrig plays a middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes of escaping to a more pleasant past. She leaves her current residence to retreat to her provincial French hometown. Here she dreams of locating and rekindling an old love. Seyrig is less inscrutable here than in her debut feature-film appearance Last Year in Marienbad (61), though the character is just as complex and difficult to please. Grain of Sand was released in France in 1983 as Le Grain de Sable.

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#12Monsieur Balboss

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Priest

9.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Inspector Balboss, a corrupt police officer with a criminal streak, takes under his wing a young vagrant he meets by chance and sets about teaching him the tricks of the trade.

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#13A Police Officer Without Importance

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Maître Larquey

7.0 / 10
Crime

Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.

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#14My Priest Among the Poor

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Comedy

Abbé Pellegrin, parish priest of Sableuse, sells an ancient Christ to an unknown man, M. de Saint Preux. Summoned to the bishop's palace, he learns that he has been the victim of a swindler. The Christ, exchanged for a "mouthful of bread", is a valuable antique. Not wanting to compromise his wartime comrade La Goupille, who had introduced him to Saint Preux, Pellegrin proposed to his bishop that he himself carry out the search for the Christ. For the occasion, he swapped his cassock for a "civilian" outfit and landed in Paris. He recovers the treasure in the midst of a series of adventures and misadventures involving Cousinet, the former squire of Sableuse. He takes in the tenants Cousinet has just evicted from his hotel.

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#15My Priest Among the Poor

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Armand

5.5 / 10
Comedy

Abbé Pellegrin, parish priest of Sableuse, sells an ancient Christ to an unknown man, M. de Saint Preux. Summoned to the bishop's palace, he learns that he has been the victim of a swindler. The Christ, exchanged for a "mouthful of bread", is a valuable antique. Not wanting to compromise his wartime comrade La Goupille, who had introduced him to Saint Preux, Pellegrin proposed to his bishop that he himself carry out the search for the Christ. For the occasion, he swapped his cassock for a "civilian" outfit and landed in Paris. He recovers the treasure in the midst of a series of adventures and misadventures involving Cousinet, the former squire of Sableuse. He takes in the tenants Cousinet has just evicted from his hotel.

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#16Bloody Murder

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as L'antiquiaire

5.2 / 10
Crime

Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property and gives everyone the image of conjugal happiness. The children, Daniel and Nadine, are busy with their studies and their loves. The bourgeois life of Hélène is troubled by the murder of her lover, Philippe, a friend of her son. She finds the body when she goes to one of their appointments. In shock, she still thinks to take away the address book of the victim where her name appears - object compromising for her marriage. The police are interested in her. A stranger blackmails her. She is caught in a gear that she can not get out of. She then suspects that all is a revenge from her husband.

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#17Lost in Transit

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Le marchand de journaux

6.7 / 10
Comedy

A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.

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#18La Dame de chez Maxim

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m as Monsieur Vidauban

8.8 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#19Mr. Orchid

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Pierre Martin

6.5 / 10
DramaWar

In the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, 51-year-old apparent pacifist Edouard Martin is in fact the leader of a resistance network, using his hobby of orchid growing to hide radio equipment.

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#20The Kids Are Leading the Investigation

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Luxeuil

8.0 / 10
Crime

When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.

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