Claude Le Saché

Claude Le Saché

Acting

Biography

Claude Le Saché is a character actor with a career spanning several decades, primarily active in British television and film. He often portrayed French or European characters, such as officials, waiters, or aristocrats, in period dramas and popular series.

Known For & Full Filmography18 Titles

#1Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Minister of the Interior

8.2 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

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#2Bergerac

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Dance Instructor

6.7 / 10
Drama

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

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#3Tales of the Unexpected

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Waiter

6.8 / 10
Drama

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

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#4Secret Army

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Train Guard

7.8 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

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#5The Upper Hand

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as Wedding Official

7.2 / 10
Comedy

The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.

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#6Murder Most Horrid

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes as Postman

6.9 / 10
MysteryCrimeComedy

Comedienne Dawn French tackles dark, tongue-in-cheek thrillers as her various characters embark on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another, she is involved with murder — either committing the crime or even getting bumped off herself!

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#7Campion

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Joseph

6.3 / 10
MysteryDramaComedy

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.

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#8French Fields

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Old Man

6.9 / 10
Comedy

French Fields is a British situation comedy. It ran for 19 episodes from 5 September 1989 to 8 October 1991. It was written by John T. Chapman and Ian Davidson and was produced by Thames Television for ITV. The series starred Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie as husband and wife William and Hester Fields and followed the series Fresh Fields, which ran from 7 March 1984 to 23 October 1986. At the end of the last series of Fresh Fields, William accepted a position with a French company. French Fields follows Hester and William after they make the move to Calais. Other regular cast included their French real estate agent Chantal, who was also the Fields' neighbour to the left. On the right, were the horrible and snobbish English couple the Trendles. Hester and William also coped with Madame Remoleux, an unintelligible and ancient French woman who lived in and cared for the estate — called Les Hirondelles — where they all lived. Also, popping in on a regular basis, were local farmer and mayor Monsieur Dax and his daughter Marie-Christine, to whom Hester did her best to teach English. Nicholas Courtney also appeared frequently as the Marquis.

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#9Just Good Friends

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Mayor

6.6 / 10
Comedy

A bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.

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#10The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Minister of the Interior

10.0 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

In Victorian London, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes wields not only powers of observation and deduction but also vast knowledge on anything relevant to solve mysteries, including crimes. Cases that would stump most detectives are merely short work for Holmes, who is ably assisted by his friend and colleague Dr John H. Watson.

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#11Rebecca

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Hotel Waiter

7.5 / 10
MysteryDrama

Rebecca is a four-part British television miniseries dramatised by Hugh Whitemore, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1938 mystery novel (which had famously been interpreted to film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940). A naive young woman marries a wealthy widower, but grows haunted by his late wife's legacy and the sinister housekeeper's obsession with the deceased Rebecca.

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#12The Razor's Edge

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Morgue Attendant

6.4 / 10
DramaRomance

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.

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#13A Tale of Two Cities

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Aristocrat

5.7 / 10
Drama

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

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#14Souvenir

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
Drama

In 1944, a dashing German soldier and a beautiful French girl fell deeply in love while World War II raged on. More than forty years later, Ernest Kestner, retired and recently widowed, leaves his adopted home in New York and returns to France to visit his headstrong, estranged daughter, with the fleeting hope of finding the love he was forced to leave behind. But this is no ordinary vacation in the charming French countryside. The mood is strangely dark, and what Kestner and his daughter encounter is completely unexpected as the veteran soldier seeks the ultimate Souvenir - born from the ashes of a horrible, hidden secret. Based on the true story of Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town that was nearly wiped out near the end of WWII. Most every man, woman and child was gunned down or burned in retaliation for the French Resistance. The entire ruined town has been preserved as a national memorial. - Written by Mackinac Media Inc.

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#15Fair Stood the Wind for France

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Baker

7.0 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaWar & Politics

When John Franklin crash-lands his Wellington bomber in occupied France at the height of the Second World War, he is concerned for the safety of his crew and worried about his own badly injured arm. His crew escapes, but the family of a mill owner risk their lives to hide Franklin in their home until he regains his health. During the following balmy summer months, the pilot's situation is further complicated by his feelings for Francoise, the daughter of the house, but as German patrols move in, his only chance of survival is to flee from France.

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#16Success Is the Best Revenge

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Monsieur Conio

6.5 / 10
Drama

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.

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#17How Many Miles to Babylon?

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as French Cafe Proprietor

8.8 / 10
DramaWarTV Movie

Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

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#18L’Elegance

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Waiter

8.8 / 10
RomanceTV Movie

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman.

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