Pierre Brasseur
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday22 December 1905
Died16 August 1972 (age 66)
Place of birthParis, France
Known credits144
Biography
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Pa…
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Le Dernier Mélodrame
1979 · Writer
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
1972 · La Brunetière
La Brigade des maléfices
1971 · Diablevert
La Brigade des maléfices
1971 · Diablegris
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971 · Gosselin
Macédoine
1971
Un ange passe
1970
Un ange passe
1970 · Florisse
Un ange passe
1970 · Writer
Goto, Island of Love
1969 · Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969 · Self
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
1968 · Faria
Birds in Peru
1968 · Husband
A Little Virtuous
1968 · Jules Polnick
The Madman of Lab Four
1967 · Father Ballanchon
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967 · Self
King of Hearts
1966 · General Géranium
Pas de panique
1966 · Fernand Toussaint
A Young World
1966 · Le Grec
A Matter of Resistance
1966 · Dimanche
Two Hours to Kill
1966 · Laurent
Fortuna
1966 · Nissim Buzaglo
L'Or du duc
1965 · Adhémar de Talois-Minet
Cloportes
1965 · Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
1965 · Patache
Black Humor
1965 · Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
The Circular Triangle
1964 · Georges Richter
Lucky Jo
1964 · Loudéac
A Very Handy Man
1964 · Simone Palumbo
Josefa's Loot
1963 · Mayor
Agent of Doom
1963 · Charlèz
Don't Tempt the Devil
1963 · Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
The Abominable Man of Customs
1963 · Russian killer
Crime Does Not Pay
1962 · Martin Fenayrou
Hitch-Hike
1962 · Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
Emile's Boat
1962 · François Larmentiel
Rencontres
1962 · Carl Krasner
Famous Love Affairs
1961 · le grand duc Ernest
The Nina B. Affair
1961 · Berrera
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961 · Constable of Montmorency
Spotlight on a Murderer
1961 · Comte de Kerloquen
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
1960 · Pangloss
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960 · Commissioner of the Republic
Il bell'Antonio
1960 · Alfio Magnano
Carthage in Flames
1960 · Sidone
Eyes Without a Face
1960 · Professor Génessier
The Bureaucrats
1959 · Monsieur Nègre
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