Robert Le Vigan (born Robert Coquillaud, 7 January 1900 – 12 October 1972) was a French actor.
He appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".Ginette Vincendeau (ed) Encyclopedia of European Cinema, London: Casell/BFI, 1995, p.262
A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes,Rémi Fournier Lanzoni French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, New York and London: Continuum, 2002, p.139. According to Fournier Lanzoni, Le Vigan found exile in Argentina. he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe; Le Vigan was replaced by Pierre Renoir. He was sentenced to forced labour for 10 years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, appearing in several films in both countries in supporting roles. Le Vigan died on 12 October 1972 in the city of Tandil.
Selected filmography
Moon Over Morocco (1931) - Donald Strawber Radio Follies (1931) The Yellow Dog (1932) - Le docteur Ernest Michoux Une jeune fille et un million (1932) - L'employé brouillon de l'agence Coquin de sort (1932) Boubouroche (1933) - Potasse Knock (1933) - Mousquet, le pharmacien The Little King (1933) - Le fou The Tunnel (1933) - Brooce - un Ouvrier Félon L'homme à la barbiche (1933) - Jérôme de Valvert / Le demi-frère de Jérôme de Valvert Madame Bovary (1934) - Lheureux The Ideal Woman (1934) - Girardin Street Without a Name (1934) - Vanoël Famille nombreuse (1934) - L'adjudant-chef Sandri Maria Chapdelaine (1934) - Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux Bien mal acquis (1934) The Coquelet Affair (1935) - Poireau, le jardinier Golgotha (1935) (known as Behold the Man in English) - Jésus Christ La bandera (1935) - Fernando Lucas Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1936) - Cardinal Mazarin The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1936) - Charles Davis La ronde du brigadier Bellot (1936) Prince of the Six Days (1936) - Fouilloux, un spectateur A Legionnaire (1936) - Leduc Jenny (1936) - L'Albinos Hélène (1936) - Le docteur Régnier The Lower Depths (1936) - L'acteur alcoolique Romarin (1937) - Le brigadier Napoléon Orsini The Man from Nowhere (1937) - Le comte Papiano Franco de port (1937) - Henri The Citadel of Silence (1937) - Granoff Harvest (Regain) (1937) - Le gendarme (uncredited) The Woman from the End of the World (1938) - Arlanger, l'armateur The West (1938) - Taïeb el Haïn Boys' School (1938) - César le passe-muraille Storm Over Asia (1938) - Sir Richard Le Quai des brumes (1938) - Le peintre The Little Thing (1938) - Roger L'avion de minuit (1938) - Le Docteur Ernest the Rebel (1938) - Le gouverneur-président de Mariposa The Fatted Calf (1939) - Grussgolt Louise (1939) - Le peintre Gaston The World Will Tremble (1939) - Le Greffier Le Dernier Tournant (1939) - Le cousin maître-chanteur The Phantom Carriage (1939) - Le père Martin Paradise Lost (1940) - Édouard Bordenave Romance of Paris (1941) - Monsieur Lormel Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941) - Léon Villard, le maître d'école Dédé la musique (1941) - Fernand l'Américain Room 13 (1942) - Fenouil White Patrol (1942) - Le commissaire Pascal Private Life (1942) - Rémi Géraud Andorra ou les hommes d'Airain (1942) - Asnurri Chiffon's Wedding (1942) - Maître Blondin - l'huissier Business Is Business (1942) - Phinck La grande marnière (1943) - Fleury The Heart of a Nation (1943) - L'oncle Michel Froment (uncredited) It Happened at the Inn (1943) - Goupi-Tonkin Don't Shout It from the Rooftops (1943) - Le professeur Léonard Bontagues The Man Who Sold His Soul (1943) - Grégori The Ménard Collection (1944) - Amédée Garbure Bifur 3 (1945) - Paul (uncredited) The King's Mail (1951) - Peabody The Orchid (1951) - The father Ley del mar (1952) - Rafael Rio turbio (1952) - Levignan (final film role)
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