Françoise Rosay

1891-1974

Biography: life and films

Françoise Rosay was a French actress whose birth name was Françoise Gilberte Bandy de Nalèche. She was born in Paris, France on 19th April 1891 and died in Montgeron, France on 28th March 1974, aged 82.

Her best films as an actor include Jacques Feyder's comedy La Kermesse héroïque (1935), Marcel Carné's Drôle de drame (1937), Les Gens du voyage (1938), Géza von Radványi's Donne senza nome (1950) and Claude Autant-Lara's L'Auberge rouge (1951).

Françoise Rosay appeared in 109 films and scripted 1 film.

She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Jacques Feyder (17 films), Claude Autant-Lara (4), Raffaello Matarazzo (2), Michel Audiard (2), Marcel Carné (2), Ludwig Berger (2), Jean Dréville (2), Hans Steinhoff (2), Edmond T. Gréville (2), Berthold Viertel (2), Basil Dearden (2) and Arthur Robison (2).

Her most frequent genres include: drama (69 films), comedy (26), romance (14), comedy-drama (7), War (7), comedy-romance (5), history (4), crime-thriller (4), Thriller (4) and comedy-thriller (2).

Our average rating for Françoise Rosay over all films is: 2.8

Filmography

Key: a = actor; w = writer

Les Vampires (1915) [a]

Têtes de femmes, femmes de tête (1916) [a]

Crainquebille (1922) [a]

Visages d'enfants (1925) [w]

Gribiche (1926) [a]

Le Bateau de verre (1927) [a]

Les Deux timides (1928) [a]

Madame Récamier (1928) [a]

The One Woman Idea (1929) [a]

Le Procès de Mary Dugan (1930) [a]

Si l'empereur savait ça (1930) [a]

Soyons gais (1930) [a]

Buster se marie (1931) [a]

Casanova wider Willen (1931) [a]

Échec au roi (1931) [a]

La Chance (1931) [a]

La Femme en homme (1931) [a]

Le Petit café (1931) [a]

The Magnificent Lie (1931) [a]

Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1932) [a]

Papa sans le savoir (1932) [a]

Quand on est belle (1932) [a]

Coralie et Cie (1933) [a]

L'Abbé Constantin (1933) [a]

La Pouponnière (1933) [a]

Remous (1933) [a]

Tambour battant (1933) [a]

Tout pour rien (1933) [a]

Die Insel (1934) [a]

Le Billet de mille (1934) [a]

Le Grand jeu (1934) [a]

Vers l'abîme (1934) [a]

Gangster malgré lui (1935) [a]

La Kermesse héroïque (1935) [a]

Marchand d'amour (1935) [a]

Marie des angoisses (1935) [a]

Pension Mimosas (1935) [a]

Die klugen Frauen (1936) [a]

Die letzten Vier von Santa Cruz (1936) [a]

Jenny (1936) [a]

Le Secret de Polichinelle (1936) [a]

Drôle de drame (1937) [a]

Le Fauteuil 47 (1937) [a]

Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister (1937) [a]

Ramuntcho (1937) [a]

The Robber Symphony (1937) [a]

Un carnet de bal (1937) [a]

Fahrendes Volk (1938) [a]

Le Joueur d'échecs (1938) [a]

Le Ruisseau (1938) [a]

Les Gens du voyage (1938) [a]

Paix sur le Rhin (1938) [a]

Die Hochzeitsreise (1939) [a]

Serge Panine (1939) [a]

Elles étaient douze femmes (1940) [a]

Une femme disparaît (1942) [a]

The Halfway House (1944) [a]

Johnny Frenchman (1945) [a]

Macadam (1946) [a]

La Dame de haut le bois (1947) [a]

Quartet (1948) [a]

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) [a]

Le Mystère Barton (1949) [a]

Les Vagabonds du rêve (1949) [a]

On n'aime qu'une fois (1949) [a]

Donne senza nome (1950) [a]

Maria Chapdelaine (1950) [a]

September Affair (1950) [a]

K - Das Haus des Schweigens (1951) [a]

L'Auberge rouge (1951) [a]

The 13th Letter (1951) [a]

Chi è senza peccato.... (1952) [a]

I figli di nessuno (1952) [a]

Le Banquet des fraudeurs (1952) [a]

Les Sept péchés capitaux (1952) [a]

Wanda la peccatrice (1952) [a]

Sul ponte dei sospiri (1953) [a]

La Reine Margot (1954) [a]

Ragazze d'oggi (1955) [a]

That Lady (1955) [a]

Le Long des trottoirs (1956) [a]

Interlude (1957) [a]

The Seventh Sin (1957) [a]

Le Joueur (1958) [a]

Me and the Colonel (1958) [a]

Non sono più Guaglione (1958) [a]

Du rififi chez les femmes (1959) [a]

Les Yeux de l'amour (1959) [a]

The Sound and the Fury (1959) [a]

Without Trumpet or Drum (1959) [a]

Le Bois des amants (1960) [a]

Stefanie in Rio (1960) [a]

The Full Treatment (1960) [a]

Frau Cheneys Ende (1961) [a]

Le Cave se rebiffe (1961) [a]

...e la donna creò l'uomo (1964) [a]

La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965) [a]

Up from the Beach (1965) [a]

Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages (1968) [a]

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille (1969) [a]

Pas folle la guêpe (1972) [a]

Trois milliards sans ascenseur (1972) [a]

Der Fußgänger (1973) [a]



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