Gaston Modot

1887-1970

Biography: life and films

Gaston Modot was a French actor whose birth name was Jean-Charles Barniaud. He was born in Paris, France on 30th December 1887 and died in Paris, France on 24th February 1970, aged 82.

His best films as an actor include Abel Gance's comedy-thriller Au secours! (1924), Henri Fescourt's Monte Cristo (1929), Luis Buñuel's L'Âge d'or (1930), Georg Wilhelm Pabst's comedy L'Opéra de quat'sous (1931) and Jacques Becker's Antoine et Antoinette (1947), and whose best work as a screenwriter include Louis Daquin's Nous les gosses (1941) and Gilles Grangier's Leçon de conduite (1946).

Gaston Modot appeared in 103 films and scripted 2 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Jean-Paul Le Chanois (5 films), Jacques Becker (5), René Clair (4), Jean Renoir (4), Jean Durand (4), Charles Burguet (4), Abel Gance (4), Marco de Gastyne (3), Louis Daquin (3), Julien Duvivier (3), Jacques Séverac (3), Luis Buñuel (2), Jacques de Baroncelli (2), Jack Forrester (2), Henri Fescourt (2), Henri Chomette (2), Germaine Dulac (2), Georges Lacombe (2), Georg Wilhelm Pabst (2), Carlo Rim (2), Benito Perojo (2), Alexandre Volkoff (2) and Émile Couzinet (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (63 films), comedy (15), comedy-drama (12), romance (11), Thriller (10), crime-thriller (6), comedy-romance (6), history (3), comedy-thriller (2), Western (2), War (2), Horror (2) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Gaston Modot over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

Key: a = actor; w = writer

Calino s'endurcit la figure (1912) [a]

La Zone de la mort (1917) [a]

Mater dolorosa (1917) [a]

Un ours (1919) [a]

La Fête espagnole (1920) [a]

Le Chevalier de Gaby (1920) [a]

Fièvre (1921) [a]

Mathias Sandorf (1921) [a]

Les Mystères de Paris (1922) [a]

La Bouquetière des innocents (1923) [a]

La Mendiante de Saint-Sulpice (1923) [a]

Petit hôtel à louer (1923) [a]

Âme d'artiste (1924) [a]

Au secours! (1924) [a]

Le Miracle des loups (1924) [a]

Más allá de la muerte (1924) [a]

Nène (1924) [a]

Naples au baiser de feu (1925) [a]

Carmen (1926) [a]

La Châtelaine du Liban (1927) [a]

Le Chauffeur de Mademoiselle (1927) [a]

Geheimnisse des Orients (1928) [a]

Mon coeur au ralenti (1928) [a]

Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (1929) [a]

Das grüne Monokel (1929) [a]

La Merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1929) [a]

La Ville des milles joies (1929) [a]

Monte Cristo (1929) [a]

Der Erzieher meiner Tochter (1930) [a]

Freiheit in Fesseln (1930) [a]

L'Âge d'or (1930) [a]

Sous les toits de Paris (1930) [a]

Autour d'une enquête (1931) [a]

L'Ensorcellement de Séville (1931) [a]

L'Opéra de quat'sous (1931) [a]

Coup de feu à l'aube (1932) [a]

Fantômas (1932) [a]

Pan!... Pan!... (1932) [a]

Sous le casque de cuir (1932) [a]

Colomba (1933) [a]

La Mille et deuxième nuit (1933) [a]

Plein aux as (1933) [a]

Quatorze Juillet (1933) [a]

Quelqu'un a tué (1933) [a]

Crainquebille (1934) [a]

Le Billet de mille (1934) [a]

Le Mystère Imberger (1934) [a]

L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon (1935) [a]

La Bandera (1935) [a]

Le Clown Bux (1935) [a]

Les Gaîtés de la finance (1935) [a]

Lucrèce Borgia (1935) [a]

La Vie est à nous (1936) [a]

Cargaison blanche (1937) [a]

La Grande illusion (1937) [a]

Le Temps des cerises (1937) [a]

Les Réprouvés (1937) [a]

Mademoiselle Docteur (1937) [a]

Pépé le Moko (1937) [a]

Ceux de demain (1938) [a]

La Maison du Maltais (1938) [a]

Le Joueur d'échecs (1938) [a]

Le Récif de corail (1938) [a]

La Règle du jeu (1939) [a]

Une idée à l'eau (1940) [a]

Montmartre-sur-Seine (1941) [a]

Nous les gosses (1941) [w]

À vos ordres, Madame (1942) [a]

Dernier atout (1942) [a]

Patrouille blanche (1942) [a]

L'Homme de Londres (1943) [a]

Le Brigand gentilhomme (1943) [a]

Le Bossu (1944) [a]

Les Enfants du paradis (1945) [a]

Leçon de conduite (1946) [w]

Antoine et Antoinette (1947) [a]

Dernier refuge (1947) [a]

Le Silence est d'or (1947) [a]

Éternel conflit (1948) [a]

L'Armoire volante (1948) [a]

L'École buissonnière (1949) [a]

Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (1949) [a]

Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1949) [a]

Le Point du jour (1949) [a]

Rendez-vous de juillet (1949) [a]

La Beauté du diable (1950) [a]

La Belle que voilà (1950) [a]

Victor (1951) [a]

Casque d'or (1952) [a]

Ce coquin d'Anatole (1952) [a]

La Môme vert-de-gris (1953) [a]

Papa, maman, la bonne et moi... (1954) [a]

Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956) [a]

Elena et les hommes (1956) [a]

Les Truands (1956) [a]

Les Amants (1958) [a]

Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959) [a]

Les Menteurs (1961) [a]

Le Diable et les dix commandements (1962) [a]

L'Itinéraire marin (1963) [a]



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