Michel Constantin

1924-2003

Biography: life and films

Michel Constantin (real name: Constantin Hokhloff) was a French film actor. He was born in Billancourt, France on 13 July 1924 and died in Draguignan, France on 29 August 2003. A familiar face in French cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cast as the sympathetic hoodlum or henchman in thrillers and comedy-thrillers.
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Filmography

Key: a = actor; w = writer

En effeuillant la marguerite (1956) [a]

Le Trou (1960) [a]

Un nommé La Rocca (1961) [a]

La Loi des hommes (1962) [a]

Maigret voit rouge (1963) [a]

Le Deuxième souffle (1966) [a]

Les Grandes gueules (1966) [a]

Ne nous fâchons pas (1966) [a]

Dalle Ardenne all'inferno (1967) [a]

Jerk à Istambul (1967) [a]

La Loi du survivant (1967) [a]

Mise à sac (1967) [a]

La Fiancée du pirate (1969) [a]

Les Étrangers (1969) [a]

The Southern Star (1969) [a]

Città violenta (1970) [a]

De la part des copains (1970) [a]

Dernier domicile connu (1970) [a]

La Peau de torpedo (1970) [a]

Un condé (1970) [a]

Vertige pour un tueur (1970) [a]

Il était une fois un flic (1971) [a]

La Part des lions (1971) [a]

Laisse aller, c'est une valse (1971) [a]

La Scoumoune (1972) [a]

Les Caïds (1972) [a]

Un homme est mort (1972) [a]

La Ragazza di Via Condotti (1973) [a]

La Valise (1973) [a]

Il bestione (1974) [a]

Un linceul n'a pas de poches (1974) [a]

Au-delà de la peur (1975) [a]

La Guerre de pétrole n'aura pas lieu (1975) [w]

La Traque (1975) [a]

Ça fait tilt (1978) [a]

Plein les poches pour pas un rond... (1978) [a]

Quel maledetto treno blindato (1978) [a]

Sahara Cross (1978) [a]

Il cappotto di legno (1981) [a]

Signé Furax (1981) [a]

Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ (1982) [a]

Tir groupé (1982) [a]

Les Morfalous (1984) [a]

Ronde de nuit (1984) [a]

La Baston (1985) [a]

Le Téléphone sonne toujours deux fois (1985) [a]

La Loi sauvage (1988) [a]

Ville à vendre (1992) [a]



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