Guy Decomble
Know for: Acting
Born: 1910-11-12
Place of birth: Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Also know as:
The 400 Blows (1959)
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful...
The Cousins (1959)
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the...
Jour de Fête (1949)
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local...
The Magnificent Tramp (1959)
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
The Old Guard (1960)
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Bob le Flambeur (1956)
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town,...
Strange Tales (1949)
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse...
The Time of the Cherries (1938)
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting...
The Trump Card (1942)
A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but...
Madame et le mort (1943)
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?
Adieu Léonard (1943)
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the...
First in Line (1944)
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps,...
Florence is Crazy (1944)
Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly that she will become a chanteuse and her husband the...
Song of the Clouds (1946)
Sylvio, a successful singer, has found a way to take a peaceful vacation, safe from his female adulators: to travel incognito. He puts up at an old...
Farandole (1945)
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands....
The Great Pack (1945)
Côme de Lambrefaut inherited the family castle on the death of his father, but the notary told him that all his property was mortgaged....
The Ideal Couple (1946)
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of...
Maigret Sees Red (1963)
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to...
Dreams of Love (1947)
Paris, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to Countess Marie d'Agout. Very quickly Liszt falls in love...
The Lost Village (1947)
In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the...
Vire-vent (1949)
The Donadieu family lives in the Provençal sun in a happy letting go, The father, the mother, the son and the three daughters. One of them,...
Captain Ardant (1951)
Representing the French authority in Morocco, Captain Ardant is the target of the bloodthirsty rebel leader Malek. In order to appropriate himself in...
The First Weapons (1950)
A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.
The House on the Dune (1952)
A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler...
The Case Against X (1952)
Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrusted to the experienced Chief Inspector...
The Solitary Conquerors (1952)
After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to Pascal, a gold digger who owns the...
Follow That Man (1953)
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga....
The Aristocrats (1955)
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his best to uphold the...
This Man Is Dangerous (1953)
On the run from international police, Special Agent Lemmy Caution arrives in the South of France and soon becomes embroiled in a scheme with the...
Hanged Man's Farm (1945)
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass....
Black Dossier (1955)
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious...
We Are All Murderers (1952)
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution...
The Wreckers (1959)
In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some residents exalted hold responsible the...
Scandal on the Champs-Élysées (1949)
In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominique Airelle. It is the young inspector who is in...
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret...
Les Assassins du dimanche (1956)
After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a crisis of conscience. Accidents loom at every...
Police Judiciaire (1958)
The detectives of the Paris Judicial Police, based at the Quai des Orfèvres, are mobilized by four criminal cases. A double murder,...
Thérèse Étienne (1958)
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman...
The Girls of La Rochelle (1962)
July 13, 1389. On the initiative of the Mayor, warned by a famous astrologer, the town of La Rochelle is getting ready - 400 years in advance! to...
The Nina B. Affair (1961)
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
The Straight Line (1964)
Amputated of a hand during the war, traumatized and having given up on a career as a runner, Stéphane has become a newspaper salesman. Heckel,...
Why Paris? (1964)
Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee...
Atomic Agent (1959)
Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change the future of rocketry.
The House Under the Sea (1947)
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love,...
The Last Penny (1946)
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the...
Homeland (1946)
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt...
The Unfrocked One (1954)
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in...
Forfaiture (1937)
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and...
François Villon (1945)
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles.
Dangerous Turning (1954)
The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling.
The Chips Are Down (1947)
"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a...
It's in the Bag (1932)
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to...
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...
Guinguette (1959)
Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy her dream: a waterfront guinguette. Her...
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their...
La dame de Noël (1958)
A French drama about a mysterious woman who appears in a small village during the Christmas season. Her presence brings unexpected revelations and...
Le Cœur révélateur (1949)
Part of the longer compilation "Histoires extraordinaires" by the same director. Based on the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
Strange Tales (1949)
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse...
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...
First in Line (1944)
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps,...