Charles Denner

Personal Info

Birthday

May 29, 1926

Day of Death

1995-09-10

(69 years old)

Place of Birth

Tarnow, Poland

Charles Denner

Biography

Charles Denner (29 May 1926 – 10 September 1995) was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut who gave him two of his most memorable roles, as Fergus in The Bride Wore Black (1968) and Bertrand Morane in The Man Who Loved Women (1977). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Denner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Elevator to the Gallows

The Bride Wore Black

The Night Caller

The Married Couple of the Year Two

Mado

The Man Who Loved Women

Bluebeard

Filmography

2024
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
as Self (archive footage)
2011
D'un film à l'autre
as Self (archive footage)
1986
Golden Eighties
as M. Schwartz
L'Unique
as Vox
1985
Vivement Truffaut
as Self / Bertrand (archive footage)
1983
Stella
as Richard
Rock and Torah
as Joseph Stern
1982
A Captain's Honor
as Maître Gillard
A Thousand Billion Dollars
as Walter, private detective
1980
Le Cœur à l'envers
as Guillaume
The Truth on the Savolta Affair
as Lepprince
1978
Robert et Robert
as Robert Goldman
1977
The Man Who Loved Women
as Bertrand Morane
1976
The First Time
as Father
Mado
as Reynald Manecca
A Second Chance
as L'avocat
1975
Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis
as Nicolas
The Night Caller
as Inspector Moissac
1974
And Now My Love
as Sarah's Father / Operator / Sarah's Grandfather
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
as Ministre des travaux public
1973
Défense de savoir
as Jean Ravier
A Police Officer Without Importance
as Deputy Police Officer Serge Monnier
The Inheritor
as David Loweinstein
1972
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
as Arthur
Money Money Money
as Simon Duroc
1971
Law Breakers
as Graziani
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as Traveller
1970
The Crook
as Monsieur Gallois
1969
Diane's Body
as Julien Keller
Z
as Manuel, friend of the Deputy, lawyer
1968
The Bride Wore Black
as Fergus
The Truce
as Julien
1967
Heraclitus the Dark
as Récitant (voice)
The Two of Us
as Claude's Father
The Thief of Paris
as Jean-François Cannonier
1966
YUL 871
as The European engineer
The Devil's Toy
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1965
The Sleeping Car Murder
as Bob, l'amant sincère de Georgette Thomas
The Blue Panther
as Johnson
Les fourberies de Scapin
as Scapin
1964
Les pieds nickelés
as Filochard
Life Upside Down
as Jacques Valin
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Counterfeiter (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Le Grand Escroc
as the Con Man
Mata Hari, Agent H21
as Soldier #1
1963
Bluebeard
as Henri Landru
1960
Les Joueurs
as Krougel
1958
Elevator to the Gallows
as L'Adjoint du Commissaire Cherrier
1955
The Best Part
as An assistant engineer
Les Hommes en blanc
as Un interne