Robert Le Vigan
Known for ActingBorn 1900-01-08 — died 1972-10-12Paris, France
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Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".
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A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.
Known for
Golgotha
1935 · as Jésus Christ
Port of Shadows
1938 · as The Painter
Boubouroche
1933 · as Potasse
Four Flights to Love
1939 · as Edouard Bordenave
The Little King
1933
The Phantom Wagon
1939 · as Le père Martin
Vie privée
1942 · as Rémi Géraud
The Lower Depths
1936 · as l'acteur alcoolique
Chambre 13
1942
Ernest the Rebel
1938 · as Governor-President of Mariposa
The West
1938 · as Taïeb el Haïn
It Happened at the Inn
1943 · as Goupi-Tonkin
Patrouille blanche
1942
The Fatted Calf
1939 · as Grussgolt
The World Will Shake
1939 · as Le Greffier
Río Turbio
1954
Bifur 3
1945 · as Paul (uncredited)
Madame Bovary
1934 · as Mr. Lheureux, fabric merchant