Robert Le Vigan
Biography
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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".
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.
Filmography
Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit
2021
as lui-même
Río Turbio
1954
La orquídea
1951
El correo del rey
1951
as Peabody
Ley del mar
1950
as Rafael
Bifur 3
1945
as Paul (uncredited)
La Grande Marnière
1945
as Fleury
The Ménard Collection
1944
as Amédée Garbure
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
1943
as Grégori
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
1943
as le professeur Léonard Bontagues
It Happened at the Inn
1943
as Goupi-Tonkin
The Heart of a Nation
1943
as Uncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
Business Is Business
1942
as Phinck
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942
as The usher
Andorra or The Bronze Men
1942
as Asnurri
Vie privée
1942
as Rémi Géraud
Patrouille blanche
1942
Chambre 13
1942
Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941
as Leon Villard
Paris Romance
1941
Dédé la musique
1940
as Fernand the American
Four Flights to Love
1939
as Edouard Bordenave
The Phantom Wagon
1939
as Le père Martin