Person Details

Birthday: 1928-12-30 13:02:56

Death: 2017-10-31 13:02:56

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Lyon, France

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Movie Involvements: 18

TV Involvements: 7


Most Famous Work

Biography

Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France – 31 October 2017 in Paris, France) was a French actor. Alain Mottet appeared in dozens of films, often in secondary roles. He appeared in three films with José Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in L'Affaire de la malle à Gouffé. In 1969, in L'Armée des ombres, he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned. For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series Vidocq in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker including on several episodes of Au théâtre ce soir. One of his most notable TV roles was as Shazénian in the fairytale Shéhérazade, shown at the end of 1971: on a flying horse, he walks with Claude Jade into the night sky. In parallel to his screen career, he also continued to work on stage, most notably in plays by Jean Le Poulain, Roger Planchon, André Barsacq and Georges Wilson. He was part of the cast of the Comédie-Française from 1986 to 1988. Married to Françoise Hirsch (1930-2017), until his death on 31 October 2017, he is the father of Christine Mottet and actor and musician Pierre Mottet. Source: Article "Alain Mottet" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Most Famous Work

Army of Shadows
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8

Army of Shadows

(1969) Camp Commander
The Fire Within
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8

The Fire Within

(1963) Urcel
Last Known Address
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8

Last Known Address

(1970) Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend
The Pariah
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7

The Pariah

(1972) Ficelle
Belphegor, or Phantom of the Louvre
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7
Ho!
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6

Ho!

(1968) Paul
Les Misérables
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5

Les Misérables

(1972) Thénardier
Un dimanche de flics
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6

Un dimanche de flics

(1983) Director

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2010 Maréchal Pétain
2003 Me Clunet
1995 Le directeur de la police
1990 Le préfet
1989 Hamblain
1983 Director
1980 Dumeze, police director
M. de Bourbonne
1978 L'avocat général
Simon Jaumier
1977 Jacques Lacarène
Marc Ovet
1976 Héller
le commissaire Blanchot
1975 L'inspecteur L'Héritier
Self
1974 Fouché
Maître Chevassut
1973 Sire Laurent
1972 Ficelle, tenancier d'une maison de tolérance pour Villanova
Thénardier
1971 Shazénian
Nitesse
1970 Maximilien-Marie-Isidore De Robespierre
Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend
1969 Camp Commander
1968 Paul
1967 Jacomet
Inspecteur Flambart
1965 Delma
1964 James Starr
1963 Urcel
Year Character Movie/Tv

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