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Robert Le Vigan
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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.
As actor
Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit
Río Turbio
La orquídea
El correo del rey
Ley del mar
Bifur 3
La Grande Marnière
The Ménard Collection
It Happened at the Inn
The Heart of a Nation
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Patrouille blanche
Vie privée
Andorra or The Bronze Men
The Marriage of Chiffon
Chambre 13
Business Is Business
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Paris Romance
Dédé la musique
Four Flights to Love
The World Will Shake
The Last Turning
The Phantom Wagon
The Fatted Calf
Louise
Port of Shadows
The West
The Midnight Airplane