Gabriel Gobin
Know for: Acting
Born: 1903-05-12
Place of birth: Hacquegnies, Belgique
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Risky Business (1967)
A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet...
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied...
The Good Girls (1960)
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.
Mademoiselle (1966)
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949)
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains...
Forgive Our Trespasses (1956)
In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
The Night Affair (1958)
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be...
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Here Is the Beauty (1950)
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit...
Paris Waltz (1950)
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The...
Monsignor (1949)
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a...
Leathernose (1952)
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he...
Speaking of Murder (1957)
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by...
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
Paris Vice Squad (1951)
Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government...
The Lovers of Bras-Mort (1951)
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat...
Desperate Decision (1952)
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household chores, goes in search of her brother whom she...
Crimson Curtain (1952)
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his...
Run Away Mr. Perle (1952)
Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who...
Passion (1951)
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both.
Trip to America (1951)
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the...
Follow That Man (1953)
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga....
Dedee (1948)
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets...
The Mysteries of Paris (1962)
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to...
People of No Importance (1956)
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops...
Blood to the Head (1956)
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife,...
Rue de Paris (1959)
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While...
Black Dossier (1955)
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious...
Come Dance with Me! (1959)
The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a dancer's death.
Time Bomb (1959)
Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
Les gros malins (1969)
Paul Blanc runs a butcher's shop with his Neapolitan wife, the vivacious Giulia. One night, thanks to sleeping pills received from his brother in...
Inspector Blunder (1980)
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed...
The Secret of Helene Marimon (1954)
At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Marimon and becomes her lover. He...
Operation Abduction (1958)
The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
Young Girls Beware (1957)
Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over...
Que les hommes sont bêtes (1957)
Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur Marcel, a former safe cracker. One day,...
The Cat Shows Her Claws (1960)
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by...
Madame et son auto (1958)
Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a 2CV. The good-natured woman is both happy and...
Tandem (1987)
Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his...
Soupe au lait (1959)
Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au...
Beast at Bay (1959)
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison....
Signed, Arsène Lupin (1959)
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the...
The Sword and the Balance (1963)
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their...
The Oldest Profession (1967)
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
The Boss of Champignol (1966)
Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him...
A Monkey in Winter (1962)
During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is...
Jenny Lamour (1947)
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the...
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job...
La nuit bulgare (1972)
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office....
The Best Part (1955)
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the...
Three Days to Live (1958)
Struggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name...
The Cheat (1949)
The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.
Héloïse (1991)
Photographer Maurice Martin turns into a woman named Héloïse every night at 8 p.m.
Trique, gamin de Paris (1962)
An old Montmartre building with countless tenants: on the seventh floor, a Russian painter, Igor, lives in his art and dreams, whose paintings...
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all...
The Horse (1970)
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things...
The Baron of the Locks (1960)
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small...
The Passion of Slow Fire (1961)
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with...
The Milky Way (1969)
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of...
The Elders of Saint-Loup (1950)
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the...
The Thief of Paris (1967)
In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the...
Girl on the Third Floor (1955)
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
La Goutte d'or (1990)
Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and...
The Old Guard (1960)
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside