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| Victor Francen | |
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 Wedding picture with his wife actor Mary Marquet in 1934 | |
| Born | Victor Franssens (1888-08-05)5 August 1888 Tienen, Belgium |
| Died | 18 November 1977(1977-11-18) (aged 89) Saint-Cannat, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France |
| Years active | 1921–1966 |
| Spouse(s) | Eleanor Kreutzer Renée Corciade Mary Marquet |
Victor Francen (born Victor Franssens, 5 August 1888 – 18 November 1977) was a Belgian-born actor with a long career in French cinema and in Hollywood.
Biography
Francen was born in 1888 in Tienen, the son of a chief of police.
According to Russian sources, he attended opera classes in Odessa before 1914. Was already well known in Russian empire before 1914. Postcards with his portraits were printed and sold.
He worked in trade in Belgium before settling in Paris where he trained in dramatic art under Paul Mounet. His stage career in the 1920s included appearances in plays by Henri Bernstein, Georges Bataille and Edmond Rostand which took him all over the world. After three appearances in silent films, he played the Prophet in Abel Gance's film La Fin du monde (The End of the World) (1931) and established his career as a leading man in French films.
In 1940, he was introduced to American films by Charles Boyer and appeared in Hold Back the Dawn (1941), The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942), Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942), Tales of Manhattan (1942), Mission to Moscow (1943), Madame Curie (1943), The Desert Song (1943), In Our Time (1944), Passage to Marseille (1944), The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Conspirators (1944), Confidential Agent (1945), San Antonio (1945), Devotion (1946), Night and Day (1946), The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), The Beginning or the End (1947), To the Victor (1948), Hell and High Water (1954).
He was married three times, his last marriage to the actress Mary Marquet. He died in 1977 in Saint-Cannat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
Complete filmography
- Le doute (1921)
- Crépuscule d'épouvante (1921)
- La neige sur les pas (1923)
- La Fin du monde (End of the World) (1931)
- L'aiglon (The Eaglet) (1931)
- Après l'amour (When Love Is Over) (1931)
- Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932)
- Mélo (The Dreamy Mouth) (1932)
- Les ailes brisées (1933)
- Le velour (1933)
- L'Aventurier (1934)
- Le chemineau (1935)
- Sacrifice d'honneur (1935)
- La porte du large (1936)
- Le roi (The King) (1936)
- Nuits de feu (Nights of Fire) (1937)
- L'appel de la vie (The Call of Life) (1937)
- Double crime sur la ligne Maginot (Double Crime in the Maginot Line) (1937)
- Feu! (1937)
- Forfaiture (The Cheat) (1937)
- J'accuse! (1938) - Jean Diaz
- Tamara la complaisante (1938)
- La vierge folle (The Foolish Virgin) (1938)
- La fin du jour (The End of the Day) (1939)
- Entente cordiale (1939)
- L'homme du Niger (The Man from Niger) (1940)
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941) - Van Den Luecken
- The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
- Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- Mission to Moscow (1943)
- Madame Curie (1943)
- The Desert Song (1943)
- In Our Time (1944)
- Passage to Marseille (1944)
- The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) -
- The Conspirators (1944)
- Confidential Agent (1945)
- San Antonio (1945)
- Devotion (1946)
- Night and Day (1946)
- The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
- The Beginning or the End (1947)
- To the Victor (1948)
- La nuit s'achève (1950)
- Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)
- Hell and High Water (1954)
External links
- Victor Francen at IMDb
- Victor Francen at the Internet Broadway Database
- Victor Francen at Find a Grave