Paul Bisciglia
Acting
Born July 30, 1928, Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
Paul Bisciglia (30 July 1928 – 18 April 2010) was a French film actor. Throughout his acting career, Bisciglia appeared in more than one-hundred feature films. He made his debut in the 1950 film Trois télégrammes. What followed was several uncredited roles, before landing a much larger part in drama Clara de Montargis. During the fifties, he appeared in many drama films, including the award-winning Avant le déluge, with Antoine Balpêtré, and again several more uncredited roles. During the sixties, Bisciglia began to appear more frequently in television series and television films, although he was included in many films such as The Wretches, with Michèle Morgan, Les vieux de la vieille, with Pierre Fresnay, Paris nous appartient, Le signe du lion, and in 1966, he appeared in his first leading role in Alain Cuniot's L'or et le plomb. In 1969, Bisciglia had a small role in the horror film La vampire nue, the second feature film from director Jean Rollin. It was Bisciglia's first of several times working with Rollin. He worked with the director again in the successful films Requiem pour un vampire, with Marie-Pierre Castel and Mireille D'Argent, Les démoniaques, Lèvres de sang, and the zombie classic Les Raisins de la Mort, with Marie-Georges Pascal. His career continued through the seventies and eighties, such as the Golden Globe-nominated Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob, Club privé pour couples avertis, with Philippe Gasté of Jean Rollin's Requiem pour un vampire, Verdict, with Sophia Loren, L'aile ou la cuisse, Family Rock, and he voiced in three animated films Astérix et la surprise de César (Asterix vs. Caesar), Astérix chez les Bretons (Asterix in Britain) and Astérix et le coup du menhir (Asterix and the Big Fight). Bisciglia's acting career continued until 1999, during which he appeared in two final feature films, Profil bas and Montana Blues. Bisciglia also had a successful television career appearing in a number of television series and films. He made his first appearance in the 1957 television film L'équipage au complet. His television films include Elle s'abaisse pour vaincre, Les fiancés de Loches, Claudine à Paris and the television film remeke Les liaisons dangereuses. His television series credits include Le théâtre de la jeunesse, Rocambole, Les saintes chéries, Schulmeister, espion de l'empereur, Les brigades du Tigre, De mémoire d'homme, Les cinq dernières minutes, Désiré Lafarge, Commissaire Moulin, Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret and Julien Fontanes, magistrat. Source: Article "Paul Bisciglia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
- 2002Un fil à la patte
- 1993Low Profile — Le patron du bistrot
- 1991Venus and Lulu — Le journaliste
- 1989Asterix and the Big Fight — Agecanonix (voice)
- 1989Love Without Pity — L'homme de l'Huma
- Molierissimo — Pouillard
- 1986Asterix in Britain — (voice)
- 1985Asterix vs. Caesar — (voice)
- 1983C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
- 1982La Baraka — le client
- 1982Salut, j'arrive
- 1981Belles, blondes et bronzées
- Sans famille — Le concierge
- 1981Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx — Le larbin
- 1980Anthracite — Caretaker
- 1980Légitime défense
- Petit déjeuner compris — M. Burin
- 1980Shut Up, I Love You!
- 1980The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine — Messire Jean
- 1980Trop au lit pour être honnête — La garçon
- 1979Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses — Police officer
- Claudine — Le chanteur des rues
- 1978The Grapes of Death — Lucas
- Allez la Rafale ! — Riton
- 1977Animal — Le gardien du château
- 1977Brigade Call Girls — Henri
- 1977Soumissions perverses — Jules Larrigau, the farmer
- 1977The Teasers Go to Paris
- 1976Lumière — La Bougie
- Minichronique — L'épicier
- Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel — Le commissaire
- Police Commissioner Moulin — Un journaliste
- 1976Sex Shock — Le couple au square
- 1976The Wing or the Thigh? — Le bagagiste
- 1975Indécences — L'homme des bois
- 1975Lips of Blood — The Psychiatrist
- 1975That Most Important Thing: Love — Assistant Director
- 1975The Cold Soup — Le garde-champêtre
- 1975The Seventh Company Has Been Found — Claumachet, sous-officier de la 7e compagnie
- 1974House of 1000 Pleasures — Le livreur (uncredited)
- 1974How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby — Le chasseur PLM
- 1974Jury of One — A juror
- 1974Like a Pot of Strawberries
- 1974Sexy Boom — 'Double-Crème'
- 1974The Demoniacs — Paul
- 1974The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir — Un clochard (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
- 1974The Slap — Waiter
- 1974Young Casanova — Le flic dubitatif
- 1973Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
- 1973La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
- 1973Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? — Père de la filette, en exode sur la route
- 1973Rock or the Curse — Gerly
- 1973The Crazy Capo Affair
- 1973The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob — Pump Attendant
- 1973The Voracious Ones
- 1973Where There's Smoke
- 1972A Murder Is a Murder — L'employe de Kastner
- 1972Fusil chargé
- 1972La Tuile à loups — Muratel
- 1972Requiem for a Vampire — Man with the Bike
- 1972The Egg — Dufiquet employee
- 1972The Pebbles of Etratat — Mechanic
- 1971Le Cinema de Papa — Un acteur
- Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur — L'officier Anglais
- 1971Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy — Le contremaître
- 1970Alice au pays des merveilles — Five of spades
- 1970Dougal and the Blue Cat — Le Chat bleu / Flappy (voice)
- 1970Only the Cool
- 1970The Nude Vampire — Butler
- L'Homme du Picardie — Pucheu, Peucheu
- 1967Action Man — Bartender (uncredited)
- 1966L’Or et le plomb — Usher's clerk
- 1966The Boss of Champignol
- 1966The Ferryman's House
- 1965Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
- 1965The Big Swag — Metro machinist (uncredited)
- 1964Cherchez l'idole — Tailor's assistant
- 1964Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez — Prince's advisor (uncredited)
- 1964Les Hommes — Cyclist
- 1963The Bamboo Stroke
- 1962Sign of the Lion — Willy
- 1961Paris Belongs to Us — Paul
- 1961The Fruit Is Ripe
- 1960Lovers on a Tightrope — Mechanic
- 1960The Delinquents — Painter
- 1960The Old Guard — Jojo, Mariette's fiancé
- 1960The Wretches
- 1959Night Dance Hall
- 1959The Cousins — Marc
- 1959Witness in the City — Taxi driver
- 1958La P..... sentimentale — Chauffeur
- 1958Le souffle du désir
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes — Roger La Soutarde
- 1958Provisional Liberty — Riri
- 1957Sunday Buddies — Lucien dit: "Lulu", un collègue de l'usine
- 1957The Seventh Commandment — Hunter
- 1956Forgive Our Trespasses — 'Coquillage'
- 1956Les Lumières du soir — Friend of Catherine at the restaurant
- 1955Les Hommes en blanc — Un interne
- 1954Before the Deluge — Jean-Jacques Noblet
- 1954Papa, Mama, the Maid and I — Tenant on the sixth floor, under the roof (uncredited)
- 1954Quai des blondes — le chasseur de l'hôtel
- 1951Clara de Montargis
- 1951Love and Desire
- 1951The Beautiful Image — (uncredited)
- 1951The High Life
- 1951The Turkey — Victor, le groom
- 1951Under the Paris Sky — (uncredited)
- 1950Beware of Blondes — (uncredited)
- 1950Paris Incident — Young postman