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.

Filmography

• 2010L'appel du 18 juin — Maréchal Pétain
• 2003Mata Hari, la vraie histoire — Me Clunet
• 2002Aram — Miran Sarkissian
• François Kléber — Le directeur de la police
• 1991Venus and Lulu — Marceau le comédien
• 1990My New Partner II — Le préfet
• Le Grand Secret — Hamblain
• 1983Un dimanche de flics — Director
• 1980Inspector Blunder — Dumeze, le directeur de la police
• 1980Le Curé de Tours — M. de Bourbonne
• 1978Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires — Simon Jaumier
• 1978Question of Love — L'avocat général
• 1977Murder on Demand — Jacques Lacarène
• 1977The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés — Marc Ovet
• 1976Domino — Héller
• 1976The Good and the Bad — le commissaire Blanchot
• La Mort d'un touriste — L'inspecteur L'Héritier
• 1974La main enchantée — Maître Chevassut
• 1974Madame Sans-Gêne — Fouché
• 1973Héloïse and Abélard — Besnard de Clairvaux
• 1973Le dialogue dans le marécage — Sire Laurent
• La Mort d'un champion
• Les Misérables — Thénardier
• 1972The Pariah — 'Ficelle', henchman of Villanova
• 1971One Way Ticket — Nitesse
• 1971Shéhérazade — Shazénian
• 1970La Mort de Danton — Maximilien-Marie-Isidore De Robespierre
• 1970La mort de Danton — Maximilien Robespierre
• 1970Last Known Address — Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend
• 1969Army of Shadows — Le Commandant du Camp
• 1968Ho ! — Paul
• 1967L'Affaire Lourdes — Jacomet
• Vidocq — Inspecteur Flambart
• Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre — Delma
• 1964The Black Indies — James Starr
• 1963The Fire Within — Urcel
• 1962Climates of Love

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2013L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes — Self
• Midi Première — Self