Paul Bisciglia

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria], 1928-07-30

Died: 2010-04-18

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Paris Incident	Young postman	0
2	1950	Beware of Blondes	(uncredited)	20
3	1951	Under the Paris Sky	(uncredited)	71
4	1951	The Beautiful Image	(uncredited)	40
5	1951	Clara de Montargis		0
6	1951	Love and Desire		0
7	1951	The High Life		0
8	1951	The Turkey	Victor, le groom	67
9	1954	Before the Deluge	Jean-Jacques Noblet	63
10	1954	Quai des blondes	le chasseur de l'hôtel	53
11	1954	Papa, Mama, the Maid and I	Tenant on the sixth floor, under the roof (uncredited)	57
12	1955	Les Hommes en blanc	Un interne	0
13	1956	Forgive Our Trespasses	Coquillage	50
14	1956	Les Lumières du soir	Friend of Catherine at the restaurant	0
15	1957	The Seventh Commandment	Hunter	0
16	1957	Sunday Buddies	Lucien dit: "Lulu", un collègue de l'usine	61
17	1958	Le souffle du désir		0
18	1958	Provisional Liberty	Riri	40
19	1958	La P..... sentimentale	Chauffeur	100
20	1959	The Cousins	Marc	68
21	1959	Witness in the City	Taxi driver	63
22	1959	Night Dance Hall		0
23	1960	Lovers on a Tightrope	Mechanic	58
24	1960	The Wretches		62
25	1960	The Delinquents	Painter	0
26	1960	The Old Guard	Jojo, Mariette's fiancé	62
27	1961	The Fruit Is Ripe		60
28	1961	Paris Belongs to Us	Paul	65
29	1962	Sign of the Lion	Willy	70
30	1963	The Bamboo Stroke		33
31	1964	Cherchez l'idole	Tailor's assistant	62
32	1964	Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez	Prince's advisor (uncredited)	70
33	1964	Les Hommes	Cyclist	0
34	1965	The Big Swag	Metro machinist (uncredited)	64
35	1965	Pas de caviar pour tante Olga		0
36	1966	The Boss of Champignol		0
37	1966	L’Or et le plomb	Usher's clerk	0
38	1966	The Ferryman's House		0
39	1967	Action Man	Bartender (uncredited)	57
40	1970	The Nude Vampire	Butler	48
41	1970	Only the Cool		50
42	1970	Alice au pays des merveilles	Five of spades	57
43	1970	Dougal and the Blue Cat	Le Chat bleu / Flappy (voice)	65
44	1971	Le Cinema de Papa	un acteur	63
45	1971	Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy	Le contremaître	39
46	1971	Requiem for a Vampire	Man with the Bike	52
47	1972	Fusil chargé		0
48	1972	The Egg	Dufiquet employee	57
49	1972	The Pebbles of Etratat	Mechanic	20
50	1972	La tuile à loups	Muratel	70
51	1973	The Voracious Ones		52
52	1973	Rock or the Curse	Gerly	0
53	1973	Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman		44
54	1973	Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?	Père de la filette, en exode sur la route	73
55	1973	The Crazy Capo Affair		45
56	1973	The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob	Pump attendant	74
57	1973	La Dernière Bourrée à Paris		10
58	1974	House of 1000 Pleasures	Le livreur (uncredited)	39
59	1974	How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby	Le chasseur PLM	55
60	1974	Jury of One	A juror	68
61	1974	Like a Pot of Strawberries		55
62	1974	Sexy Boom	Cremier	80
63	1974	The Slap	Waiter	67
64	1974	Young Casanova	Le flic dubitatif	43
65	1974	The Demoniacs	Paul	59
66	1975	The Cold Soup	Le garde-champêtre	0
67	1975	That Most Important Thing: Love	Assistant Director	70
68	1975	Lips of Blood	The Psychiatrist	59
69	1975	The Seventh Company Has Been Found	Claumachet, sous-officier de la 7e compagnie	73
70	1975	Indécences	L'homme des bois	40
71	1976	Lumière	La Bougie	68
72	1976	Sex Shock	Le couple au square	0
73	1976	The Wing or the Thigh?	Baggage Handler	72
74	1977	Soumissions perverses	Jules Larrigau, the farmer	0
75	1977	Brigade Call Girls	Henri	50
76	1977	The Teasers Go to Paris		34
77	1978	The Grapes of Death	Lucas	59
78	1979	Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses	Police officer	63
79	1980	Légitime défense		0
80	1980	Trop au lit pour être honnête	La garçon	0
81	1980	Anthracite	Caretaker	50
82	1980	Les contes de La Fontaine	Messire Jean	43
83	1981	Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx	Le larbin	0
84	1981	Belles, blondes et bronzées		32
85	1982	Salut, j'arrive		40
86	1982	La Baraka	le client	48
87	1983	C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans		20
88	1985	Asterix vs. Caesar	(voice)	65
89	1986	Asterix in Britain	(voice)	68
90	1989	Asterix and the Big Fight	Agecanonix (voice)	63
91	1989	Love Without Pity	L'homme de l'Huma	72
92	1991	Venus and Lulu	Le journaliste	52
93	2002	Un fil à la patte		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1958	Les Cinq Dernières Minutes	Roger La Soutarde	0
2	1968	L'Homme du Picardie	Pucheu	65
3	1968	L'Homme du Picardie	Peucheu	65
4	1976	Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel	Le commissaire	0
5	1976	Police Commissioner Moulin		58
6	1976	Police Commissioner Moulin	Un journaliste	58
7	1976	Minichronique	L'épicier	20
8	1977	Allez la Rafale !	Riton	0
9	1978	Claudine	Le chanteur des rues	59
10	1980	Petit déjeuner compris	M. Burin	63
11	1981	Sans famille	Le concierge	50
12	1989	Molierissimo	Pouillard	0

Paul Bisciglia

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