Marcel Mouloudji

Marcel Mouloudji

Marcel Mouloudji, born September 16, 1922 in the 4th arrondissement of Paris and died June 14, 1994 in Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French-Algerian singer, songwriter, painter and actor. His songs, alternately committed and sentimental, evoke love, war, nostalgia between sadness and loneliness. He has notably interpreted texts by poets such as Boris Vian, Louis Aragon and Philippe Pauletto. Marcel Mouloudji was born in 1922 in Paris to a bricklayer father and a housekeeper mother. His father, Saïd Mouloudji was born in 1896 in French Algeria in the Kabyle village of Leflaye (tribe of Aït Waghlis, daïra of Sidi-Aïch), and his mother, Eugénie Roux is a Breton born in Paris in 1901. The family knows serious problems: when Marcel was only ten years old, his mother was hospitalized for a mental disorder and his illiterate father, housed in a maid's room, had trouble raising his two sons, the eldest of whom, André, was gravely ill and the second, a gentle dreamer who finds accommodation by chance encounters. During his adolescence, Marcel enrolled with his brother in a left-wing youth movement, the Faucons Rouges, close to the SFIO. In 1935, he met Sylvain Itkine, director and member of the October Group, an organization affiliated with the Fédération des Théâtres Ouvriers de France. Marcel Maillot, director of a Syndicat du livre summer camp, encouraged him to sing with his brother. He was soon noticed by Jean-Louis Barrault. During this period, Marcel was thus hosted by Jean-Louis Barrault, who introduced him to the artistic milieu of Paris. He participated in the artistic life associated with the Popular Front in 1936. In 1936, he appeared in the film La Guerre Des Gosses by Jacques Daroy. In 1937, for the film Claudine À L'École by Serge de Poligny, the screenwriter Jacques Constant, around Blanchette Brunoy, created the character of "Petit Moulou"... soon to be Mouloudji. In 1938, Marcel played one of the three young heroes in Disparus De Saint-Agil by Christian-Jaque. In 1939, Marcel played the role of Louis in Christian-Jaque's film L'Enfer Des Anges, a film selected for the 1939 Cannes Film Festival which did not take place, and released in February 1941. In 1942, he played the role of 'Ephraïm Luska in Henri Decoin's film, The Strangers in the House, after Georges Simenon... Jacques Canetti, famous artistic agent. He will offer him to record "Comme Un P'tit Coquelicot" thanks to which Mouloudji obtains the Grand Prix du Disque 1953 and the Charles-Cros Prize in 1952 and 1953. He repeats with "Un Jour Tu Verras" the following year. He reappears in films like Henri Calef in 1949 or We Are All Assassins three years later. His last roles, he did in Rafles sur la ville by Pierre Chenal then in Llegaron Dos Hombres in 1958. After recording a disc with accordionist Marcel Azzola in 1976 called "And it was turning", he released "Unknown Unknowns" thanks to which he went on tour throughout the country. Exhausted, he decides to devote more time to writing and painting. He partially lost his voice due to pleurisy in 1992 but was still working on a new album. He died on June 14, 1994 and is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, France, 1922-09-16

Died: 1994-06-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1936	Jenny	le chanteur des rues	59
2	1936	Generals Without Buttons	Kid (uncredited)	0
3	1936	Ménilmontant	Toto	0
4	1937	In Venice, One Night	Young Toto	10
5	1937	Claudine at School	Mouloud	49
6	1938	Mirages		70
7	1938	Boys' School	Macroy	74
8	1938	Les Gaietés de l'exposition		0
9	1940	They Met on Skis	Pierrot	100
10	1941	Hell of Angels	Léon	69
11	1942	Strangers in the House	Ephraïm (Amédé) Luska	70
12	1943	The Roquevillards	Boy from the Italian Boarding House (uncredited)	0
13	1943	Adieu Léonard	Chimney sweep (uncredited)	52
14	1943	Vautrin the Thief	Calvi (uncredited)	76
15	1944	Angel of the Night	Un étudiant (uncredited)	0
16	1945	Angel and Sinner	Irregular (uncredited)	56
17	1945	Les Cadets de l'océan	Passicot	50
18	1947	Sky Battalion	Le Canaque	60
19	1947	The Chips Are Down	Lucien Derjeu	68
20	1948	Bagarres	Angelin	58
21	1949	Kindergarten	Paulo	0
22	1949	Troubled Waters		50
23	1950	Sorceror	Mouton	0
24	1950	Tête blonde	Bernard	30
25	1950	Justice Is Done	Amadeo, Malingré farmhand	65
26	1951	Gigolo	Ernest	53
27	1951	The Bonnadieu House		45
28	1951	The Bonnadieu House	Le chanteur des rues	45
29	1952	We Are All Murderers	René Le Guen	68
30	1952	Three Women	Raoul (segment "Mouche")	0
31	1953	The Virtuous Scoundrel	Singer	61
32	1954	Boom on Paris	Self	54
33	1954	The Secrets of the Bed	Ricky (segment "Riviera-Express")	10
34	1954	Tout chante autour de moi	Georges	0
35	1956	The Indiscreet		40
36	1957	Until the Last One	Quedchi	56
37	1957	Until the Last One	The fairground Quedchi	56
38	1958	58.2/B		0
39	1958	Sinners of Paris	Jeannot Donati	51
40	1959	Two Men in Town	Angel Garcia	0
41	1962	The Hideout	Georges	0
42	2020	Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort	Self (archive footage)	10

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Discorama	Self	0
2	1965	Dim Dam Dom	Self	60
3	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
4	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
5	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self - Main Guest	80
6	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
7	1975	Apostrophes	Self	85
8	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
9	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
10	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
11	1984	La Chance aux chansons	Self (archive footage)	40
12	1984	La Chance aux chansons	Self	40

Marcel Mouloudji

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