Alain Mottet
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2013 · L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes as Self
- 2010 · L'appel du 18 juin as Maréchal Pétain
- 2003 · Mata Hari, la vraie histoire as Me Clunet
- 1995 · François Kléber as Le directeur de la police
- 1991 · Venus and Lulu as Marceau le comédien
- 1990 · My New Partner II as Le préfet
- 1989 · Le Grand Secret as Hamblain
- 1983 · Un dimanche de flics as Director
- 1980 · Inspector Blunder as Dumeze, police director
- 1980 · Le Curé de Tours as M. de Bourbonne
- 1978 · Question of Love as L'avocat général
- 1978 · Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires as Simon Jaumier
- 1977 · Murder on Demand as Jacques Lacarène
- 1977 · The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés as Marc Ovet
- 1976 · Domino as Héller
- 1976 · The Good and the Bad as le commissaire Blanchot
- 1975 · La Mort d'un touriste as L'inspecteur L'Héritier
- 1975 · Midi Première as Self
- 1974 · Madame Sans-Gêne as Fouché
- 1974 · La main enchantée as Maître Chevassut
- 1973 · Le dialogue dans le marécage as Sire Laurent
- 1972 · The Pariah as Ficelle, tenancier d'une maison de tolérance pour Villanova
- 1972 · Les Misérables as Thénardier
- 1971 · Shéhérazade as Shazénian
- 1971 · One Way Ticket as Nitesse
- 1970 · La Mort de Danton as Maximilien-Marie-Isidore De Robespierre
- 1970 · Last Known Address as Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend
- 1969 · Army of Shadows as Camp Commander
- 1968 · Ho! as Paul
- 1967 · L'Affaire Lourdes as Jacomet
- 1967 · Vidocq as Inspecteur Flambart
- 1965 · Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre as Delma
- 1964 · The Black Indies as James Starr
- 1963 · The Fire Within as Urcel
- 1962 · Climates of Love as