Robert Le Vigan
Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".
A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.
Filmography (61 Appearances)
Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit
Río Turbio
La orquídea
El correo del rey
Ley del mar
Bifur 3
La Grande Marnière
The Ménard Collection
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
It Happened at the Inn
The Heart of a Nation
Business Is Business
The Marriage of Chiffon
Andorra or The Bronze Men
Vie privée
Patrouille blanche
Chambre 13
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Paris Romance
Dédé la musique
Four Flights to Love
The Phantom Wagon
The Last Turning
The World Will Shake
Louise
The Fatted Calf
Ernest the Rebel
The Midnight Airplane
The Little Thing
Port of Shadows
Tempête sur l'Asie
Boys' School
The West
The Woman at the End of the World
Harvest
The Citadel of Silence
Franco de port
The Man from Nowhere
Romarin
The Lower Depths
Hélène
One of the Legion
Jenny
Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
The Queen and the Cardinal
La Bandera
Golgotha
L'affaire Coquelet
Maria Chapdelaine
Famille nombreuse
Le Prince des Six Jours
Street Without a Name
An Ideal Woman
Madame Bovary
Le Tunnel
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Boubouroche
The Little King
The Yellow Dog
Moon over Morocco