Robert Le Vigan

Robert Le Vigan (born Robert Coquillaud, January 7, 1900 – October 12, 1972), was a French actor.

Robert Le Vigan
Le Vigan in 1942
Born
Robert Charles Alexandre Coquillaud

(1900-01-07)January 7, 1900
Paris, France
DiedOctober 12, 1972(1972-10-12) (aged 72)
Tandil, Argentina
OccupationActor
Years active1919–1952

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".[1]

A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes,[2] 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; Le Vigan was replaced by Pierre Renoir. He was sentenced to forced labour for 10 years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there in poverty on October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil.[1]

Selected filmography
  • Moon Over Morocco (1931) - Donald Strawber
  • Radio Follies (1931)
  • The Yellow Dog (1932) - Le docteur Ernest Michoux
  • Une jeune fille et un million (1932) - L'employé brouillon de l'agence
  • Coquin de sort (1932)
  • Boubouroche (1933) - Potasse
  • Knock (1933) - Mousquet, le pharmacien
  • The Little King (1933) - Le fou
  • The Tunnel (1933) - Brooce - un Ouvrier Félon
  • L'homme à la barbiche (1933) - Jérôme de Valvert / Le demi-frère de Jérôme de Valvert
  • Madame Bovary (1934) - Lheureux
  • The Ideal Woman (1934) - Girardin
  • Street Without a Name (1934) - Vanoël
  • Famille nombreuse (1934) - L'adjudant-chef Sandri
  • Maria Chapdelaine (1934) - Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
  • Bien mal acquis (1934)
  • The Coquelet Affair (1935) - Poireau, le jardinier
  • Golgotha (1935) (known as Behold the Man in English) - Jésus Christ
  • La bandera (1935) - Fernando Lucas
  • Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1936) - Cardinal Mazarin
  • Les mutinés de l'Elseneur (1936) - Charles Davis
  • La ronde du brigadier Bellot (1936)
  • Prince of the Six Days (1936) - Fouilloux, un spectateur
  • A Legionnaire (1936) - Leduc
  • Jenny (1936) - L'Albinos
  • Hélène (1936) - Le docteur Régnier
  • The Lower Depths (1936) - L'acteur alcoolique
  • Romarin (1937) - Le brigadier Napoléon Orsini
  • The Man from Nowhere (1937) - Le comte Papiano
  • Franco de port (1937) - Henri
  • The Citadel of Silence (1937) - Granoff
  • Harvest (Regain) (1937) - Le gendarme (uncredited)
  • La femme du bout du monde (1937) - Arlanger, l'armateur
  • The West (1938) - Taïeb el Haïn
  • Boys' School (1938) - César le passe-muraille
  • Storm Over Asia (1938) - Sir Richard
  • Le Quai des brumes (1938) - Le peintre
  • The Little Thing (1938) - Roger
  • L'avion de minuit (1938) - Le Docteur
  • Ernest the Rebel (1938) - Le gouverneur-président de Mariposa
  • The Fatted Calf (1939) - Grussgolt
  • Louise (1939) - Le peintre Gaston
  • The World Will Shake (1939) - Le Greffier
  • Le Dernier Tournant (1939) - Le cousin maître-chanteur
  • The Phantom Carriage (1939) - Le père Martin
  • Paradise Lost (1940) - Édouard Bordenave
  • Romance of Paris (1941) - Monsieur Lormel
  • Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941) - Léon Villard, le maître d'école
  • Dédé la musique (1941) - Fernand l'Américain
  • Chambre 13 (1942) - Fenouil
  • Patrouille blanche (1942) - Le commissaire Pascal
  • Vie privée (1942) - Rémi Géraud
  • Andorra ou les hommes d'Airain (1942) - Asnurri
  • Le mariage de Chiffon (1942) - Maître Blondin - l'huissier
  • Les affaires sont les affaires (1942) - Phinck
  • La grande marnière (1943) - Fleury
  • The Heart of a Nation (1943) - L'oncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
  • It Happened at the Inn (1943) - Goupi-Tonkin
  • Ne le criez pas sur les toits (1943) - Le professeur Léonard Bontagues
  • L'homme qui vendit son âme (1943) - Grégori
  • La collection Ménard (1944) - Amédée Garbure
  • Bifur 3 (1945) - Paul (uncredited)
  • The King's Mail (1951) - Peabody
  • The Orchid (1951) - The father
  • Ley del mar (1952) - Rafael
  • Rio turbio (1952) - Levignan (final film role)

References
  1. Ginette Vincendeau (ed) Encyclopedia of European Cinema, London: Casell/BFI, 1995, p.262
  2. Rémi Fournier Lanzoni French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, New York and London: Continuum, 2002, p.139. According to Fournier Lanzoni, Le Vigan found exile in Argentina.


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