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.
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Movies (96)
Un fil à la patte
2002
Low Profile
1993 · Le patron du bistrot
Venus and Lulu
1991 · Le journaliste
Love Without Pity
1989 · L'homme de l'Huma
Asterix and the Big Fight
1989 · Agecanonix (voice)
Asterix in Britain
1986 · (voice)
Asterix vs. Caesar
1985 · (voice)
C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
1983
La Baraka
1982 · le client
Salut, j'arrive
1982
Belles, blondes et bronzées
1981
Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx
1981 · Le larbin
The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine
1980 · Messire Jean
Anthracite
1980 · Caretaker
Trop au lit pour être honnête
1980 · La garçon
Légitime défense
1980
Shut Up, I Love You!
1980
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979 · Police officer
The Grapes of Death
1978 · Lucas
The Teasers Go to Paris
1977
Animal
1977 · Le gardien du château
The Wing or the Thigh?
1976 · Le bagagiste
Sex Shock
1976 · Le couple au square
Lumière
1976 · La Bougie
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
1975 · Claumachet, sous-officier de la 7e compagnie
Lips of Blood
1975 · The Psychiatrist
That Most Important Thing: Love
1975 · Assistant Director
The Cold Soup
1975 · Le garde-champêtre
The Demoniacs
1974 · Paul
Young Casanova
1974 · Le flic dubitatif
The Slap
1974 · Waiter
Sexy Boom
1974 · 'Double-Crème'
Jury of One
1974 · A juror
Like a Pot of Strawberries
1974
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974 · Le chasseur PLM
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974 · Un clochard (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
House of 1000 Pleasures
1974 · Le livreur (uncredited)
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
1973
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973 · Pump Attendant
The Crazy Capo Affair
1973
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
1973 · Père de la filette, en exode sur la route
Where There's Smoke
1973
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
1973
Rock or the Curse
1973 · Gerly
The Voracious Ones
1973
A Murder Is a Murder
1972 · L'employe de Kastner
La Tuile à loups
1972 · Muratel
Requiem for a Vampire
1972 · Man with the Bike
The Pebbles of Etratat
1972 · Mechanic
The Egg
1972 · Dufiquet employee
Fusil chargé
1972
Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
1971 · Le contremaître
Le Cinema de Papa
1971 · Un acteur
Dougal and the Blue Cat
1970 · Le Chat bleu / Flappy (voice)
Alice au pays des merveilles
1970 · Five of spades
Only the Cool
1970
The Nude Vampire
1970 · Butler
Action Man
1967 · Bartender (uncredited)
The Ferryman's House
1966
The Boss of Champignol
1966
L’Or et le plomb
1966 · Usher's clerk
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
1965
The Big Swag
1965 · Metro machinist (uncredited)
Les Hommes
1964 · Cyclist
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964 · Prince's advisor (uncredited)
Cherchez l'idole
1964 · Tailor's assistant
The Bamboo Stroke
1963
Sign of the Lion
1962 · Willy
Paris Belongs to Us
1961 · Paul
The Fruit Is Ripe
1961
The Old Guard
1960 · Jojo, Mariette's fiancé
The Delinquents
1960 · Painter
The Wretches
1960
Lovers on a Tightrope
1960 · Mechanic
Night Dance Hall
1959
Witness in the City
1959 · Taxi driver
The Cousins
1959 · Marc
La P..... sentimentale
1958 · Chauffeur
Provisional Liberty
1958 · Riri
Le souffle du désir
1958
Sunday Buddies
1957 · Lucien dit: "Lulu", un collègue de l'usine
The Seventh Commandment
1957 · Hunter
Les Lumières du soir
1956 · Friend of Catherine at the restaurant
Forgive Our Trespasses
1956 · 'Coquillage'
Les Hommes en blanc
1955 · Un interne
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
1954 · Tenant on the sixth floor, under the roof (uncredited)
Quai des blondes
1954 · le chasseur de l'hôtel
Before the Deluge
1954 · Jean-Jacques Noblet
The Turkey
1951 · Victor, le groom
The High Life
1951
Love and Desire
1951
Clara de Montargis
1951
The Beautiful Image
1951 · (uncredited)
Under the Paris Sky
1951 · (uncredited)
Beware of Blondes
1950 · (uncredited)
Paris Incident
1950 · Young postman
TV shows (11)
Molierissimo
1989 · Pouillard
Sans famille
1981 · Le concierge
Petit déjeuner compris
1980 · M. Burin
Claudine
1978 · Le chanteur des rues
Allez la Rafale !
1977 · Riton
Minichronique
1976 · L'épicier
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976 · Un journaliste
Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel
1976 · Le commissaire
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
1971 · L'officier Anglais
L'Homme du Picardie
1968 · Pucheu, Peucheu
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
1958 · Roger La Soutarde