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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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.
Source: Article "Paul Bisciglia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Un fil à la patte
Venus and Lulu
Love Without Pity
Asterix and the Big Fight
Molierissimo
Asterix in Britain
Asterix vs. Caesar
C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
La Baraka
Salut, j'arrive
Sans famille
Belles, blondes et bronzées
Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx
Les contes de La Fontaine
Trop au lit pour être honnête
Légitime défense
Petit déjeuner compris
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
The Grapes of Death
Claudine
The Teasers Go to Paris
Brigade Call Girls
Allez la Rafale !
Soumissions perverses
Minichronique
The Wing or the Thigh?
Police Commissioner Moulin
Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel
Sex Shock
Lumière
Indécences
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Lips of Blood
That Most Important Thing: Love
The Cold Soup
The Demoniacs
Young Casanova
The Slap
Like a Pot of Strawberries
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
House of 1000 Pleasures
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
The Crazy Capo Affair
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Rock or the Curse
The Voracious Ones
La tuile à loups
The Pebbles of Etratat
The Egg
Fusil chargé
Requiem for a Vampire
Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
Le Cinema de Papa
Dougal and the Blue Cat
Alice au pays des merveilles
Only the Cool
The Nude Vampire
L'Homme du Picardie
Action Man
L’or et le plomb
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
The Big Swag
Les hommes
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Cherchez l'idole
The Bamboo Stroke
Sign of the Lion
The Old Guard
The Delinquents
The Wretches
Lovers on a Tightrope
Night Dance Hall
Witness in the City
The Cousins
La P..... sentimentale
Provisional Liberty
Le souffle du désir
Sunday Buddies
Les Lumières du soir
Forgive Our Trespasses
Les hommes en blanc
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Quai des blondes
Before the Deluge
The Turkey
The High Life
Love and Desire
Clara de Montargis
The Beautiful Image
Under the Paris Sky
Beware of Blondes
Paris Incident