
Paul Meurisse
Paul Meurisse (21 December 1912, Dunkirk – 19 January 1979, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French actor who appeared in over 60 films and many stage productions. Meurisse was noted for the elegance of his acting style, and for his versatility. He was equally able to play comedic and serious dramatic roles. His screen appearances ranged from the droll and drily humorous to the menacing and disturbing. His most celebrated role was that of the sadistic and vindictive headmaster in the 1955 film Les Diaboliques.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.028 |
Birthday | 1912-12-21 |
Place of Birth | Dunkerque, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
Also Known As | Поль Мёрисс, |

1955

Diabolique
7.9/987
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly...
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Diabolique

1966

Le Deuxième Souffle
7.634/179
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
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Le Deuxième Souffle

1963

Crooks in Clover
7.738/510
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo k...
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Crooks in Clover

1947

Bethsabée
4.9/5
Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arri...
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Bethsabée

1974

The Suspects
5.412/17
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's jo...
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The Suspects

1959

Picnic on the Grass
6.348/46
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eli...
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Picnic on the Grass

1960

The Truth
7.636/166
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the...
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The Truth

1969

Army of Shadows
7.9/660
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in o...
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Army of Shadows

1942

Forbidden to Love
3/1
An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed.
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Forbidden to Love

1962

The Eye of the Monocle
6.1/11
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of...
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The Eye of the Monocle

1948

Impasse of Two Angels
5.6/5
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives h...
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Impasse of Two Angels

1948

Scandal
3.5/2
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.
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Scandal

1948

The Eleven O'Clock Woman
6.1/9
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving an...
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The Eleven O'Clock Woman

1955

The Case of Poisons
6.7/3
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles...
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The Case of Poisons

1965

The Big Swag
6/10
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé...
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The Big Swag

1964

The Monocle's Sour Laugh
5.3/17
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
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The Monocle's Sour Laugh

1971

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
5.9/28
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

1965

When the Pheasants Pass
6.5/17
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile...
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When the Pheasants Pass

1945

Vingt-quatre heures de perm'
0/0
Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio w...
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Vingt-quatre heures de perm'

1945

Destitute Mary
0/0
Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ... poverty! She does not remain the companion of a...
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Destitute Mary

1946

The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
0/0
The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin. A mysterious stranger launches a press campaign a...
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The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

1963

Chicken Feed for Little Birds
6/13
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an...
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds

1947

Inspector Sergil
0/0
Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, helped by two pretty women, Bijou and Nadège.
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Inspector Sergil

1959

Marie-Octobre
7.3/77
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network hav...
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Marie-Octobre

1948

Colonel Durand
5/1
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent. Now, he is garrisoned at Strasbourg.
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Colonel Durand

1955

Fortune carrée
5/1
Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his form...
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Fortune carrée

1948

Sergil et le dictateur
0/0
Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his stay in France and - it goes without saying -trouble begi...
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Sergil et le dictateur

1949

The Red Angel
0/0
L'Ange rouge is a cabaret run by a former mobster with his friend, a singer and dancer he brought back from Argentina. A fleeing gangster takes refuge...
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The Red Angel

1963

L'assassin connaît la musique
7.7/3
Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony...
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L'assassin connaît la musique

1975

The Gypsy
6.3/43
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
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The Gypsy

1951

Maria of the End of the World
0/0
Maria is the wife of self-styled naturalist Mathius. Alas, Maria's husband spends more time with his beloved woodland creatures than with her. Yearnin...
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Maria of the End of the World

1946

Back Streets of Paris
6.1/11
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was...
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Back Streets of Paris

1965

Me and the Forty Year Old Man
5/2
A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.
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Me and the Forty Year Old Man

1951

Serenade to the Executioner
6/1
Schomberg, an enigmatic psychiatrist runs a nursing home. He is forced to close his clinic and disappear to escape the police. But he wants revenge on...
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Serenade to the Executioner

1961

The Game of Truth
5.9/12
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They b...
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The Game of Truth

2008

Code Name: Melville
6.7/6
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth duri...
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Code Name: Melville

1957

Until the Last One
5.6/5
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part o...
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Until the Last One

1952

Sergil Among the Girls
2/1
The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in charge of the investigation will employ somewhat particular...
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Sergil Among the Girls

1965

Le Majordome
7.4/8
Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal code and, during his leave, becomes a judge in a "middle"...
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Le Majordome

1959

Head Against the Wall
6.8/38
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
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Head Against the Wall

1943

The Wolf Farm
4.1/8
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off o...
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The Wolf Farm

1973

The Voracious Ones
5.2/5
On the Côte d'Azur, a rich man wins a large sum of money playing at the casino. As he leaves the establishment, he is assaulted and knocked unconsciou...
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The Voracious Ones

1958

Not Delivered
6/10
After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So t...
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Not Delivered

1966

Congress of Love
1/1
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves...
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Congress of Love

1958

Les Violents
4.8/4
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his...
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Les Violents

1958

Seventh Heaven
5.5/11
"Le septième ciel" became Raymond Bernard's last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner who donates vast amounts of money to charitable cau...
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Seventh Heaven

1971

Easy Down There!
6.6/11
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
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Easy Down There!

1957

The Inspector Likes a Fight
1/1
To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a rev...
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The Inspector Likes a Fight

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman
4.9/10
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity,...
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Love and the Frenchwoman

1954

The Contessa's Secret
0/0
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
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The Contessa's Secret

1961

The Black Monocle
5.929/21
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a Germa...
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The Black Monocle

1953

Je suis un mouchard
0/0
Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealousy, is prepared to do everything to get rid of Henr...
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Je suis un mouchard

1963

Be Careful Ladies
5.7/3
Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to be revenged on women and his inmates teach him how...
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Be Careful Ladies

1962

Bells Without Joy
3.2/2
In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs...
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Bells Without Joy

1976

The Education in Love of Valentin
5/5
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series...
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The Education in Love of Valentin

1948

Le Dessous des cartes
5.5/7
Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler. Fl...
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Le Dessous des cartes

1959

Guinguette
6/5
Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy her dream: a waterfront guinguette. Her new lover,...
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Guinguette

1941

Montmartre on the Seine
6/4
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Cla...
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Montmartre on the Seine

1949

Last Hour, Special Edition
6/2
A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claim...
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Last Hour, Special Edition

1950

Agnes of Nothing
5.8/5
Pushed by her husband to settle in the family castle, Agnès finds her sister-in-law Alix there. Her husband Carlos, often absent, loses interest in hi...
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Agnes of Nothing

1951

My Wife Is Formidable
4.7/3
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not res...
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My Wife Is Formidable

1941

Ne bougez plus !
0/0
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable photographer, the Prince Andromache of Miremir a...
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Ne bougez plus !

1947

Monsieur chasse
5.5/2
A husband covers his weekly infidelities with the pretext of hunting. His best friend intends to take advantage of the situation and makes an appointm...
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Monsieur chasse

1961

The New Aristrocrats
1/1
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do parents and their superficial society firends and the...
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The New Aristrocrats

1942

Love Marriage
0/0
Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute...
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