Biography
Gaston Modot (31 December 1887 – 20 February 1970) was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of great French directors. Modot lived in Montmartre at the beginning of the 20th century where he met Picasso and Modigliani. In 1909 he started his career with Gaumont and for the following 20 years he covered all silent film genres. In 1917 he was the main actor in Abel Gance's Mater dolorosa. He played in Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc's avant-garde films La fête espagnole (1919) and Fièvre (1921). With Max Linder, Modot played in Abel Gance's Au secours! (1924). Towards the end of the 1920s he performed in German-French co-productions.
He is still famous for his role of "Manns" in Luis Buñuel's L'Âge d'Or (1930).
He had his first role in a sound film with René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris (1930). He and Jean Gabin are main characters in Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1937). He acted in the Jean Renoir classics La grande illusion and La règle du jeu as well as the three-hour poetic film Les enfants du paradis (1945) for Marcel Carné.
In 1962 Modot ended his acting career. He had acted in more than 100 films.
Filmography
all 161
Movies 161
Writer 3
Narrator 1
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
House of Sin (1961)
The Lovers (1958)
Le palais idéal (1958)
Elena and Her Men (1956)
That Is the Dawn (1956)
Meeting in Paris (1956)
Les Truands (1956)
French Cancan (1955)
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I (1954)
Poison Ivy (1953)
This Rascal of Anatole (1952)
Casque d'Or (1952)
Victor (1951)
Here Is the Beauty (1950)
The Beauty of the Devil (1950)
Rendezvous in July (1949)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1949)
Truant School (1949)
The Mark Of The Day (1949)
The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)
Eternal Conflict (1948)
Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort (1948)
The Blockhead of the Block (1947)
Antoine and Antoinette (1947)
Last Refuge (1947)
Silence Is Golden (1947)
Driving Lesson (1946)
Children of Paradise (1945)
The Hunchback (1944)
Le brigand gentilhomme (1943)
The London Man (1943)
Une idée à l'eau (1942)
At Your Command, Madam (1942)
The Trump Card (1942)
Patrouille blanche (1942)
Portrait of Innocence (1941)
Montmarte on the Seine (1941)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The End of the Day (1939)
Coral Reefs (1939)
Final Accord (1938)
The Chess Player (1938)
Sirocco (1938)
Ceux de demain (1938)
La Marseillaise (1938)
The Time of the Cherries (1938)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Les Réprouvés (1937)
French White Cargo (1937)
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Spain 1936 (1937)
Life Is Ours (1936)
Les Gaîtés de la finance (1936)
Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
La Bandera (1935)
Le Mystère Imberger (1935)
Le Clown Bux (1935)
Le Billet de mille (1935)
L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon (1934)
Crainquebille (1934)
Quelqu'un a tué... (1934)
Plein aux as (1933)
Colomba (1933)
The 1002nd Night (1933)
July 14 (1933)
Fantômas (1932)
Under the Leather Helmet (1932)
The bewitchment of Seville (1931)
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
About an investigation (1931)
L'Âge d'or (1930)
Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
Freiheit in Fesseln (1930)
Der Erzieher meiner Tochter (1930)
Phantoms of Happiness (1930)
Conte cruel (1930)
The Green Monocle (1929)
The Ship of Lost Men (1929)
La ville des mille joies (1929)
Monte Cristo (1929)
Saint Joan the Maid (1929)
Secrets of the Orient (1928)
Le chauffeur de Mademoiselle (1928)
Mon coeur au ralenti (1928)
Die Stadt der tausend Freuden (1927)
Milady of Liban (1927)
Carmen (1926)
Naples au baiser de feu (1925)
Lure of the Sea (1925)
Miracle of the Wolves (1924)
Beyond Death (1924)
Heart of an Actress (1924)
Au Secours ! (1924)
Nène (1924)
Little Hotel for Rent (1923)
The Innocent Flower Girl (1923)
Marie Among the Predators (1922)
The Isle of Zorda (1921)
Fièvre (1921)
Le chevalier de Gaby (1920)
Spanish Fiesta (1920)
The Sultan of Love (1919)
Un ours (1919)
L'âme de Pierre (1918)
La zone de la mort (1917)
The Torture of Silence (1917)
Onésime's Family Drama (1914)
Onésime, Trainer of Men and Horses (1913)
Onésime Loves Animals (1913)
Onésime, You'll Get Married... or Else! (1913)
Onésime: Calino's Inheritance (1913)
Léonce: Cinematographer (1913)
Onésime champion de boxe (1913)
Onésime and the Heart of the Gypsy (1913)
Onésime's Theatrical Debut (1913)
Onésime Gets Married... So Does Calino (1913)
The Disappearance of Onésime (1913)
Un mariage au revolver (1912)
Oxford vs. Martigues (1912)
Onésime et l'étudiante (1912)
Onésime a un duel à l'américaine (1912)
Under the Claw: A Story of the Transvaal (1912)
Calino, Station Master (1912)
Burning Heart: An Indian Tale (1912)
Onesime, Clockmaker (1912)
Onésime and Mademoiselle Badinois’ Outfit (1912)
Zigoto Drives a Locomotive (1912)
The Railway of Death (1912)
Onésime Goes to Hell (1912)
Zigoto et la blanchisseuse (1912)
Onésime et la grève des mineurs (1912)
Onésime et le nourrisson de la nourrice indigne (1912)
Driven by Love (1912)
Calino s'endurcit la figure (1912)
Calino courtier en paratonnerres (1912)
Calino, Love Tamer (1912)
Onésime est trop timide (1912)
La maison des lions (1912)
In the Bushes (1912)
Zigoto's Outing with Friends (1912)
La prairie en feu (1912)
Onésime: Costume Boy (1912)
Onésime et le physicien (1912)
Onésime vs. Onésime (1912)
Pendaison à Jefferson City (1911)
No! You’re Not Going Anywhere Without Me! (1911)
Calino polygame (1911)
Calino et ses pensionnaires (1911)
Zigoto plombier d'occasion (1911)
Zigoto, policier, trouve une corde (1911)
Calino médecin par amour (1911)
Calino sourcier (1911)
One Hundred Dollars, Dead or Alive (1911)
Calino à la chasse (1910)
Calino achète un chien de garde (1910)
The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic (1910)
Calino's Baptism (1910)
In the Air (1910)
A Drama on a Locomotive (1910)
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GenderMale
Birthday1887-12-31
Deathday1970-02-19 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceParis, France
CitizenshipsFrance
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