Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France[1] – 31 October 2017 in Paris, France)[2] was a French actor.

Biography

Alain Mottet appeared in dozens of films, often in secondary roles. He appeared in three films with José Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in L'Affaire de la malle à Gouffé. In 1969, in L'Armée des ombres, he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned.

For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series Vidocq in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker including on several episodes of Au théâtre ce soir. One of his most notable TV roles was as Shazénian in the fairytale Shéhérazade, shown at the end of 1971: on a flying horse, he walks with Claude Jade into the night sky.

In parallel to his screen career, he also continued to work on stage, most notably in plays by Jean Le Poulain, Roger Planchon, André Barsacq and Georges Wilson. He was part of the cast of the Comédie-Française from 1986 to 1988.[3]

Private life

Married to Françoise Hirsch (1930-2017), until his death on 31 October 2017, he is the father of Christine Mottet and actor and musician Pierre Mottet.[4][5]

Theatre

Filmography

Cinema

Television

  • 1962: Paludi (by Diego Fabbri) (telefilm by Gilbert Pineau) - Alf
  • 1964: Les Indes noires (by Marcel Bluwal) - James Starr
  • 1965: Belphégor ou le Fantôme du Louvre (TV show by Claude Barma)
  • 1965: Donadieu (by Stellio Lorenzi) - Berthelien[6]
  • 1966: L'Écharpe (telefilm by Abder Isker) - Édouard Tranier
  • 1966: Les Compagnons de Jéhu (miniseries) - Toussaint
  • 1967: L'Affaire Lourdes (by Marcel Bluwal)
  • 1967: Vidocq (13 episodes) - Flambart
  • 1970: À corps perdu (telefilm by Abder Isker) - Victor Colonna
  • 1971: Shéhérazade (telefilm by Pierre Badel) - Shazénian
  • 1971: Les Salauds vont en enfer (telefilm by Abder Isker) - Hal
  • 1972: La Mort d'un champion telefilm by Abder Isker : Denis Clément
  • 1972: Les Six Hommes en question (by Abder Isker)
  • 1972: Les Misérables (by Marcel Bluwal) - Thénardier
  • 1973: Les Coqs de minuit (miniseries, FR3) (by Édouard Logereau) - Maître Régis
  • 1974: La Passagère by Abder Isker : le commissaire Clément
  • 1974: Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (by Claude Loursais, Episode: "Fausses Notes") - Igor Cléry
  • 1974: Au théâtre ce soir (Madame Sans-Gêne) (by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau, director Michel Roux, Georges Folgoas, théâtre Marigny : Joseph Fouché)
  • 1974: La Main enchantée (by Michel Subiela) - maître Chevassut
  • 1975: Les Grands Détectives (by Jean Herman, Episode: "Monsieur Lecoq") - le duc Sairmeuse
  • 1976 : Domino (by Marcel Achard) (with Jean Piat)
  • 1976: Au théâtre ce soir (La Frousse) (by Julien Vartet, director René Clermont, Pierre Sabbagh, théâtre Édouard VII)
  • 1977: Dossier Danger Immédiat (by Claude Barma, Episode: "L'Affaire Martine Desclos")
  • 1977: Dernier Appel (by Abder Isker)
  • 1977: Attention chien méchant (by Bernard-Roland)
  • 1978: Au théâtre ce soir (Episode: "Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires", by Jacques Deval, director Jean Le Poulain, Pierre Sabbagh, théâtre Marigny)
  • 1978: Les Amours sous la Révolution (Episode: "Les Amants de Thermidor", by Jean-Paul Carrère)
  • 1979: La Belle Vie (by Jean Anouilh, directed by Lazare Iglesis) - le commissaire du peuple
  • 1979: Messieurs les jurés (Episode: "L'Affaire Coublanc", by Dominique Giuliani) - le Président
  • 1980: Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (Jean-Yves Jeudy, Episode: "Un parfum d'Angélique")
  • 1986: Léon Blum à l'échelle humaine (Pierre Bourgeade and Jacques Rutman) - Léon Blum
  • 1987: Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (Episode: "Maigret chez le ministre", by Louis Grospierre) - Mascoulin
  • 1989: Le Grand Secret (by Jacques Trébouta)
  • 1991: Marie Curie, une femme honorable (by Michel Boisrond)
  • 2010: L'Appel du 18 juin (by Félix Olivier) - maréchal Pétain
  • 2010: Les Châtaigniers du désert (by Caroline Huppert) - le marquis (final appearance)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Extrait de naissance n° 5485/1928. Cf. Les Gens du cinéma.
  2. ↑ "Le comédien Alain Mottet est mort". Ouest-France. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Recherche simple". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  4. ↑ "Les comédiens Alain Mottet et Françoise Hirsch ont mis fin à leurs jours". 20minutes.fr. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  5. ↑ "PIERRE MOTTET". Lemonde.fr. August 17, 2003. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  6. ↑ Hervé Dumont. "Histoire & Cinéma I - La France". Encyclopédie du film historique. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
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