#french actor

Fat actors in French movies in the early 20th century.

Felix Oudart. French Comedy Actor.

Fat actors in French movies in the early 20th century

Jim Gérald. Gerald was mostly a comic actor in French film from the silents into the 1950s. He played Inspector Lohman in the French version of Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse in 1933.

French Chub Actors in the early 20th Century

Andre Alerme played roles in France that you would expect to see Edward Arnold play in the US. He played no-nonsense businessmen, high ranking military, nobility and people with authority.

French Chub Actors in the early 20th Century

Pierre Alcover. Unlike most of the chubs in early French cinema, Pierre was not a comedian. He was a big, strong hulking man who often played violent roles, in silents and talkies.

French Chub Actors in the early 20th Century 

Marcel Barencey. Only acted in films in the 1930s. Starred in 2 of them.

Photo #10. Marcel Barencey (bearded) with Andre Berley (bald) and Paul Pauly (shortest)

French Chub Actors in the early 20th Century

Marcel Carpentier. His career went from the 1920s into the 1950s.

French Chub Actors in the early 20th Century

Paul Pauley had a short career in the 1930s, but had 11 starring or co-starring roles.

French Chub Actors in the early 1900s.

Andre Berley was a film actor in France starting in 1928s “The Passion of Joan of Arc”. He most often played comic roles. He was credited in 43 films before he passed away in 1936.   

Alain DelonandNathalie Delon in France, circa 1960

Alain Delon

Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet