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Gaston Modot (31 December 188720 February 1970) was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of 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 Rene 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 Gaston Modot ended his acting career. He had acted in more than 100 films. == Films == * ''Mater Dolorosa'' (1917) * ''La zone de la mort'' (1917) * ''La fête espagnole'' (1919) * ''Fièvre'' (1921) * ''Au secours!'' (1924) * ''Heart of an Actress'' (1924) * ''Le Miracle des loups'' (1924) * ''Carmen'' (1926) * ''Secrets of the Orient'' (1928) * ''Le navire des hommes perdus'' (1929) * ''The Green Monocle'' (1929) * ''Phantoms of Happiness'' (1929) * ''My Daughter's Tutor'' (1929) * ''The Ship of Lost Souls'' (1929) * ''L'Âge d'Or'' (1930) * ''Under the Roofs of Paris'' (1930) * ''Fantômas'' (1932) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1935) * ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) * ''White Cargo'' (1937) * ''Grand Illusion'' (1937) * ''Street of Shadows'' (1937) * ''Coral Reefs'' (1939) * ''The Rules of the Game'' (1939) * ''Children of Paradise'' (1945) * ''Lessons in Conduct'' (1946) * ''Antoine et Antoinette'' (1947) * ''La beauté du diable'' (1949) * ''Casque d'or'' (1952) * ''Meeting in Paris'' (1956) * ''The Lovers'' (1958) *''Le testament du Docteur Cordelier'' (1959) * ''Le Diable et les Dix Commandements'' (1962) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaston Modot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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