Robert Le Vigan

Robert Le Vigan (born Robert Coquillaud, 7 January 1900 – 12 October 1972) was a French actor.

He appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".

A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe; Le Vigan was replaced by Pierre Renoir. He was sentenced to forced labour for 10 years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there in poverty on 12 October 1972 in the city of Tandil.

Selected filmography

 * Moon Over Morocco (1931) - Donald Strawber
 * Radio Follies (1931)
 * The Yellow Dog (1932) - Le docteur Ernest Michoux
 * Une jeune fille et un million (1932) - L'employé brouillon de l'agence
 * Coquin de sort (1932)
 * Boubouroche (1933) - Potasse
 * Knock (1933) - Mousquet, le pharmacien
 * The Little King (1933) - Le fou
 * The Tunnel (1933) - Brooce - un Ouvrier Félon
 * L'homme à la barbiche (1933) - Jérôme de Valvert / Le demi-frère de Jérôme de Valvert
 * Madame Bovary (1934) - Lheureux
 * The Ideal Woman (1934) - Girardin
 * Street Without a Name (1934) - Vanoël
 * Famille nombreuse (1934) - L'adjudant-chef Sandri
 * Maria Chapdelaine (1934) - Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
 * Bien mal acquis (1934)
 * The Coquelet Affair (1935) - Poireau, le jardinier
 * Golgotha (1935) (known as Behold the Man in English) - Jésus Christ
 * La bandera (1935) - Fernando Lucas
 * Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1936) - Cardinal Mazarin
 * The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1936) - Charles Davis
 * La ronde du brigadier Bellot (1936)
 * Prince of the Six Days (1936) - Fouilloux, un spectateur
 * A Legionnaire (1936) - Leduc
 * Jenny (1936) - L'Albinos
 * Hélène (1936) - Le docteur Régnier
 * The Lower Depths (1936) - L'acteur alcoolique
 * Romarin (1937) - Le brigadier Napoléon Orsini
 * The Man from Nowhere (1937) - Le comte Papiano
 * Franco de port (1937) - Henri
 * The Citadel of Silence (1937) - Granoff
 * Harvest (Regain) (1937) - Le gendarme (uncredited)
 * The Woman from the End of the World (1938) - Arlanger, l'armateur
 * The West (1938) - Taïeb el Haïn
 * Boys' School (1938) - César le passe-muraille
 * Storm Over Asia (1938) - Sir Richard
 * Le Quai des brumes (1938) - Le peintre
 * The Little Thing (1938) - Roger
 * L'avion de minuit (1938) - Le Docteur
 * Ernest the Rebel (1938) - Le gouverneur-président de Mariposa
 * The Fatted Calf (1939) - Grussgolt
 * Louise (1939) - Le peintre Gaston
 * The World Will Tremble (1939) - Le Greffier
 * Le Dernier Tournant (1939) - Le cousin maître-chanteur
 * The Phantom Carriage (1939) - Le père Martin
 * Paradise Lost (1940) - Édouard Bordenave
 * Romance of Paris (1941) - Monsieur Lormel
 * Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941) - Léon Villard, le maître d'école
 * Dédé la musique (1941) - Fernand l'Américain
 * Room 13 (1942) - Fenouil
 * White Patrol (1942) - Le commissaire Pascal
 * Private Life (1942) - Rémi Géraud
 * Andorra ou les hommes d'Airain (1942) - Asnurri
 * Chiffon's Wedding (1942) - Maître Blondin - l'huissier
 * Business Is Business (1942) - Phinck
 * La grande marnière (1943) - Fleury
 * The Heart of a Nation (1943) - L'oncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
 * It Happened at the Inn (1943) - Goupi-Tonkin
 * Don't Shout It from the Rooftops (1943) - Le professeur Léonard Bontagues
 * The Man Who Sold His Soul (1943) - Grégori
 * The Ménard Collection (1944) - Amédée Garbure
 * Bifur 3 (1945) - Paul (uncredited)
 * The King's Mail (1951) - Peabody
 * The Orchid (1951) - The father
 * Ley del mar (1952) - Rafael
 * Rio turbio (1952) - Levignan (final film role)