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Marcel Mouloudji

1922-09-16 (102 years old) in Paris, France

Marcel Mouloudji, born September 16, 1922 in the 4th arrondissement of Paris and died June 14, 1994 in Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French-Algerian singer, songwriter, painter and actor. His songs, alternately committed and sentimental, evoke love, war, nostalgia between sadness and loneliness. He has notably interpreted texts by poets such as Boris Vian, Louis Aragon and Philippe Pauletto. Marcel Mouloudji was born in 1922 in Paris to a bricklayer father and a housekeeper mother. His father, Saïd Mouloudji was born in 1896 in French Algeria in the Kabyle village of Leflaye (tribe of Aït Waghlis, daïra of Sidi-Aïch), and his mother, Eugénie Roux is a Breton born in Paris in 1901. The family knows serious problems: when Marcel was only ten years old, his mother was hospitalized for a mental disorder and his illiterate father, housed in a maid's room, had trouble raising his two sons, the eldest of whom, André, was gravely ill and the second, a gentle dreamer who finds accommodation by chance encounters. During his adolescence, Marcel enrolled with his brother in a left-wing youth movement, the Faucons Rouges, close to the SFIO. In 1935, he met Sylvain Itkine, director and member of the October Group, an organization affiliated with the Fédération des Théâtres Ouvriers de France. Marcel Maillot, director of a Syndicat du livre summer camp, encouraged him to sing with his brother. He was soon noticed by Jean-Louis Barrault. During this period, Marcel was thus hosted by Jean-Louis Barrault, who introduced him to the artistic milieu of Paris. He participated in the artistic life associated with the Popular Front in 1936. In 1936, he appeared in the film La Guerre Des Gosses by Jacques Daroy. In 1937, for the film Claudine À L'École by Serge de Poligny, the screenwriter Jacques Constant, around Blanchette Brunoy, created the character of "Petit Moulou"... soon to be Mouloudji. In 1938, Marcel played one of the three young heroes in Disparus De Saint-Agil by Christian-Jaque. In 1939, Marcel played the role of Louis in Christian-Jaque's film L'Enfer Des Anges, a film selected for the 1939 Cannes Film Festival which did not take place, and released in February 1941. In 1942, he played the role of 'Ephraïm Luska in Henri Decoin's film, The Strangers in the House, after Georges Simenon... Jacques Canetti, famous artistic agent. He will offer him to record "Comme Un P'tit Coquelicot" thanks to which Mouloudji obtains the Grand Prix du Disque 1953 and the Charles-Cros Prize in 1952 and 1953. He repeats with "Un Jour Tu Verras" the following year. He reappears in films like Henri Calef in 1949 or We Are All Assassins three years later. His last roles, he did in Rafles sur la ville by Pierre Chenal then in Llegaron Dos Hombres in 1958. After recording a disc with accordionist Marcel Azzola in 1976 called "And it was turning", he released "Unknown Unknowns" thanks to which he went on tour throughout the country. Exhausted, he decides to devote more time to writing and painting. He partially lost his voice due to pleurisy in 1992 but was still working on a new album. He died on June 14, 1994 and is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Movies

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Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
10 %|Mar 13, 2020
Documentary
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The Hideout
0 %|Sep 21, 1962
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Two Men in Town
0 %|Jun 22, 1959
Drama
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Sinners of Paris
48 %|Jan 15, 1958
Crime
actor
58.2/B
0 %|Jan 1, 1958
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Until the Last One
56 %|Mar 20, 1957
Thriller
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Until the Last One
56 %|Mar 20, 1957
Thriller
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The Indiscreet
40 %|Mar 16, 1956
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Tout chante autour de moi
0 %|Nov 1, 1954
Comedy, Drama
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The Secrets of the Bed
10 %|May 19, 1954
Comedy
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Boom on Paris
54 %|Feb 19, 1954
Comedy, Music
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The Virtuous Scoundrel
61 %|Feb 18, 1953
Drama, Comedy
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Three Women
0 %|Aug 13, 1952
Comedy
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We Are All Murderers
68 %|May 21, 1952
Crime, Drama
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The Bonnadieu House
45 %|Nov 27, 1951
Comedy
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The Bonnadieu House
45 %|Nov 27, 1951
Comedy
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Gigolo
53 %|Nov 8, 1951
Drama
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Justice Is Done
65 %|Sep 20, 1950
Drama, Mystery
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Tête blonde
30 %|Sep 1, 1950
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Sorceror
0 %|Jan 27, 1950
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Troubled Waters
50 %|Aug 26, 1949
Drama
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Kindergarten
0 %|May 20, 1949
Romance
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Bagarres
58 %|Nov 5, 1948
Drama
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The Chips Are Down
67 %|Jul 1, 1947
Drama, Fantasy
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Sky Battalion
57 %|Mar 5, 1947
War, Drama
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Les Cadets de l'océan
50 %|Nov 14, 1945
Comedy
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Angel and Sinner
55 %|Oct 13, 1945
Drama
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Angel of the Night
0 %|Jan 19, 1944
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Vautrin the Thief
78 %|Dec 13, 1943
Drama
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Adieu Léonard
52 %|Sep 1, 1943
Comedy
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The Roquevillards
0 %|Jul 28, 1943
Drama
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Strangers in the House
70 %|May 16, 1942
Drama, Crime, Mystery
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Hell of Angels
69 %|Feb 13, 1941
Drama
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They Met on Skis
100 %|Dec 14, 1940
Comedy, Drama
actor
Les Gaietés de l'exposition
0 %|May 18, 1938
Comedy
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Boys' School
73 %|Apr 5, 1938
Adventure, Drama, Mystery
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Mirages
70 %|Jan 28, 1938
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Claudine at School
49 %|Dec 15, 1937
Drama, Comedy
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In Venice, One Night
10 %|Nov 19, 1937
Comedy
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Ménilmontant
0 %|Nov 20, 1936
Drama, Comedy
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Generals Without Buttons
0 %|Oct 27, 1936
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Jenny
59 %|Sep 18, 1936
Drama, Romance

Series

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La Chance aux chansons
40 %|Mar 26, 1984
Reality
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La Chance aux chansons
40 %|Mar 26, 1984
Reality
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Champs-Elysées
62 %|Jan 16, 1982
Talk
actor
Numéro un
60 %|Apr 5, 1975
Reality
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
60 %|Jan 12, 1975
Talk
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Apostrophes
85 %|Jan 10, 1975
Talk
actor
Midi trente
60 %|Mar 6, 1972
Reality
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Le Grand Échiquier
80 %|Jan 12, 1972
Reality
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Le Grand Échiquier
80 %|Jan 12, 1972
Reality
actor
Samedi soir
60 %|Jan 9, 1971
Talk
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Dim Dam Dom
60 %|Mar 7, 1965
Documentary
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Discorama
0 %|Feb 4, 1959
Talk