Acting · Lyon, Rhône, France · Born December 30, 1928
Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France – 31 October 2017 in Paris, France) was a French actor. 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. 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. Source: Article "Alain Mottet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes
2013
as Self
MovieL'appel du 18 juin
2010
as Maréchal Pétain
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2003
as Me Clunet
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2002
as Miran Sarkissian
TVFrançois Kléber
1995
as Le directeur de la police
MovieVenus and Lulu
1991
as Marceau le comédien
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1990
as Le préfet
TVLe Grand Secret
1989
as Hamblain
MovieUn dimanche de flics
1983
as Director
MovieInspector Blunder
1980
as Dumeze, police director
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1980
as M. de Bourbonne
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1978
as L'avocat général
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1978
as Simon Jaumier
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1977
as Jacques Lacarène
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1977
as Marc Ovet
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1976
as Héller
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1976
as le commissaire Blanchot
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1975
as L'inspecteur L'Héritier
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1975
as Self
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1974
as Fouché
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1974
as Maître Chevassut
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1973
as Sire Laurent
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1973
as Besnard de Clairvaux
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1972
as 'Ficelle', henchman of Villanova
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1972
as Thénardier
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1972
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1971
as Shazénian
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1971
as Nitesse
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1970
as Maximilien-Marie-Isidore De Robespierre
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1970
as Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend
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1969
as Le Commandant du Camp
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1968
as Paul
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1967
as Jacomet
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1967
as Inspecteur Flambart
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1965
as Delma
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1964
as James Starr
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1963
as Urcel
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1962
