# 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)