Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1928-12-30
Day of Death
2017-10-31
Place of Birth
Lyon, RhĂŽne, France
Alain Mottet
Biography
Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France â 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 JosĂ© Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in L'Affaire de la malle Ă GouffĂ©. In 1969, in L'ArmĂ©e 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 EugĂšne François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard NoĂ«l in the TV series Vidocq in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker including on several episodes of Au thĂ©Ăątre ce soir. One of his most notable TV roles was as ShazĂ©nian in the fairytale ShĂ©hĂ©razade, 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, AndrĂ© Barsacq and Georges Wilson. He was part of the cast of the ComĂ©die-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.
Filmography (30)
L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes
2013
L'appel du 18 juin
2010
Mata Hari, la vraie histoire
2003
Aram
2002
Venus and Lulu
1991
My New Partner II
1990
Un dimanche de flics
1983
Inspector Blunder
1980
Le Curé de Tours
1980
Question of Love
1978
Miam-miam ou le DĂźner d'affaires
1978Murder on Demand
1977
The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
1977
Domino
1976
