Alain Mottet

Known for ActingBorn 1928-12-30Died 2017-10-31Lyon, Rhône, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Murder on Demand

Climates of Love

Midi Première

La Mort d'un touriste

Le dialogue dans le marécage

Vidocq

Le Curé de Tours

Shéhérazade

L'Affaire Lourdes

Army of Shadows

The Fire Within

Last Known Address

François Kléber

Le Grand Secret

Madame Sans-Gêne

The Black Indies

Question of Love

The Pariah

Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre

Les Misérables

Aram

Un dimanche de flics

Inspector Blunder

Ho !

My New Partner II

La main enchantée

The Good and the Bad

Venus and Lulu

L'appel du 18 juin

One Way Ticket

Mata Hari, la vraie histoire

The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes

Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires

Domino

Héloïse and Abélard

La Mort de Danton