Paul Bisciglia
Acting • Born 1928-07-30 – Died 2010-04-18
Biography
Paul Bisciglia (30 July 1928 – 18 April 2010) was a French film actor. Throughout his acting career, Bisciglia appeared in more than one-hundred feature films. He made his debut in the 1950 film Trois télégrammes. What followed was several uncredited roles, before landing a much larger part in drama Clara de Montargis. During the fifties, he appeared in many drama films, including the award-winning Avant le déluge, with Antoine Balpêtré, and again several more uncredited roles. During the sixties, Bisciglia began to appear more frequently in television series and television films, although he was included in many films such as The Wretches, with Michèle Morgan, Les vieux de la vieille, with Pierre Fresnay, Paris nous appartient, Le signe du lion, and in 1966, he appeared in his first leading role in Alain Cuniot's L'or et le plomb. In 1969, Bisciglia had a small role in the horror film La vampire nue, the second feature film from director Jean Rollin. It was Bisciglia's first of several times working with Rollin. He worked with the director again in the successful films Requiem pour un vampire, with Marie-Pierre Castel and Mireille D'Argent, Les démoniaques, Lèvres de sang, and the zombie classic Les Raisins de la Mort, with Marie-Georges Pascal. His career continued through the seventies and eighties, such as the Golden Globe-nominated Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob, Club privé pour couples avertis, with Philippe Gasté of Jean Rollin's Requiem pour un vampire, Verdict, with Sophia Loren, L'aile ou la cuisse, Family Rock, and he voiced in three animated films Astérix et la surprise de César (Asterix vs. Caesar), Astérix chez les Bretons (Asterix in Britain) and Astérix et le coup du menhir (Asterix and the Big Fight). Bisciglia's acting career continued until 1999, during which he appeared in two final feature films, Profil bas and Montana Blues. Bisciglia also had a successful television career appearing in a number of television series and films. He made his first appearance in the 1957 television film L'équipage au complet. His television films include Elle s'abaisse pour vaincre, Les fiancés de Loches, Claudine à Paris and the television film remeke Les liaisons dangereuses. His television series credits include Le théâtre de la jeunesse, Rocambole, Les saintes chéries, Schulmeister, espion de l'empereur, Les brigades du Tigre, De mémoire d'homme, Les cinq dernières minutes, Désiré Lafarge, Commissaire Moulin, Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret and Julien Fontanes, magistrat. Source: Article "Paul Bisciglia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
110 credits
The Cousins
Movie • 1959
Marc
That Most Important Thing: Love
Movie • 1975
Assistant Director
Jury of One
Movie • 1974
A juror
Venus and Lulu
Movie • 1991
Le journaliste
The Nude Vampire
Movie • 1970
Butler
Asterix in Britain
Movie • 1986
(voice)
The Old Guard
Movie • 1960
Jojo, Mariette's fiancé
The Demoniacs
Movie • 1974
Paul
Lips of Blood
Movie • 1975
The Psychiatrist
Forgive Our Trespasses
Movie • 1956
'Coquillage'
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Movie • 1973
The Delinquents
Movie • 1960
Painter
Sunday Buddies
Movie • 1957
Lucien dit: "Lulu", un collègue de l'usine
The Turkey
Movie • 1951
Victor, le groom
Paris Incident
Movie • 1950
Young postman
Beware of Blondes
Movie • 1950
(uncredited)
Under the Paris Sky
Movie • 1951
(uncredited)
Love and Desire
Movie • 1951
The Beautiful Image
Movie • 1951
(uncredited)
Clara de Montargis
Movie • 1951
The High Life
Movie • 1951
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Movie • 1974
Le chasseur PLM
Asterix vs. Caesar
Movie • 1985
(voice)
The Fruit Is Ripe
Movie • 1961
Les Lumières du soir
Movie • 1956
Friend of Catherine at the restaurant
La Baraka
Movie • 1982
le client
Dougal and the Blue Cat
Movie • 1970
Le Chat bleu / Flappy (voice)
The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine
Movie • 1980
Messire Jean
La P..... sentimentale
Movie • 1958
Chauffeur
Le souffle du désir
Movie • 1958
Lovers on a Tightrope
Movie • 1960
Mechanic
Salut, j'arrive
Movie • 1982
C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
Movie • 1983
The Cold Soup
Movie • 1975
Le garde-champêtre
The Voracious Ones
Movie • 1973
Rock or the Curse
Movie • 1973
Gerly
The Big Swag
Movie • 1965
Metro machinist (uncredited)
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Movie • 1965
Les Hommes
Movie • 1964
Cyclist
Alice au pays des merveilles
Movie • 1970
Five of spades
The Boss of Champignol
Movie • 1966
L’Or et le plomb
Movie • 1966
Usher's clerk
The Egg
Movie • 1972
Dufiquet employee
Fusil chargé
Movie • 1972
The Pebbles of Etratat
Movie • 1972
Mechanic
La tuile à loups
Movie • 1972
Muratel
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Movie • 1973
The Crazy Capo Affair
Movie • 1973
The Seventh Commandment
Movie • 1957
Hunter
Légitime défense
Movie • 1980
Anthracite
Movie • 1980
Caretaker
Sexy Boom
Movie • 1974
'Double-Crème'
Brigade Call Girls
Movie • 1977
Henri
House of 1000 Pleasures
Movie • 1974
Le livreur (uncredited)
Young Casanova
Movie • 1974
Le flic dubitatif
Like a Pot of Strawberries
Movie • 1974
Before the Deluge
Movie • 1954
Jean-Jacques Noblet
The Bamboo Stroke
Movie • 1963
Le Cinema de Papa
Movie • 1971
un acteur
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Movie • 1973
Pump attendant
Indécences
Movie • 1975
L'homme des bois
Requiem for a Vampire
Movie • 1972
Man with the Bike
Un fil à la patte
Movie • 2002
Asterix and the Big Fight
Movie • 1989
Agecanonix (voice)
The Wretches
Movie • 1960
The Slap
Movie • 1974
Waiter
Provisional Liberty
Movie • 1958
Riri
Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
Movie • 1971
Le contremaître
Trop au lit pour être honnête
Movie • 1980
La garçon
Belles, blondes et bronzées
Movie • 1981
The Teasers Go to Paris
Movie • 1977
Night Dance Hall
Movie • 1959
Witness in the City
Movie • 1959
Taxi driver
Soumissions perverses
Movie • 1977
Jules Larrigau, the farmer
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Movie • 1964
Prince's advisor (uncredited)
Love Without Pity
Movie • 1989
L'homme de l'Huma
Sign of the Lion
Movie • 1962
Willy
The Wing or the Thigh?
Movie • 1976
Le bagagiste
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Movie • 1979
Police officer
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Movie • 1954
Tenant on the sixth floor, under the roof (uncredited)
Les Hommes en blanc
Movie • 1955
Un interne
Cherchez l'idole
Movie • 1964
Tailor's assistant
Quai des blondes
Movie • 1954
le chasseur de l'hôtel
Only the Cool
Movie • 1970
Action Man
Movie • 1967
Bartender (uncredited)
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
Movie • 1973
Père de la filette, en exode sur la route
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Movie • 1975
Claumachet, sous-officier de la 7e compagnie
Lumière
Movie • 1976
La Bougie
The Grapes of Death
Movie • 1978
Lucas
Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx
Movie • 1981
Le larbin
Sex Shock
Movie • 1976
Le couple au square
The Ferryman's House
Movie • 1966
Paris Belongs to Us
Movie • 1961
Paul
Low Profile
Movie • 1993
Le patron du bistrot
Animal
Movie • 1977
Le gardien du château
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Movie • 1974
Un clochard (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
A Murder Is a Murder
Movie • 1972
L'employe de Kastner
L'Homme du Picardie
TV • 1968
Pucheu
Petit déjeuner compris
TV • 1980
M. Burin
Molierissimo
TV • 1989
Pouillard
L'Homme du Picardie
TV • 1968
Peucheu
Sans famille
TV • 1981
Le concierge
Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel
TV • 1976
Le commissaire
Police Commissioner Moulin
TV • 1976
Police Commissioner Moulin
TV • 1976
Un journaliste
Allez la Rafale !
TV • 1977
Riton
Minichronique
TV • 1976
L'épicier
Claudine
TV • 1978
Le chanteur des rues
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
TV • 1958
Roger La Soutarde
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
TV • 1971
L'officier Anglais