Robert Le Vigan is the sort of actor with the kind of filmography that takes a while to scroll through. By genre, romance dominates the list. The career now covers more than 95 years. Of everything on the filmography, 'Port of Shadows' is the work that traveled the furthest. Viewers may also know him from 'The Lower Depths'. Everything here starts from 1931.
Robert Le Vigan
Actor · Since 1938
72 years (Jan 8, 1900 – Oct 12, 1972)Paris, France
49 Movies
Robert Le Vigan is the sort of actor with the kind of filmography that takes a while to scroll through. By genre, romance dominates the list. The career now covers more than 95 years. Of everything on the filmography, 'Port of Shadows' is the work that traveled the furthest. Viewers may also know him from 'The Lower Depths'. Everything here starts from 1931.
Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, 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. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.