Françoise Rosay
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career. Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the P...
Known For
Midi trente
Self
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Madame Pauline
The 25th Hour
Mme Nagy (uncredited)
The Seven Deadly Sins
Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
Saraband for Dead Lovers
The Electress Sophia
They Were Twelve Women
La duchesse de Vimeuse
Cloportes
Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
The Sound and the Fury
Caroline Compson
Filmography
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The Pedestrian
1973
as Frau Dechamps
Not Dumb, the Bird
1972
as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972
as Madame Dubreuil
Midi trente
1972
as Self
Aujourd'hui Madame
1970
as Self - Guest
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
1969
as Louise de Kerfuntel
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
The 25th Hour
1967
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
L'Âge heureux
1966
as Mme Aubry
Cloportes
1965
as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
Up from the Beach
1965
as Lili's Grandmother
Ruy Blas
1965
as La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
1964
as Borgia
Frau Cheneys Ende
1962
as Mrs. Webley
The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961
as Madame Pauline
The Full Treatment
1960
as Madame Prade
Lovers Woods
1960
as Madame Parisot
Stefanie in Rio
1960
as Leonora Guala
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
1960
as Madame Alexandra
Riff Raff Girls
1959
as Berthe
Eyes of Love
1959
as Mrs. Montcatel mother
Without Trumpet or Drum
1959
as La grand-mère de Marguerite
The Sound and the Fury
1959
as Caroline Compson
Me and the Colonel
1958
as Madame Bouffier
The Gambler
1958
as Aunt Antonia
The Seventh Sin
1957
as Mother Superior
Interlude
1957
as Comtesse Reinhart
Non sono più guaglione
1957
as Vincenzino's mother
That Lady
1955
as Bernardine
Girls of Today
1955
as padrona della pensione
Queen Margot
1954
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Les éloquents
1954
as Self
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953
as Lady of Sant'Agata
He Who Is Without Sin...
1952
as La contessa Lamieri
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")
Wanda the Sinner
1952
as Anna Steiner
Smuggler's Ball
1952
as Gabrielle Demeuse
The Red Inn
1951
as Marie Martin
The 13th Letter
1951
as Mrs. Gauthier
Nobody's Children
1951
as La contessa Canali
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
1951
as Noemi, die Amme
September Affair
1950
as Maria Salvatini
The Naked Heart
1950
as Laura Chapdelaine
One Only Loves Once
1950
as Mme Monnier
Women Without Names
1950
as The Countess
The Dream Vagabonds
1949
as Mireille Dombreval
The Barton Mystery
1949
as Élisabeth
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
as The Electress Sophia
Quartet
1948
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
1947
as Countess Brévannes
Back Streets of Paris
1946
as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
Johnny Frenchman
1945
as Lanec Florrie
Portrait of a Woman
1944
as Fanny Helder
The Halfway House
1944
as Alice Meadows
They Were Twelve Women
1940
as La duchesse de Vimeuse
Serge Panine
1939
as Madame Devarenne
Ramuntcho
1938
as Dolorès Detcharry
The Stream
1938
as Régina Berry
The Chess Player
1938
as Catherine II
Fahrendes Volk
1938
as Madame Flora
Peace on the Rhine
1938
as Francoise Scheffer
People Who Travel
1938
as Flora
My Son the Minister
1937
as Sylvie - seine Mutter
Life Dances On
1937
as Marguerite Audié
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937
as Margaret Molyneux
The Robber Symphony
1937
as The fortune teller
Armchair 47
1937
as Gilberte Boulanger
The Secret of Polichinelle
1936
as Mrs. Jouvenel
Jenny
1936
as Jenny Gauthier
Carnival in Flanders
1936
as Cornelia
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
1936
as Nadja Danouw
Marie des angoisses
1935
as Mme de Quersac
Carnival in Flanders
1935
as Madame Burgomaster
Whirlpool
1935
as Madame Gardane
Le Billet de mille
1935
as Russian Countess
Maternité
1935
as Mrs. Duchemin
Gangster malgré lui
1935
Marchand d'amour
1935
as Clara
Pension Mimosas
1935
as Louise Noblet
Tambour battant
1934
as The Princess Mother
Vers l'abîme
1934
as Sylvia
Coralie and Company
1934
The Great Game
1934
as Blanche
The Island
1934
as Silvia
La Pouponnière
1933
as Mrs. Delannoy
All for Nothing
1933
as Mrs. Bossu
Abbot Constantine
1933
as La comtesse de Laverdens
He
1932
as Madame Husson
The Woman Dressed As a Man
1932
as Princess Marie
A Father Without Knowing It
1932
as Madame Jacquet
Jenny Lind
1931
as Rosatti
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931
as La veuve
The Magnificent Lie
1931
as Rosa Duchêne
The Little Cafe
1931
as Mademoiselle Edwige
Casanova Against His Will
1931
as Blanche Brissac
Let Us Be Gay
1931
as Madame Boucijon
Luck
1931
as Mme Mougeot
Buster se marie
1931
as Polly Hathaway
Échec au roi
1930
as The Queen
Si l'empereur savait ça
1930
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
Marius à Paris
1930
The One Woman Idea
1929
as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
Two Timid Souls
1928
as The aunt
Madame Récamier
1928
as Madame de Staël
Le bateau de verre
1927
as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
Gribiche
1926
as Edith Maranet
Crainquebille
1922
as Shoe Store Customer