Maurice de Canonge

Maurice de Canonge
Born	Maurice Camille Louis de Canonge 18 March 1894 Toulon, France
Died	10 January 1979 Paris, France
Other names	Maurice Cannon
Occupation(s)	Actor, Director
Years active	1917 - 1971 (film)

Maurice de Canonge (March 18, 1894 – January 10, 1979) was a French actor and film director.^[1] He is also sometimes known by the name Maurice Cannon.

Selected filmography

Director

• Stowaway Olive (1931)
• Olive se marie (1931)
• Monsieur cambriole (1931)
• Le secret de l'émeraude (1935)
• Inspector Grey (1936)
• À minuit, le 7 (1937)
• Boulot the Aviator (1937)
• Un soir à Marseille (1938)
• Grisou (1938)
• Saint Theresa of Lisieux (1938)
• Captain Benoit (1938)
• Thérèse Martin (1939)
• The Last Metro (1945)
• Special Mission (1946)
• A Cop (1947)
• Judicial Error (1948)
• La Bataille du feu (1949)
• Last Hour, Special Edition (1949)
• The Man from Jamaica (1950)
• The Two Girls (1951)
• In the Land of the Sun (1952)
• Love Always Love (1952)
• Boum sur Paris (1953)
• The Price of Love (1955)
• Three of the Canebière (1955)
• Three Sailors (1957)
• Federal Police (1958)
• Happy Arenas (1958)

Actor

• La nouvelle aurore (1919) - Fric-Frac
• Les parias de l'amour (1921)
• Rapax (1922)
• Trilby (1923) - Zouzou
• Shadows of Paris (1924) - Robert, A Taxi Driver
• The Side Show of Life (1924) - Horatio Bakkus
• The Alaskan (1924) - Tautuk
• Love's Wilderness (1924) - Pierre Bazin
• Peter Pan (1924) - Cookson
• The Little French Girl (1925) - Jerry Hamble
• The Nude Woman (1926) - Rouchard
• Forbidden Hours (1928) - Minor Role (uncredited)
• L'évadée (1929) - Drackson
• Quand nous étions deux (1930) - Rouchard
• Amours viennoises (1931) - Muller
• Les quatre vagabonds (1931) - Novac
• Olive se marie (1931)
• Olive passager clandestin (1931) - Olive
• Un de la montagne (1934) - Le directeur de l'hôtel (uncredited)
• Adémaï in the Middle Ages (1935) - Un officier anglais
• Le coup de trois (1936) - Le marchand de poissons
• The Call of Silence (1936)
• Le grand refrain (1936)
• La bataille du feu (1949)
• Dernière heure, édition spéciale (1949) - (uncredited)
• Me and the Colonel (1958) - Hollander (uncredited)
• The Roots of Heaven (1958) - Haas
• Cervantes (1967)
• Hot Line (1968) - Director of Hotel (uncredited)
• Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971) - 1st Client (final film role)

References

1. Oscherwitz & Higgins p.222

Bibliography

• Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• Maurice de Canonge at IMDb