
Paul Bisciglia
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 30, 1928
- Died
- April 18, 2010 (aged 81)
- Birthplace
- Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
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.
Known For
Filmography

Un fil à la patte
Movie

Low Profile
Movie · as Le patron du bistrot

Venus and Lulu
Movie · as Le journaliste

Asterix and the Big Fight
Movie · as Agecanonix (voice)

Love Without Pity
Movie · as L'homme de l'Huma

Molierissimo
TV · as Pouillard · 26 eps

Asterix in Britain
Movie · as (voice)

Asterix vs. Caesar
Movie · as (voice)

C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
Movie

La Baraka
Movie · as le client

Salut, j'arrive
Movie

Belles, blondes et bronzées
Movie

Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx
Movie · as Le larbin

Sans famille
TV · as Le concierge · 3 eps

The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine
Movie · as Messire Jean

Légitime défense
Movie

Anthracite
Movie · as Caretaker

Trop au lit pour être honnête
Movie · as La garçon

Shut Up, I Love You!
Movie

Petit déjeuner compris
TV · as M. Burin · 1 ep

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Movie · as Police officer

The Grapes of Death
Movie · as Lucas

Claudine
TV · as Le chanteur des rues · 1 ep

Brigade Call Girls
Movie · as Henri

The Teasers Go to Paris
Movie

Soumissions perverses
Movie · as Jules Larrigau, the farmer

Animal
Movie · as Le gardien du château

Allez la Rafale !
TV · as Riton · 6 eps

The Wing or the Thigh?
Movie · as Le bagagiste

Lumière
Movie · as La Bougie

Sex Shock
Movie · as Le couple au square

Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel
TV · as Le commissaire · 1 ep

Police Commissioner Moulin
TV · as Un journaliste · 1 ep

Minichronique
TV · as L'épicier · 1 ep

That Most Important Thing: Love
Movie · as Assistant Director

Lips of Blood
Movie · as The Psychiatrist

The Cold Soup
Movie · as Le garde-champêtre

Indécences
Movie · as L'homme des bois

The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Movie · as Claumachet, sous-officier de la 7e compagnie

Jury of One
Movie · as A juror

The Demoniacs
Movie · as Paul

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Movie · as Le chasseur PLM

Sexy Boom
Movie · as 'Double-Crème'

House of 1000 Pleasures
Movie · as Le livreur (uncredited)

Young Casanova
Movie · as Le flic dubitatif

Like a Pot of Strawberries
Movie

The Slap
Movie · as Waiter

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Movie · as Un clochard (segment "Le dernier réveillon")

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Movie

The Voracious Ones
Movie

Rock or the Curse
Movie · as Gerly

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Movie

The Crazy Capo Affair
Movie

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Movie · as Pump Attendant

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
Movie · as Père de la filette, en exode sur la route

Where There's Smoke
Movie

The Egg
Movie · as Dufiquet employee

Fusil chargé
Movie

The Pebbles of Etratat
Movie · as Mechanic

La Tuile à loups
Movie · as Muratel

Requiem for a Vampire
Movie · as Man with the Bike

A Murder Is a Murder
Movie · as L'employe de Kastner

Le Cinema de Papa
Movie · as Un acteur

Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
Movie · as Le contremaître

Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
TV · as L'officier Anglais · 1 ep

The Nude Vampire
Movie · as Butler

Dougal and the Blue Cat
Movie · as Le Chat bleu / Flappy (voice)

Alice au pays des merveilles
Movie · as Five of spades

Only the Cool
Movie

L'Homme du Picardie
TV · as Pucheu, Peucheu · 1 ep

Action Man
Movie · as Bartender (uncredited)

The Boss of Champignol
Movie

L’Or et le plomb
Movie · as Usher's clerk

The Ferryman's House
Movie

The Big Swag
Movie · as Metro machinist (uncredited)

Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Movie

Les Hommes
Movie · as Cyclist

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Movie · as Prince's advisor (uncredited)

Cherchez l'idole
Movie · as Tailor's assistant

The Bamboo Stroke
Movie

Sign of the Lion
Movie · as Willy
The Fruit Is Ripe
Movie

Paris Belongs to Us
Movie · as Paul

The Old Guard
Movie · as Jojo, Mariette's fiancé

The Delinquents
Movie · as Painter

Lovers on a Tightrope
Movie · as Mechanic

The Wretches
Movie

The Cousins
Movie · as Marc

Night Dance Hall
Movie

Witness in the City
Movie · as Taxi driver

La P..... sentimentale
Movie · as Chauffeur

Le souffle du désir
Movie

Provisional Liberty
Movie · as Riri

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
TV · as Roger La Soutarde · 1 ep

Sunday Buddies
Movie · as Lucien dit: "Lulu", un collègue de l'usine

The Seventh Commandment
Movie · as Hunter

Forgive Our Trespasses
Movie · as 'Coquillage'

Les Lumières du soir
Movie · as Friend of Catherine at the restaurant

Les Hommes en blanc
Movie · as Un interne

Before the Deluge
Movie · as Jean-Jacques Noblet

Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Movie · as Tenant on the sixth floor, under the roof (uncredited)

Quai des blondes
Movie · as le chasseur de l'hôtel

The Turkey
Movie · as Victor, le groom

Under the Paris Sky
Movie · as (uncredited)

Love and Desire
Movie

The Beautiful Image
Movie · as (uncredited)

Clara de Montargis
Movie

The High Life
Movie

Paris Incident
Movie · as Young postman

Beware of Blondes
Movie · as (uncredited)