
Alain Mottet
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 30, 1928
- Died
- October 31, 2017 (aged 88)
- Birthplace
- Lyon, Rhône, France
Biography
Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France – 31 October 2017 in Paris, France) was a French actor. Alain Mottet appeared in dozens of films, often in secondary roles. He appeared in three films with José Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in L'Affaire de la malle à Gouffé. In 1969, in L'Armée des ombres, he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned. For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series Vidocq in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker including on several episodes of Au théâtre ce soir. One of his most notable TV roles was as Shazénian in the fairytale Shéhérazade, shown at the end of 1971: on a flying horse, he walks with Claude Jade into the night sky. In parallel to his screen career, he also continued to work on stage, most notably in plays by Jean Le Poulain, Roger Planchon, André Barsacq and Georges Wilson. He was part of the cast of the Comédie-Française from 1986 to 1988. Married to Françoise Hirsch (1930-2017), until his death on 31 October 2017, he is the father of Christine Mottet and actor and musician Pierre Mottet. Source: Article "Alain Mottet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography

L'armée des ombres... le dessous des cartes
Movie · as Self

L'appel du 18 juin
Movie · as Maréchal Pétain

Mata Hari, la vraie histoire
Movie · as Me Clunet

Aram
Movie · as Miran Sarkissian

François Kléber
TV · as Le directeur de la police · 1 ep

Venus and Lulu
Movie · as Marceau le comédien

My New Partner II
Movie · as Le préfet

Le Grand Secret
TV · as Hamblain · 6 eps

Un dimanche de flics
Movie · as Director

Inspector Blunder
Movie · as Dumeze, le directeur de la police

Le Curé de Tours
Movie · as M. de Bourbonne

Question of Love
Movie · as L'avocat général

Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
Movie · as Simon Jaumier
Murder on Demand
Movie · as Jacques Lacarène

The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Movie · as Marc Ovet

The Good and the Bad
Movie · as le commissaire Blanchot

Domino
Movie · as Héller

Midi Première
TV · as Self · 1 ep

La Mort d'un touriste
TV · as L'inspecteur L'Héritier · 6 eps

La main enchantée
Movie · as Maître Chevassut

Madame Sans-Gêne
Movie · as Fouché

Le dialogue dans le marécage
Movie · as Sire Laurent

Héloïse and Abélard
Movie · as Besnard de Clairvaux

Témoigagnes : Un monstre
Movie · as L'avocat

The Pariah
Movie · as 'Ficelle', henchman of Villanova

Les Misérables
TV · as Thénardier · 2 eps

La Mort d'un champion
TV · 2 eps

Shéhérazade
Movie · as Shazénian

One Way Ticket
Movie · as Nitesse

Last Known Address
Movie · as Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend
La Mort de Danton
Movie · as Maximilien-Marie-Isidore De Robespierre

La mort de Danton
Movie · as Maximilien Robespierre

Army of Shadows
Movie · as Le Commandant du Camp

Ho !
Movie · as Paul

L'Affaire Lourdes
Movie · as Jacomet

Vidocq
TV · as Inspecteur Flambart · 13 eps

Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre
TV · as Delma · 1 ep

The Black Indies
Movie · as James Starr

The Fire Within
Movie · as Urcel

Climates of Love
Movie