Gérard Watkins

Gérard Watkins

Gérard Watkins is an English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter. As a stage actor he has performed in over forty productions in Paris with such directors as Véronique Bellegarde, Julie Beres, Jean-Claude Buchard, Elizabeth Chailloux, Michel Didym, André Engel, Frederic Fisbach, Marc François, Daniel Jeanneteau, Philipe Lanton, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Lars Noren, Claude Régy, Yann Ritsema, Bernard Sobel, Viviane Theophilides, and Jean-Pierre Vincent. Among his critically acclaimed performances are Ian in Sarah Kane's Blasted, Edmond in King Lear, and Rosalind in As you Like it. In the Cinema he is perhaps best known for his role in the 2009 film Taken as Patrice Saint Clair, the sex trafficking kingpin that runs the operation that kidnapped the protagonist's 17-year old daughter, but he has also performed with directors as Julie Lopez Curval, Jérome Salle, Yann Samuel, Julian Schnabel, Hugo Santiago, and Peter Watkins. Since 1994 he has directed his own theatre company, the Perdita Ensemble, where he has staged all of his plays, the Secret Capital, Follow Me, The Tower, In the Faraway Forest, Icone, Identity, Lost, and I Don't Remember Very Well.

  • Title: Gérard Watkins
  • Popularity: 0.84
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1965-07-04
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
  • Homepage: https://www.aartis.fr/artiste.cfm/26039_115_2-G%C3%A9rard_Watkins.html
  • Also Known As: Gerard Watkins, Gerald Watkins
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Gérard Watkins Movies

  • 2007
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    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    7.569 2007 HD

    The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except...

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  • 2008
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    Taken

    Taken

    7.394 2008 HD

    While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced...

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  • 2021
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    The Accusation

    The Accusation

    7.084 2021 HD

    The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a...

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  • 2023
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    Amarres

    Amarres

    1 2023 HD

    This summer, Livia returns to spend a few days in the family apiary. Louis, her elusive and brilliant brother, is also back.

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  • 2013
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    Silences d'état

    Silences d'état

    5.5 2013 HD

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  • 2022
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    Our Brothers

    Our Brothers

    6.554 2022 HD

    Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have caused the death of 22-year-old Malik Oussekine on...

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  • 2003
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    Love Me If You Dare

    Love Me If You Dare

    7.2 2003 HD

    As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring...

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  • 2014
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    The Ponzi Scheme

    The Ponzi Scheme

    7.8 2014 HD

    Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large...

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  • 2014
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    Colt 45

    Colt 45

    5.664 2014 HD

    Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field...

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  • 1970
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    Les Immortelles

    Les Immortelles

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2009
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    Hidden Diary

    Hidden Diary

    5.9 2009 HD

    In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small...

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  • 1986
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    On a volé Charlie Spencer !

    On a volé Charlie Spencer !

    2 1986 HD

    Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by...

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  • 2008
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    The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

    The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

    6.088 2008 HD

    After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from...

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  • 1987
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    Public Security

    Public Security

    1 1987 HD

    Tempted by an important contract, Anna, a renowned writer, agrees to write a screenplay. But she lacks inspiration. She talks to her old university...

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  • 2016
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    The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    6.7 2016 HD

    The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves...

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  • 2015
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    Le monde qui nous perd

    Le monde qui nous perd

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2012
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    Solitudes

    Solitudes

    1 2012 HD

    One night, an interpreter translates a Romanian prostitute's testimony.

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  • 2010
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    Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)

    Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)

    10 2010 HD

    Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic.

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  • 2009
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    Going South

    Going South

    5.8 2009 HD

    In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in...

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  • 2009
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    The Invisible Woman

    The Invisible Woman

    4.1 2009 HD

    Once assuming people ignored her because they weren't interested, Lili begins to suspect that she might be literally invisible.

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  • 2008
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    The Feelings Factory

    The Feelings Factory

    4.9 2008 HD

    A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can...

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  • 2007
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    Le Roi Lear

    Le Roi Lear

    1 2007 HD

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  • 2006
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    Je me fais rare

    Je me fais rare

    1 2006 HD

    Daniel, a filmmaker is convinced that cinema is dying as an art form, and thinks he is a new Don Quichotte.

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  • 2004
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    The Returned

    The Returned

    5.5 2004 HD

    The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate...

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  • 2002
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    The Wolf of the West Coast

    The Wolf of the West Coast

    4.4 2002 HD

    James Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his bodyguard. When Millar arrives at the criminal's French...

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  • 2003
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    La Commune (Paris, 1871)

    La Commune (Paris, 1871)

    7.621 2003 HD

    We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set...

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  • 1992
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    Les Danseurs du Mozambique

    Les Danseurs du Mozambique

    1 1992 HD

    A novelist finds herself in an auction where two statuettes are up for sale: "The Mozambique Dancers". According to the legend, the one who owns both...

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  • 1992
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    Near Mrs.

    Near Mrs.

    5.5 1992 HD

    A philandering executive tries to juggle two wives and a mistress, and finds himself suddenly being shadowed by some angry Russian holdouts from the...

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  • 1988
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    New York 1935

    New York 1935

    1 1988 HD

    Maria is twelve, plump and clumsy. Her sister Jackie is the exact opposite and it is her 18th birthday. How can Maria attract attention when her...

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  • 1987
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    Travelling avant

    Travelling avant

    4.2 1987 HD

    Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators. They discover the cinema as art, they are...

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  • 2018
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    Normandy Nude

    Normandy Nude

    5.6 2018 HD

    At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let...

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  • 1983
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    The Hitchhiker

    The Hitchhiker

    6.1 1983 HD

    A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody...

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  • 2022
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    7.8 2022 HD

    Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French...

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  • 1988
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    Hemingway

    Hemingway

    1 1988 HD

    Ernest Hemingway attained celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Some of his novels are among the greatest bestsellers of American literature. His life...

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  • 1985
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    EastEnders

    EastEnders

    4.1 1985 HD

    The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End...

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  • 1989
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    Bordertown

    Bordertown

    7.2 1989 HD

    Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed...

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  • 2010
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    Les Châtaigniers du désert

    Les Châtaigniers du désert

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2005
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    Venus & Apollo

    Venus & Apollo

    1 2005 HD

    The Venus Beauty Institute is opening up once more for our very great pleasure and well-being. New management, new staff and new clients. Also Venus...

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  • 2002
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    Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme

    Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme

    4.9 2002 HD

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  • 1987
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    Floodtide

    Floodtide

    1 1987 HD

    Floodtide is a British television crime drama was produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on ITV from 14 June 1987 to 12 February 1988. The...

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  • 2000
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    La Commune (Paris, 1871)

    La Commune (Paris, 1871)

    1 2000 HD

    In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and...

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  • 2024
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    Citoyens clandestins

    Citoyens clandestins

    7.9 2024 HD

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