Andrée Tainsy

Andrée Tainsy

Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (26 April 1911 – 19 December 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death. She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium. Andrée Tainsy attended Brussels' Conservatory, where she trained to become a theater performer in the early 1930s. She moved to Paris and made her debut with the Georges Pitoëff theatrical company in Les Voyageurs Sans Bagage (1937). Her film debut was ready in 1939 however, as World War II started, she fled to South America, where she reconnected with other artists who had also left. Her first experience in front of was in Chile a movie camera and in 1945 her movie career began starring in Jacques Remy's Le Moulin des Andes (Released in Chile as La Fruta Mordida). Upon her return to France, after the end of the war, she resumed her theatrical activity with Les Amants de Noël and Joyeux Chagrins, both in 1948. Tainsy's career as an actress and comedian went on until the very end of her life. She worked until the day of her death. She appeared in a small role in Arnaud Desplechin's Rois et Reine on 22 December 2004, just three days after she died. Her cinema endeavors comprised works with several directors like Bertrand Tavernier, Woody Allen, Claude Chabrol, François Ozon and Arnaud Desplechin. On 19 December 2004, after attending a presentation of a play by Pierre Desproges, she suffered a heart attack at her Parisian apartment. She was buried at Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Source: Article "Andrée Tainsy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Andrée Tainsy
  • Popularity: 2.174
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1911-04-26
  • Place of Birth: Etterbeek, Belgium
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Andrée Tainsy Movies

  • 1985
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    Cop au Vin

    Cop au Vin

    6.2 1985 HD

    Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

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  • 2000
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    Under the Sand

    Under the Sand

    6.7 2000 HD

    When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

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  • 1967
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    Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

    1 1967 HD

    Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control...

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  • 1949
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    The Sinners

    The Sinners

    6.1 1949 HD

    Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.

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  • 2004
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    Kings and Queen

    Kings and Queen

    7.112 2004 HD

    Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her...

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  • 1978
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    Adieu voyages lents

    Adieu voyages lents

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1972
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    Man with the Transplanted Brain

    Man with the Transplanted Brain

    6 1972 HD

    Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery....

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  • 1956
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    Mannequins of Paris

    Mannequins of Paris

    1 1956 HD

    Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside...

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  • 2004
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    Red Sunset

    Red Sunset

    5 2004 HD

    Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to...

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  • 1951
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    My Wife Is Formidable

    My Wife Is Formidable

    4.7 1951 HD

    Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not...

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  • 1950
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    No More Vacation for the Good Lord

    No More Vacation for the Good Lord

    1 1950 HD

    Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang...

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  • 1950
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    Julie de Carneilhan

    Julie de Carneilhan

    1 1950 HD

    A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

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  • 1949
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    Fantomas Against Fantomas

    Fantomas Against Fantomas

    6.9 1949 HD

    Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his...

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  • 1965
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    How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

    How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

    5.6 1965 HD

    The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The...

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  • 1985
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    Simone

    Simone

    0.8 1985 HD

    The love affair involving the beautiful Simone and the younger Françoise, coming from a frustrated suicide attempt.

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  • 1952
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    Matrimonial Agency

    Matrimonial Agency

    5.1 1952 HD

    Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

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  • 1952
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    Holiday for Henrietta

    Holiday for Henrietta

    7 1952 HD

    Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome...

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  • 1979
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    Twice a Woman

    Twice a Woman

    4.125 1979 HD

    When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a...

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  • 1971
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    Too Small My Friend

    Too Small My Friend

    6 1971 HD

    Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.

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  • 1972
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    Le sagouin

    Le sagouin

    1 1972 HD

    In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a...

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  • 1982
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    Captive City

    Captive City

    5.8 1982 HD

    After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.

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  • 1971
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    The Strangler

    The Strangler

    6.1 1971 HD

    Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector...

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  • 1977
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    Solemn Communion

    Solemn Communion

    4.5 1977 HD

    In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families...

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  • 1996
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    Love, etc.

    Love, etc.

    5.6 1996 HD

    A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as...

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  • 1971
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    Le Prussien

    Le Prussien

    1 1971 HD

    A German prisoner of wars stays in France after the armistice with the woman he loves.

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  • 1962
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    Assassin's Check

    Assassin's Check

    1 1962 HD

    In this French murder mystery, a young journalist goes from a bad situation to much worse. He has been having problems in his relationship with his...

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  • 1980
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    Mathieu Gaston peluche

    Mathieu Gaston peluche

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1956
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    Les Lumières du soir

    Les Lumières du soir

    1 1956 HD

    A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.

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  • 1990
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    Bouvard et Pécuchet

    Bouvard et Pécuchet

    4.2 1990 HD

    Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.

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  • 1972
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    Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

    Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

    6.1 1972 HD

    Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two...

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  • 1957
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    Demoniac

    Demoniac

    6 1957 HD

    Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been...

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  • 1975
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    Love and Death

    Love and Death

    7.5 1975 HD

    In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

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  • 1966
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    The Mad Dog

    The Mad Dog

    2.5 1966 HD

    Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les...

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  • 1969
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    Z

    Z

    7.8 1969 HD

    Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor finds evidence of a cover-up, witnesses...

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  • 1972
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    Handsome Face

    Handsome Face

    1 1972 HD

    Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a...

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  • 2000
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    Code Unknown

    Code Unknown

    6.693 2000 HD

    A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris,...

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  • 1974
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    Le tour d'écrou

    Le tour d'écrou

    7 1974 HD

    A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted,...

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  • 1964
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    Diary of a Chambermaid

    Diary of a Chambermaid

    7.104 1964 HD

    Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job...

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  • 1954
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    Stain on the Snow

    Stain on the Snow

    5.4 1954 HD

    La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute,...

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  • 1964
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    Fantomas

    Fantomas

    6.8 1964 HD

    Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless...

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  • 1974
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    The Watchmaker of St. Paul

    The Watchmaker of St. Paul

    6.9 1974 HD

    Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard...

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  • 1958
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    End of Desire

    End of Desire

    5.4 1958 HD

    Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know...

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  • 1949
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    Mission in Tangier

    Mission in Tangier

    5.7 1949 HD

    During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.

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  • 1959
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    Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

    Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

    6.9 1959 HD

    Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has...

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  • 1966
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    The Devil's Tricks

    The Devil's Tricks

    5.5 1966 HD

    Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and...

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  • 1973
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    A Slightly Pregnant Man

    A Slightly Pregnant Man

    5.6 1973 HD

    Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the...

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  • 1977
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    A. Constant

    A. Constant

    1 1977 HD

    Two sisters, Camille and Madeleine, make up the story of a woman: Alice Constant, the servant of their grandfather who committed suicide at the age...

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  • 1996
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    The Phantom Heart

    The Phantom Heart

    5.9 1996 HD

    Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking...

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  • 1977
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    Spoiled Children

    Spoiled Children

    6.3 1977 HD

    Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script...

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  • 1975
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    Let Joy Reign Supreme

    Let Joy Reign Supreme

    6.267 1975 HD

    A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

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  • 1970
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    Les Cousins de la Constance

    Les Cousins de la Constance

    8 1970 HD

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  • 1959
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    Discorama

    Discorama

    1 1959 HD

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