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Françoise Rosay was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career.
Birth Name
Françoise Bandy de Nalèche
Born
Sunday, 19 April 1891
Died
Thursday, 28 March 1974
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné | Self | 2021 |
| Duels | Self - Friend of Greta Garbo | 2014 |
| Cinéphiles de notre temps | Self | 2012 |
| The Pedestrian | Frau Dechamps | 1973 |
| Not Dumb, the Bird | Mme Morelli-Johnson | 1972 |
| 3000 Million Without an Elevator | Madame Dubreuil | 1972 |
| Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille | Louise de Kerfuntel | 1969 |
| Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese | Leontine / Léontine | 1968 |
| The 25th Hour | Madame Nagy / Mme Nagy | 1967 |
| L'Âge heureux | Mme Aubry | 1966 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné | Self | 2021 |
| Duels | Self - Friend of Greta Garbo | 2014 |
| Cinéphiles de notre temps | Self | 2012 |
| The Pedestrian | Frau Dechamps | 1973 |
| Not Dumb, the Bird | Mme Morelli-Johnson | 1972 |
| 3000 Million Without an Elevator | Madame Dubreuil | 1972 |
| Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille | Louise de Kerfuntel | 1969 |
| Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese | Leontine / Léontine | 1968 |
| The 25th Hour | Madame Nagy / Mme Nagy | 1967 |
| L'Âge heureux | Mme Aubry | 1966 |
| Cloportes | Gertrude / Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu | 1965 |
| Up from the Beach | Lili's Grandmother | 1965 |
| Full Hearts and Empty Pockets | Borgia | 1964 |
| Frau Cheneys Ende | Frau Ebley / Mrs. Webley | 1962 |
| The Longest Day | Undetermined Role (French Version) | 1962 |
| The Counterfeiters of Paris | Madame Pauline | 1961 |
| Pariser Journal | Self | 1961 |
| Le théâtre de la jeunesse | Catherine / Mrs. Clennam | 1960 |
| Stop Me Before I Kill! | Madame Prade | 1960 |
| Stephanie in Rio | Mutter Leonora Guala / Leonora Guala | 1960 |
| Le bois des amants | Mme Parisot / Madame Parisot | 1960 |
| Without Trumpet or Drum | La grand-mère de Marguerite / Marguerites Großmutter | 1959 |
| Eyes of Love | Mme Moncatel | 1959 |
| Riff Raff Girls | Berthe | 1959 |
| The Sound and the Fury | Mrs. Caroline Compson / Caroline Compson | 1959 |
| Le joueur | La tante Antonia | 1958 |
| Me and the Colonel | Madame Bouffier | 1958 |
| Non sono più Guaglione | Donna Assunta - Vincenzino's mother / Vincenzino's mother | 1957 |
| Interlude | Comtesse Reinhart / Countess Reinhart | 1957 |
| The Seventh Sin | Mother Superior | 1957 |
| Diary of a Bad Girl | Madame Delahaye | 1956 |
| Girls of Today | La 'Signora' | 1955 |
| Navy Log | Mama Germaine | 1955 |
| That Lady | Bernardine | 1955 |
| Chi è senza peccato.... | La contessa Lamieri | 1952 |
| Wanda the Sinner | Anna Steiner | 1952 |
| Le banquet des fraudeurs | Gabrielle Demeuse | 1952 |
| Nobody's Children | La contessa Canali | 1951 |
| The Red Inn | Marie Martin | 1951 |
| K - Das Haus des Schweigens | Noemi, die Amme | 1951 |
| The 13th Letter | Mrs. Gauthier | 1951 |
| The Naked Heart | Laura Chapdelaine | 1950 |
| September Affair | Maria Salvatini | 1950 |
| One Only Loves Once | Mme Monnier | 1950 |
| Women Without Names | The Countess | 1950 |
| Le mystère Barton | Élisabeth | 1949 |
| Les vagabonds du rêve | Mireille Dombreval | 1949 |
| Quartet | Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn") / Lea Makart | 1948 |
| Saraband | The Electress Sophia | 1948 |
| La Dame de Haut-le-Bois | La comtesse Brévannes / Countess Brévannes | 1947 |
| Back Streets of Paris | Mme. Rose / Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel | 1946 |
| Johnny Frenchman | Lanec Florrie | 1945 |
| The Halfway House | Alice Meadows | 1944 |
| Portrait of a Woman | Fanny Helder / Tona / Rose Delvé / Flora Caretti | 1942 |
| They Were Twelve Women | La duchesse de Vimeuse | 1940 |
| Serge Panine | Madame Devarenne | 1939 |
| The Devil Is an Empress | Catherine II | 1938 |
| Paix sur le Rhin | Françoise Schaefer / Francoise Scheffer | 1938 |
| The Stream | Régina Berry / Régina Berri | 1938 |
| Fahrendes Volk | Madame Flora | 1938 |
| People Who Travel | Flora | 1938 |
| Ramuntcho | Dolorès Detcharry | 1938 |
| Bizarre, Bizarre | Margaret Molyneux | 1937 |
| Le fauteuil 47 | Gilberte Boulanger | 1937 |
| Life Dances On | Marguerite Audié | 1937 |
| My Son the Minister | Sylvie - seine Mutter | 1937 |
| The Robber Symphony | La diseuse de bonne aventure | 1937 |
| Jenny | Jenny Gauthier | 1936 |
| Die letzten Vier von Santa Cruz | Nadja Danouw | 1936 |
| The Secret of Polichinelle | Mme Jouvenel / Mrs. Jouvenel | 1936 |
| Die klugen Frauen | Cornelia / Die Bürgermeisterin | 1936 |
| Carnival in Flanders | Madame Burgomaster / Cornelia de Witte, Madame la Bourgmestre | 1935 |
| Marie des angoisses | Mme de Quersac | 1935 |
| Marchand d'amour | Clara | 1935 |
| Gangster malgré lui | 1935 | |
| Whirlpool | Madame Gardane | 1935 |
| Pension Mimosas | Louise Noblet | 1935 |
| Le billet de mille | La comtesse russe / The Russian Countess | 1935 |
| Die Insel | Silvia | 1934 |
| Vers l'abîme | Sylvia | 1934 |
| Coralie and Company | 1934 | |
| Le grand jeu | Blanche | 1934 |
| He | Madame Husson | 1933 |
| L'abbé Constantin | La comtesse de Laverdens | 1933 |
| Tout pour rien | Mme Bossu / Mrs. Bossu | 1933 |
| La pouponnière | Mme Delannoy / Mrs. Delannoy | 1933 |
| The Woman Dressed As a Man | Princesse Marie / Princess Marie | 1932 |
| Father Unawares | Madame Jacquet | 1932 |
| Buster se marie | Angélique | 1931 |
| Le procès de Mary Dugan | La veuve / The widow | 1931 |
| The Magnificent Lie | Rosa Duchêne | 1931 |
| Soyons gais | Madame Boucijon | 1931 |
| Le petit café | Mademoiselle Edwige | 1931 |
| Si l'empereur savait ça | Princess Plata d'Ettingen (the general's wife) | 1930 |
| The One Woman Idea | Zuleide - Alizar's Mother | 1929 |
| Two Timid Souls | The aunt | 1928 |
| Madame Récamier | Madame de Staël | 1928 |
| Le bateau de verre | Frau d'Arcy, seine Gattin / Madame d'Arcy, his wife | 1927 |
| Mother of Mine | Edith Maranet / Madame Maranet | 1926 |
| Crainquebille | 1922 | |
| Têtes de femmes, femmes de tête | A Guest | 1916 |
| Les vampires | Une invitée chez Mortesaigues | 1915 |
