Alain Mottet
Actor
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.
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Filmography
The Fire Within
as Urcel 1963
Inspector Blunder
as Dumeze, police director 1980
My New Partner II
as Le préfet 1990
The Pariah
as 'Ficelle', henchman of Villanova 1972
Last Known Address
as Frank Lambert, Leonetti's colleague and friend 1970
The Good and the Bad
as le commissaire Blanchot 1976
Ho !
as Paul 1968
Venus and Lulu
as Marceau le comédien 1991
One Way Ticket
as Nitesse 1971
Un dimanche de flics
as Director 1983
The Black Indies
as James Starr 1964
Question of Love
as L'avocat général 1978
The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
as Marc Ovet 1977
Mata Hari, la vraie histoire
as Me Clunet 2003
Aram
as Miran Sarkissian 2002
L'appel du 18 juin
as Maréchal Pétain 2010