Maurice Teynac

French actor (8 August 1915 – 28 March 1992)

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Maurice Teynac (1915–1992) was a French actor. In 1948 he starred in the film The Lame Devil under Sacha Guitry.

In 1954 he appeared in London's West End in J.B. Priestley's poorly reviewed play The White Countess.

Selected filmography

Romance of Paris (1941)- Maurice
The Pavilion Burns (1941)
Opéra-musette [fr] (1942) - Leroy
Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (1942) - Marmont
My Last Mistress (1943) - L'imitateur
Song of the Clouds (1946)
Counter Investigation (1947) - Serge de Souquières
Criminal Brigade (1947) - Fred
La Fleur de l'âge (1947)
Le Comédien (1948) - L'auteur dramatique
Woman Without a Past (1948) - Chimerowitz
Night Express (1948) - Georges Sommer
The Lame Devil (1948) - Charles X
Fantomas Against Fantomas (1949) - Fantômas
The Barton Mystery (1949) - Barton
On demande un assassin [fr] (1949) - Freville
Mystery in Shanghai (1950) - Inspecteur Wens
Les mousquetaires du roi (1951)
The Red Rose (1951) - Jean Maréchal - le cinéaste
Night Without Stars (1951) - Louis Malinay
Au fil des ondes [fr] (1951)
La Poison (1951) - Un avocat (uncredited)
Massacre in Lace (1952) - Sophocle Zélos
Full House (1952) - Heldinge (segment "Le mort dans l'ascenseur")
The Road to Damascus (1952) - Le Christ
Illusion in a Minor Key (1952) - Night Club Singer Herr Gidou
My Childish Father (1953) - Lucien Landier
Cinema d'altri tempi (1953) - Za l'Amour
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954) - Monsieur de Montespan (uncredited)
The Beautiful Otero (1954) - Mountfeller
La Soupe à la grimace [fr] (1954) - Dr. Curtiss
Napoléon (1955) - Le comte Emmanuel de Las Cases
Bedevilled (1955) - Trevelle
The Affair of the Poisons (1955) - Nicolas de la Reynie
Les insoumises (1956) - René Perrault
Zaza (1956) - Bernard Dufresnes
The Seventh Commandment (1957) - Labaroche
Love in Jamaica (1957)
The Suspects (1957) - Kurt Topfer
The Mysteries of Paris (1957)
Paris Holiday (1958) - Doctor Bernais
Sans famille (1958) - James Milligan
Monsieur Suzuki [fr] (1960) - Le virtuose
Crack in the Mirror (1960) - Doctor
Austerlitz (1960) - Schulmeister
La Mort de Belle (1961) - L'ivrogne / Stephane's Friend
Captain Fracasse (1961) - Marquis des Bruyères
L'assassin est dans l'annuaire [fr] (1962) - Levasseur
Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (1962) - Father Superior (segment "Homicide point ne seras")
The Gypsy Baron (1962) - Carnero
The Merry Widow (1962) - André Napoleon Renard
The Trial (1962) - Deputy Manager
Une blonde comme ça (1963)
The Reluctant Spy (1963) - Alfred Thirios
L'honorable Stanislas, agent secret (1963) - Alfred Thirios
In the French Style (1963)^[1] - Baron Edward de Chassier
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (1964) - M. Bordure
Sursis pour un espion [fr] (1965) - L'inspecteur Legris
The Uninhibited (1965) - Reginald
The Night of the Generals (1967) - A General (uncredited)
Trois filles vers le soleil [fr] (1968) - Le patron
Therese and Isabelle (1968) - Monsieur Martin
La Louve solitaire [fr] (1968) - Stanmore
Mayerling (1968) - Moritz Szeps
Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer [de] (1968, TV miniseries) - Mr. Dobbins, Teacher
State of Siege (1972) - Minister of Internal Security
The Day of the Jackal (1973) - Bastien-Thiry's Lawyer
Ash Wednesday (1973) - Doctor Lambert
Le Chaud Lapin [fr] (1974) - Un comédien dans 'Protée'
Special Section (1975) - Le substitut général Lucien Guillet
L'Année sainte (1976) - Marcel Scandini
Birgitt Haas Must Be Killed (1981) - Chamrode
L'ami de Vincent [fr] (1983) - Spencer
Camille (1984) (TV film) - Joseph