Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderFemale
- Birthday1891-04-17
- Day of Death1974-03-28 (82 years)
- Place of BirthParis, France
- Also Known AsFrancoise RosayFrançoise Bandy de NalècheFrances Rosay
Françoise Rosay
Biography
Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) 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. Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an...Read More
Acting Career
- 1973
The Pedestrian
As: Frau Dechamps
- 1972
Not Dumb, the Bird
As: Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
- 1972
3000 Million Without an Elevator
As: Madame Dubreuil
- 1969
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
As: Louise de Kerfuntel
- 1968
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
As: Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
- 1967
The 25th Hour
As: Mme Nagy (uncredited)
- 1966
L'Âge heureux
As: Mme Aubry
- 1965
Cloportes
As: Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu
1965Up from the Beach
As: Lili's Grandmother
1964Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
As: Borgia
- 1961
The Counterfeiters of Paris
As: Madame Pauline
1960The Full Treatment
As: Madame Prade
1960Stefanie in Rio
As: Leonora Guala
1960Lovers Woods
As: Madame Parisot
1959Without Trumpet or Drum
As: La grand-mère de Marguerite
1959Eyes of Love
As: Mrs. Montcatel mother
1959Riff Raff Girls
As: Berthe
1959The Sound and the Fury
As: Caroline Compson
1958The Gambler
As: Aunt Antonia
1958Me and the Colonel
As: Madame Bouffier
1957Non sono più guaglione
As: Vincenzino's mother
1957Interlude
As: Comtesse Reinhart
1957The Seventh Sin
As: Mother Superior
1955Girls of Today
As: padrona della pensione
1955That Lady
As: Bernardine
1954Queen Margot
As: Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
1953Sul ponte dei sospiri
As: Lady of Sant'Agata
1952He Who Is Without Sin...
As: La contessa Lamieri
1952Wanda the Sinner
As: Anna Steiner
1952Smuggler's Ball
As: Gabrielle Demeuse
1952The Seven Deadly Sins
As: Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
1951Nobody's Children
As: La contessa Canali
- 1951
The Red Inn
As: Marie Martin
1951K – Das Haus des Schweigens
As: Noemi, die Amme
1951The 13th Letter
As: Mrs. Gauthier
1950The Naked Heart
As: Laura Chapdelaine
1950September Affair
As: Maria Salvatini
1950One Only Loves Once
As: Mme Monnier
1950Women Without Names
As: The Countess
1949The Barton Mystery
As: Élisabeth
1949Les vagabonds du rêve
As: Mireille Dombreval
1948Quartet
As: Lea Makart
1948Saraband for Dead Lovers
As: The Electress Sophia
1947La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
As: Countess Brévannes
1946Back Streets of Paris
As: Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel
1945Johnny Frenchman
As: Lanec Florrie
1944The Halfway House
As: Alice Meadows
1944Portrait of a Woman
As: Fanny Helder
1940They Were Twelve Women
As: La duchesse de Vimeuse
1939Serge Panine
As: Madame Devarenne
1938Fahrendes Volk
As: Madame Flora
1938The Chess Player
As: Catherine II
1938Peace on the Rhine
As: Francoise Scheffer
1938The Stream
As: Régina Berry
1938People Who Travel
As: Flora
1938Ramuntcho
As: Dolorès Detcharry
- 1937
Bizarre, Bizarre
As: Margaret Molyneux
1937Life Dances On
As: Marguerite Audié
1937The Robber Symphony
As: The fortune teller
1937Armchair 47
As: Gilberte Boulanger
1936Jenny
As: Jenny Gauthier
1936The Secret of Polichinelle
As: Mrs. Jouvenel
1936Carnival in Flanders
As: Cornelia
1935Carnival in Flanders
As: Madame Burgomaster
1935Marie des angoisses
As: Mme de Quersac
1935Whirlpool
As: Madame Gardane
1935Pension Mimosas
As: Louise Noblet
1935Marchand d'amour
As: Clara
1934Die Insel
As: Silvia
1934Vers l'abîme
As: Sylvia
1934The Great Game
As: Blanche
1933Abbot Constantine
As: La comtesse de Laverdens
1933All for Nothing
As: Mrs. Bossu
1933La Pouponnière
As: Mrs. Delannoy
1932The Woman Dressed As a Man
As: Princess Marie
1932He
As: Madame Husson
1931The Trial of Mary Dugan
As: The widow
1931Casanova wider Willen
As: Blanche Brissac
1931Jenny Lind
As: Rosatti
1931The Magnificent Lie
As: Rosa Duchêne
1931The Little Cafe
As: Mademoiselle Edwige
1930Si l'empereur savait ça
As: Princess Plata d'Ettingen
1929The One Woman Idea
As: Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
1928Two Timid Souls
As: The aunt
1927Le bateau de verre
As: Madame d'Arcy, his wife
1926Gribiche
As: Edith Maranet
1922Crainquebille
As: Shoe Store Customer