Cast & creator
Serge Reggiani
Best known for Sacrée soirée, Vivement dimanche, Champs-Elysées
Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight. For many years, he struggled with alcoholism, caused in part by the 1980 suicide of his son Stephan. After acting school (Conservatoire des arts cinématographiques) he was discovered by Jean Cocteau and appeared in a wartime production of Les Parents terribles ("The Terrible Parents"). During World War II, he left Paris to join the French resistance. His first feature film came in 1946 with his role in Les portes de la nuit ("The Doors of the Night"). He later went on to perform in 80 films including Casque d'or, Les Misérables (1958),Tutti a casa, Le Doulos, Il Gattopardo, La terrazza, The Pianist (1998). In spite of never quite reaching the peak with his acting career, he did triumph in the theatre in 1959 with his performance in Jean-Paul Sartre’s play Les Séquestrés d'Altona. In the meantime, though, in 1965 he began a second career, that of a singer (at the age of 43), with the help of Simone Signoret and her husband Yves Montand and later with great assistance of the French diva Barbara. Reggiani became one of the most acclaimed performers of French "Chanson" ("song") and although he was in his 40s, his bad-boy rugged image made him popular with both young and older listeners. His best known songs include Les loups sont entrés dans Paris ("The Wolves Have Entered Paris") and Sarah (La femme qui est dans mon lit) ("The Woman Who Is In My Bed"), the latter written by Georges Moustaki. However, one of his regular songwriters throughout his career was Boris Vian (Le Déserteur, Arthur où t'as mis le corps, La Java des bombes atomiques). His new young fans identified with his left-wing ideals and antimilitarism, most notably during the 1968 student revolts in France. With age he became more and more acclaimed as one of the best interpreters of the French chanson also bringing the poetry of Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Prévert closer to his audience. In 1995, he made a comeback to the singing stage, giving a few concerts despite his deteriorated health and personal distress, the last one being held as late as in the year of his death, in spring of 2004. In later life he became a painter and gave a number of exhibitions of his artwork. Serge Reggiani died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 82, one day after the death of another well known French singer Sacha Distel. He is interred in Montparnasse Cemetery.
88
film credits
20
television credits
108
1938–2022 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (108)
Showing 108 of 108 credits
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Vivement dimanche
Self
1998
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Le monde est à vous
Self
1987
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972
Midi trente
Self
1972
Numéro un
Self
1975Numéro un
Self - Host
1975Samedi soir
Self
1971
Discorama
Self
1959
La Chance aux chansons
Self
1984
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Victoires de la musique
Self
1985
30 millions d'amis
Self
1976
Ciné regards
Self
1978
À bout portant
Self
1968Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
Sgt. Jean Renaud
1957
The Leopard
Ciccio Tumeo
1963
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Serge Reggiani
1985
Army of Shadows
Le barbier
1969
Paris Blues
Michel 'Gypsy' Devigne
1961
Mauvais Sang
Charlie
1986
Napoleon
Lucien Bonaparte
1955
The Beekeeper
Sick Man
1986
The 25th Hour
Trajan Koruga
1967
Les Misérables
Enjolras
1958
Marie-Octobre
Antoine Rougier
1959
The Day of the Owl
Parrinieddu
1968
Casque d'Or
Georges
1952
Le Doulos
Maurice Faugel
1962
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Marcel (archive footage)
2009
I Hired a Contract Killer
Vic
1990
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Paul, écrivain, journaliste
1974
The Lovers of Verona
Angelo (Romeo)
1949
The Wicked Go to Hell
Rudel
1955
Élisa
Bernard Voisin
1957
Heroines
monsieur Montgolfier
1997
Don't Touch the White Woman!
The Mad Indian
1974
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Pierrot
1972
Manon
Léon Lescaut
1949
The Blue Panther
Ivanov
1965
Good Enough to Eat
Jean-Loup aka 'Loup'
1951
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Last Adventure
the pilot
1967
Everybody Go Home!
Geniere Assunto Ceccarelli
1960
Act of Love
Claude Lacaud
1953
The Terrace
Sergio Stifler
1980
Children of Chaos
Joris
1944
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Joseph Rouletabille
1949
The Threatening Sky
Narrator
1966
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Ferrari, antifascista in carcere
1968
La Ronde
Franz, le soldat
1950
Star Without Light
Gaston Lansac
1946
Gates of the Night
Guy Sénéchal
1946
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Chimney Sweep (voice)
1953
Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
1995
The Good and the Bad
le chef de la résistance
1976
Plein fer
Emilio
1990
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Self (archive footage)
2011
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Le Stéphanois
1988
Cat and Mouse
Lechat
1975
The Imprint of Giants
Fouldroule
1980
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Joseph "Rouletabille"
1949
Night in December
(uncredited)
1941
Une enquête du commissaire Prévôt
Le commissaire Prévôt
1956
There Were Days... and Moons
Le père de Sophie
1990
Solemn Communion
Le récitant chanteur (voice)
1977
Bestiary of Love
Narrator (voice)
1965
They Saw Inferno
Self
2010
The World Condemns Them
André
1953
Secret People
Louis Balan
1952
Boys' School
Un élève
1938
The Doll that Took the Town
Mario Grimaldi
1957
Violette & Francois
M. Levene
1977
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Bob Éloi
1943
The Elders of Saint-Loup
Abbot Paul Forestier
1950
Countdown to Vengeance
François Nolan
1970
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Un récitant
1967
Not Delivered
Bastien Sassey
1958
The Seine Meets Paris
Speaker
1957
Coupe franche
Mathieu
1989L'écho
Marius
1988
François Villon
François Villon
1945
Coïncidences
Jean Ménétrier
1947
Cuba, a People Armed
Narrator
1961
Return to Life
Louis (segment "Le retour de Louis")
1949
The Sinners
Pierre
1949
Une fille cousue de fil blanc
Jérôme
1977
Warriors Five
Libero
1962De force avec d'autres
Sergio
1993
Le Dessous des cartes
Manu
1948
On the Set of 'Casque D'Or'
Self (Archive Footage)
1951
Fantastica
Euclide Brown
1980
France, Song
Himself
1969
Mad Years
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1960
The Big Shots
Thia
1972
The Stowaway
Alfred Mougins
1958
36, le grand tournant
Narrator (voice)
1970
Saturnin de Marseille
1941
The Pianist
Rossell mayor
1998Rosen-Emil
Dr. Levy
1993
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Lantini
1952
Serge Reggiani - Palais des congrès
Self
1993
Storms
Sergio Parnell
1953
The Little Boy
Germain
1995Pueblo en armas
Narrator (voice)
1961