Maurice de Canonge

Maurice de Canonge
Born	Maurice Camille Louis de Canonge (1894-03-18)18 March 1894 Toulon, France
Died	10 January 1979(1979-01-10) (aged 84) Paris, France
Other names	Maurice Cannon
Occupations	Actor, Director
Years active	1917 - 1971 (film)

Maurice de Canonge (March 18, 1894 – January 10, 1979) was a French actor and film director. He is also sometimes known by the name Maurice Cannon.

Selected filmography

Director

• Stowaway Olive (1931)
• Olive se marie (1931)
• Monsieur cambriole (1931)
• Le secret de l'émeraude (1935)
• Inspector Grey (1936)
• À minuit, le 7 (1937)
• Boulot the Aviator (1937)
• Un soir à Marseille (1938)
• Grisou (1938)
• Saint Theresa of Lisieux (1938)
• Captain Benoit (1938)
• Thérèse Martin (1939)
• The Last Metro (1945)
• Special Mission (1946)
• A Cop (1947)
• Judicial Error (1948)
• La Bataille du feu (1949)
• Last Hour, Special Edition (1949)
• The Man from Jamaica (1950)
• The Two Girls (1951)
• In the Land of the Sun (1952)
• Love Always Love (1952)
• Boum sur Paris (1953)
• The Price of Love (1955)
• Three of the Canebière (1955)
• Three Sailors (1957)
• Judicial Police (1957)
• Happy Arenas (1958)

Actor

• La nouvelle aurore (1919) - Fric-Frac
• Les parias de l'amour (1921)
• Rapax (1922)
• Trilby (1923) - Zouzou
• Shadows of Paris (1924) - Robert, A Taxi Driver
• The Side Show of Life (1924) - Horatio Bakkus
• The Alaskan (1924) - Tautuk
• Love's Wilderness (1924) - Pierre Bazin
• Peter Pan (1924) - Cookson
• The Little French Girl (1925) - Jerry Hamble
• The Nude Woman (1926) - Rouchard
• Forbidden Hours (1928) - Minor Role (uncredited)
• L'évadée (1929) - Drackson
• Quand nous étions deux (1930) - Rouchard
• Amours viennoises (1931) - Muller
• Les quatre vagabonds (1931) - Novac
• Olive se marie (1931)
• Olive passager clandestin (1931) - Olive
• Un de la montagne (1934) - Le directeur de l'hôtel (uncredited)
• Adémaï in the Middle Ages (1935) - Un officier anglais
• Le coup de trois (1936) - Le marchand de poissons
• The Call of Silence (1936)
• Le grand refrain (1936)
• La bataille du feu (1949)
• Dernière heure, édition spéciale (1949) - (uncredited)
• Me and the Colonel (1958) - Hollander (uncredited)
• The Roots of Heaven (1958) - Haas
• Cervantes (1967)
• Hot Line (1968) - Director of Hotel (uncredited)
• Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971) - 1st Client (final film role)

Bibliography

• Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• Maurice de Canonge at IMDb