Guy Decomble

{{Short description|French actor (1910–1964)}} {{Infobox person | name = Guy Decomble | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1910|11|12}} | birth_place = Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1964|8|14|1910|11|12}} | death_place = Châtellerault, Vienne, France | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1932–1964 (film & TV) }} '''Guy Decomble''' (1910–1964) was a French film and television actor. A character actor he played in a number of supporting parts in postwar cinema. One of his better known roles is as the teacher in ''The 400 Blows'' by François Truffaut.<ref>Paietta p. 158</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''L'affaire est dans le sac'' (1932) - Le pasteur (uncredited) * ''The Crime of Monsieur Lange'' (1936) - Typesetter (uncredited) * ''The Citadel of Silence'' (1937) - (uncredited) * ''Bizarre, Bizarre'' (1937) - Le maquereau (uncredited) * ''The Cheat'' (1937) - Un joueur (uncredited) * ''The Time of the Cherries'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''La Bête Humaine'' (1938) - Le garde-barrière (uncredited) * ''The Trump Card'' (1942) - Un aspirant * ''Strange Inheritance'' (1943) - Robert (uncredited) * ''Madame et le mort'' (1943) * ''Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) - Le rémouleur * ''First on the Rope'' (1944) - Warfield * ''Florence est folle'' (1944) - (uncredited) * ''Farandole'' (1945) * ''The Great Pack'' (1945) - Maître Frouas * ''François Villon'' (1945) - Denisot * ''Hanged Man's Farm'' (1945) - Bénoni * ''The Last Penny'' (1946) - Richard * ''Song of the Clouds'' (1946) * ''The Ideal Couple'' (1946) - Un opérateur * ''Patrie'' (1946) - Un échevin * ''Dreams of Love'' (1947) - Hurau * ''Les jeux sont faits'' (1947) - Poulain * ''La maison sous la mer'' (1947) - Lucien * ''The Lost Village'' (1947) - Jean Pétrat * ''A Change in the Wind'' (1949) - Justin * ''Scandal on the Champs-Élysées'' (1949) - Pascaud * ''Jour de fête'' (1949) - Roger * ''Histoires extraordinaires'' (1949) - Le tueur obsédé * ''The Winner's Circle'' (1950) - Émile * ''Captain Ardant'' (1951) - Jossip * ''The House on the Dune'' (1952) * ''The Case Against X'' (1952) * ''We Are All Murderers'' (1952) - Un inspecteur * ''Ouvert contre X'' (1952) - Le concierge * ''Les conquérants solitaires'' (1952) - (narration) * ''Follow That Man'' (1953) - Emile Kortenwirth * ''This Man Is Dangerous'' (1953) - Jacques le Dingue * ''The Unfrocked One'' (1954) - Le père Mascle * ''Dangerous Turning'' (1954) - M. Léon * ''Black Dossier'' (1955) - L'inspecteur Leroy * ''The Aristocrats'' (1955) - Gustave * ''Les assassins du dimanche'' (1956) - Le brigadier * ''Bob le flambeur'' (1956) - Le commissaire Ledru * ''Maigret Sets a Trap'' (1958) - Mazet * ''Thérèse Étienne'' (1958) - Rothlisberger * ''Police judiciaire'' (1958) - L'inspecteur Mercier * ''Les Naufrageurs'' (1959) * ''Guinguette'' (1959) * ''Les Cousins'' (1959) - Le libraire * ''Archimède le clochard'' (1959) - Le chef de station de la RATP * ''The 400 Blows'' (1959) - 'Petite Feuille' - l'instituteur * ''Rue des prairies'' (1959) - Le père de Paul * ''Nathalie, Secret Agent'' (1959) - Pageot * ''The Old Guard'' (1960) - Le chauffeur du car * ''The Nina B. Affair'' (1961) - Lofting * ''Smrt na cukrovém ostrove'' (1962) - Jean * ''The Girls of La Rochelle'' (1962) - Sire Basile * ''Pourquoi Paris?'' (1962) * ''Maigret Sees Red'' (1963) - Lognon {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Paietta, Ann C. (2007) ''Teachers in the Movies: A Filmography of Depictions of Grade School, Preschool and Day Care Educators, 1890s to the Present''. McFarland.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0213948}}

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