Personal Info
Known Credits
101
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1891-04-17 (134 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known For
Francoise 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 actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the P ...
Known For
Acting
1973 --
The Pedestrian
| Frau Dechamps
1972 --
Not Dumb, the Bird
| Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
1972 --
3000 Million Without an Elevator
| Madame Dubreuil
1969 --
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
| Louise de Kerfuntel
1968 --
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
| Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
1967 --
The 25th Hour
| Mme Nagy (uncredited)
1966 --
L'Âge heureux
| Mme Aubry
1965 --
Cloportes
| Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
1965 --
Up from the Beach
| Lili's Grandmother
1964 --
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
| Borgia
1962 --
Frau Cheneys Ende
| Mrs. Webley
1961 --
The Counterfeiters of Paris
| Madame Pauline
1960 --
The Full Treatment
| Madame Prade
1960 --
Stefanie in Rio
| Leonora Guala
1960 --
Lovers Woods
| Madame Parisot
1959 --
Without Trumpet or Drum
| La grand-mère de Marguerite
1959 --
Eyes of Love
| Mrs. Montcatel mother
1959 --
Riff Raff Girls
| Berthe
1959 --
The Sound and the Fury
| Caroline Compson
1958 --
The Gambler
| Aunt Antonia
1958 --
Me and the Colonel
| Madame Bouffier
1957 --
Non sono più guaglione
| Vincenzino's mother
1957 --
Interlude
| Comtesse Reinhart
1957 --
The Seventh Sin
| Mother Superior
1955 --
Girls of Today
| padrona della pensione
1955 --
That Lady
| Bernardine
1954 --
Queen Margot
| Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
1954 --
Les éloquents
| Self
1953 --
Sul ponte dei sospiri
| Lady of Sant'Agata
1952 --
He Who Is Without Sin...
| La contessa Lamieri
1952 --
Wanda the Sinner
| Anna Steiner
1952 --
Smuggler's Ball
| Gabrielle Demeuse
1952 --
The Seven Deadly Sins
| Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
1951 --
Nobody's Children
| La contessa Canali
1951 --
The Red Inn
| Marie Martin
1951 --
K – Das Haus des Schweigens
| Noemi, die Amme
1951 --
The 13th Letter
| Mrs. Gauthier
1950 --
The Naked Heart
| Laura Chapdelaine
1950 --
September Affair
| Maria Salvatini
1950 --
One Only Loves Once
| Mme Monnier
1950 --
Women Without Names
| The Countess
1949 --
The Barton Mystery
| Élisabeth
1949 --
The Dream Vagabonds
| Mireille Dombreval
1948 --
Quartet
| Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
1948 --
Saraband for Dead Lovers
| The Electress Sophia
1947 --
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
| Countess Brévannes
1946 --
Back Streets of Paris
| Mme Rose, la tenancière de l'hôtel
1945 --
Johnny Frenchman
| Lanec Florrie
1944 --
The Halfway House
| Alice Meadows
1944 --
Portrait of a Woman
| Fanny Helder
1940 --
They Were Twelve Women
| La duchesse de Vimeuse
1939 --
Serge Panine
| Madame Devarenne
1938 --
Fahrendes Volk
| Madame Flora
1938 --
The Chess Player
| Catherine II
1938 --
Peace on the Rhine
| Francoise Scheffer
1938 --
The Stream
| Régina Berry
1938 --
People Who Travel
| Flora
1938 --
Ramuntcho
| Dolorès Detcharry
1937 --
Bizarre, Bizarre
| Margaret Molyneux
1937 --
Life Dances On
| Marguerite Audié
1937 --
My Son the Minister
| Sylvie - seine Mutter
1937 --
The Robber Symphony
| The fortune teller
1937 --
Armchair 47
| Gilberte Boulanger
1936 --
Jenny
| Jenny Gauthier
1936 --
The Secret of Polichinelle
| Mrs. Jouvenel
1936 --
Carnival in Flanders
| Cornelia
1935 --
Carnival in Flanders
| Madame Burgomaster
1935 --
Marie des angoisses
| Mme de Quersac
1935 --
Gangster malgré lui
|
1935 --
Maternité
| Mrs. Duchemin
1935 --
Whirlpool
| Madame Gardane
1935 --
Pension Mimosas
| Louise Noblet
1935 --
Le Billet de mille
| The Russian Countess
1935 --
Marchand d'amour
| Clara
1934 --
Die Insel
| Silvia
1934 --
Vers l'abîme
| Sylvia
1934 --
Coralie and Company
|
1934 --
The Great Game
| Blanche
1934 --
Tambour battant
| The Princess Mother
1933 --
Abbot Constantine
| La comtesse de Laverdens
1933 --
All for Nothing
| Mrs. Bossu
1933 --
La Pouponnière
| Mrs. Delannoy
1932 --
The Woman Dressed As a Man
| Princess Marie
1932 --
A Father Without Knowing It
| Madame Jacquet
1932 --
He
| Madame Husson
1931 --
Luck
| Mme Mougeot
1931 --
The Trial of Mary Dugan
| The widow
1931 --
Casanova wider Willen
| Blanche Brissac
1931 --
Jenny Lind
| Rosatti
1931 --
The Magnificent Lie
| Rosa Duchêne
1931 --
Let Us Be Gay
| Madame Boucijon
1931 --
The Little Cafe
| Mademoiselle Edwige
1930 --
Échec au roi
| The Queen
1930 --
Si l'empereur savait ça
| Princess Plata d'Ettingen
1930 --
Marius à Paris
|
1929 --
The One Woman Idea
| Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
1928 --
Two Timid Souls
| The aunt
1928 --
Madame Récamier
| Madame de Staël
1927 --
Le bateau de verre
| Madame d'Arcy, his wife
1926 --
Gribiche
| Edith Maranet
1922 --
Crainquebille
| Shoe Store Customer