Alfred Roger Adam (4 April 1908 – 7 May 1982) was a French stage and film character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles.
"In the cast of 25," a reviewer in Billboard wrote of a 1947 Paris production of Le Sexe Faible (The Weaker Sex), "acting honors belong almost exclusively to Alfred Adam, who plays Antoine, the ubiquitous maitre d'hotel, with a remarkable balance of caricature and seriousness It a character worth of Moliere. Played with Adam's sureness and dexterity, it remains unforgettable.""The Weaker Sex" Billboard (October 25, 1947): 43.
Selected filmography
Speedway (1929) - Doctor (uncredited) La Kermesse Héroïque (1935) - Josef Van Meulen, le boucher In the Service of the Tsar (1936) - Ossip Life Dances On (1937) - Fred People Who Travel (1938) - Le médecin (uncredited) La Glu (1938) - Raoul Je chante... (1938) - Alfred The Duraton Family (1939) - Le docteur Sur le Plancher des Vaches (1940) - Le journaliste (uncredited) The Chain Breaker (1941) - Guillaume The Woman I Loved Most (1942) - Charles, le fondé de pouvoir Sideral Cruises (1942) - Le décorateur (uncredited) At Your Command, Madame (1942) - Ferdinand - le chauffeur de Palureau Home Port (1943) - Bertrand Farandole (1945) - Le marlou Boule de Suif (1945) - Cornudet La Vie de Bohème (1945m) - Alexandre Schaunard La Ferme du Pendu (1945) - Louis Raimondeau dit 'Grand Louis' Le Bateau à soupe (1946) - Le Hénaff The Fugitive (1947) - Bank Chinese Quarter (1947) - Léo Seller Les beaux jours du roi Murat (1947) - Le roi Murat The Lost Village (1947) - Gustave Boeuf Woman Without a Past (1948) - Pierre Lorin Passeurs d'or (1948) - Gueule en or Jo la Romance (1949) - Stoff L'homme aux mains d'argile (1949) - Lucien Roupp dit Monsieur Lucien - le manager The Farm of Seven Sins (1949) - Symphorien Dubois The Sky Sorcerer (1949) - Samson The King (1949) - Bourdier My Friend Sainfoin (1950) - Guillaume de Puycharmois - le mari d'Eugénie The Straw Lover (1950) - Gaston Sarrazin de Fontenoy Darling Caroline (1951) - Jules, le postillon"Caroline Cherie" Screen World 6(1955): 202. My Wife Is Formidable (1951) - Dr. Gaston Rival The Case Against X (1952) - Le vendeur de boutons (uncredited) Capitaine Pantoufle (1953) The Fighting Drummer (1953) - Favrol The Drunkard (1953) - Georges Lamarche The Most Wanted Man (1953) - Le shérif Il cavaliere di Maison Rouge (1954) - Dixmaire Service Entrance (1954) - Le cousin Albert Cadet Rousselle (1954) - Ravignol Caroline and the Rebels (1955) - Le général de Lasalle La Famille Anodin (1956) - Armand Vignaud Tides of Passion (1956) - Armand Vignaud Les Sorcières de Salem (1957) - Thomas Putnam A Kiss for a Killer (1957) - L'inspecteur de police Malard Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) - Emile Barberot - le boucher (uncredited) The Tiger Attacks (1959) - Le colonel - chef de la D.S.T. Les Naufrageurs (1959) - Le commissaire The Gendarme of Champignol (1959) - M. Grégoire 'Grégorio' - le maire 125 Rue Montmartre (1959) - Phillipe Barrachet Rue des prairies (1960) - Loutrel le manager de Louis La main chaude (1960) - Jean Lécuyer Women Are Like That (1960) - Pascal Girotti Love and the Frenchwoman (1960) - Judge (segment "Divorce, Le") Le Président (1961) - François - le chauffeur La Belle Américaine (1961) - Alfred All the Gold in the World (1961) - Alfred My Life to Live (1962) - (uncredited) Tartarin of Tarascon (1962) - Prince Gregori de Montenegro Carom Shots (1963) - Hubert Beaumanoir Mort, où est ta victoire? (1964) - Detrerrieux Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc (1964) - Fernand Aubry Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (1964) - Fernand Aubry The Lace Wars (1965) - Le sergent Bel-Oeil Le caïd de Champignol (1966) - Antoine The Gardener of Argenteuil (1966) - L'homme en robe de bure Maigret a Pigalle (1966) - L'ispettore Lognon The Stranger (1967) - L'avocat général How to Kill 400 Duponts (1967) - Serg. Saval A Little Virtuous (1968) - Marcel dit 'Lajoie' - l'homme du bar Under the Sign of the Bull (1969) - Vacher - le ferrailleur Mon oncle Benjamin (1969) - Le sergent Le Prussien (1971, TV Movie) - Victor Ursule et Grelu (1974) - Le capitaine Juliette and Juliette (1974) - M. Rozenec - le père d'une Juliettte Que la fête commence (1975) - Le maréchal de Villeroy The Porter from Maxim's (1976) - Le patron de chez Maxim's Nous maigrirons ensemble (1979) - Le producteur Blangenstein
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