Étienne Draber

Acting

Étienne Draber

Born March 26, 1939 · Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

Died January 11, 2021 · aged 81

Étienne Draber is a French actor known for both his stage and movie roles. He is the father of French actress Stéphanie Bataille. He died from Covid-19 in 2021.

Known For

House of DHouse of D · 2004
House of D
★ 6.32004
MovieComedyDrama
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
The Under-GiftedThe Under-Gifted · 1980
The Under-Gifted
★ 6.51980
MovieComedy
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
Le Bon PlaisirLe Bon Plaisir · 1984
Le Bon Plaisir
★ 5.81984
MovieComedyDrama
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
May FoolsMay Fools · 1990
May Fools
★ 6.91990
MovieComedyDrama
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Madame BovaryMadame Bovary · 1991
Madame Bovary
★ 6.21991
MovieDrama
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.
My Best FriendMy Best Friend · 2006
My Best Friend
★ 6.12006
MovieComedy
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
Seven Deaths by PrescriptionSeven Deaths by Prescription · 1975
Seven Deaths by Prescription
★ 6.11975
MovieDramaThriller
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
The InheritorThe Inheritor · 1973
The Inheritor
★ 6.41973
MovieThrillerDrama
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

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La frisée aux lardonsLa frisée aux lardons · 1979
La frisée aux lardons
★ 4.01979
MovieComedy
It’s summer in a small port town in Brittany. Isabelle (Pascale Rocard), who has just graduated from high school, comes to join her mother Micheline (Bernadette Lafont). Micheline is being courted by a beach boy, Maurice—whom everyone calls Doudoune (Bernard Menez). Isabelle soon begins a sweet romance with one of his friends, Pascal (Pascal Meynier). Meanwhile, her father (Michel Aumont) has stayed behind in Soissons, where he runs a medical laboratory, and is bored to death. Every weekend, he comes to spend 48 hours with Micheline and sometimes splurges a little extra in Paris, hitting on girls in nightclubs. Efforts that are not crowned with success. On the contrary, in Brittany, that ladies’ man Doudoune gets what he wants... But when the family man comes to join his loved ones, the blunders and misunderstandings multiply...

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