Roger Duchesne (27 July 1906, Luxeuil-les-Bains, Haute-Saône – 25 December 1996) was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1934 and 1957, but is best remembered for playing the lead in Bob le flambeur (1956). He was the first husband of French film actress Yvette Lebon.[1]
Controversy surrounds Duchesne for activities during the German occupation of France during World War II. An history of French cinema during the war (1985), citing a French film historian, states that Duchesne had been among three film workers who suffered "serious sanctions" for wartime activities on behalf of the German occupiers; he "was suspected of working for the Gestapo."[2] According to a 2019 review of the Kino-released DVD of Bob le flambeur, a featurette on the disc informs that the actor's "gambling debts caught the attentions of the Nazis during the Occupation, and Duchesne became a collaborator, actively participating in the torture of at least one member of the French Resistance." Not surprisingly, the review notes Bob le flambeur was Duchesne's first film since the war and he only appeared in one more thereafter.[3]
Film director Jean-Pierre Melville, ironically himself a Jewish member of the French Resistance during the war, recruited Duchesne for Bob le flambeur. According to one account, the actor had been prohibited from working by the postwar purge ("epuration") of collaborators. "Duchesne robbed a bank of 800 million francs--the same sum Bob tries to steal [in the film] in Deauville--then cooled his heels in prison writing adventure novels. When Melville tracked him down, he was selling scrap metal in Saint-Ouen."[4]
^Perrone, Pierre (August 11, 2014). "Yvette Lebon: French actress". The Independent. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
^Ehrlich, Evelyn (1985). Cinema of Paradox: French Filmmaking Under the German Occupation. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 175. ISBN0-231-05926-4.
^Galbraith IV, Stuart (July 2, 2019). "Bob le flambeur". DVDtalk.com. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
^Shatz, Adam (June 20, 2019). "Who does that for anyone?". London Review of Books. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
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