Featured Shows
All AMC Shows
More Shows
Watch Online
Featured Movies
Movies on AMC
Movie Resources
Watch Online
Grégoire Aslan
Description[from Freebase]
Grégoire Aslan (28 March 1908 – 8 January 1982) was an Armenian actor.
Born Krikor Aslanian in Switzerland or in Constantinople, according to different sources, Aslan made his professional debut at 18 as a vocalist and drummer with a Paris dance band, then launched an acting career under the name of Koko Aslan. His first film appearance was in Feux de joie (1938). He became an indispensable feature in many British and American films, usually playing foreigners – Russians, Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, Albanians and Middle Easterners – with equal finesse.
Aslan's more prominent screen appearances include gangster boss Duca in Joe MacBeth (1955), King of Kings (1961) (Herod), and Cleopatra (1963) (Porthinos). In 1961, in The Devil at 4 O'Clock, alongside Frank Sinatra and Spencer Tracy, he portrayed Marcel, a criminal who finds repentance by giving his life to save inhabitants from being killed by a volcanic eruption. In Paris, When It Sizzles (1964), he played a police chief. He played another police chief in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975). He appeared in over 110 film and TV roles.
Aslan died of a heart attack in Cornwall, England.
Acted in
- Daphne Laureola (1978)
- Bloedverwanten (1977)
- The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
- The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
- A Flea in Her Ear (1968)
- Moment to Moment (1965)
- Une Ravissante Idiote (1964)
- Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
- Crooks in Cloisters (1964)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- Village of Daughters (1962)
- Mr. Arkadin: The Corinth Version (1962)
- Mr. Arkadin: The Comprehensive Version (1962)
- The Rebel (1961)
- The Happy Thieves (1961)
- The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
- The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
- The Criminal (1960)
- Our Man in Havana (1959)
- Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)
- He Who Must Die (1957)
- Oasis (1955)
- Mr. Arkadin (1955)
- No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
- Last Holiday (1950)
- Cairo Road (1950)
- Wicked City (1949)
- Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)
- Whirlwind of Paris (1939)
Portions from Freebase, licensed under CC-BY and Wikipedia
licensed under the GFDL










