Lucas Gridoux


Lucas Gridoux was a Romanian-born French stage and film actor.

Biography

He was born in 1896 in Herța, at the time in Dorohoi County, Kingdom of Romania. After emigrating to France, Gridoux began his film career in 1931, playing mainly in roles of traitors. In 1935, he was Judas in Julien Duvivier's Golgotha, and then in 1937, Inspector Slimane, the friendly policeman who finally arrests Jean Gabin in Pépé le Moko, by the same director.
He died in 1952 at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, and was buried at the city's Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Selected filmography