Lemoine, Michel

(September 30, 1922, Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, France - )

   In 1947, he attended René Alexandre's acting courses at the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and made his stage debut in LArlésienne. The same year, he en­tered films, playing a small part in Maurice Tourneur's Après l'Amour. Seen in two Sacha Guitry movies (1948 Le Diable boîteux; 1950 Le Trésor de Cantenac), he be­came in the early 1960s a familiar figure of European B movies, notably working with such filmmakers as José Benazeraf (1962 Le Concerto de la Peur / La Drogue du Vice / USA: Night of Lust; 1963 L'Eternité pour nous / Le Cri de la Chair / USA: Sin on the Beach, shot in 1961; 1971 Frustration / UK: The Trip to Perversion / Frustrated Woman / USA: The Chambermaid's Dream / The Chambermaid's Secret), Mario Bava (1964 La strada per Alamo / Arizona Bill / USA: The Road to Fort Alamo, Italy / France), Sergio Sollima (1966 Agente 3S3 Masascro al sole / Agent 3S3 Massacre au Soleil / 3S3 agente especial / USA: Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun, Italy / France / Spain), and Jess Franco (1968 Necro-nomicon—Getraumte Sunden / USA: Succubus, West Germany; 1969 Rotte Lippen—Sadisterotica / El caso de las dos bellezas / USA: Sadist Erotica / Two Undercover Angels, West Germany / Spain; Kuss mich, Monster / Bésame monstruo / UK: Castle of the Doomed / USA: Kiss Me, Monster, West Germany / Spain). In the 1970s, he directed (and starred in) erotic films before shooting about twenty porn flicks under the pseudonyms of John Armando and Michel Leblanc (1978-1986).

 Filmography

1970 ◘ Wie kurz ist die Zeit zu leben / USA: How Short Is the Time for Love (Pier A. Caminnecci; Michel

        ◘ Lemoine actually directed the movie; West Germany; also actor)

        ◘ Les Désaxées (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)

        ◘ Les Chiennes / Le Manoir aux Louves (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Les Confidences érotiques d'un Lit trop accueil­lant (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)

1974 ◘ Les Petites Saintes y touchent (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)

        ◘ Les Week-Ends maléfiques du Comte Zaroff / USA: Seven Women for Satan (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor; unreleased)

1978 ◘ Tirez pas sur mon Collant (also screenwriter, dialogist)