---
name: "Charles Granval"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charles-granval"
fi1m_id: "charles-granval"
imdb_id: "nm0335738"
tmdb_id: 94942
wikidata_id: "Q2959252"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 December 1882"
died: "28 July 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T02:26:55.429320+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Charles Granval

## Identity

Charles Granval

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charles-granval
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charles-granval
- **IMDb ID:** nm0335738
- **TMDB ID:** 94942
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2959252
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Granval, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959252, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0335738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94942

Actor. Born 21 December 1882 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. Died 28 July 1943.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 December 1882, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- **Died:** 28 July 1943
- **Active:** 1932–1937
- **Also known as:** Charles Louis Gribouval
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Granval, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959252, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0335738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94942

## Biography

Charles Granval, born Charles Louis Gribouval, was a French stage and film actor. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1904 and became its 364th sociétaire in 1922, remaining until 1934.

Granval appeared in around twenty-eight films between 1917 and 1942. He is known for his role as the bookseller Édouard Lestingois in Jean Renoir’s *Boudu Saved from Drowning* (1932), and for parts in Julien Duvivier films including *La Belle Équipe* (1936), *Pépé le Moko* (1937) as Maxime, and *La Fin du jour* (1939). He was also a stage director.

He was married first to actress Berthe Bovy and later to actress Madeleine Renaud; the couple had a son, actor Jean-Pierre Granval.

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Pépé le Moko* (1937), Fi1m 85, as Maxime — [page](https://film.one/film/pepe-le-moko.md)
- *Boudu Saved from Drowning* (1932), Fi1m 82, as Édouard Lestingois — [page](https://film.one/film/boudu-saved-from-drowning.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Ménard Collection* (1944), as Millionaire centenarian (uncredited)
- *The Honorable Catherine* (1943), as Jérôme
- *The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell* (1943), as Monsieur Morel
- *The Benefactor* (1942), as Mayor
- *Midnight in Paris* (1942), as Laborde
- *Fantastic Night* (1942), as Adalbert, blind man
- *Wicked Duchess* (1942), as The vidame of Pamiers
- *The Woman I Loved the Most* (1942), as Industrial
- *Pontcarral, Empire Colonel* (1942), as Marquis de Ransac
- *Premier bal* (1941), as De Lormel, Sr.
- *The End of the Day* (1939), as Deaubonne
- *Sarati the Terrible* (1937), as Jean Hudelot
- *Blanchette* (1937), as Papa Rousset
- *A Woman of No Importance* (1937), Actor
- *The Man from Nowhere* (1937), as Ottavio Meis, un homme qui se croit le cousin de Mathias
- *French White Cargo* (1937), as Blanco
- *Pépé le Moko* (1937), as Maxime — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/pepe-le-moko.md)
- *The Man of the Day* (1937), as Le colonial
- *La Belle Équipe* (1936), as le père Guilard
- *The Terrible Lovers* (1936), as Homeless man
- *La Bandera* (1935), as "Sego", Saharan bar owner
- *Golgotha* (1935), as Caïphe
- *Iris perdue et retrouvée* (1934), Actor
- *Boudu Saved from Drowning* (1932), as Édouard Lestingois — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/boudu-saved-from-drowning.md)
- *Mademoiselle de La Seiglière* (1921), as Stamply père

## Gallery

- ![Charles Granval](https://film.one/media/person/3853058/gallery-996b6353ebfb.jpg) Charles Granval — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Charles_Granval.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Charles Granval](https://film.one/media/person/3853058/gallery-25ed8360d767.jpg) Charles Granval — Image via TMDB

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