--- name: "Gabrielle Fontan" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gabrielle-fontan" fi1m_id: "gabrielle-fontan" imdb_id: "nm0284870" tmdb_id: 37147 wikidata_id: "Q3094129" roles: ["Actor"] born: "16 April 1873" died: "8 September 1959" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T02:59:03.973501+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." --- # Gabrielle Fontan ## Identity Gabrielle Fontan - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gabrielle-fontan - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gabrielle-fontan - **IMDb ID:** nm0284870 - **TMDB ID:** 37147 - **Wikidata ID:** Q3094129 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Fontan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3094129, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37147 Actor. Born 16 April 1873 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Died 8 September 1959. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 16 April 1873, Bordeaux, Gironde, France - **Died:** 8 September 1959 - **Active:** 1939–1946 - **Also known as:** Fontan, Gabrielle Marie Joséphine Pène-Castel, Габриель Фонтан, Габриэль Фонтан - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Fontan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3094129, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37147 ## Biography Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 – 8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1927 and 1959. She is credited as La vieille dame dans l'escalier in *Daybreak* (1939) and as La Grand' Mère in *A Day in the Country* (1946). Other notable roles include the mother superior in *Les Misérables* (1958), Marie Tatin in *Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case* (1959), and parts in *Carnival of Sinners* (1943), *Love Is My Profession* (1958), *Deadlier Than the Male* (1956), *Manon* (1949), *Monsieur Vincent* (1947) and *Gates of the Night* (1946). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Daybreak* (1939), Fi1m 82, as La vieille dame dans l'escalier — [page](https://film.one/film/daybreak.md) ## Complete filmography (113) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Versailles Affair* (1960), Actor - *Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case* (1959), as Marie Tatin - *The Lovers of Tomorrow* (1959), as la vieille - *Julie la rousse* (1959), as Mme Michon, la concierge - *The Magic of the Kite* (1958), as the concierge - *Love Is My Profession* (1958), as Mrs. Langlois - *My Darned Father* (1958), as Estelle - *Be Beautiful and Shut Up* (1958), as La grand-mère de Jean - *A Certain Mr. Jo* (1958), as Mme. Michel - *Premier mai* (1958), as Mrs. Lurde - *Les Misérables* (1958), as Mother superior of the convent - *Lovers of Paris* (1957), as Mrs. Pilou, cleaning lady (uncredited) - *The Gates of Paris* (1957), as Mme Sabatier, Juju and Nénette's Mother - *Love Is at Stake* (1957), as Emilie - *Hi Doc* (1957), as Madeleine Blaise - *Crime and Punishment* (1956), as madame Horvais - *Bold Adventure* (1956), as The grandmother - *My Priest Among the Poor* (1956), Actor - *Deadlier Than the Male* (1956), as Mme Jules - *L'homme au parapluie* (1956), as Ellen - *The Grand Manoeuvre* (1955), as Melanie, Duverger's servant - *Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me* (1955), as La directrice de Saint-Beuve, collège pour filles - *Black Dossier* (1955), as Mme Micoulin, la logeuse - *Men Think Only of That* (1954), as Old lady on the stairs - *Flesh and the Woman* (1954), as Religious (uncredited) - *La Belle au bois dormant* (1954), as La fée Carabosse - *Desperate Decision* (1952), as Sister Patricia - *Two Pennies Worth of Violets* (1951), as La concierge - *Life in a Song* (1951), as The aunt - *Juliette, or Key of Dreams* (1951), as Boss of the confectionery - *The Strollers* (1950), as Old lady - *Julie de Carneilhan* (1950), as Concierge - *Marie of the Port* (1950), as Gossip - *La Bataille du feu* (1949), as Old woman - *Manon* (1949), as Mme. Agnès - *Such a Pretty Little Beach* (1949), as The Old Woman in the Bus - *Le Dessous des cartes* (1948), as Florence's mother - *Rapide de nuit* (1948), as Mother with cats - *After Love* (1948), as The Old Catou - *Vertigine d'amore* (1948), as Olivero's mother - *Torrents* (1947), as Maria - *Monsieur Vincent* (1947), as La vieille sourde du presbytère de Châtillon - *Vertiges* (1947), as Patient - *The House Under the Sea* (1947), as Gossip at the washhouse - *Pluck the Hen* (1947), Actor - *Anger of the Gods* (1947), as The Grand-Mother - *Destiny* (1946), as The patience player (uncredited) - *Gates of the Night* (1946), as la vieille - *Pétrus* (1946), as Mrs. Brisson, newsagent (uncredited) - *Her Last Part* (1946), Actor - *Strange Fate* (1946), as Madame Durtain - *A Day in the Country* (1946), as La Grand' Mère - *Messieurs Ludovic* (1946), as Thibauts' concierge - *The J3* (1946), Actor - *Behind These Walls* (1946), as Madame Michaud - *Sylvia and the Ghost* (1946), as Marielle - *The Last Penny* (1946), as Mme Durban - *Lunegarde* (1946), Actor - *Angel and Sinner* (1945), as Madame Follenvie - *François Villon* (1945), as La Villonne - *Majestic Hotel Cellars* (1945), as Rosalie, la bonne de Fualdès - *The White Blackbird* (1944), as Landlady - *Night Shift* (1944), as Maria - *The Ménard Collection* (1944), as Concierge - *The Traveler Without Luggage* (1944), as 'La mère Lampion' - *Secrets of a Ballerina* (1943), as Rosalie, elderly - *Douce* (1943), as Estelle - *Ceux du rivage* (1943), as Arquebuse's sister - *Valley of Hell* (1943), as Mother Bienvenu - *L'Escalier sans fin* (1943), as Madame Bizet - *The Roquevillards* (1943), as Pierrette La Fauchois - *Mademoiselle Béatrice* (1943), as Angèle - *Madame et le mort* (1943), as Le Noir's concierge - *Le Voyageur de la Toussaint* (1943), as La vieille aubergiste (uncredited) - *À la Belle Frégate* (1943), as Madame Blanche, fortune teller - *Carnival of Sinners* (1943), as The chiromancer (uncredited) - *Picpus* (1943), as La soeur de Le Cloaguen - *Eight Men in a Castle* (1942), as Innkeeper - *Twisted Mistress* (1942), as Madame Carbonnel - *Strangers in the House* (1942), as Fine - *Le moussaillon* (1942), as Louise - *Sins of Youth* (1941), as The dresser (uncredited) - *Premier bal* (1941), as Marie - *The Duel* (1941), as Housekeeper (uncredited) - *Two Women* (1940), Actor - *The Musicians of the Sky* (1940), as (uncredited) - *Daybreak* (1939), as La vieille dame dans l'escalier — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/daybreak.md) - *Cordial Agreement* (1939), as Lady of the Court - *The Fatted Calf* (1939), as Mrs. Vachon - *The End of the Day* (1939), as Madame Jambage - *The Curtain Rises* (1938), as Une mère provincviale (uncredited) - *The Little Thing* (1938), as Mrs. Lalouette - *Ramuntcho* (1938), as Pilar Doyamboru - *Titin from Martigues* (1938), Actor - *The Time of the Cherries* (1938), as Antoinette - *The Ladies in the Green Hats* (1937), as Rosalie - *Life Dances On* (1937), as Rose, la bonne de Mme Audié (uncredited) - *Pluie d'or* (1936), Actor - *Life Is Ours* (1936), as Madame Lecocq - *La Petite Sauvage* (1936), Actor - *The Fleeing Dead* (1936), as Concierge - *L'Or dans la rue* (1934), as Pierre's mother, owner of a bistro - *Toto* (1933), as La logeuse - *Dainah the Mixed* (1932), as Berthe - *For One Cent's Worth of Love* (1932), as (uncredited) - *Coquecigrole* (1931), as Mrs. Bien - *Make a living* (1931), Actor - *My Friend Victor* (1931), as Aunt Ursule - *The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard* (1929), Actor - *Ces dames aux chapeaux verts* (1929), as Rosalie - *The Lighthouse Keepers* (1929), as Mother of Marie - *Misdeal* (1928), as (uncredited) - *Opération Jericho*, as Mme Michaud ## Gallery - ![Gabrielle Fontan](https://film.one/media/person/3856976/gallery-c68ec9a61454.png) Gabrielle Fontan — Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/GabrielleFontan-StudioHarcourt-1947.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Gabrielle Fontan](https://film.one/media/person/3856976/gallery-801fe206412a.jpg) Gabrielle Fontan — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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