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Umbrella Coup

Released: October 8, 1980 (1980)

Runtime: 95 minutes

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

  • Gert Fröbe as Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine

    Age at release: 67

  • Gordon Mitchell as Moskovitz, le tueur à gages

    Age at release: 57

  • Roger Carel as Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison

    Age at release: 53

  • Pierre Richard as Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps

    Age at release: 46

  • Maurice Risch as Le producteur de Paris

    Age at release: 37

  • Dominique Lavanant as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire

    Age at release: 36

  • Christine Murillo as Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire

    Age at release: 29

  • Gérard Jugnot as Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire

    Age at release: 29

  • Axelle Abbadie as Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire

    Age at release: 29

  • Valérie Mairesse as Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.

    Age at release: 26

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  • Robert Dalban as Le régisseur du café-théâtre

    Age at release: 77

  • Vittorio Caprioli as Don Barberini, mafioso italien

    Age at release: 59

  • Tiberio Murgia as Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini

    Age at release: 51

  • Age at release: 47

  • Mike Marshall as Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine

    Age at release: 36

  • Patrick Lecocq as Le journaliste télé

    Age at release: 36

  • Didier Sauvegrain as Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'

    Age at release: 30

  • Yaseen Khan as Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine

    Age at release: Unknown

  • Ceyla Lacerda as Mannequin brésilienne, 2nd épouse de Pierre (archive footage)

    Age at release: Unknown

  • Dominique Virton as Le metteur en scène

    Age at release: Unknown