Max Vialle

Max Vialle — Biography

For more than twenty years, French actor Max Vialle appeared in supporting parts in French cinema, bringing a theatre background with him. He was born in Paris and died in Tours. Among his best-known credits is My American Uncle (1980), and both his daughter and his grandson work in the performing arts.

He came to the screen in the early 1970s: Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971), Le Sourire Vertical and Elle court, elle court la banlieue (both 1973) are among his earliest films. In the late 1970s he took part in productions such as Le Point de mire and Gros-Câlin. His work grew busier in the 1980s with Beau-père (1981), L'Ombre rouge (1981), Boulevard des assassins (1982) and Polar (1984). In Boulevard des assassins he played Jurieux, and in Polar a forensic doctor. Toward the end of the decade he was also seen in Lady Cops (1987) and Comédie d'amour (1989).

In one of his last films, My Life Is Hell (1991), he played a dentist. His daughter Tatiana Vialle is a casting director and stage director, and his grandson Swann Arlaud is an actor. Vialle appears under the name Paul Vidal in Tatiana Vialle's 2019 narrative Belle-fille. He died in Tours on 6 January 2000.