Gorden Kaye
René Artois
Series
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
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Season guide
7 episodes available
The Colonel and the Captain mull over their situation and decide they should probably hand over René and the painting to the Gestapo in order to get rid of Herr Flick. But René convinces them that they could hand over a forged copy of the painting instead (with the assistance of a conveniently-located forger), and gets them to lend their uniforms to the escaping British airmen so they can take the painting to England to be forged. Meanwhile, everyone keeps handing René poison pills "to make it easier", Herr Flick decides his relationship with Helga should include an intimate dinner in Rene's back room, and Hans figures out that putting cheese in one's ears improves the sound of Madame Edith's singing.
After the Colonel's and the Captain's uniforms are borrowed by the British airmen, and later burned, they have to send for replacements. Supplied by Michelle are carrier pigeons, which Madame Edith accidentally cooks and serves to Herr Otto Flick.
On screen
René Artois
Edith Artois
Yvette Carte-Blanche
Colonel Kurt von Strohm
Private Helga Geerhart
Lieutenant Hubert Gruber
More from the vault
The Colonel, the Captain and Herr Flick are all disguised as onion sellers while the German uniforms are being remade by the Jewish tailors of London. Michelle delivers a bottle of nitro-glycerin disguised as a bottle of Bols Gin to hide in the café until they come to fetch it that night to blow up a German railway.
Michelle Dubois
Madame Fanny
Monsieur Alfonse
Officer Crabtree
General Erich von Klinkerhoffen
Herr Otto Flick