Nicolas Rimsky


Nicolas Rimsky was a Russian-born French film actor, director and writer. He was born in Moscow, Russia. In 1931, he directed and starred in Pas sur la bouche, based on an operetta by André Barde.
In The Happy Death he plays an unsuccessful and unpleasant playwright who suddenly becomes much more successful when he is believed drowned. Linda Williams, who calls Rimsky a "great comedian", praises his performance as "a gem of comic timing". Leonard Maltin said the film's "cynical take on the nature of celebrity makes it seem quite modern".
He also starred in comedy Because I Love You as a professor who marries his secretary then loses her affections to his godson.

Selected filmography