Robert Le Vigan appeared in many classic French films of the late 1930s and early 1940s like _Le quai des brumes , amongst others, gave evidence for the defence and tried to prove that Le Vigan was only a weak creature led astray by Céline. Despite these appeals for clemency, Le Vigan was sentenced to ten years hard labour. He also lost his civil rights as a French citizen and all his assets were confiscated. After three years in a labour camp, he was released on parole and escaped to Spain, then onto Argentina, where he lived in poverty until his death in 1972.
A friend of French writer Louis Ferdinand Celine, he was sentenced in absentia after the Liberation for collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. He died in Argentina.
Paris, France 1946: Sentenced to ten years imprisonment with hard labour for his open collaboration with the enemy and its anti-Semitic propaganda on Radio Paris.
He has an entry in Jean Tulards Dictionnaire du Cinma/Les Acteurs published in Paris in 2007 by Robert Laffont/Bouquins (ISBN: 978-2-221-10895-6), page 688. 2 biographies have been written about him.
