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Jean Davy
Born: 15th Oct 1911 Puteaux, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France - Died 5th Feb 2001
Dept: Acting
Jean Davy (15 October 1911 – 5 February 2001) was a French film, stage voice actor.
He was a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.
In the premiere production of Antigone in Paris, 1944, Davy created the role of Créon.
He was a French voice of Charlton Heston (The Ten Commandments, The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers...), Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and Robert Taylor.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 54
Film: 51 (94%)
Television: 3 (6%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War, Action, Talk, Science Fiction, Horror
Filmography
Original title: Éloge de l'amour
2001
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, argume ... view
Character:
Grandfather
Original title: Pas de scandale
1999
A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison. ... view
Character:
Edmond
1997
The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime. ... view
Character:
Maréchal Pétain
1995
A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War. ... view
Character:
Le père Maurel
Original title: La dernière saison
1992
Years ago, Jean Marsan had aspirations to be a scholar. He also had a very serious romance going on. His thick-headed, uncomprehending family soon put ... view
Character:
Jean Marsan
Original title: Lacenaire
1990
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while ... view
Character:
Alphonse Damoiseau
1987
An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedu ... view
Character:
Le procureur
1985
Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past, apparently with the aim of curing his present mi ... view
Character:
'Le Sénateur' (voice)
Original title: Le Diable dans la boîte
1977
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy ... view
Character:
Ballancourt
Original title: Le Complot
1973
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's dis ... view
Character:
Original title: Tête d'horloge
1970
One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small professor. ... view
Character:
1968
On the shores of Aulis, the Greeks prepare to attack Troy. But their ships are unable to set sail because the gods are holding back the winds necessar ... view
Character:
Agamemnon
1966
A farm in Tunisia at the time of the French protectorate. The children Hamida, a shepherd boy, and Renaud, grandson of a French farm owner, are friend ... view
Character:
Grandfather
Original title: Le Masque de fer
1962
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV. ... view
Character:
Marchal of Turenne
1959
Since the day their mother Aline remarried, Patrice and Eric, a joyful pair of twins, have been very happy. Indeed, François Chantour, their stepfath ... view
Character:
Torques
1958
Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Ba ... view
Character:
Colonel of the Dragons
1958
A short love story between a young girl and a worker in the shoe industry. Social differences will be the undoing of this union. ... view
Character:
Character:
Narrator
Original title: La marche glorieuse
1954
A tribute to Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952) who commanded the French First Army which he led from Provence to the Rhine and the Danube. Later, ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Les Aventures d'une Mouche Bleue
1954
This film was produced as an extension of a research film on the metamorphosis of the fly. It successively shows the hatching of the eggs, the nutriti ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Le vrai coupable
1951
Inspector Dumont and his deputy Inspector Queneau investigate the murder of a young woman. They learn that the victim was pregnant before her death an ... view
Character:
Dr. Delorme
Original title: Souvenirs perdus
1950
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and ... view
Character:
Announcer
Original title: Cartouche, roi de Paris
1950
The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a ... view
Character:
Regent Philippe d'Orléans
Original title: On ne triche pas avec la vie
1949
The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers. ... view
Character:
Albert Desforges
Original title: Au royaume des cieux
1949
Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell. ... view
Character:
Antonin
Original title: La Femme nue
1949
Having become famous, a painter marries his model whom he soon brings to despair by deceiving her. ... view
Character:
Ronchard
1949
A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he lives with his stepdaughter, Henriette, everybody con ... view
Character:
Saint-Ricquier
Original title: Au Carrefour de la Vie
1949
An UN produced French documentary attempting to illustrate the many causes of juvenile delinquency with particular reference to adverse environmental ... view
Character:
Original title: Le Destin exécrable de Guillemette Babin
1948
Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a littl ... view
Character:
Prosecutor Salavert
1948
A man who has made a pact with death must designate the member of a family who must die the next day. After many hesitations, he will sacrifice the in ... view
Character:
(voice)
Original title: Erreur judiciaire
1948
After a banker is driven to suicide by his wife's reckless spending, an innocent cashier is wrongly implicated in a crime. ... view
Character:
Me Lenoir
1947
The orphan Catherine Maguet, nicknamed "La grande Maguet", was taken in by a young and good chatelaine, Suzanne de Norvaisis. Edmond, the husband of t ... view
Character:
Edmond de Norvaisis
1947
A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness. ... view
Character:
Dr. Michel Berthier
Original title: Brigade criminelle
1947
After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the na ... view
Character:
Commissaire Chabrier
Original title: Mission spéciale
1946
The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the G ... view
Character:
Commissioner Chabrier
Original title: Le Jugement dernier
1945
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love ... view
Character:
Stefan
Original title: Seul dans la nuit
1945
A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his favorite ... view
Character:
Dalbret
Original title: Le Mystère Saint-Val
1945
Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the people around.He is an insure agent ,and his boss ... view
Character:
Max Robertal
1945
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A ... view
Character:
Lawyer
Original title: Premier de cordée
1944
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near ... view
Character:
Hubert de Vallon
Original title: Mon amour est près de toi
1943
An opera singer is stricken with amnesia and, on the evening of a premiere (in his stage costume which is that of a tramp), he goes to wander with rea ... view
Character:
Chambord
Original title: La Main du Diable
1943
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magica ... view
Character:
Le mousquetaire
Original title: Une étoile au soleil
1943
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble ... view
Character:
Pierre de Merlerault
Original title: Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary
1942
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When ... view
Character:
Berthier
1942
A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watch ... view
Character:
Jacques
Original title: Remontons les Champs-Elysées
1938
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself. ... view
Character:
Ludovic Jeune et Jean-Louis Jeune
Original title: La Maison du Maltais
1938
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to Fr ... view
Character:
Friend of Chervin
1936
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stif ... view
Character:
Count Hoyos
Original title: L'Équipage
1935
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a ma ... view
Character:
Brulard