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Jean Desailly
Born: 24th Aug 1920 Paris, France - Died 11th Jun 2008
Dept: Acting
Jean Desailly (August 24, 1920, Paris – June 11, 2008) was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 – 1946, and later participated in about ninety movies. Desailly was married to the French actress Simone Valère.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 92
Film: 79 (86%)
Television: 13 (14%)
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Filmography
2021
We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censor ... view
Character:
2018
A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
1999
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzer ... view
Character:
Edmond Thibault
1998
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis ... view
Character:
La Tullaye
1990
Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their parent ... view
Character:
Le père
Nov 1989 (first aired)
A clear-cut and ruthless depiction of the French ruling class between the two World Wars. Whether it's the circles of literature, medicine, journalism ... view
Character:
Père Boudref (4 ep.)
1988
Lori Saint-Just, a master jeweler shattered by his wife’s death, relocates and becomes obsessed with Cona, a prostitute who first entices then rebuf ... view
Character:
Ricky Lefèvre
1985
Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic. He is fitted with a hearing a ... view
Character:
Stephen Fauldgate
1984
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels. ... view
Character:
Louis XIV
Original title: Le Professionnel
1981
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to ... view
Character:
Ministre
Original title: Pile ou face
1980
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company ... view
Character:
Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la police
1979
Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple lieutenant Anton Hofmiller and Edith, the paralyzed ... view
Character:
Mr. de Kesfalva
Nov 1979 (first aired)
A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; e ... view
Character:
Paul (1 ep.)
Original title: Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette
1979
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of findin ... view
Character:
Le directeur de la PJ
Original title: Le Cavaleur
1979
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to fo ... view
Character:
Charles-Edmond
Apr 1978 (first aired)
A coming-of-age miniseries based on the well-known "Claudine" stories by the French bisexual actor and author Sidonie Gabrielle Colette. ... view
Character:
Claude, le père de Claudine (4 ep.)
Original title: L'Ironie du sort
1974
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise co ... view
Character:
M. Desvrières
Original title: Le Serpent
1973
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-exami ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Original title: L'Héritier
1973
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his fath ... view
Character:
Jean-Pierre Carnavan
Dec 1972 (first aired)
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughte ... view
Character:
Le narrateur (voix) (6 ep.)
Original title: Un flic
1972
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a hei ... view
Character:
Distinguished Man
Original title: L'Assassinat de Trotsky
1972
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940. ... view
Character:
Alfred Rosmer
Jan 1972 (first aired)
Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the O ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Comptes à rebours
1970
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Franc ... view
Character:
Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose
Original title: L'Ardoise
1970
Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning revenge against ... view
Character:
le commissaire
Original title: Tu moissonneras la tempête
1969
Montage film dedicated to the Resistance, under German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with documents from French, Canadian, American, English and Germa ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1969
Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Rochamp (France) and i ... view
Character:
Narrator
Original title: Le Franciscain de Bourges
1968
Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance member ... view
Character:
Monsieur Toledano
Original title: La Vingt-cinquième Heure
1967
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's gove ... view
Character:
Le ministre (uncredited)
Original title: De Dans van de Reiger
1966
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch ... view
Character:
Edouard
Original title: Les Deux Orphelines
1965
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again. ... view
Character:
Count of Linières
Original title: La Peau douce
1964
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which ... view
Character:
Pierre Lachenay
Original title: L'Année du bac
1964
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the p ... view
Character:
Mr. Terrenoire
Mar 1963 (first aired)
This historic mini-series is set just after the execution of Louis XVI and follows the actions of a group of loyal royalists, led by the Chevalier de ... view
Character:
Morand, le chevalier de Maison-Rouge (4 ep.)
1962
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what sh ... view
Character:
Superintendant Clain
Original title: La Luxure
1962
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN ... view
Character:
Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard
Original title: Les Sept Péchés capitaux
1962
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates i ... view
Character:
Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (segment "La luxure")
Original title: Amours célèbres
1961
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis. ... view
Character:
le baron Adrien de Jonchère
Original title: Un soir sur la plage
1961
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as ... view
Character:
Dr Francis
Original title: Legge di guerra
1961
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot ... view
Character:
Uhrmacher Rede
Original title: La Mort de Belle
1961
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, i ... view
Character:
Stéphane Blanchon
Original title: La Française et l'Amour
1960
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, ... view
Character:
Le narrateur (voice) (segment "L'Adolescence")
Original title: Le Saint mène la danse
1960
On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival, Simon is offered a job as a bodyguard of a millio ... view
Character:
Fred Pellmann
Original title: Le Baron de l'écluse
1960
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town ... view
Character:
Mr. Maurice Montbernon
Original title: Préméditation
1960
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only be ... view
Character:
Judge Lenoir
Original title: Le Secret du chevalier d'Éon
1959
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit ... view
Character:
le Roi Louis XV
1959
Desperate, Didier throws himself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.Once, a ... view
Character:
Commissaire Dodelot
Original title: Les Grandes Familles
1958
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business ... view
Character:
François Schoudler, le fils
Original title: Maigret tend un piège
1958
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret ... view
Character:
Marcel Maurin
Character:
Self - Narrator(voice)
1956
(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reiche ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
Original title: Les Grandes Manœuvres
1955
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothi ... view
Character:
Victor Duverger
Original title: Si Versailles m'était conté
1953
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, ... view
Character:
Marivaux
Original title: Avec André Gide
1952
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger- ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1952
In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie. In 1793, on the point of being ordained a p ... view
Character:
Jocelyn
1951
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir. ... view
Character:
Original title: La Course de taureaux
1951
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from t ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Demain nous divorçons
1951
Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the disput ... view
Character:
Max Blachet
1950
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter deci ... view
Character:
Florestan
1950
Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother's friends, all hig ... view
Character:
Fred Peloux, dit 'Chéri'
Original title: Occupe-toi d'Amélie..!
1949
A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake m ... view
Character:
Marcel Courbois
1949
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proc ... view
Character:
Claude Girelle
Original title: Le Point du jour
1949
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young engine ... view
Character:
Larzac
1949
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become ... view
Character:
Michel Vincent
Original title: Une grande fille toute simple
1948
The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Stepha between the young first and the director. ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: Carré de valets
1947
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer tha ... view
Character:
Jacques de la Bastide
Original title: Collège Swing
1947
The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music. ... view
Character:
Jean Pelletier
Original title: La Revanche de Roger la Honte
1946
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of ... view
Character:
Raymond de Noirville
Original title: Patrie
1946
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against ... view
Character:
Karloo
Original title: La Symphonie pastorale
1946
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son. ... view
Character:
Jacques Martens - his son
Original title: Sylvie et le fantôme
1946
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father h ... view
Character:
Frederick
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:
Kyril
Original title: Le Père Goriot
1945
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac. ... view
Character:
Bianchon
1943
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they ... view
Character:
Gilles Mauvoisin