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Jo Dest
Dept: Acting
Jo Dest is known for The Wages of Fear (1953), The Damned (1947) and Flesh and the Woman (1954).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 22
Film: 22 (100%)
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Filmography
Original title: La contessa di Castiglione
1954
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life. ... view
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Léopold - le grand-duc de Toscane
Original title: Le Grand Jeu
1954
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty ... view
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Karl, boss of the bistro
Original title: La neige était sale
1954
"La neige était sale" is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Fran ... view
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German
Original title: Le Bon Dieu sans confession
1953
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, ... view
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Weber
Original title: La Môme vert-de-gris
1953
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law. ... view
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Harley Chase - l'américain ruiné
Original title: Le Salaire de la peur
1953
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships a ... view
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Hans Smerloff
Original title: Brelan d'as
1952
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret. ... view
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(uncredited)
1951
The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who pretends to be a respectable man. Jeanne has reso ... view
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Policeman
Original title: Le Château de verre
1950
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband a ... view
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Un assesseur
Original title: Le Grand Rendez-vous
1950
One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria. ... view
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Von Stoffel
Original title: Au revoir, monsieur Grock
1950
The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, ret ... view
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German Traveler (uncredited)
Original title: Retour à la vie
1949
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second Worl ... view
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German (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Original title: Mission à Tanger
1949
During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London. ... view
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Von Kloster, head of the German agents
Original title: Le Bal des pompiers
1949
1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, ... view
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Dr. Frantz
Original title: D'homme à hommes
1948
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize. ... view
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Hospital director (uncredited)
Original title: Les Requins de Gibraltar
1947
In order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy Gordon has the ingenious idea of transforming a l ... view
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William Jones
Original title: Les Maudits
1947
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter. ... view
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Forster
Original title: Bataillon du ciel
1947
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de Franc ... view
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(uncredited)
Original title: Le Père tranquille
1946
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing or ... view
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German Colonel Müller (uncredited)
Original title: Un ami viendra ce soir...
1946
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hidi ... view
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Un allemand (uncredited)
Original title: Jéricho
1946
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to Eng ... view
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German policeman (uncredited)
Original title: Peloton d'exécution
1945
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought t ... view
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