Jean Desailly
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.
The Professional
as MinistreFrench secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala....
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Le Doulos
as The Superintendant ClainEnigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (segment "La luxure")Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a...
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The Soft Skin
as Pierre LachenayPierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of...
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Un Flic
as Distinguished ManA Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s...
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The Inheritor
as Jean-Pierre CarnavanAfter his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim...
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The Serpent
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies...
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Maigret Sets a Trap
as Marcel MaurinFour women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
as MarivauxWitty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by...
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The Grand Manoeuvre
as Victor DuvergerArmand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses...
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The 25th Hour
as Le ministreA Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The...
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The Skirt Chaser
as Charles-EdmondA discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and...
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125, rue Montmartre
as Commissaire DodelotDesperate, Didier throws hymself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s...
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The Assassination of Trotsky
as Alfred RosmerA Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
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Famous Love Affairs
as le baron Adrien de JonchèreAnthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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The Baron of the Locks
as Mr. Maurice MontbernonThe lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new...
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The Possessors
as François Schoudler, le filsNoël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press -...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
as FrederickA teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her...
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La Dilettante
as Edmond ThibaultPierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent...
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Love and the Frenchwoman
as Le narrateur (voix) (L'Adolescence)The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a...
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Father Goriot
as BianchonAn old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in...
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Premeditated
as Judge LenoirBernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion....
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Le radeau de la Méduse
as La TullayeIranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the...
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La luxure
as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de BernardThis short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While...
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Jocelyn
as JocelynIn 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger...
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Pastoral Symphony
as Jacques Martens - his sonA minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
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Heads or Tails
as Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la policeSince his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse,...
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I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Le directeur de la PJIn this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host...
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Franciscan of Bourges
as M. ToledanoAlbert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is...
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The Passion of Slow Fire
as Stéphane BlanchonStéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young...
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One Night at the Beach
as Dr FrancisUn soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean...
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Le fou du roi
as Louis XIVDieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates...
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The Last Judgment
as KyrilIn Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced...
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The Comeuppance
as le commissairePhilippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student,...
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The Great Deception
as le Roi Louis XVBurgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth...
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With André Gide
as Narrator (voice)Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler,...
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The Mark Of The Day
as LarzacIn a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
as Gilles MauvoisinA young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who...
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The Dance of Death
as Fred PellmannOn his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After...
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The Two Orphans
as Le comte de LinièresA story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
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Homeland
as KarlooBrussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish...
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The Revenge of Roger
as Raymond de NoirvilleRoger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There,...
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
as Marcel CourboisYoung Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend...
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Chicago Digest
as uncreditedThis comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to...
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The Laws of War
as Uhrmacher RedeDuring WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train,...
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Countdown to Vengeance
as Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices...
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L'échafaud peut attendre
as Michel VincentA trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his...
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Chéri
as Fred Peloux, dit 'Chéri'Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives...
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Tomorrow We Get Divorced
as Max BlachetMax and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then...
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Véronique
as FlorestanThe king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the...
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La pitié dangereuse
as Mr. de KesfalvaSet in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between...
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Loves, Delights and Organs
as Jean PelletierThe head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his...
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Just a Big Simple Girl
as MichelThe tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress...
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Graduation Year
as uncreditedIn a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their...
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Équipe de nuit
as Le pèreQuentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the...
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La Dixième de Beethoven
as Stephen FauldgatePlay by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door...
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La Veuve et l'innocent
as Claude GirelleNicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It...
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Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
as Self (archive footage)A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac
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You Will Reap the Tempest
as Narrator (voice)Montage film dedicated to the Resistance, under German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with...
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The Dance of the Heron
as EdouardThe rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's...
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La Chapelle de Ronchamp
as NarratorHarmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La...
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Bullfight
as Narrator (voice)The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the...
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The Accursed Kings
as Le narrateur (voix)It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three...
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Orient Express
as PaulA six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a...
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Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge
as Morand, le chevalier de Maison-RougeThis historic mini-series is set just after the execution of Louis XVI and follows the actions...
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