Jess Hahn

Born: 1921-10-29

Jess Hahn's career is a bit of an oddity, being one of very few American actors to establish himself in French cinema in the early 1960's. He acted exclusively in French productions for the duration of his career with the exception of the Marlon Brando vehicle "The Night of the Following Day" in 1968, which was filmed in France. He also appeared in several international coproductions and low budget films by French exploitation director Jean Marie Pallardy, for which he is arguably best-known to contemporary audiences.


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The Trial

as Assistant Inspector #2
Released: 1962-12-21

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on...

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Up to His Ears

as Cornelius
Released: 1965-12-04

A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.

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The Grand Duel

as Bighorse
Released: 1972-12-29

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers...

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Triple Cross

as Commander Braid
Released: 1966-12-09

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

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The Great Spy Chase

as Commodore O'Brien
Released: 1964-12-10

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of...

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Topkapi

as Hans
Released: 1964-09-02

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential...

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What's New Pussycat?

as Peter Werner
Released: 1965-06-22

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love...

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Cartouche

as La Douceur
Released: 1962-03-07

In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways...

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The Wise Guys

as Calderon aka "Nénesse"
Released: 1965-10-22

Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has...

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Atlantic Wall

as Un colonel Britannique
Released: 1970-10-14

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et...

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Sign of the Lion

as Pierre Wesselrin
Released: 1962-05-03

An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using...

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White Fire

as Sam
Released: 1984-07-05

While working in a diamond mine located in the desert, Bo and Ingrid, two siblings who survived...

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Bad Man's River

as Tom Odie
Released: 1971-12-03

Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they...

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The Mysterious Island

as Bonaventure Pencroft
Released: 1973-03-17

1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in...

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Rita the Field Marshal

as Major Bill Hocks
Released: 1967-12-21

A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.

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Nathalie

as Sam
Released: 1957-12-04

Haute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.

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The Sicilian Connection

as Sacha
Released: 1972-12-21

A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time,...

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The Tricyclist

as Daniel
Released: 1957-12-04

Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering,...

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The Postman Goes to War

as Jess Parker
Released: 1966-08-10

The unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the...

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The Happy Road

as MP Sgt. Morgan
Released: 1957-06-20

Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic...

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Rum Runners

as Piet aka "Big Dutch"
Released: 1971-10-13

During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American...

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The Night of the Following Day

as Friendly
Released: 1969-02-19

A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in...

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Teheran '43

as Second Terrorist
Released: 1981-07-08

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the...

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The Novices

as L'Américain
Released: 1970-04-01

A nun and a spirited prostitute convert an ambulance into a bordello on wheels.

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Troubleshooters

as Kongo, La brute américaine
Released: 1971-04-07

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse...

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Sexy Sinners

as Prior (uncredited)
Released: 1972-08-04

During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and...

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The Sicilian

as Raffles
Released: 1958-11-26

A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne...

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Your Turn to Die

as Boris
Released: 1967-01-01

When Gordon Smash tries to get away with the loot from a successful diamond heist, his fellow...

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La Madelon

as uncredited
Released: 1955-12-02

1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who...

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La Galette du roi

as Morrisson - TV Director
Released: 1986-01-29

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt...

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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

as Jeannot
Released: 1973-11-23

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into...

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Million Dollar Man

as Henry
Released: 1967-08-31

A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money...

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Les Gorilles

as Boris Alexis Alexevich, the make-up artist
Released: 1964-12-23

A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.

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Poison Ivy

as Le marin-geôlier
Released: 1953-05-26

FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss...

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The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen

as Fêtard, le milliardaire noctambule
Released: 1966-02-01

A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona...

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The Saint Lies in Wait

as Hoppy Uniatz
Released: 1966-10-26

Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American...

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No Pockets in a Shroud

as Walter
Released: 1974-10-25

In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing...

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How Not to Rob a Department Store

as uncredited
Released: 1965-02-25

Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.

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Fuller Report, Base Stockholm

as Eddy Bennet
Released: 1968-02-24

Dick Worth (Ken Clark) is an American racing driver in Stockholm to put on an exhibition that...

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Mama Dracula

as The Superintendent
Released: 1980-11-19

A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay alive. The trouble is that...

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Dynamite Jack

as Sergeant Bob
Released: 1961-11-03

Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under...

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The Vintage

as André Morel (uncredited)
Released: 1957-05-08

A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a...

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The Woman Is a Stranger

as Floyd Delaney
Released: 1968-01-17

The psychotic son of a film producer becomes obsessed with a beautiful blonde starlet while in...

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The Tiger Attacks

as Donan
Released: 1959-01-21

Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of...

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The Man from Chicago

as Jeff
Released: 1975-07-10

In Turkey, the son of a rich manager is kidnapped. This boy finds a friend in one of the...

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Le colonel est de la revue

as Jess
Released: 1957-03-01

To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up...

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The Comeuppance

as Bob
Released: 1970-01-09

Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student,...

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Secret Agent Super Dragon

as Baby Face
Released: 1966-02-17

A series of murders in Michigan lead an American secret agent to Amsterdam, where he uncovers a...

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Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir

as uncredited
Released: 1975-05-24

A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the...

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Docteur Caraïbes

as uncredited
Released: 1970-07-29

The islands of the Caribbean Sea. Tiberio, an astonishing junk dealer, runs a store selling bits...

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Time Bomb

as Le marin blessé
Released: 1959-01-20

Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.

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Three Tough Guys

as The Bartender
Released: 1974-05-29

Isaac Hayes plays as Lee in his feature film debut, as Father Charlie and himself solve a bank...

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A Woman Like Satan

as uncredited
Released: 1959-02-13

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of...

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The Lebanese Mission

as Le valet
Released: 1956-09-12

In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean...

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When a Woman Meddles

as 'La Couture'
Released: 1957-11-15

Quand la Femme S'en Mele (When the Woman Butts In) stars French film favorite Edwige Feuillere...

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Johnny West

as Manager
Released: 1977-09-22

Film by Koller.

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The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne

as le capitaine du bar
Released: 1954-05-31

Cyprien and his friends Hector Colomb and Annette are penniless and desperate. They need someone...

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Supergirl

as Polonsky
Released: 1971-05-14

In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another...

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Gorilla's Waltz

as Ted the Hook
Released: 1959-10-07

This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The...

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Overdose

as Le docteur
Released: 1989-12-08

Karen, a beautiful air hostess, is implied by her fiance in international drug trafficking:...

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Mandrin met le feu aux poudres

as Bertrand, 'le braco'
Released: 1962-12-19

It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people,...

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Give 'em Hell

as American sailor in 'Paradise' (uncredited)
Released: 1955-03-29

During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer...

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Girl on the Third Floor

as L'Américain (uncredited)
Released: 1955-08-02

A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.

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The Desert of Pigalle

as Bill
Released: 1958-04-02

A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there...

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The Best Part

as Karl
Released: 1955-12-30

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge...

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L'Amour des 4 colonels

as Wesley
Released: 1969-12-24

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Que personne ne sorte

as Bugsy Weis
Released: 1964-07-29

Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an...

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Treize

as Bob
Released: 1981-06-14

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Let's Be Daring, Madame

as Edward Butterfield dit 'Eddy'
Released: 1957-06-07

Two couples of friends who have arranged to meet in the woods get lost and find themselves in an...

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Honey, Scare Me

as Chris Craft, the American spy
Released: 1958-03-06

A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a...

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Fernand cow-boy

as Jim Mariane
Released: 1956-09-06

Fernand has just inherited a saloon in Texas from an uncle in America. Despite his inheritance,...

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Deux de l'escadrille

as uncredited
Released: 1953-01-30

During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by...

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The Artless One

as uncredited
Released: 1972-03-03

Inspired by a Voltaire tale, a satire of society and its values through the astonished and...

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A Blonde Like That

as Sam
Released: 1963-02-01

Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father...

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Meeting in Paris

as Henry
Released: 1956-05-02

A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A...

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To Catch a Spy

as Kalpannen
Released: 1957-03-15

The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national...

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Tonight We Kill

as Dave, le copain de Larry
Released: 1959-09-15

In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining...

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Sahara on Fire

as Jeff Gordon
Released: 1961-01-18

A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him,...

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The Flea in the Ear

as Rugby
Released: 1956-09-22

Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. She received a...

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My Uncle from Texas

as Brad
Released: 1962-09-28

In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas....

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Tant qu'il y aura des femmes

as uncredited
Released: 1955-09-14

A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife.

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At Theatre Tonight

as Ogden
First aired: 1966-07-21

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The...

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Great Performances

as Blucher
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Les 400 Coups de Virginie

as Humphrey
First aired: 1979-12-22

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Mysterious Island

as Bonaventure Pencroft
First aired: 1973-12-17

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