Jo Dest
Jo Dest is known for The Wages of Fear (1953), The Damned (1947) and Flesh and the Woman (1954).
The Wages of Fear
as Hans SmerloffIn a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin...
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The Damned
as ForsterA group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of...
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Return to Life
as German (segment "Le retour de Jean")In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war...
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The Glass Castle
as Un assesseurEvelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon...
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Poison Ivy
as Harley Chase - l'américain ruinéFBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss...
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Mr. Orchid
as German Colonel Müller (uncredited)This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the...
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Full House
as (uncredited)Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution...
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Mission in Tangier
as Von Kloster, head of the German agentsDuring the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret...
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The Contessa's Secret
as Léopold - le grand-duc de ToscaneThe lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her...
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Good Lord Without Confession
as WeberStuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine,...
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Flesh and the Woman
as Karl, boss of the bistroIn this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his...
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Behind These Walls
as German policeman (uncredited)June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks...
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Man to Men
as uncreditedThe story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red...
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Resistance
as uncreditedAn Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and...
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Stain on the Snow
as GermanLa neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon....
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A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Un allemand (uncredited)Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the...
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Sky Battalion
as (uncredited)Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training...
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The Big Meeting
as Von StoffelOne of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied...
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Rue des Saussaies
as PolicemanThe brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal...
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Firemen's Ball
as Dr. Frantz1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the...
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The Sharks of Gibraltar
as William JonesIn order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy...
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Farewell Mister Grock
as German Traveler (uncredited)The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world...
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