Jean Desailly

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-08-24 (88 years old)

Deathday

2008-06-11

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Jean Desailly

Biography

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.

Acting

1981

The Professional

as Ministre

1964

The Soft Skin

as Pierre Lachenay

1998

1972

1962

Le Doulos

as Superintendant Clain

1972

A Cop

as Distinguished Man

1955

The Grand Manoeuvre

as Victor Duverger

1967

The 25th Hour

as Le ministre (uncredited)

1968

Franciscan of Bourges

as Monsieur Toledano

1979

The Skirt Chaser

as Charles-Edmond

1945

1973

The Inheritor

as Jean-Pierre Carnavan

1949

L'échafaud peut attendre

as Michel Vincent

1950

Véronique

as Florestan

1949

La Veuve et l'innocent

as Claude Girelle

1951

1952

Jocelyn

as Jocelyn

1960

The Baron of the Locks

as Mr. Maurice Montbernon

1952

With André Gide

as Narrator (voice)

1980

Heads or Tails

as Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la police

1949

Keep an Eye on Amelia

as Marcel Courbois

1969

You Will Reap the Tempest

as Narrator (voice)

1970

The Comeuppance

as le commissaire

1946

Pastoral Symphony

as Jacques Martens - his son

1962

The Seven Deadly Sins

as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (segment "La luxure")

1961

The Laws of War

as Uhrmacher Rede

1945

Father Goriot

as Bianchon

1961

The Passion of Slow Fire

as Stéphane Blanchon

1971

Le Misanthrope

as Philinte

1943

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

as Gilles Mauvoisin

1999

La Dilettante

as Edmond Thibault

1959

The Great Deception

as le Roi Louis XV

1959

125 rue Montmartre

as Commissaire Dodelot

1958

The Possessors

as François Schoudler, le fils

1946

1947

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as Le narrateur (voice) (segment "L'Adolescence")

1962

Lust

as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard

1973

The Serpent

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1958

Maigret Sets a Trap

as Marcel Maurin

1964

Graduation Year

as Mr. Terrenoire

1950

Chéri

as Fred Peloux, dit 'Chéri'

1946

The Revenge of Roger

as Raymond de Noirville

1947

Square of Knaves

as Jacques de la Bastide

1951

Bullfight

as Narrator (voice)

1949

1946

Homeland

as Karloo

1961

Famous Love Affairs

as le baron Adrien de Jonchère

1974

The Irony of Chance

as M. Desvrières

1970

Countdown to Vengeance

as Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose

1969

Le deuxième coup de feu

as Olivier Lenoir

1985

La Dixième de Beethoven

as Stephen Fauldgate

1990

Équipe de nuit

as Le père

1988

Cambiamento d'aria

as Ricky Lefèvre

1965

The Two Orphans

as Count of Linières

1961

1960

Premeditated

as Judge Lenoir

1960

The Dance of Death

as Fred Pellmann

1979

La pitié dangereuse

as Mr. de Kesfalva

1984

Le fou du roi

as Louis XIV

2018

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

as Self (archive footage)

1988

Les Tisserands du pouvoir

as Auguste Roussel

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