Jean Douchet

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-01-19 (90 years old)

Deathday

2019-11-22

Place of Birth

Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France

Jean Douchet

Biography

Jean Douchet (January 19, 1929 – November 22, 2019) was a French film director, historian, film critic and teacher who began his career in the early 1950s at Gazette du Cinéma and Cahiers du cinema with members of the future French New Wave. As a journalist Douchet wrote extensively about New Wave filmmakers, as well as such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Kenji Mizoguchi, Vincente Minnelli, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Daniel Pollet. He enabled Serge Daney to begin working for Cahiers. He also acted in small roles for such directors as Godard, Rohmer, François Truffaut, Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette, Jean Pierre Le...

Acting

1973

The Mother and the Whore

as Café de Flore's Customer (uncredited)

1998

Sitcom

as Psychotherapist

1993

Claude Chabrol, l'entomologiste

as Self - Interviewer

2006

Gardens in Autumn

as Le père de l'huissier

1994

1959

The 400 Blows

as Gilberte's Lover (uncredited)

1982

Employment Offer

as Le directeur

1960

Breathless

as A Journalist (uncredited)

1974

1965

Six in Paris

as A Client (segment "Place de l'Etoile") (uncredited)

2016

Elle

as Party Guest

1999

1965

Place de l'Étoile

as A client (uncredited)

1992

North

as Christian, boss of the pharmacy

1978

Cinématon

as N°66

1981

2014

La photo

as Self

1983

A Brutal Game

as Le Professeur Marchal

1996

God's Comedy

as Antoine Doinel

1980

1960

The Good Girls

as customer (uncredited)

Production

1965

Six in Paris

as Director

1996

La serva amorosa

as Director

1969

Et crac…!

as Writer

1965

Six in Paris

as Writer

1965

2009

À bicyclette

as Director

1969

Et crac…!

as Director

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