Jacqueline Maillan

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1923-01-11 (69 years old)

Deathday

1992-05-12

Place of Birth

Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France

Jacqueline Maillan

Biography

Jacqueline Jeanne Paule Maillan (11 January 1923 - 12 May 1992) was a French actress with a career spanning almost five decades, known primarily for her forty theatre productions, she also appeared in more than fifty films (1947 to 1992) and is remembered as one of the greatest comedic thespians of her generation and even nicknamed "The Louis de Funès in skirt". After working on the classics of French theatre, she excelled in playing exuberant, strong and powerful women in vaudeville and boulevard on stage or in such films as Jean-Marie Poiré's cult Gramps Is in the Resistance (French: Papy fait de la résistance,1983) before pioneering stand-...

Acting

1960

The Door Slams

as Jacqueline

1959

The Magnificent Tramp

as Mme Marjorie

1963

Squeak-squeak

as Cynthia Monestier, la femme de Léonard

1988

The Seasons of Pleasure

as Jacqueline Garibaldi

1983

Gramps Is in the Resistance

as Héléna Bourdelle dit « La Bourdelle »

1976

La facture

as Noëlle

1954

Peek-a-boo

as Mme Maillan, la directrice de la salle

1992

Ville à vendre

as Delphine Martinet, la pharmacienne

1954

The Scheming Women

as une danseuse

1960

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

as Mrs. Jim, la mère puritaine

1969

Call Me Mathilde

as Mathilde de Blanzac

1962

Tartarin de Tarascon

as Mrs. Bézuquet

1963

Who Stole the Body?

as Gin, English

1991

1959

1987

Lily et Lily

as Lily et Déborah Dacosta

1958

Honey, Scare Me

as The spy Natacha Dubrovno

1954

1964

Que personne ne sorte

as Adelia Plunkett

1962

How to Succeed in Love

as Edmée Rondeau

1990

La Femme fardée

as Edma Bautet-Lebrêche

1964

How Do You Like My Sister?

as Charlotte Varangeot

1974

Madame Sans-Gêne

as Catherine Hubscher

1957

Burning Fuse

as Mrs. Catherine, innkeeper

1955

Villa Sans-Souci

as Adélaïde Legardon

1983

Potiche

as Suzanne Pujol

1958

Vive les vacances

as Babette Berkley

1974

Folle Amanda

as Amanda

1959

The Motorcycle Cops

as Dance teacher

1960

The Heirs

as Chantal

1965

The Real Bargain

as Maria Ramirez

1955

The Grand Manoeuvre

as Jeanne Duverger, sister of Victor

1991

Pièce montée

as Françoise Lumière

1954

Royal Affairs in Versailles

as Visitor (uncredited)

1988

1988

1982

Coup de soleil

as Valentine

1961

On purge bébé

as Julie Follavoine

1979

Féfé de Broadway

as Maria Brémont

1978

Le pont japonais

as Sarah Jacoby

2020

Les 60 ans du one-man-show

as Self (archive footage)

1984

Croque-monsieur

as Coco Baisos

2009

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

as Self (archive footage)

1963

People in Luck

as Élisabeth Duchemin (« Le Yacht »)

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