Jean Desailly

Actor Aug 24 (died age 87) Paris, France 1943–2018 (75 year career)

6.1 avg rating

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.

Known For

Film

The Professional

Ministre

Film

Le Doulos

Superintendant Clain

Film

The Soft Skin

Pierre Lachenay

Film

A Cop

Distinguished Man

Film

Maigret Sets a Trap

Marcel Maurin

Film

125 rue Montmartre

Commissaire Dodelot

Film

The 25th Hour

Le ministre (uncredited)

Film

The Inheritor

Jean-Pierre Carnavan

Filmography

Acting (91)

Movies (77)

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

La Dilettante

1999

as Edmond Thibault

5.9

Le radeau de la Méduse

1998

as La Tullaye

6.3

Équipe de nuit

1990

as Le père

Les Tisserands du pouvoir

1988

as Auguste Roussel

Cambiamento d'aria

1988

as Ricky Lefèvre

9.0

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte

1988

La Dixième de Beethoven

1985

as Stephen Fauldgate

Le fou du roi

as Louis XIV

The Professional

as Ministre

Heads or Tails

as Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la police

6.6

La pitié dangereuse

1979

as Mr. de Kesfalva

The Skirt Chaser

1979

as Charles-Edmond

5.6

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs

1979

as Le directeur de la PJ

The Irony of Chance

as M. Desvrières

The Inheritor

as Jean-Pierre Carnavan

6.3

The Serpent

1973

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.1

A Cop

1972

as Distinguished Man

6.6

The Assassination of Trotsky

1972

as Alfred Rosmer

5.1

Le Misanthrope

1971

as Philinte

Countdown to Vengeance

1970

as Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose

5.7

The Comeuppance

1970

as le commissaire

4.3

Le deuxième coup de feu

1969

as Olivier Lenoir

You Will Reap the Tempest

1969

as Narrator (voice)

La Chapelle de Ronchamp

1969

as Narrator

10.0

Franciscan of Bourges

1968

as Monsieur Toledano

6.3

The 25th Hour

1967

as Le ministre (uncredited)

7.6

The Dance of the Heron

1966

as Edouard

6.0

La Cerisaie

1966

as Lopakhine

The Two Orphans

1965

as Count of Linières

The Soft Skin

1964

as Pierre Lachenay

7.1

La Double Inconstance

1964

Graduation Year

1964

as Mr. Terrenoire

8.0

Les Fausses Confidences

1964

as Dorante

The Seven Deadly Sins

1962

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

5.7

Lust

1962

as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard

7.5

Le Doulos

1962

as Superintendant Clain

7.4

Monsieur IL

1962

as Jacques Balmeyer

Famous Love Affairs

1961

as le baron Adrien de Jonchère

3.7

One Night at the Beach

1961

as Dr Francis

4.7

The Passion of Slow Fire

as Stéphane Blanchon

The Laws of War

as Uhrmacher Rede

Premeditated

as Judge Lenoir

Love and the Frenchwoman

1960

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

4.5

The Baron of the Locks

1960

as Mr. Maurice Montbernon

Amphitryon

The Dance of Death

as Fred Pellmann

125 rue Montmartre

as Commissaire Dodelot

The Great Deception

as le Roi Louis XV

The Possessors

as François Schoudler, le fils

6.8

Maigret Sets a Trap

1958

as Marcel Maurin

7.0

La Répétition ou l'Amour puni

1958

as Hero

Les alchimistes

1957

as Self - Narrator(voice)

Impressions de New York

1956

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Grand Manoeuvre

1955

as Victor Duverger

6.0

Royal Affairs in Versailles

1953

as Marivaux

6.6

Jocelyn

1952

as Jocelyn

With André Gide

as Narrator (voice)

Chicago Digest

Bullfight

as Narrator (voice)

Tomorrow We Get Divorced

1951

as Max Blachet

Chéri

1950

as Fred Peloux, dit 'Chéri'

5.7

Véronique

1950

as Florestan

La Veuve et l'innocent

1949

as Claude Girelle

The Mark of the Day

1949

as Larzac

6.8

Keep an Eye on Amelia

1949

as Marcel Courbois

6.2

L'échafaud peut attendre

1949

as Michel Vincent

Just a Big Simple Girl

1948

as Michel

Loves, Delights and Organs

1947

as Jean Pelletier

Square of Knaves

1947

as Jacques de la Bastide

Homeland

as Karloo

Pastoral Symphony

as Jacques Martens - his son

Sylvia and the Ghost

as Frederick

The Revenge of Roger

as Raymond de Noirville

7.0

The Last Judgment

1945

as Kyril

Father Goriot

1945

as Bianchon

7.0

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

1943

as Gilles Mauvoisin

7.1

Television (14)

Les Grandes Familles

1989

as Père Boudref

Champs-Elysées

as Self

Orient Express

as Paul

Claudine

as Claude, le père de Claudine

30 millions d'amis

as Self

Le Grand Échiquier

as Self

Midi trente

as Self

The Accursed Kings

as Le narrateur (voix)

8.0

The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret

1967

as Narrator (voice)

8.7

Le Bonheur conjugal

1965

as Le professeur Jean Davennes

Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge

1963

as Morand, le chevalier de Maison-Rouge

Discorama

1959

as Self - Host

Discorama

1959

as Self - Host

Cinépanorama

1956

as Self

8.0