Jean Desailly
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.849 |
| Birthday | 1920-08-24 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Жан Десайи, Jean Dessailly, |
1981
The Professional
7.242/508
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to...
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The Professional
1964
The Soft Skin
7.175/194
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He starts a love affair with air hostess...
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The Soft Skin
1998
Le radeau de la Méduse
6.3/3
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis...
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Le radeau de la Méduse
1972
The Assassination of Trotsky
5/38
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
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The Assassination of Trotsky
1962
Le Doulos
7.408/245
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what sh...
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Le Doulos
1972
Un Flic
6.613/231
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist...
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Un Flic
1958
The Possessors
6.932/37
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business a...
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The Possessors
1946
Sylvia and the Ghost
6.7/21
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father h...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
1968
Franciscan of Bourges
6.1/11
Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance member...
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Franciscan of Bourges
1955
The Grand Manoeuvre
6.069/29
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothi...
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The Grand Manoeuvre
1967
The 25th Hour
7.74/48
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's gove...
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The 25th Hour
1959
The Great Deception
5.9/7
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit...
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The Great Deception
1959
125, rue Montmartre
7.675/60
Desperate, Didier throws hymself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.Once, as...
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125, rue Montmartre
1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.8/23
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
1973
The Inheritor
6.3/79
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his fath...
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The Inheritor
1960
The Baron of the Locks
6.4/25
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town...
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The Baron of the Locks
1949
Keep an Eye on Amelia
6.192/13
Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is called off for military du...
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
1999
La Dilettante
5.8/33
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzer...
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La Dilettante
1946
Loves, Delights and Organs
0/0
The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music.
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Loves, Delights and Organs
1946
Pastoral Symphony
6.2/15
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
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Pastoral Symphony
1945
Father Goriot
7/1
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
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Father Goriot
1961
The Passion of Slow Fire
6.607/14
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is...
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The Passion of Slow Fire
1943
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
7.3/6
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1973
The Serpent
6.2/41
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-exami...
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The Serpent
1958
Maigret Sets a Trap
7/85
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret...
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Maigret Sets a Trap
1950
Chéri
5.7/6
Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother's friends, all high...
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Chéri
1961
The Laws of War
6/1
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot...
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The Laws of War
1979
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
5.2/19
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of findin...
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I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1946
The Revenge of Roger
7/4
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of...
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The Revenge of Roger
1947
Square of Knaves
1/1
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer tha...
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Square of Knaves
1951
Bullfight
0/0
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from t...
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Bullfight
1949
The Mark Of The Day
8/2
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young enginee...
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The Mark Of The Day
1946
Homeland
5/1
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against...
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Homeland
1961
Famous Love Affairs
4.2/4
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Famous Love Affairs
1974
The Irony of Chance
5.4/5
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The Irony of Chance
1970
Countdown to Vengeance
5.9/9
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Franco...
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Countdown to Vengeance
1969
Le deuxième coup de feu
0/0
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Le deuxième coup de feu
1985
La Dixième de Beethoven
0/0
Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic. He is fitted with a hearing a...
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La Dixième de Beethoven
1990
Équipe de nuit
0/0
Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their parents...
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Équipe de nuit
1966
The Dance of the Heron
6/1
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch...
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The Dance of the Heron
1988
Cambiamento d'aria
9/2
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Cambiamento d'aria
1965
The Two Orphans
0/0
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
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The Two Orphans
1961
One Night at the Beach
4.7/3
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as...
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One Night at the Beach
1960
Premeditated
4/1
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only be...
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Premeditated
1960
The Dance of Death
0/0
On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival, Simon is offered a job as a bodyguard of a millio...
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The Dance of Death
1979
La pitié dangereuse
0/0
Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple lieutenant Anton Hofmiller and Edith, the paralyzed...
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La pitié dangereuse
1984
Le fou du roi
2.3/3
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels.
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Le fou du roi
2018
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
6/1
A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac
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Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
1988
Les Tisserands du pouvoir
0/0
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir
1988
Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
0/0
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
1951
Chicago Digest
0/0
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
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Chicago Digest
1945
The Last Judgment
0/0
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love...
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The Last Judgment
1948
Just a Big Simple Girl
0/0
The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Stepha between the young first and the director.
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Just a Big Simple Girl
1949
L'échafaud peut attendre
0/0
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lo...
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L'échafaud peut attendre
1949
La Veuve et l'innocent
0/0
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proc...
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La Veuve et l'innocent
1950
Véronique
0/0
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter deci...
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Véronique
1951
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
0/0
Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the disput...
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Tomorrow We Get Divorced
1952
With André Gide
1/3
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-t...
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With André Gide
1952
Jocelyn
0/0
In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie. In 1793, on the point of being ordained a p...
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Jocelyn
1980
Heads or Tails
6.9/24
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company...
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Heads or Tails
1969
You Will Reap the Tempest
0/0
Montage film dedicated to the Resistance, under German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with documents from French, Canadian, American, English and Germa...
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You Will Reap the Tempest
1970
The Comeuppance
5/9
Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning revenge against t...
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The Comeuppance
1962
The Seven Deadly Sins
5.6/16
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates i...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
1971
Le Misanthrope
0/0
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Le Misanthrope
1962
La luxure
8.2/3
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN...
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La luxure
1979
The Skirt Chaser
5.9/30
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to fo...
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The Skirt Chaser
1956
Impressions de New York
0/0
(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach...
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Impressions de New York
1969
La Chapelle de Ronchamp
10/1
Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Rochamp (France) and i...
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La Chapelle de Ronchamp
1960
Love and the Frenchwoman
4.9/10
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity,...
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Love and the Frenchwoman
1964
Graduation Year
8/1
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the p...
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Graduation Year
1989
Les Grandes Familles
0/0
A clear-cut and ruthless depiction of the French ruling class between the two World Wars. Whether it's the circles of literature, medicine, journalism...
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