Jean Desailly
Born: 1920-08-24 in Paris, France
Died: 2008-06-11
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2018
- Françoise Dorléac, une promesse as Self (archive footage)
1999
- La Dilettante as Edmond Thibault
1998
- Le radeau de la Méduse as La Tullaye
1990
- Équipe de nuit as Le père
1989
- Les Grandes Familles as Père Boudref
1988
- Les Tisserands du pouvoir as Auguste Roussel
- Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
- Cambiamento d'aria as Ricky Lefèvre
1985
- La Dixième de Beethoven as Stephen Fauldgate
1984
- Le fou du roi as Louis XIV
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
1981
- The Professional as Ministre
1980
- Heads or Tails as Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la police
1979
- The Skirt Chaser as Charles-Edmond
- La pitié dangereuse as Mr. de Kesfalva
- I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs as Le directeur de la PJ
- Orient Express as Paul
1978
- Claudine as Claude, le père de Claudine
1976
- 30 millions d'amis as Self
1974
- The Irony of Chance as M. Desvrières
1973
- The Serpent as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Inheritor as Jean-Pierre Carnavan
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Midi trente as Self
- The Assassination of Trotsky as Alfred Rosmer
- The Accursed Kings as Le narrateur (voix)
- A Cop as Distinguished Man
1971
- Le Misanthrope as Philinte
1970
- The Comeuppance as le commissaire
- Countdown to Vengeance as Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose
1969
- La Chapelle de Ronchamp as Narrator
- Le deuxième coup de feu as Olivier Lenoir
- You Will Reap the Tempest as Narrator (voice)
1968
- Franciscan of Bourges as Monsieur Toledano
1967
- The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret as Narrator (voice)
- The 25th Hour as Le ministre (uncredited)
1966
- The Dance of the Heron as Edouard
1965
- Le Bonheur conjugal as Le professeur Jean Davennes
- The Two Orphans as Count of Linières
1964
- The Soft Skin as Pierre Lachenay
- Graduation Year as Mr. Terrenoire
- Les Fausses Confidences as Dorante
- La Double Inconstance
1963
- Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge as Morand, le chevalier de Maison-Rouge
1962
- Lust as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard
- The Seven Deadly Sins as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (segment "La luxure")
- Monsieur IL as Jacques Balmeyer
- Le Doulos as Superintendant Clain
1961
- The Laws of War as Uhrmacher Rede
- The Passion of Slow Fire as Stéphane Blanchon
- One Night at the Beach as Dr Francis
- Famous Love Affairs as le baron Adrien de Jonchère
1960
- Premeditated as Judge Lenoir
- The Baron of the Locks as Mr. Maurice Montbernon
- Love and the Frenchwoman as Le narrateur (voice) (segment "L'Adolescence")
- The Dance of Death as Fred Pellmann
- Amphitryon
1959
- Discorama as Self - Host
- The Great Deception as le Roi Louis XV
- 125 rue Montmartre as Commissaire Dodelot
1958
- Maigret Sets a Trap as Marcel Maurin
- The Possessors as François Schoudler, le fils
- La Répétition ou l'Amour puni as Hero
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Impressions de New York as Self - Narrator (voice)
1955
- The Grand Manoeuvre as Victor Duverger
1954
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Marivaux
1952
- Jocelyn as Jocelyn
- With André Gide as Narrator (voice)
1951
- Chicago Digest
- Bullfight as Narrator (voice)
- Tomorrow We Get Divorced as Max Blachet
1949
- Keep an Eye on Amelia as Marcel Courbois
- La Veuve et l'innocent as Claude Girelle
- The Mark of the Day as Larzac
- L'échafaud peut attendre as Michel Vincent
1948
- Just a Big Simple Girl as Michel
1947
- Loves, Delights and Organs as Jean Pelletier
- Square of Knaves as Jacques de la Bastide
1946
- Homeland as Karloo
- Sylvia and the Ghost as Frederick
- The Revenge of Roger as Raymond de Noirville
- Pastoral Symphony as Jacques Martens - his son
1945
- Father Goriot as Bianchon
- The Last Judgment as Kyril
1943
- Le Voyageur de la Toussaint as Gilles Mauvoisin