Jess Hahn
Born: 1921-10-29 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Died: 1998-06-29
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jess Hahn's career is a bit of an oddity, being one of very few American actors to establish himself in French cinema in the early 1960's. He acted exclusively in French productions for the duration of his career with the exception of the Marlon Brando vehicle "The Night of the Following Day" in 1968, which was filmed in France. He also appeared in several international coproductions and low budget films by French exploitation director Jean Marie Pallardy, for which he is arguably best-known to contemporary audiences.
Filmography
1989
- Overdose as Le docteur
1986
- La Galette du roi as Morrisson - TV Director
1984
- How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave as Mac Douglas
- White Fire as Sam
1983
1981
- Teheran '43 as terrorist on airplane
- Treize as Bob
1980
- Mama Dracula as The Superintendent
1979
- Les 400 Coups de Virginie as Humphrey
1977
- Johnny West as Manager
- Focal Point
1975
- The Man from Chicago as Jeff
- Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir as Senator
1974
- Three Tough Guys as The Bartender
- No Pockets in a Shroud as Walter
1973
- Mean Frank and Crazy Tony as Jeannot
- The Mysterious Island as Bonaventure Pencroft
- Mysterious Island as Bonaventure Pencroft
1972
- The Artless One as Captain
- The Sicilian Connection as Sacha
- The Grand Duel as Bighorse
- Sexy Sinners as Prior (uncredited)
1971
- Great Performances as Blucher
- Troubleshooters as Kongo, La brute américaine
- Bad Man's River as Tom Odie
- Rum Runners as Piet aka "Big Dutch"
- Supergirl as Polonsky
- Die Sonne angreifen as Hippolit
1970
- The Novices as L'Américain
- Docteur Caraïbes as Jeff
- The Comeuppance as Bob
- Atlantic Wall as British colonel
1969
- The Night of the Following Day as Friendly
- L'Amour des 4 colonels as Wesley
1968
- The Woman Is a Stranger as Floyd Delaney
- Fuller Report, Base Stockholm as Eddy Bennet
1967
- Rita the Field Marshal as Major Bill Hocks
- Million Dollar Man as Henry
- Your Turn to Die as Boris
1966
- Triple Cross as Commander Braid
- At Theatre Tonight as Ogden
- Secret Agent Super Dragon as Baby Face
- The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen as Fêtard, le milliardaire noctambule
- The Postman Goes to War as Jess Parker
- The Saint Lies in Wait as Hoppy Uniatz
1965
- Up to His Ears as Cornelius
- How Not to Rob a Department Store as Palmoni (uncredited)
- The Wise Guys as Calderon aka "Nénesse"
- What's New Pussycat? as Peter Werner
1964
- Les Gorilles as Boris Alexis Alexevich, the make-up artist
- The Great Spy Chase as Commodore O'Brien
- Topkapi as Hans
- Que personne ne sorte as Bugsy Weis
1963
- A Blonde Like That as Sam
1962
- Mandrin as Bertrand, 'le braco'
- The Trial as Assistant Inspector #2
- Cartouche as La Douceur
- Sign of the Lion as Pierre Wesselrin
- My Uncle from Texas as Brad
1961
- Dynamite Jack as Sergeant Bob
- Sahara on Fire as Jeff Gordon
1959
- Time Bomb as Le marin blessé
- Tonight We Kill as Dave, Larry's friend
- Gorilla's Waltz as Ted the Hook
- The Tiger Attacks as Donan
1958
- The Sicilian as Raffles
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Jess Campbell
- A Woman Like Satan as Sidney
- The Desert of Pigalle as Bill
- Honey, Scare Me as Chris Craft, the American spy
1957
- To Catch a Spy as Kalpannen
- Nathalie as Sam
- The Tricyclist as Daniel
- The Vintage as André Morel (uncredited)
- The Happy Road as MP Sgt. Morgan
- When a Woman Meddles as 'La Couture'
- Le colonel est de la revue as Jess
- Let's Be Daring, Madame as Edward Butterfield dit 'Eddy'
1956
- Meeting in Paris as Henry
- The Lebanese Mission as Le valet
- The Flea in the Ear as Rugby
- Fernand cow-boy as Jim Harlan, Saloon manager
1955
- La Madelon as American General Gibson
- The Best Part as Karl
- Give 'em Hell as American sailor in 'Paradise' (uncredited)
- Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
- Girl on the Third Floor as L'Américain (uncredited)
1954
- The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne as le capitaine du bar
1953
- Poison Ivy as Le marin-geôlier
- Deux de l'escadrille