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
- White Fire as Sam
- How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave as Mac Douglas
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
- Focal Point
- Johnny West as Manager
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
- Mysterious Island as Bonaventure Pencroft
- The Mysterious Island as Bonaventure Pencroft
- Mean Frank and Crazy Tony as Jeannot
1972
- The Grand Duel as Bighorse
- The Sicilian Connection as Sacha
- Sexy Sinners as Prior (uncredited)
- The Artless One as Captain
1971
- Great Performances as Blucher
- Rum Runners as Piet aka "Big Dutch"
- Bad Man's River as Tom Odie
- Supergirl as Polonsky
- Troubleshooters as Kongo, La brute américaine
- Die Sonne angreifen as Hippolit
1970
- The Novices as L'Américain
- Atlantic Wall as British colonel
- The Comeuppance as Bob
- Docteur Caraïbes as Jeff
1969
- The Night of the Following Day as Friendly
- L'Amour des 4 colonels as Wesley
1968
- Fuller Report, Base Stockholm as Eddy Bennet
- The Woman Is a Stranger as Floyd Delaney
1967
- Rita the Field Marshal as Major Bill Hocks
- Your Turn to Die as Boris
- Million Dollar Man as Henry
1966
- At Theatre Tonight as Ogden
- Triple Cross as Commander Braid
- The Saint Lies in Wait as Hoppy Uniatz
- 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
1965
- What's New Pussycat? as Peter Werner
- Up to His Ears as Cornelius
- The Wise Guys as Calderon aka "Nénesse"
- How Not to Rob a Department Store as Palmoni (uncredited)
1964
- The Great Spy Chase as Commodore O'Brien
- Topkapi as Hans
- Les Gorilles as Boris Alexis Alexevich, the make-up artist
- Que personne ne sorte as Bugsy Weis
1963
- A Blonde Like That as Sam
1962
- The Trial as Assistant Inspector #2
- Cartouche as La Douceur
- Sign of the Lion as Pierre Wesselrin
- Mandrin as Bertrand, 'le braco'
- My Uncle from Texas as Brad
1961
- Dynamite Jack as Sergeant Bob
- Sahara on Fire as Jeff Gordon
1959
- The Beast Is Loose as Donan
- Tonight We Kill as Dave, Larry's friend
- Gorilla's Waltz as Ted the Hook
- Time Bomb as Le marin blessé
1958
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Jess Campbell
- A Woman Like Satan as Sidney
- The Sicilian as Raffles
- Honey, Scare Me as Chris Craft, the American spy
- The Desert of Pigalle as Bill
1957
- The Tricyclist as Daniel
- The Vintage as André Morel (uncredited)
- The Happy Road as Morgan
- Nathalie as Sam
- When a Woman Meddles as 'La Couture'
- Le colonel est de la revue as Jess
- To Catch a Spy as Kalpannen
- Let's Be Daring, Madame as Edward Butterfield dit 'Eddy'
1956
- Meeting in Paris as Henry
- Fernand cow-boy as Jim Harlan, Saloon manager
- The Lebanese Mission as Le valet
- The Flea in the Ear as Rugby
1955
- Give 'em Hell as American sailor in 'Paradise' (uncredited)
- Girl on the Third Floor as L'Américain (uncredited)
- La Madelon as American General Gibson
- The Best Part as Karl
- Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
1954
- The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne as le capitaine du bar
1953
- Poison Ivy as Le marin-geôlier
- Deux de l'escadrille