Jean Marais
Born: 1913-12-11 in Cherbourg, Manche, France
Died: 1998-11-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), known professionally as Jean Marais (French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁɛ]), was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. In 1937, Marais became the lover of acclaimed poet, playwright and film director Jean Cocteau, who considered him his muse and directed him in multiple plays and films, notably Beauty and the Beast (1946). Following their relationship, Marais and Cocteau remained close friends and Marais later endeavored to keep Cocteau's legacy alive. During the post-war period, Marais was one of France's major film stars and performed in various successful swashbuckler films. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Marais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2022
- Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain as Self (archive footage)
- Deneuve, la reine Catherine as Self (archive footage)
2018
- The Image Book as (archive footage)
2011
- Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là as Self (archive footage)
2009
- At World's End as Djoko
2006
- Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Luchino Visconti as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Jean Cocteau, cinéaste as Self
2000
- Federico Fellini's Autobiography as Self (archive footage)
1997
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
- Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths as Self
- Screening at the Majestic as Self - Interviewee
1996
- Stealing Beauty as M. Guillaume
1995
- The World of Jacques Demy as Self (archive footage)
- Les Miserables as Mgr Myriel
- Jean Marais par Jean Marais as Self
1992
- Shipwrecked Children as Marc Antoine
1989
- Damia: Concert en velours noir as Self
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self
- Le monde est à vous as Self
- Lahaye d'honneur as Self
1986
- Lien de parenté as Victor Blaise
1985
- Parking as Hadès / The Devil
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
1978
- Ciné regards as Self
1976
- 30 millions d'amis as Self
- Cérémonie des César as Self - President
- Die 1000 Tode des Yvan Chiffre as Self
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- Apostrophes as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1973
- Joseph Balsamo as Joseph Balsamo
- Karatékas and Co as l'Empereur
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Midi trente as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Donkey Skin as The King
- The Provocation as Christian
- Peau d'Âne as Self
1969
- Le Jouet criminel as Le vieil homme
- Diamond Rush as Manuel Thomas, dit Manu
1968
- À bout portant as Self
1967
- Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard as Fantômas / Fandor / Sir Walter Brown / Giuseppe Luigi
- Seven Guys and a Gal as Captain Dorgeval
1966
- The Saint Lies in Wait as Simon Templar
1965
- Dim Dam Dom as Self
- Fantomas Unleashed as Fantômas / Fandor / Professeur Lefèvre / Marquis de Rostelli
- Killer Spy as Stanislas Dubois
- Ivory Coast Adventure as Jean-Luc Hervé de la Tommeraye
- Operation Double Cross as Antoine Donadieu
- Thomas the Impostor as Le narrateur
1964
- Fantomas as Fantômas / Fandor / Lord Shelton / Vieux gardien de la prison
- Friends of the family as Noël Carradine
- Cherchez l'idole as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
1963
- I misteri di Roma
- The Reluctant Spy as Stanislas
- The Invincible Swordsman as François de Capestan
1962
- The Mysteries of Paris as Rodolphe de Sombreuil
- The Iron Mask as Charles D'Artagnan
- Pontius Pilate as Ponzio Pilato
1961
- Blood on His Sword as Robert de Neuville
- Princess of Cleves as Prince of Clèves
- Romulus and the Sabines as Marte
- Captain Fracasse as Baron Philippe de Sigognac / Captain Fracasse
- Napoléon II, the Eagle as General de Montholon
1960
- Austerlitz as Carnot
- Testament of Orpheus as Oedipe
- Captain Blood as François de Capestang, aka 'Le Capitan'
1959
- Discorama as Self
- The Hunchback of Paris as Henri de Lagardère
1958
- Life Together as Teddy Brooks
- King on Horseback as Henri La Tour
- Every Day Has Its Secret as Xavier Lezcano
- Soleil éteint
1957
- White Nights as L'Inquilino
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki as Pierre Marsac
- S.O.S. Noronha as Frédéric Coulibaud
- A Girl in a Pocket as Prof. Jerome
1956
- Elena and Her Men as Général François Rollan
- If Paris Were Told to Us as François Ier
- The Whole Town Accuses as François Nérac
- Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl as Goubbiah
1955
- Napoleon as Count Montholon
- School for Love as Eric Walter
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantès
- Boom on Paris as lui-même
1953
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Louis XV
- The Healer as Pierre Lachaux dit « Monsieur Laurent »
- The Call of Destiny as Lorenzo Lombardi
- Inside a Girls' Dormitory as Inspecteur Desiré Marco
- Voice of Silence as Andrea Sanna
- The Lovers of Midnight as Marcel Dulac
- Julietta as André Landrecourt
1952
- Love, Madame as Self (uncredited)
- Leathernose as Roger de Tainchebraye
1951
- Miracles Only Happen Once as Jérôme
1950
- Orpheus as Orphée
- The Glass Castle as Rémy Marsay
1949
- The Secret of Mayerling as L'archiduc Rodolphe d'Autriche-Hongrie
1948
- Bambi as Self (archive footage)
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Queen's Lover as Ruy Blas / Don César de Bazan
- The Eagle with Two Heads as Stanislas
- In the Eyes of Memory as Jacques Forestier
- The Storm Within as Michel
1947
- The Royalists as Marquis of Montauran
1946
- Beauty and the Beast as La Bête / Le Prince / Avenant
1944
- Carmen as Don José
1943
- Voyage Without Hope as Alain Ginestier
- The Eternal Return as Patrice
1942
- The Four-Poster Bed as Remy Bonvent
1941
- The Pavilion Burns as Daniel
1938
- Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées as L'Abbé-Précepteur
- The Patriot as (uncredited)
1937
- Bizarre, Bizarre as Le fêtard assommé par un Chinois (uncredited)
1936
- The New Men as Le secrétaire
1934
- The Scandal as Le liftier
- The Adventurer as Le jeune ouvrier
- Le Bonheur as Journalist (uncredited)