Jean Desailly

Jean Desailly

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

24/08/1920

Day of Death

11/06/2008
(88) years old

Place of Birth

Paris, France

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

Cast

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

1988

Les Tisserands du pouvoir

as Auguste Roussel

1988

Cambiamento d'aria

as Ricky Lefèvre

1985

La Dixième de Beethoven

as Stephen Fauldgate

1984

Le fou du roi

as Louis XIV

1981

The Professional

as Ministre

1980

Heads or Tails

as Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la police

1979

La pitié dangereuse

as Mr. de Kesfalva

1979

The Skirt Chaser

as Charles-Edmond

1974

The Irony of Chance

as M. Desvrières

1973

The Serpent

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1973

The Inheritor

as Jean-Pierre Carnavan

1972

A Cop

as Distinguished Man

1972

The Assassination of Trotsky

as Alfred Rosmer

1971

Le Misanthrope

as Philinte

1970

Countdown to Vengeance

as Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose

1970

The Comeuppance

as le commissaire

1969

You Will Reap the Tempest

as Narrator (voice)

1969

Le deuxième coup de feu

as Olivier Lenoir

1968

Franciscan of Bourges

as Monsieur Toledano

1967

The 25th Hour

as Le ministre (uncredited)

1965

The Two Orphans

as Count of Linières

1964

The Soft Skin

as Pierre Lachenay

1964

Graduation Year

as Mr. Terrenoire

1962

Le Doulos

as Superintendant Clain

1962

The Seven Deadly Sins

as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (se...

1962

Lust

as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard

1961

Famous Love Affairs

as le baron Adrien de Jonchère

1961

One Night at the Beach

as Dr Francis

1961

The Laws of War

as Uhrmacher Rede

1961

The Passion of Slow Fire

as Stéphane Blanchon

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as Le narrateur (voice) (segment "L'Adolesc...

1960

The Dance of Death

as Fred Pellmann

1960

The Baron of the Locks

as Mr. Maurice Montbernon

1960

Premeditated

as Judge Lenoir

1959

The Great Deception

as le Roi Louis XV

1959

125 rue Montmartre

as Commissaire Dodelot

1958

The Possessors

as François Schoudler, le fils

1958

Maigret Sets a Trap

as Marcel Maurin

1955

The Grand Manoeuvre

as Victor Duverger

1952

With André Gide

as Narrator (voice)

1952

Jocelyn

as Jocelyn

1951

Bullfight

as Narrator (voice)

1951

Tomorrow We Get Divorced

as Max Blachet

1950

Véronique

as Florestan

1950

Chéri

as Fred Peloux, dit 'Chéri'

1949

Keep an Eye on Amelia

as Marcel Courbois

1949

La Veuve et l'innocent

as Claude Girelle

1949

The Mark Of The Day

as Larzac

1949

L'échafaud peut attendre

as Michel Vincent

1947

Square of Knaves

as Jacques de la Bastide

1947

Loves, Delights and Organs

as Jean Pelletier

1946

The Revenge of Roger

as Raymond de Noirville

1946

Homeland

as Karloo

1946

Pastoral Symphony

as Jacques Martens - his son

1946

Sylvia and the Ghost

as Frederick

1945

The Last Judgment

as Kyril

1945

Father Goriot

as Bianchon

1943

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

as Gilles Mauvoisin