Jean Desailly
Birthday: 1920-08-24
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.
Movies
The Professional
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But...
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The Soft Skin
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He s...
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Le radeau de la Méduse
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous ...
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The Assassination of Trotsky
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940....
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Le Doulos
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just relea...
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A Cop
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s havin...
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses path...
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The 25th Hour
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture i...
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Franciscan of Bourges
Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, t...
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The Skirt Chaser
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing an...
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The Last Judgment
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and ki...
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The Inheritor
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his i...
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Just a Big Simple Girl
The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Steph...
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L'échafaud peut attendre
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, ...
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Véronique
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount d...
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La Veuve et l'innocent
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a...
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Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything ca...
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Jocelyn
In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister ...
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The Baron of the Locks
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventure...
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With André Gide
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician,...
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Heads or Tails
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferri...
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, e...
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You Will Reap the Tempest
Montage film dedicated to the Resistance, under German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with documents ...
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The Comeuppance
Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, kno...
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Pastoral Symphony
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son....
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic ...
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The Laws of War
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting...
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Father Goriot
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Pari...
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The Passion of Slow Fire
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American...
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Impressions de New York
(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartó...
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La Chapelle de Ronchamp
Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Cha...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al...
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La Dilettante
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis."...
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The Great Deception
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to ...
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125 rue Montmartre
Desperate, Didier throws himself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the ...
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The Possessors
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - rei...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmoth...
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Loves, Delights and Organs
The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his you...
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Love and the Frenchwoman
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty w...
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Lust
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it ...
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The Serpent
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes ov...
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Maigret Sets a Trap
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't mole...
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Graduation Year
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoug...
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Chéri
Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in ...
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I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a...
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The Revenge of Roger
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he d...
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Square of Knaves
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The...
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Bullfight
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, th...
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The Mark of the Day
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up an...
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Homeland
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occ...
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The Irony of Chance
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened...
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Countdown to Vengeance
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a ...
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La Dixième de Beethoven
Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a ...
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Équipe de nuit
Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family ...
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The Dance of the Heron
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's try...
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Cambiamento d'aria
Lori Saint-Just, a master jeweler shattered by his wife’s death, relocates and becomes obsessed with...
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The Two Orphans
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again....
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One Night at the Beach
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Ma...
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Premeditated
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie...
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The Dance of Death
On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival,...
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La pitié dangereuse
Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple l...
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Le fou du roi
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks...
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Chicago Digest
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Fi...
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