Jacques Spiesser
Birthday: 1947-06-07
Place of Birth: Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Biography: Jacques Spiesser (born 7 June 1947) is a French actor. He stars as detective Simon Magellan in the television series Commissaire Magellan. which ran for six seasons in France. After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film debut in 1972 in Nina Companeez's Faustine et le bel été with Muriel Catala. He is best known to English-speaking audiences for playing the role of Gilles in Priceless. Source: Article "Jacques Spiesser" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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My Best Friend
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Priceless
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Je suis Pierre Rivière
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Black and White in Color
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Folie suisse
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The Hook
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Lily Sometimes
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Coco
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De l'histoire ancienne
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Preuve d'amour
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Baxter
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The Trout
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
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The Slap
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The Blonde with Bare Breasts
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C'est la vie
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In Your Wake
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Fissures
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She's One of Us
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Autopsie d’un complot
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After the Reconciliation
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Die Jahrhundertlawine
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Marie-Octobre
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L'Affaire Seznec
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Nothing to Report
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The Chalk Circle Man
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A Place On Earth
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Madame Jacques on the Croisette
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The Missing Granddaughter
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The Gordji Affair
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Neptunes Thunder
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Seeking Whom He May Devour
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A Dubious Place
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La solitude du pouvoir
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Jean Moulin, une affaire française
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Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
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One Summer
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L'Affaire Dominici
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D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
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A Man and His Dog
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The Last Diamond
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The Devil in the Heart
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Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
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The Man Who Sleeps
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Nature contre nature
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El Corazón de las Tinieblas
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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
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Itinéraires
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Le temps de la désobéissance
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Mourir d'aimer
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Mom Lost It!
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Celle qui reste
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Duplicity
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On a volé Charlie Spencer !
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Here Below
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The Irony of Chance
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Little Marcel
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Un animal doué de déraison
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Le mas Théotime
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Stavisky...
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A City Is Beautiful at Night
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Quand sort la recluse
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Serious as Pleasure
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L’homme imaginé
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All That... for This?!
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Sous les vents de Neptune
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Rembrandt
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A Bad Encounter
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Thick Skinned
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Lulu, roi de France
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Lumière
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Bay of Algiers
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La veuve Tatouée
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Modern Life
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