Jacques Gamblin

Jacques Gamblin

Birthday: 1957-11-16

Place of Birth: Granville, Manche, France

Biography: Jacques Gamblin is a French actor. He studied at the Centre dramatique de Caen (Caen Dramatic Arts Centre). Originally, Jacques Gamblin was not destined to act. As a professional technician in a theater company, he came to contact with acting. He then studied at the Comédie de Caen and took his first steps as an actor on stage in Brittany, Totem Theatre in Saint-Brieuc, before joining the National Theatre, directed by Pierre de Rennes Debauche. Then he tried his luck in Paris, carefully choosing his roles and he made his film debut in 1985. In theatre, Jacques Gamblin worked with many directors such as Pierre Claude Yersin, Michel Dubois, Jeanne Champagne, Philippe Adrien, Alfredo Arias, Charles Tordjman, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Gildas Bourdet, and Anne Bourgeois. He is also the author of plays such as The Touch Hardware and hip (1997). Source: Article "Jacques Gamblin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Holy Lola
Holy Lola

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What a Drag
What a Drag

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The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life....

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Say Cheese
Say Cheese

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All That... for This?!
All That... for This?!

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The Merry Widow
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Just The Three of Us
Just The Three of Us

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Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
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The Children of the Marshland
The Children of the Marshland

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Carnage
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Bellamy
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Home
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The Tiger Brigades
The Tiger Brigades

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The Color of Lies
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The Beautiful Story
The Beautiful Story

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Fragile(s)
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Hell
Hell

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Nickel and Dime
Nickel and Dime

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Dr. Akagi
Dr. Akagi

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My Man
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L'Infiltré
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Les Irréductibles
Les Irréductibles

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The Names of Love
The Names of Love

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Safe Conduct
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The Car Keys
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There Were Days... and Moons
There Were Days... and Moons

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Blind Man
Blind Man

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The First Man
The First Man

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Van Gogh: Brush with Genius
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Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle

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La femme à abattre
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Les Miserables
Les Miserables

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À la Mode
À la Mode

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Hell Train
Hell Train

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Vaines recherches
Vaines recherches

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Dissonances
Dissonances

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In Your Wake
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25 Degrees in Winter
25 Degrees in Winter

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Holidays by the Sea
Holidays by the Sea

A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation....

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Le Salsifis du Bengale
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Proper Attire Required
Proper Attire Required

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The Tiger and The President
The Tiger and The President

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L'Homme debout
L'Homme debout

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Girls with Guns
Girls with Guns

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'Till Death Do Us Part
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Sacrifice paysan
Sacrifice paysan

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Paris Countdown
Paris Countdown

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Les brouches
Les brouches

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Mauvais Genre
Mauvais Genre

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Les clients d'Avrenos
Les clients d'Avrenos

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Verdon secret
Verdon secret

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The Finishers
The Finishers

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Bella ciao
Bella ciao

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Une vie française
Une vie française

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La mesure des choses
La mesure des choses

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Week-ends
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Himalayan Gold rush
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24 Days
24 Days

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Hippocrates
Hippocrates

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My Father's Secrets
My Father's Secrets

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Christian Dior: The Man Behind the Myth
Christian Dior: The Man Behind the Myth

Documentary about the life of Christian Dior and the founding of his fashion house in Paris....

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Harvey
Harvey

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I Have Dreamed Of You So Much
I Have Dreamed Of You So Much

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Father Son Therapy
Father Son Therapy

A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip....

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Pétain, such a popular hero
Pétain, such a popular hero

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Serko
Serko

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A Volcano Odyssey
A Volcano Odyssey

The epic story of the life of a volcano, capable of both causing the extinction of all things and he...

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Yarsagumbu, l'or de l'Himalaya
Yarsagumbu, l'or de l'Himalaya

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Les diablogues
Les diablogues

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The Ideal Palace
The Ideal Palace

Follows Joseph Ferdinand Chavel a French postman who built a palace in the French countryside over 3...

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Au petit Marguery
Au petit Marguery

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Inondations : une menace planétaire
Inondations : une menace planétaire

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Au cœur des robots
Au cœur des robots

A captivating and vertiginous documentary on the relations between man and machines, in the heart of...

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Le voyageur sans bagage
Le voyageur sans bagage

We see how a man, who has no memory of his past, deals with his past when he finds out about it....

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Fred Astaire donne le 'la'
Fred Astaire donne le 'la'

Success is inevitable for a musical in which Fred Astaire appears - if it was also written by one of...

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Goodbye Princess
Goodbye Princess

Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old...

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Couchettes express
Couchettes express

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The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol

Spring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to celebrate...

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A Grain of Sand in the Gear
A Grain of Sand in the Gear

A chronicle of a year of health crisis. A film that travels to the four corners of the planet to que...

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Périgord noir
Périgord noir

The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the t...

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Une histoire d'amour à la con
Une histoire d'amour à la con

The love story of Pascal and Hélène who meet at Françoise's birthday party and the love story of Gér...

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Connemara
Connemara

Born into a modest family, Hélène left the Vosges a long time ago. Today, a sudden burn-out forces h...

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L'été 36
L'été 36

In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vac...

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