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Jean Desailly

Jean Desailly

Jean Desailly

1920-08-24

Paris, France

ACTING

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.

Best known for:

The Professional

Le Doulos

A Cop

The Soft Skin

Maigret Sets a Trap

The Inheritor

125 rue Montmartre

The 25th Hour

The Possessors

Heads or Tails

The Assassination of Trotsky

The Serpent

The Skirt Chaser

La Dilettante

The Grand Manoeuvre

The Baron of the Locks

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Sylvia and the Ghost

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs

Pastoral Symphony

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Passion of Slow Fire

Keep an Eye on Amelia

The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret

Franciscan of Bourges

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Filmography:

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
APPEREAD AS:
Gilles Mauvoisin
Father Goriot (1945)
APPEREAD AS:
Bianchon
The Last Judgment (1945)
APPEREAD AS:
Kyril
Sylvia and the Ghost (1946)
APPEREAD AS:
Frederick
Pastoral Symphony (1946)
APPEREAD AS:
Jacques Martens - his son
Homeland (1946)
APPEREAD AS:
Karloo
The Revenge of Roger (1946)
APPEREAD AS:
Raymond de Noirville
Loves, Delights and Organs (1947)
APPEREAD AS:
Jean Pelletier

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Just a Big Simple Girl (1948)
APPEREAD AS:
Michel
Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)
APPEREAD AS:
Marcel Courbois
The Mark of the Day (1949)
APPEREAD AS:
Larzac
L'échafaud peut attendre (1949)
APPEREAD AS:
Michel Vincent
La Veuve et l'innocent (1949)
APPEREAD AS:
Claude Girelle
Chéri (1950)
APPEREAD AS:
Fred Peloux, dit 'Chéri'
Véronique (1950)
APPEREAD AS:
Florestan
Bullfight (1951)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice)

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Tomorrow We Get Divorced (1951)
APPEREAD AS:
Max Blachet
With André Gide (1952)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice)
Jocelyn (1952)
APPEREAD AS:
Jocelyn
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
APPEREAD AS:
Marivaux
The Grand Manoeuvre (1955)
APPEREAD AS:
Victor Duverger
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
5.7
APPEREAD AS:
Marcel Maurin
The Possessors (1958)
5.5
APPEREAD AS:
François Schoudler, le fils
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni (1958)
APPEREAD AS:
Hero
125 rue Montmartre (1959)
6.3
APPEREAD AS:
Commissaire Dodelot
The Great Deception (1959)
APPEREAD AS:
le Roi Louis XV
The Baron of the Locks (1960)
APPEREAD AS:
Mr. Maurice Montbernon
Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
APPEREAD AS:
Le narrateur (voice) (segment "L'Adolescence")
The Dance of Death (1960)
APPEREAD AS:
Fred Pellmann
Premeditated (1960)
APPEREAD AS:
Judge Lenoir
Famous Love Affairs (1961)
APPEREAD AS:
le baron Adrien de Jonchère
The Laws of War (1961)
APPEREAD AS:
Uhrmacher Rede
The Passion of Slow Fire (1961)
APPEREAD AS:
Stéphane Blanchon
One Night at the Beach (1961)
APPEREAD AS:
Dr Francis
Le Doulos (1962)
6.1
APPEREAD AS:
Superintendant Clain
The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
APPEREAD AS:
Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (segment "La luxure")
Lust (1962)
APPEREAD AS:
Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard
Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge (1963)
APPEREAD AS:
Morand, le chevalier de Maison-Rouge
The Soft Skin (1964)
5.9
APPEREAD AS:
Pierre Lachenay
Graduation Year (1964)
APPEREAD AS:
Mr. Terrenoire
Les Fausses Confidences (1964)
APPEREAD AS:
Dorante
Le Bonheur conjugal (1965)
APPEREAD AS:
Le professeur Jean Davennes
The Two Orphans (1965)
APPEREAD AS:
Count of Linières
The Dance of the Heron (1966)
APPEREAD AS:
Edouard
The 25th Hour (1967)
6.5
APPEREAD AS:
Le ministre (uncredited)
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret (1967)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice)
Franciscan of Bourges (1968)
APPEREAD AS:
Monsieur Toledano
Le deuxième coup de feu (1969)
APPEREAD AS:
Olivier Lenoir
You Will Reap the Tempest (1969)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice)
La Chapelle de Ronchamp (1969)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator
Countdown to Vengeance (1970)
APPEREAD AS:
Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose
The Comeuppance (1970)
APPEREAD AS:
le commissaire
Le Misanthrope (1971)
APPEREAD AS:
Philinte
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
3.7
APPEREAD AS:
Alfred Rosmer
A Cop (1972)
5.3
APPEREAD AS:
Distinguished Man
The Accursed Kings (1972)
APPEREAD AS:
Le narrateur (voix)
The Serpent (1973)
4.7
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Inheritor (1973)
4.9
APPEREAD AS:
Jean-Pierre Carnavan
The Irony of Chance (1974)
APPEREAD AS:
M. Desvrières
Claudine (1978)
APPEREAD AS:
Claude, le père de Claudine
The Skirt Chaser (1979)
4.3
APPEREAD AS:
Charles-Edmond
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979)
APPEREAD AS:
Le directeur de la PJ
Orient Express (1979)
APPEREAD AS:
Paul
La pitié dangereuse (1979)
APPEREAD AS:
Mr. de Kesfalva
Heads or Tails (1980)
5.4
APPEREAD AS:
Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la police
The Professional (1981)
5.9
APPEREAD AS:
Ministre
Le fou du roi (1984)
APPEREAD AS:
Louis XIV
La Dixième de Beethoven (1985)
APPEREAD AS:
Stephen Fauldgate
Les Tisserands du pouvoir (1988)
APPEREAD AS:
Auguste Roussel
Cambiamento d'aria (1988)
APPEREAD AS:
Ricky Lefèvre
Équipe de nuit (1990)
APPEREAD AS:
Le père
Le radeau de la Méduse (1998)
APPEREAD AS:
La Tullaye
La Dilettante (1999)
APPEREAD AS:
Edmond Thibault