Jean Desailly
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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.
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[edit] Selected filmography
- Le voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
- Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
- 1946: Patrie, directed by Louis Daquin
- 1949: Keep an Eye on Amelia
- 1955: Les Grandes manoeuvres, directed by René Clair
- 1958: Les Grandes Familles, directed by Denys de La Patellière
- 1959: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1962: Le Doulos, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1964: The Soft Skin, directed by François Truffaut (as Pierre Lachenay) (nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964; received the Bodil Award for Best European Film in 1965)
- 1972: Un flic
- 1981: Le Professionnel (as Le ministre) (won the Golden Screen Award, 1983)[1]
- 1994: Le Radeau de la Méduse (as La Tullaye)
[edit] Awards and nominations
- 1960: Nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1960, for his role in Maigret tend un piège.
- 2002: Awarded the Molière acting prize.[2]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "Golden Screen, Germany" (Retrieved on June 17, 2008)
- ^ “French actor Desailly, famed on stage and screen, dies”, MSNBC, 12. Juni 2008 (Retrieved on June 17, 2008)
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