Jean Desailly
Date of birth: 1920-08-24
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Жан Десайи, Jean Dessailly
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.
Movie Credits
The Professional
1981-10-21
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But
The Soft Skin
1964-04-20
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He s
Le radeau de la Méduse
1998-07-15
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972-03-30
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Le Doulos
1962-12-13
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just relea
A Cop
1972-10-01
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s havin
The Grand Manoeuvre
1955-10-26
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses path
The 25th Hour
1967-04-26
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture i
Franciscan of Bourges
1968-04-29
Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, t
The Skirt Chaser
1979-01-17
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing an
The Last Judgment
1945-12-08
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and ki
The Inheritor
1973-03-22
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his i
Just a Big Simple Girl
1948-06-09
The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Steph
L'échafaud peut attendre
1949-02-09
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress,
Véronique
1950-09-01
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount d
La Veuve et l'innocent
1949-08-24
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
1951-02-02
Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything ca
Jocelyn
1952-01-18
In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister
The Baron of the Locks
1960-04-13
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventure
With André Gide
1952-02-22
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician,
Heads or Tails
1980-08-30
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferri
Keep an Eye on Amelia
1949-12-16
A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, e
You Will Reap the Tempest
1969-11-26
Montage film dedicated to the Resistance, under German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with documents
The Comeuppance
1970-01-09
Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, kno
Pastoral Symphony
1946-09-26
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962-03-07
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic
The Laws of War
1961-05-08
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting
Father Goriot
1945-03-22
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Pari
The Passion of Slow Fire
1961-03-02
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American
Impressions de New York
1956-11-01
(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartó
Le Misanthrope
1971-02-20
La Chapelle de Ronchamp
1969-01-01
Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Cha
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943-04-08
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al
The Possessors
1958-11-19
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - rei
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954-02-10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra
125 rue Montmartre
1959-09-09
Desperate, Didier throws himself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the
Loves, Delights and Organs
1947-05-16
The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his you
Sylvia and the Ghost
1946-02-06
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmoth
The Great Deception
1959-09-23
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to
La Dilettante
1999-07-07
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis."
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960-09-16
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty w
Lust
1962-03-07
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it
The Serpent
1973-04-07
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes ov
Maigret Sets a Trap
1958-01-29
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't mole
Graduation Year
1964-02-12
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoug
Chéri
1950-06-28
Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979-04-04
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a
The Revenge of Roger
1946-10-23
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he d
Square of Knaves
1947-12-10
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The
Bullfight
1951-07-10
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, th
The Mark of the Day
1949-04-06
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up an
Homeland
1946-10-22
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occ
Famous Love Affairs
1961-11-03
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
The Irony of Chance
1974-04-30
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened
Countdown to Vengeance
1970-01-29
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a
Le deuxième coup de feu
1969-02-28
La Dixième de Beethoven
1985-03-16
Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a
Équipe de nuit
1990-04-25
Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family
The Dance of the Heron
1966-07-04
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's try
Cambiamento d'aria
1988-01-03
Lori Saint-Just, a master jeweler shattered by his wife’s death, relocates and becomes obsessed with
The Two Orphans
1965-05-24
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
One Night at the Beach
1961-06-14
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Ma
Premeditated
1960-04-08
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie
The Dance of Death
1960-05-25
On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival,
La pitié dangereuse
1979-12-26
Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple l
Le fou du roi
1984-05-16
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018-07-10
A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac
Les Tisserands du pouvoir
1988-10-21
Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
1988-12-16
Chicago Digest
1951-07-24
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Fi
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
1958-02-10
Les Fausses Confidences
1964-03-23
Amphitryon
1960-01-01
Monsieur IL
1962-01-01
La Double Inconstance
1964-01-01