Jess Hahn
Date of birth: 1921-10-29
Place of birth: Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jesse Hahn, Jess Hann, Джесс Хан, Жес Ан
Biography
Jess Hahn's career is a bit of an oddity, being one of very few American actors to establish himself in French cinema in the early 1960's. He acted exclusively in French productions for the duration of his career with the exception of the Marlon Brando vehicle "The Night of the Following Day" in 1968, which was filmed in France. He also appeared in several international coproductions and low budget films by French exploitation director Jean Marie Pallardy, for which he is arguably best-known to contemporary audiences.
Movie Credits
What's New Pussycat?
1965-06-22
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love see
Secret Agent Super Dragon
1966-02-17
A series of murders in Michigan lead an American secret agent to Amsterdam, where he uncovers a plot
Triple Cross
1966-12-09
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An
Topkapi
1964-09-02
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims t
The Great Spy Chase
1964-12-10
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies
Treize
1981-06-14
Pierre Mallois is 33, married to the sweet Claire who is close to him, is the captain of the basketb
Cartouche
1962-03-07
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are to
Up to His Ears
1965-12-04
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
The Mysterious Island
1973-03-17
1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a s
Sign of the Lion
1962-05-03
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed mo
The Night of the Following Day
1969-01-10
A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a m
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
1954-05-31
Cyprien and his friends Hector Colomb and Annette are penniless and desperate. They need someone to
Troubleshooters
1971-04-07
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse ass
Rita the Field Marshal
1967-12-21
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
The Novices
1970-04-01
A nun and a spirited prostitute convert an ambulance into a bordello on wheels.
The Innocents Abroad
1983-05-12
Adaptation of the Mark Twain novel.
Three Tough Guys
1974-05-29
Isaac Hayes plays as Lee in his feature film debut, as Father Charlie and himself solve a bank robbe
Dynamite Jack
1961-11-03
Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the
The Beast Is Loose
1959-01-21
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret do
Deux de l'escadrille
1953-01-30
During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his
La Galette du roi
1986-01-29
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman
White Fire
1984-07-05
While working in a diamond mine located in the desert, Bo and Ingrid, two siblings who survived a ma
The Happy Road
1957-06-20
Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents
The Saint Lies in Wait
1966-10-26
Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secr
Gorilla's Waltz
1959-05-01
This is the second feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla,
Mama Dracula
1980-11-19
A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay alive. The trouble is that virg
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
1966-02-01
A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa
Nathalie
1957-12-04
Haute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
Les Gorilles
1964-12-23
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Poison Ivy
1953-05-26
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Ca
Honey, Scare Me
1958-03-06
A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a strange
The Sicilian Connection
1972-12-21
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but
The Flea in the Ear
1956-09-22
Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. She received a package
Overdose
1989-12-08
Karen, a beautiful air hostess, is implied by her fiance in international drug trafficking: drugged
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974-10-25
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and s
Mandrin
1962-12-19
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocate
Your Turn to Die
1967-01-01
When Gordon Smash tries to get away with the loot from a successful diamond heist, his fellow conspi
Tonight We Kill
1959-09-15
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what
The Tricyclist
1957-12-04
Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine sh
The Wise Guys
1965-10-22
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties
A Woman Like Satan
1958-12-19
Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poo
Time Bomb
1959-01-20
Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
The Trial
1962-08-25
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through
Fuller Report, Base Stockholm
1968-02-24
Dick Worth (Ken Clark) is an American racing driver in Stockholm to put on an exhibition that his bo
The Artless One
1972-03-03
Inspired by a Voltaire tale, a satire of society and its values through the astonished and critical
La Madelon
1955-10-28
1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
1955-09-14
A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife.
Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
1975-05-24
A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the fir
A Blonde Like That
1963-02-01
Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. I
Que personne ne sorte
1964-07-29
Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassado
My Uncle from Texas
1962-09-28
In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas. Fifty
Sahara on Fire
1961-01-18
A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which w
How Not to Rob a Department Store
1965-04-12
To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty i
Docteur Caraïbes
1970-07-29
The islands of the Caribbean Sea. Tiberio, an astonishing junk dealer, runs a store selling bits and
Bad Man's River
1971-10-14
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collabo
How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave
1984-11-18
Clovis Blaireau is a private detective. It is charged by Nadège de Courtaboeuf wife knew wealthy ind
Supergirl
1971-05-14
A beautiful woman, Supergirl Francesca Farnese, appears out of nowhere on a Bavarian highway. She we
Million Dollar Man
1967-08-31
A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by
The Comeuppance
1970-01-09
Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, kno
The Woman Is a Stranger
1968-01-17
The psychotic son of a film producer becomes obsessed with a beautiful blonde starlet while in Canne
Rum Runners
1971-10-13
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He
The Sicilian
1958-11-26
A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impé
Le colonel est de la revue
1957-03-01
To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up meeting
Fernand cow-boy
1956-09-06
Fernand has just inherited a saloon in Texas from an uncle in America. Despite his inheritance, he i
The Lebanese Mission
1956-09-12
In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèv
L'Amour des 4 colonels
1969-12-24
Meeting in Paris
1956-05-02
A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosophe
Die Sonne angreifen
1971-05-10
Based on motifs from the novel "Pornografia" by Witold Gombrowicz. The action takes place during the
The Grand Duel
1972-12-29
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who wa
The Desert of Pigalle
1958-04-02
A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to
The Best Part
1955-12-30
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in
To Catch a Spy
1957-03-15
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. F
The Vintage
1957-05-08
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard
When a Woman Meddles
1957-11-15
French film favorite Edwige Feuillere plays a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's f
Let's Be Daring, Madame
1957-06-07
Two couples of friends who have arranged to meet in the woods get lost and find themselves in an emb
The Postman Goes to War
1966-08-10
The unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the hos
Atlantic Wall
1970-10-14
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black
Johnny West
1977-09-22
Film by Koller.
Sexy Sinners
1972-08-04
During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, s
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973-11-23
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his
Girl on the Third Floor
1955-08-02
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
The Man from Chicago
1975-07-10
In Turkey, the son of a rich manager is kidnapped. This boy finds a friend in one of the kidnapper w
Give 'em Hell
1955-03-29
During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer and ad
Teheran '43
1981-07-08
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the actio
Focal Point
1977-10-25
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged acciden