Jacques Spiesser
Date of birth: 1947-06-07
Place of birth: Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Jacques Spiesser (born 7 June 1947) is a French actor. He stars as detective Simon Magellan in the television series Commissaire Magellan. which ran for six seasons in France. After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film debut in 1972 in Nina Companeez's Faustine et le bel été with Muriel Catala. He is best known to English-speaking audiences for playing the role of Gilles in Priceless. Source: Article "Jacques Spiesser" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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My Best Friend
2006-12-06
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend,
Priceless
2006-12-13
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
Je suis Pierre Rivière
1976-04-07
The story about Pierre Riviere, who tired of the constants demands of her mother to her father decid
Black and White in Color
1976-09-22
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their Ger
Folie suisse
1985-06-10
The Hook
2004-08-11
A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to e
Péril imminent: Mortel chahut
2004-10-11
Lily Sometimes
2010-12-01
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
Coco
2009-07-21
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment o
De l'histoire ancienne
2001-02-21
Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little.
Preuve d'amour
1988-03-09
A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real kil
Baxter
1989-01-18
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the
The Trout
1982-09-22
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a n
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977-01-12
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to t
The Slap
1974-10-23
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of schoo
The Blonde with Bare Breasts
2010-07-21
Julian, 25, and Louis, 12, are two brothers who work and live on a barge in the centre of Paris. The
C'est la vie
2001-11-07
Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything any
In Your Wake
2007-09-17
An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towar
Fissures
2007-06-06
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murder
She's One of Us
2003-09-24
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been of
Autopsie d’un complot
1978-07-01
Terrorists blow up the consulate of an Arab country, before a journalist uncovers a larger conspirac
After the Reconciliation
2000-12-27
An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation
Monsieur Saint-Saëns
1978-12-21
The imaginary adventures of musician Sans-Saëns.
Die Jahrhundertlawine
2008-12-19
In the Austrian Alps have found the body of a young woman who died in a skiing accident eight years
L'Affaire Seznec
1993-01-07
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the
Marie-Octobre
2008-10-15
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again dur
Nothing to Report
1973-08-15
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony
The Chalk Circle Man
2009-10-28
For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles contain
A Place On Earth
2013-08-28
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and t
Madame Jacques on the Croisette
1997-06-04
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find lov
The Missing Granddaughter
2007-09-13
Eva is a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France, after the Second World War.
The Gordji Affair
2012-02-11
Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimatel
Seeking Whom He May Devour
2009-11-02
A wave of carnage is sweeping through Southern France, with locals blaming the return of wolves. How
A Dubious Place
2010-10-11
A gruesome discovery is made outside a London cemetery one night. Meanwhile in Paris, Police Captain
Neptunes Thunder
After his brother disappears, police captain Adamsberg re-opens the case for serial killer Trident.
La solitude du pouvoir
2012-12-12
Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
2003-01-06
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French res
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972-01-12
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother,
One Summer
2006-06-07
A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captiva
L'Affaire Dominici
2003-10-12
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daugh
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2005-02-06
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adve
Accusé Mendès France
2011-03-09
A Man and His Dog
2009-01-14
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
The Last Diamond
2014-04-30
Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Flor
The Devil in the Heart
1976-05-26
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl
Le gave
2002-05-13
Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
2011-02-23
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Afr
The Man Who Sleeps
1974-04-24
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally susta
Everyday Portabella
2022-06-12
Nature contre nature
2004-03-28
Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the
El Corazón de las Tinieblas
1990-06-20
Joseph is a sailor who returns to his aunt's home after 14 years at sea, there he will be involved i
Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
1998-01-01
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
Itinéraires
2005-08-25
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecou
Le temps de la désobéissance
2006-02-20
In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police st
Mourir d'aimer
2009-03-06
Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old stu
Mom Lost It!
2009-12-15
Finding that her loved ones are neglecting her, Juliette decides to pretend she has amnesia. Her pla
Ariane
1974-12-01
A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.
Celle qui reste
2005-05-03
Alice has lost her father and one leg in a car accident. She lives with her mother (Jeanne) and gran
Duplicity
2017-03-03
Alice learns of her mother's accidental death while travelling in Canada. The body has been repatria
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986-12-24
Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in t
Here Below
2012-01-18
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but
The Irony of Chance
1974-04-30
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened
Little Marcel
1976-04-06
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group o
Un animal doué de déraison
1976-03-24
A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, bu
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
1980-04-16
Two couples, Eva and Edy and Martin and Charlotte are separated by a very different social condition
Le mas Théotime
1995-03-18
Pascal lives on the land in Provence that his father left him. He is supported by the Alibert family
Stavisky...
1974-05-15
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe
A City Is Beautiful at Night
2006-11-08
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from th
Quand sort la recluse
2019-04-10
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic acciden
Bouquet final
2011-06-21
Serious as Pleasure
1975-01-15
Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy
L’homme imaginé
1990-08-13
The itinerary full of pitfalls, funny and serious encounters of a young dreamer who lives with an ob
All That... for This?!
1993-06-09
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to g
Le Vrai Coupable
2007-11-22
Entre vents et marées
2014-08-31
In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband
Sous les vents de Neptune
2008-02-15
Commissioner Adamsberg and his team are undergoing training supervised by the Quebec scientific poli
Mongeville et Magellan : Un amour de jeunesse
2016-11-19
A commissioner and a former examining magistrate are asked to find a woman, whom they both loved, ju
Dessine-moi un jouet
1999-12-18
A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz
Rembrandt
1999-08-09
This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told
Life Doesn't Scare Me
1999-08-18
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
A Bad Encounter
2011-11-02
Meet the wicked story of a symbiotic friendship between two boys, Wolf and Mando. They meet on a ben
Thick Skinned
1989-05-31
Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer.
Lulu, roi de France
1995-12-21
Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had nev
Le Sang des Atrides
1981-11-21
Mon frère Yves
2012-07-17
Lumière
1976-03-24
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence.
Quatre copains
2001-07-12
Bay of Algiers
2012-06-26
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives wi
Manon Roland
1989-12-28
The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.
La veuve Tatouée
2008-10-30
Colette, fifty years old and devoted to her children, sees her life turned upside down the day she i
Modern Life
2000-03-01
The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her
L'impossible Monsieur Papa
1995-01-01