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Jean Desailly
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Jean Desailly

French actor (1920-2008)
August 24, 1920 (June 11, 2008)
Runtime: 128 min.

Les Grandes familles

V.O.: Les Grandes Familles
Fr. 1989. Chronicle by Édouard Molinaro with Michel Piccoli, Pierre Arditi, Roger Hanin. The depravity of two great families of the pre-war Parisian aristocracy.
Runtime: 360 min.
Fr. 1984. Drama by Michel Wyn with Jean-François Garreaud, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean Desailly. The general secretary of a large Parisian investment bank convenes the board of directors in order to settle a strange quarrel with the new president.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Professional

V.O.: Le Professionnel
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 1980. Crime drama by Robert Enrico with Philippe Noiret, Michel Serrault, Dorothée.
Runtime: 105 min.
Runtime: 200 min.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1978. Satire by Jean Yanne with Jean Yanne, Mimi Coutelier, Jacques François. A police commissioner is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a star TV host.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1973. Drama by Édouard Molinaro with Pierre Clémenti, Jacques Spiesser, Marie-Hélène Breillat. Hypothesis on the life that could have been between a couple, if the young man had not died during the Occupation.
Runtime: 80 min.

The Inheritor

V.O.: L'Héritier
Fr. 1973. Social drama by Philippe Labro with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort. After the death of his father, a young man returns to France to take over the family empire.
Runtime: 110 min.

Dirty Money

V.O.: Un Flic
Fr. 1972. Crime drama by Jean-Pierre Melville with Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve. A police commissioner discovers that an old friend is the leader of a gang he is chasing following a robbery.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Serpent

V.O.: Le Serpent
Fr. 1972. Spy drama by Henri Verneuil with Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde. The CIA verifies the claims of a Russian colonel seeking asylum in the United States.
Runtime: 127 min.
Fr. 1969. Crime drama by Claude Bernard-Aubert with Salvatore Adamo, Michel Constantin, Jess Hahn. Imprisoned for trying to take back documents from a diamond dealer, a student befriends two mobsters.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1968. Drama by Claude Autant-Lara with Hardy Krüger, Jean-Pierre Dorat, Gérard Bernet. Mobilized as a nurse during the 1939 war, a Franciscan friar takes advantage of his situation to help the victims of the Gestapo.
Runtime: 110 min.

The 25th Hour

V.O.: La 25ème Heure
Fr. 1966. War drama by Henri Verneuil with Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Serge Reggiani. Denounced as a Jew, a Romanian peasant is separated from his wife during the war.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 1965. Melodrama by Riccardo Freda with Sophie Darès, Valeria Ciangottini, Jacques Castelot. Two separated orphans fall into the hands of villainous characters.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 94 min.

The Soft Skin

V.O.: La Peau douce
Fr. 1964. Psychological drama by François Truffaut with Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti. A married man's affair with a stewardess has tragic consequences.
Runtime: 108 min.

La Difficulté d'être adulte

V.O.: L'Année du bac
Fr. 1963. Psychological drama by José André Lacour with Jean Desailly, Catherine Lafond, Bernard Murat.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1962. Thriller by Jean-Pierre Melville with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly. A police informant tries to help a friend involved in a crime.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1961. Sketches by Michel Boisrond with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Philippe Noiret, Dany Robin. Four sketches featuring historical figures.
Runtime: 130 min.

Seven Capital Sins

V.O.: Les 7 Péchés capitaux
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1961. Crime drama by Michel Boisrond with Martine Carol, Jean Desailly, Daliah Lavi. An investigation into the death of a girl with learning difficulties.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Passion of Slow Fire

V.O.: La Mort de Belle
Fr. 1961. Psychological drama by Édouard Molinaro with Jean Desailly, Alexandra Stewart, Monique Mélinand. Wrongly suspected of murder, a man ends up committing a crime.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1959. Adventures by Jacqueline Audry with Andrée Debar, Gabriele Ferzetti, Isa Miranda. In order to receive an inheritance, a noble girl is raised as a boy.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1959. Mores comedy by Jean Delannoy with Jean Gabin, Micheline Presle, Blanchette Brunoy. In need of fuel and money, a penniless baron in his fifties moors his luxurious yacht near a lock.
Runtime: 95 min.

Premeditated

V.O.: Préméditation?
Fr. 1959. Crime drama by André Berthomieu with Jean-Claude Pascal, Pascale Roberts, Jean Desailly. A judge is trying to establish whether or not a man planned the murder he is accused of.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Possessors

V.O.: Les Grandes Familles
Fr. 1958. Moral study by Denys de La Patellière with Jean Gabin, Jean Desailly, Bernard Blier. An magnate of industry and the press dominates his family members.
Runtime: 92 min.

Inspector Maigret

V.O.: Maigret tend un piège
Fr. 1957. Crime drama by Jean Delannoy with Jean Gabin, Jean Desailly, Annie Girardot. Inspector Maigret investigates a series of murders of women, all committed in the Parisian neighbourhood of Place des Vosges.
Runtime: 117 min.
Fr. 1955. Dramatic comedy by Jean Desailly with Jean Desailly, Simone Valère, Fernand Ledoux. Two young noblemen, in their desire to play with love, cause the death of a small peasant girl.
Fr. 1955. Dramatic comedy by René Clair with Gérard Philipe, Michèle Morgan, Jean Desailly. A dragoons lieutenant bets that he can seduce, in fifteen days, the woman that fate would designate.
Runtime: 104 min.

With André Gide

V.O.: Avec André Gide
Fr. 1952. Documentary by Marc Allégret with André Gide, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Vadim. A sketch of the life and thought of French writer Andr? Gide.
Runtime: 85 min.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1951. Sentimental drama by Jacques de Casembroot with Jean Desailly, Simone Valère, Jean Vilar. A cleric fleeing the Revolution discovers that his companion is a woman.
Fr. 1950. Musical by Robert Vernay with Gisèle Pascal, Jean Desailly, Jean Marchat. An heiress uses a stratagem to test a suitor.
Fr. 1950. Dramatic comedy by Pierre Billon with Jean Desailly, Marcelle Chantal, Marcelle Derrien.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1949. Crime drama by Albert Valentin with Paul Bernard, Jean Desailly, Jany Holt. Thinking to clear his name through a game of false imprints, a criminal is accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Runtime: 87 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1948. Police comedy by André Cerf with Sophie Desmarets, Jean Desailly, Jean Tissier. A young lawyer tries to exonerate an alleged murderer by any means necessary.
Fr. 1948. Social drama by Louis Daquin with Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre, Loleh Bellon. A young engineer discovers the hard life of miners.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1946. Melodrama by Louis Daquin with Pierre Blanchar, Maria Mauban, Jean Desailly. In the sixteenth century in the Netherlands, an aristocrat organizes the resistance against Spanish occupiers.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1946. Melodrama by André Cayatte with Maria Casarès, Lucien Coëdel, Paul Bernard. Wrongly accused of murder, an escaped convict who made his fortune in Canada returns to France to expose the real culprits and restore his reputation.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1946. Sentimental drama by Jean Delannoy with Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar, Line Noro. A Protestant minister lusts after a young girl he has raised, who is blind.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1945. War drama by René Chanas with Jean Desailly, Michèle Martin, Raymond Bussières. In Central Europe, patriots rise up against the German occupiers.
Runtime: 105 min.

Sylvia and the Phantom

V.O.: Sylvie et le fantôme
Fr. 1945. Fantasy comedy by Claude Autant-Lara with Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Pierre Larquey. The misadventures of a teenage girl who has fallen in love with the ghost that haunts the castle where she lives.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1943. Drama by Louis Daquin with Assia Noris, Jean Desailly, Jules Berry. A young heir tries to unravel the mystery surrounding his uncle's death.
Runtime: 102 min.

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