Gaston Jacquet
Acting
Biography
Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet was a French actor. Jacquet was born in Lanas, Ardèche, France and died in 1970 in Thonex in Switzerland.
Born: August 14, 1883
Place of Birth: Lanas, Ardèche, France
Known For
The Three Musketeers
A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
The Road to Paradise
Willy, Jean and Guy are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love for the same girl. Simultaneously filmed French version of the German musical "Die Drei von der Tankstelle".
The Musicians of the Sky
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
The End of the Day
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Ernoa's Way
Etchégor, a wealthy Basque peasant is in love with the beautiful American Majesty Parnell. Her husband, about to be arrested for theft, seeks to forge an alibi.
David Golder
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
Miss Europe
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?
A Man's Neck
Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
Pavement Butterfly
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
The Emigrant
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Filmography
as Hippolyte Vabre, the father, owner of the building
as Grigou
as Officer
as Lacour
as Le père d'Amélie
as President
as Friedrich, le chef de la police
as The Grand Duke
as Brown-Duvant
as Willy Ferrière
as Superintendent
as Stanton Muir
as Le directeur de l'hôtel
as Saint-Palmier
as Mirgaudon
as Graf Hoyos
as J.B. Albey
as Monsieur Bourcart
as Le Duc
as Prinz Diebenstein
as Professor Nebenkrug
as Baron von Mallock
as Baron de Neuve
as Baron von Aspen
as Basil Lescoe
as Buguelle
as Sir William Dewitt
as Gabriel Lestrange
as Larsac
as Lucien Vigneret
as Corvel
as l'inspecteur David
as De Winter