Jacques Beauvais
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 1, 1889
Known For
À nous deux, madame la vie
Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.
Final Accord
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
The Rules of the Game
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
The Earrings of Madame de...
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Jour de Fête
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel account of rapid transportation methods used by the United States postal system, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed the delivery of mail while aboard his bicycle.
The Woman Who Dared
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family.
Hoboes in Paradise
In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.
The Woman Who Dared
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family.
Life Dances On
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
Marie-Martine
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying the price. After the drama that had thrown her in prison, she met a brave boy ready to make his life with her. Will the scandal separate them?
Filmography
as Marcel
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Jacques, l'annonceur du 'Défilé de mode'
as Un majordome (uncredited)
as A spectator at the theater (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as The coachman (uncredited)
as The Headwaiter (uncredited)
as A butler (uncredited)
as Stage manager (uncredited)
as Eugène (uncredited)
as The hotel manager
as Maître d'hôtel (uncredited)
as Head waiter
as Le livreur
as The boy
as Le maître d'hôtel (uncredited)
as Cafe owner
as Circus employee
as (uncredited)
as Monsieur Paul (uncredited)
as le maître d'hôtel
as un dîneur
as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
as Inspector (uncredited)
as An officer
as Le maître d'hôtel
as Billiard player (uncredited)
as Adolphe, un domestique (uncredited)
as Maître d'hôtel (uncredited)
as Spectator
as (uncredited)
as Delivery man
as Le maître d'hôtel (uncredited)
as Le maître d'hôtel
as Head waiter (uncredited)
as Spectator
as Player
as Owner of Chez Noé (uncredited)
as Boss of the Beuglant (uncredited)