Jacques Castelot
Acting
Biography
Jacques Castelot (born Jacques Marie Paul Éloi Storms) (11 July 1914 – 25 August 1989) was a French film actor. He appeared in 86 films between 1938 and 1982. His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas. From 1940 to 1945 he was married to actress and theater director Héléna Bossis (pseudonym of Henriette Berthe Blanche Berriau). Source: Article "Jacques Castelot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: July 11, 1914
Place of Birth: Anvers, Belgium
Known For
December
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
Soupçons
"Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take long before Montenoy falls for her but a little longer before the young woman, reluctant at first, understands Etienne loves her truly and then requites his love. Etienne lives so happily with her that he decides to make her his heir. Shortly after, he is murdered by poison...
Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
The Two Orphans
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
La Marseillaise
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
The Truth About Bebe Donge
François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.
Topaze
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fair game for the "aunt" of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming "front man." Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis...
Victor
Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.
Trouble Among Widows
When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death as a deliverance. At the funeral, she meets Judith, widow too, and she soon realises that her husband had been leading a double life. A short while later, the pharmacy is broken into, but nothing is stolen. Police Inspector Laforêt is put in charge of the case. Isabelle becomes suspicious when Judith offers to buy the pharmacy.
Filmography
as Gauthier de Montrond
as Général de Pellieux
as Le directeur de la banque
as Voltaire
as Uncle Edward
as (uncredited)
as Le père
as Mario
as Narrator
as Investigating judge
as Le sergent du char allemand
as Le chef des justiciers
as Director of the P.J.
as Conte d'Artois
as The prosecutor
as Marquis de Presle
as L'archevêque de Toulouse
as Un ministre d'État
as Baron Hulot
as Cyril
as King Henri III
as Otto Werner
as Duke of Ayen
as Baumann
as Marquis François-Marie de Villamayor
as Comte Cheneau de Saint-André
as le marquis de L'Hospital, l'ambassadeur de France en Russie
as Self
as Mario
as Gérard Lester, Legrand's deputy
as Jean Paget
as Notaio Ferrand
as Thierry de Villesec
as Philippe Loiselet
as Marquis Arnaud de Cernay
as Marquis de Mosquera
as Le comte de Vandeuvres
as Marchese de Boysson
as Ernesto Tosi
as Marquis de Presles
as Me Fidler
as Me Ritter
as Rocheville
as Serge de Montesson
as Gérard Noirtier, Count of Villefort, the King's Prosecutor
as Norbert
as Gabriel Dautrand
as Christian
as Commissioner Lotte
as Boquet, le propriétaire du 'Poker bar'
as Baron de Villemure
as Doctor Jalabert
as Gabory, the president
as le prince
as The Baron of Glaïeuls
as Marc Pélicier
as Roger Gaëtan de Bersac
as Gilbert de Montesson, first juror
as Investigating judge
as Duke of Maine
as The Duke of Morny
as Forestier
as Ernest
as The Viscount
as Emile
as Larsac
as Rodolphe
as Le comte de Vétheuil
as Prince de Carency
as Georges
as Serlys, Xénia's friend
as Lamartine
as Prince Stimov
as Jean Plantel
as Dancer (uncredited)