Jacques Perrin
Acting
Biography
Jacques Perrin (July 13, 1941 – April 21, 2022) was a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.
Born: July 13, 1941
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Kingdom of the Oceans
A four-part documentary series on ocean life around the world.
Cinema Paradiso
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Orient Express
A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.
Remi, Nobody's Boy
At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.
Z
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
The Chorus
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
The Young Girls of Rochefort
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
Winged Migration
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of miles and navigating by the stars. These arduous treks are crucial for survival, seeking hospitable climates and food sources. Birds face numerous challenges, including crossing oceans and evading predators, illness, and injury. Although migrations are undertaken as a community, birds disperse into family units once they reach their destinations, and every continent is affected by these migrations, hosting migratory bird species at least part of the year.
The Truth
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Corruption
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Richard Vannec
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Rémi, elderly
as Alain Godot - 2015
as Narrator (voice)
as Henri Van Roy
as Richelieu
as Self
as Narrator
as Louis XI
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Victor Fabrizzi
as Benjamin
as Narrateur
as Frédéric
as Le juge Serge Clermont
as Pierre Morhange adult
as Xavier Unger
as Henri Lanvern, le cinéaste
as Narrator
as Federico
as Narrator (voice)
as Thomas Agé
as Lanfranco Bentivoglio
as Jaouen Carriban
as Etienne
as Professeur Silvestri
as Victor Schœlcher
as Pascal Lasalle
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
as Jean-Pierre Lafond
as Pierre Barthélémy
as le narrateur (voix)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Wens
as Enrico
as Raoul Marquet
as Richard
as Pierre Séverin (Marceau Dupastre)
as Self
as Judge Marco Canova
as Roberto Durani
as Davide Rienzi
as Jordan
as Antoine, Muriel's husband
as Daniel
as Steuben
as Don Ugo Bassi
as Alvaro adulte
as Eliseo
as Jean-Marie Roland de La Platière
as Guillaume Forestier
as Grossi
as Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (adult)
as Julien
as Emile Levassor
as Mr. Brul
as Stéphane Rainer
as Yves
as Vic Lamotte
as Le juge François Muller
as Marcel Caron
as Julien Dantec
as Georges Delorme
as Dario
as Lucien Lebesque
as L'ambassadeur Berthier
as Damien
as Jacques
as Jacques Noblet
as Lieutenant Willsdorff, 'Le Crabe-Tambour'
as Sten. Giovanni Drogo
as Roger Lafarge
as Self
as Jacques
as Bartolomeo
as Émile
as Alvaro
as Prince Charming
as Laurent
as Patrick Sarrutel
as Photojournalist
as Philippe
as Colin
as Ferdinand 'Fred' Thibault
as Alain Quesnard
as Antonin
as Kerk
as Maxence
as Michele
as Michel
as Henri de Verlaine
as Manuel
as Daniel
as Le sous-lieutenant Torrens
as Marc Bizet (segment "Fiancés de la chance, Les")
as Gabriele
as Fredi
as Stefano Mattioli
as Pietro, il fornaretto
as Yvan
as Lorenzo Mainardi
as Frédéric
as Michel Legrand
as Lorenzo Fainardi
as Philippe
as Jérôme
as Jean-Louis Mesnier
as Self
as le jeune qui monte sur la Vespa
as Philippe Ledrut
as Self
as Un des gosses Quinquina (uncredited)