Jean Davy
Acting
Biography
Jean Davy (15 October 1911 – 5 February 2001) was a French film, stage voice actor. He was a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. In the premiere production of Antigone in Paris, 1944, Davy created the role of Créon. He was a French voice of Charlton Heston (The Ten Commandments, The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers...), Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and Robert Taylor. Source: Article "Jean Davy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: October 15, 1911
Place of Birth: Puteaux, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Known For
Iphigénie
On the shores of Aulis, the Greeks prepare to attack Troy. But their ships are unable to set sail because the gods are holding back the winds necessary for departure. Agamemnon consults the oracle. The solution is tragic. To appease the goddess Artemis, whom he had offended, he must sacrifice his own daughter.
Alone in the Night
A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his favorite song. Suspicions lead to a chase through a nocturnal Paris, ending in a disused theater where the assassin has lured his final victim.
Le Dernier Été
The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime.
First in Line
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.
Carnival of Sinners
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
In Praise of Love
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
St. Val's Mystery
Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the people around.He is an insure agent ,and his boss,his uncle,is annoyed :a man took out a big life insurance and died soon afterward.
Mayerling
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
Champs-Elysées
Christine
Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
Filmography
as Grandfather
as Edmond
as Maréchal Pétain
as Le père Maurel
as Jean Marsan
as Alphonse Damoiseau
as Le procureur
as Dom Louis
as 'Le Sénateur' (voice)
as Antonin Berg
as Self
as Ballancourt
as Trousselier
as Agamemnon
as Grandfather
as Marchal of Turenne
as Torques
as Colonel of the Dragons
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Dr. Delorme
as Announcer
as Regent Philippe d'Orléans
as Albert Desforges
as Antonin
as Ronchard
as Saint-Ricquier
as Prosecutor Salavert
as (voice)
as Me Lenoir
as Edmond de Norvaisis
as Dr. Michel Berthier
as Commissaire Chabrier
as Commissioner Chabrier
as Stefan
as Dalbret
as Max Robertal
as Lawyer
as Hubert de Vallon
as Chambord
as Le mousquetaire
as Pierre de Merlerault
as Jacques
as Berthier
as Ludovic Jeune et Jean-Louis Jeune
as Friend of Chervin
as Count Hoyos
as Brulard