Jean Gaven
Acting
Biography
Jean Gaven (16 January 1922 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996. Born in Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France on January 16, 1922, Gaven began acting sometime after the end of World War II, amassing a filmography of more than 60 motion pictures during a career spanning more than five decades. Married to the actress Dominique Wilms, he died at the age of 92 in Paris, France, on May 5, 2014. Source: Article "Jean Gaven" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: January 16, 1922
Place of Birth: Saint-Rome de Cernon, Aveyron, France
Known For
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.
Midi Première
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
The Murderer Is Not Guilty
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
Minuit treize
Feather in the Wind
Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.
Law of the Streets
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
If All the Guys in the World...
A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.
One Deadly Summer
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
The Witches of Salem
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
The Wild Oat
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.
Filmography
as Maître Nerval
as Etienne Delvaux
as Monsieur Challe
as Waldo
as Leballech, boss of the sawmill
as L'agent sans panier à salade
as Salpetre
as Gustave Lucas
as Sicilian killer
as Gargantua
as Pierre
as Self
as Maurin
as Rizzio
as Anton Caras
as Dietrich
as Inspector Toussaint
as Maurin
as Marc, un inspecteur
as General Yuri Fiodorenko
as Gabriel
as Dupuy
as Fisherman
as Grégoire
as Le commissaire Bignon
as Carlos
as Henri / James
as Self
as Le Scaph
as Petit Jo
as Peter Corey
as Capitaine Brichet
as André Remoulin aka 'Dédé la Glace'
as Jos - il secondo
as Félix Michaux, l'inspecteur de la PJ infiltré
as Ernest Sapinaud
as Don Armando Félix
as Frédéric Langlet, le mari de Christine
as Alexandre Buisson
as Lieutenant Lachenal
as Abbot Daniel, village vicar
as François Bontemps
as Michel
as Marcel - le boxeur
as Fred
as Moussac
as Johnny Buck
as Belfort
as Jacques Legrand
as One of the two accomplices
as Jack Bing
as Antoine
as Robert
as Young inspector Gustave Perkinson
as Lieutenant Brévannes
as Albertini, dit Tino