Jean Ozenne
Acting
Biography
Born: February 13, 1898
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Vidocq
François Vidocq has been sentenced to eight years' hard labor for a crime he didn't commit. Escaped with the help of his faithful friends Desfossés and Fil de fer, the convict is pursued by his lifelong enemy: the policeman Flambart. Between scams and disguises, Vidocq initially leads an undercover life in 19th-century Paris. Eventually, the two men team up to fight criminals... And Vidocq succumbs to Annette's charms.
La Toile d'araignée
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Television adaptation of the comedy by Eugène Labiche and Edouard Martin, written in 1860. On the Buttes Chaumont plateau, transformed into the Gare de Lyon, Monsieur Perrichon, who has all the makings of an honest bourgeois, sets off on a pleasure trip with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He has no idea that his daughter's two official suitors will give this trip a fantastic turn.
La 99ème Minute
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partners... So, suicide, accident or crime? The investigation takes place before our eyes until the 99th minute. Let the masks fall!
The Sword and the Balance
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Germinal
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.
Secret Agent Fireball
An American CIA agent must find the whereabouts of valuable microfilm that was smuggled over by two Russian scientists who had been hoping to defect.
La Ronde
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Under the Paris Sky
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
Filmography
as Sir Edward
as Un invité au vernissage (uncredited)
as Le préfet
as Monsieur Herbert
as Minister (uncredited)
as Albert
as General Dietrich (uncredited)
as Le préfet
as Gal Von Langsdorf
as Le maître d'hôtel « Mon Dieu ! Mon Dieu ! »
as Gérard et Maxime
as Queffelec
as Dubois
as Wedermeyer sr.
as Fleming's boss
as Jojo's friend
as Le marquis de Plessis-Bellière
as A Protector
as Monsieur Rabour
as Thomas Barnett
as Company envoy (uncredited)
as D'Aleyrac, cadre supérieur du 321
as Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel (segment "Le Gros Lot")
as Art lover
as Eloi Dolimaire, novelist
as le marquis Stanislas
as Chambellan de Buckingham
as Alfred Robert-Guichard, le mari de Marie-Laure
as Van Der Besh's Guest
as Guillaume
as Notary
as (uncredited)
as le capitaine
as L'oncle Roger / Uncle Roger
as Count Elzéar de Chambrelle
as Mister Hogson
as Joseph, le majordome du Commandant Mathieu
as le professeur Émile Lartois
as le représentant de l'agence
as Monsieur Lachaille (uncredited)
as American
as Prefect of Montreuil-sur-Mer
as Concierge
as Ritz Receptionist (uncredited)
as Lorre
as Gaston, maître d'hôtel
as Lord Dicson (uncredited)
as Marcel Grossac
as le concierge
as Uncle
as L'administrateur (uncredited)
as The notary (segment "Coralie")
as Campbell
as Specialist Doctor
as Line Renaud's partner
as Distinguished gentleman (uncredited)
as Doctor Mansart (uncredited)
as The English
as (uncredited)
as Lord Floerdew
as Bertrand Touquet
as Eric
as (uncredited)
as Loyalist leader
as Bourguignon