Jean Sorel
Acting
Biography
Jean Sorel (born 25 September 1934) is a French actor. He also worked in Italian cinema, and Spanish cinema with directors such as Luis Buñuel or Luchino Visconti. However since 1980 he has worked mostly in television. He is married to Italian actress Anna-Maria Ferrero. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Sorel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: September 25, 1934
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Known For
Desert of Fire
A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents.
Desert of Fire
A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.
À nous deux la vie
After returning from a long African exile, a sixty-year-old woman leaves her unfaithful husband and starts anew with her five-year-old granddaughter.
Les Yeux d'Hélène
The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
The Four Days of Naples
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.
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.
Belle de Jour
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
The Great Kidnapping
In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
Sandra
Sandra returns to her hometown to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
Filmography
as Richard
as Georges
as Himself
as Charles Wagner (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
as Jean Paul
as David
as Gustave Miller
as Gustave Miller
as Vincent
as Holy Brother
as Leo Ferretti
as Major Valmore
as Giulio Machiavelli
as Gilbert
as Enrico
as Wolf
as Capitano dei Carabinieri
as Jean Decaux
as Pierre Ménard
as Lukirsh
as Vial
as Leyland
as Federico
as Self
as Alosi
as Victor Sender
as Emil DuMond
as Jean Bastien-Thiry
as Teniente Barney Holmes
as Gregory Moore
as Giovanni
as Paul
as Frank Hammond
as Pedro Andreu
as Maurice Sauvage
as Cesare Merlo
as Franco Raimondi
as Dr. George Dumurrier
as Alberto
as Giorgio
as Frédéric Cornault
as Roberto
as Marcel
as Franco
as Pierre Serizy
as Angelo Bello / Astorre Manfredi
as Luigi ("Fata Elena")
as Sergio
as Orlando (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 3")
as Gianni Wald-Luzzati
as Vincenzo (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
as Antoine
as The Count
as The legionnaire (segment "La ronda")
as Paul Genest
as Étienne Lantier
as Renato
as Livornese
as Tom Fennel
as Andrea
as Rodolpho Paccia
as Massimo
as Alain
as Prince of Condé
as Davide Saraceno
as Renato
as Patrice
as Elmer