Jean Yanne
Acting
Biography
Jean Yanne (born Jean Roger Gouyé; 18 July 1933 – 23 May 2003) was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, director and composer. In 1972, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film We Won't Grow Old Together. Source: Article "Jean Yanne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born: July 18, 1933
Place of Birth: Les Lilas, Seine, France
Known For
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.
Apostrophes
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
Every Man for Yourself
Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a stranger from drowning in the Canal Saint-Martin.
A Day in a Taxi
Two men spend 24 hours driving around the outskirts of Montreal.
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.
Maigret
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and whom films such as "Les Tontons Flingueurs" immortalized.
This Man Must Die
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
News from the Good Lord
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.
The Butcher
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - actor (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Oscar Thibault
as Tonton
as Gérard
as Fantin
as Jean-Baptiste
as The Count
as Le beau-père
as Le Comte de Morangias
as Doctor Belgoder
as Bertrand
as Paul
as Prétextat Tach
as Evaristo Della Porta
as Self
as Chaumareys
as Père Cambournac
as M. Brucker
as Mr. Schomberg
as Magic
as Dieu
as Corniche
as Julius
as Louis Goezman
as Hawker
as Bakoulian
as Simon
as Georges Flavier / L'imperator
as Plana
as Gustave
as Mietek Breslauer
as Roland Pikas
as Pierre Laval
as Quémeneur
as Guy Asselin
as H33, l'emmerdeur
as Polougaievski
as Emile Ducrau
as Germain, l'escroc
as M. Homais
as Inspector Sutter
as L'alcoolique anti-tiers monde
as Le client qui pêche dans sa baignoire
as Romancier
as Le mari qui a une pulsion
as Le mari infidèle sauvé par un poulpe
as L'homme qui vend sa femme à 49%
as Equateur
as André Binet
as Self
as L'Expert (Simon Verini)
as William Molard
as Kommissar
as Marat
as L'homme au téléphone
as Murat, fonctionnaire à la Kommandantur
as Victor Bonnet
as Paulus
as Michel
as Arthur Colonna
as Inspecteur Chodaque
as Jean-Philippe Leroi
as Max
as Director of human relations
as Louis Carrier
as Clément Mastard
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Régis Forneret
as Benoît Lepape
as Christian Gerber
as Jean
as Louis Orsini
as Roger Blanchard
as Serge Aubin
as Doc Noonan
as Paul Thomas, aka 'Popaul'
as Paul Decourt
as Philippe
as Marco Broca
as Barton
as Roland Durand
as Robert Vaucamu
as Billete
as Le centurion
as Mueller-Strasse
as M. Tricot
as Félix
as Federucci
as Self
as Tropos
as Monsieur Kerbel
as Alphonse
as 'Journalist' (uncredited)
as Self
as Extra (uncredited)
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as Extra (uncredited)