Jean Marais

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Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French actor and director.

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Known For

Fantomas

Fantômas / Fandor / Lord Shelton / Vieux gardien de la prison

Beauty and the Beast

La Bête / Le Prince / Avenant

Stealing Beauty

M. Guillaume

Fantomas Unleashed

Fantômas / Fandor / Professeur Lefèvre / Marquis de Rostelli

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Fantômas / Fandor / Sir Walter Brown / Giuseppe Luigi

Donkey Skin

The King

Orpheus

Orphée

Le Notti Bianche

L'Inquilino

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2024	Jacques Demy: The Pink and the Black MOVIE	Self
2022	Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	Deneuve, la reine Catherine MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	The Image Book MOVIE	(archive footage)
2011	Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2010	Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	At World's End MOVIE	Djoko
2006	Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2002	Luchino Visconti MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2001	Jean Cocteau, cinéaste MOVIE	Self
2000	Federico Fellini's Autobiography MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1997	The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1997	Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths MOVIE	Self
1997	Screening at the Majestic MOVIE	Self - Interviewee
1996	Stealing Beauty MOVIE	M. Guillaume
1995	The World of Jacques Demy MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1995	Les Miserables MOVIE	Mgr Myriel
1995	Jean Marais par Jean Marais MOVIE	Self
1993	Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas MOVIE	Self
1992	Shipwrecked Children MOVIE	Marc Antoine
1989	Damia: Concert en velours noir MOVIE	Self
1987	Lahaye d'honneur TV	Self
1987	Le monde est à vous TV	Self
1987	Sacrée Soirée TV	Self
1986	Lien de parenté MOVIE	Victor Blaise
1985	Parking MOVIE	Hadès / The Devil
1982	Champs-Elysées TV	Self
1976	Die 1000 Tode des Yvan Chiffre MOVIE	Self
1976	Cérémonie des César TV	Self - President
1976	30 millions d'amis TV	Self
1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche TV	Self
1975	Apostrophes TV	Self
1975	Midi Première TV	Self
1973	Karatékas and Co TV	l'Empereur
1973	Joseph Balsamo TV	Joseph Balsamo
1972	Midi trente TV	Self (archive footage)
1972	Le Grand Échiquier TV	Self
1970	Donkey Skin MOVIE	The King
1970	The Provocation MOVIE	Christian
1970	Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane MOVIE	Self
1969	Diamond Rush MOVIE	Manuel Thomas, dit Manu
1969	Le Jouet criminel MOVIE	Le vieil homme
1968	À bout portant TV	Self
1967	Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard MOVIE	Fantômas / Fandor / Sir Walter Brown / Giuseppe Luigi
1967	Seven Guys and a Gal MOVIE	Captain Dorgeval
1966	The Saint Lies in Wait MOVIE	Simon Templar
1965	Fantomas Unleashed MOVIE	Fantômas / Fandor / Professeur Lefèvre / Marquis de Rostelli
1965	Operation Double Cross MOVIE	Antoine Donadieu
1965	Killer Spy MOVIE	Stanislas Dubois
1965	Thomas the Impostor MOVIE	Le narrateur
1965	Ivory Coast Adventure MOVIE	Jean-Luc Hervé de la Tommeraye
1965	Dim Dam Dom TV	Self
1964	Fantomas MOVIE	Fantômas / Fandor / Lord Shelton / Vieux gardien de la prison
1964	Friends of the family MOVIE	Noël Carradine
1964	Cherchez l'idole MOVIE	Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
1963	I misteri di Roma MOVIE	Self
1963	The Reluctant Spy MOVIE	Stanislas
1963	The Invincible Swordsman MOVIE	François de Capestan
1962	The Iron Mask MOVIE	Charles D'Artagnan
1962	The Mysteries of Paris MOVIE	Rodolphe de Sombreuil
1962	Pontius Pilate MOVIE	Ponzio Pilato
1961	Romulus and the Sabines MOVIE	Marte
1961	Napoléon II, the Eagle MOVIE	General de Montholon
1961	Blood on His Sword MOVIE	Robert de Neuville
1961	Captain Fracasse MOVIE	Baron Philippe de Sigognac / Captain Fracasse
1961	Princess of Cleves MOVIE	Prince of Clèves
1960	Captain Blood MOVIE	François de Capestang, aka 'Le Capitan'
1960	The Battle of Austerlitz MOVIE	Carnot
1960	Testament of Orpheus MOVIE	Oedipe
1959	The Hunchback of Paris MOVIE	Henri de Lagardère
1959	Discorama TV	Self
1958	Life Together MOVIE	Teddy Brooks
1958	Every Day Has Its Secret MOVIE	Xavier Lezcano
1958	King on Horseback MOVIE	Henri La Tour
1958	Soleil éteint MOVIE	Self
1957	Le Notti Bianche MOVIE	L'Inquilino
1957	A Girl in a Pocket MOVIE	Prof. Jerome
1957	S.O.S. Noronha MOVIE	Frédéric Coulibaud
1957	Typhoon Over Nagasaki MOVIE	Pierre Marsac
1956	Elena and Her Men MOVIE	Général François Rollan
1956	The Whole Town Accuses MOVIE	François Nérac
1956	Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl MOVIE	Goubbiah
1956	If Paris Were Told to Us MOVIE	François Ier
1955	School for Love MOVIE	Eric Walter
1955	Napoleon MOVIE	Count Montholon
1954	Reflets de Cannes TV	Self
1954	Boom on Paris MOVIE	lui-même
1954	The Count of Monte Cristo MOVIE	Edmond Dantès
1953	Royal Affairs in Versailles MOVIE	Louis XV
1953	The Healer MOVIE	Pierre Lachaux dit « Monsieur Laurent »
1953	Inside a Girls' Dormitory MOVIE	Inspecteur Desiré Marco
1953	Julietta MOVIE	André Landrecourt
1953	Voice of Silence MOVIE	L'ancien maquisard
1953	The Lovers of Midnight MOVIE	Marcel Dulac
1953	The Call of Destiny MOVIE	Lorenzo Lombardi
1952	Leathernose MOVIE	Roger de Tainchebraye
1952	Love, Madame MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1951	Miracles Only Happen Once MOVIE	Jérôme
1950	The Glass Castle MOVIE	Rémy Marsay
1950	Orpheus MOVIE	Orphée
1949	The Secret of Mayerling MOVIE	L'archiduc Rodolphe d'Autriche-Hongrie
1948	The Storm Within MOVIE	Michel
1948	In the Eyes of Memory MOVIE	Jacques Forestier
1948	The Eagle with Two Heads MOVIE	Stanislas
1948	The Ed Sullivan Show TV	Self
1948	The Queen's Lover MOVIE	Ruy Blas / Don César de Bazan
1948	Bambi TV	Self (archive footage)
1948	Bambi TV	Self
1947	The Royalists MOVIE	Marquis of Montauran
1946	Beauty and the Beast MOVIE	La Bête / Le Prince / Avenant
1944	Carmen MOVIE	Don José
1943	Voyage Without Hope MOVIE	Alain Ginestier
1943	The Eternal Return MOVIE	Patrice
1942	The Four-Poster Bed MOVIE	Remy Bonvent
1941	The Pavilion Burns MOVIE	Daniel
1938	Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées MOVIE	L'Abbé-Précepteur
1938	The Patriot MOVIE	(uncredited)
1937	Bizarre, Bizarre MOVIE	Le fêtard assommé par un Chinois (uncredited)
1936	The New Men MOVIE	Le secrétaire
1934	The Adventurer MOVIE	Le jeune ouvrier
1934	Le Bonheur MOVIE	Journalist (uncredited)
1934	Le Scandale MOVIE	Le liftier
1933	Étienne MOVIE	Self
1933	The Hawk MOVIE	Self

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