Jacques Denis (actor)
Jacques Denis (born May 12, 1943 in Fès , Morocco , † December 2, 2015 in Saint-Quentin , Aisne , France) was a French actor who first played in film and then mainly on theater stages or on television.
Life
Jacques Denis studied acting in Paris and took lessons from Tania Balachova. From 1965 he was able to perform on the most famous theater stages in the French capital. He was discovered by Alain Tanner , in whose film La salamandre he had a leading role with Jean-Luc Bideau . In the further 1970s he embodied non-conformist personalities in several feature films by Swiss directors Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta and Michel Soutter . In the feature film La Question (1977) by Laurent Heynemann, in which the eponymous report by Henri Alleg about his torture in an internment camp during the Algerian war , he played the main role of the tortured editor-in-chief.
In the 1980s he was an actor at the Nouveau Théâtre de Poche in Geneva . Later he continued to appear mainly on theater stages or on television in Switzerland and France in various roles.
Filmography (selection)
- 1970: James ou pas
- 1971: The salamander (La salamandre)
- 1972: The land surveyors (Les arpenteurs)
- 1973: Les vilaines manières
- 1974: The watchmaker of St. Paul (L'horloger de Saint-Paul)
- 1974: A cloud between the teeth (Un nuage entre les dents)
- 1974: Le milieu du monde
- 1974: Le troisième cri
- 1975: Le pain noir (TV series)
- 1976: Calmos
- 1976: Jonas, who will be 25 years old in 2000 (Jonas qui aura 25 ans à l'an 2000)
- 1977: La question
- 1977: Sweet Madness (Dites-lui que je l'aime)
- 1979: Plurielles
- 1979: I like Ikarus (I ... comme Icare)
- 1980: Odo-Toum, d'autres rythmes
- 1981: Children for the Fatherland (Allons z'enfants)
- 1983: La fuite en avant
- 1984: Story of a Smile (Notre histoire)
- 1988: Chocolat - Forbidden Longing (Chocolat)
- 1991: Swing troubadour
- 1993: The Little Apocalypse (La petite apocalypse)
- 1993: La cavale des fous
- 1996: Le dernier des pélicans
- 1996: Fourbi
- 2003: Ce jour-là
Web links
- Jacques Denis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cinémathèque Francaise: Jacques Denis (French)
- Information on Jacques Denis in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thomas Sotinel: Mort de Jacques Denis, interprète de Tanner et de Tavernier. lemonde.fr, December 6, 2015, accessed January 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Alexandre Demidoff: Jacques Denis, magnifique arpenteur de scènes. letemps.ch, December 4, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Denis, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fes , Morocco |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 2015 |
| Place of death | Saint-Quentin , Aisne department , France |