Jean Gaven (16 January 1918 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996.[1]
Jean Gaven | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 January 1918 |
| Died | 5 May 2014 (aged 96) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1945-1998 |
| Spouse | Dominique Wilms |
Life and career edit
Born in Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France on January 16, 1922, Gaven began acting sometime after the end of World War II, amassing a filmography of more than 60 motion pictures during a career spanning more than five decades. Married to the actress Dominique Wilms, he died at the age of 92 in Paris, France, on May 5, 2014.[2]
Filmography edit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Les cadets de l'océan | Albertini, dit Tino | |
| 1946 | Son of France | Le lieutenant Brévannes | |
| 1946 | The Murderer is Not Guilty | Le jeune inspecteur Gustave Perkinson | |
| 1946 | Dropped from Heaven | Robert | |
| 1947 | Six Hours to Lose | Antoine | |
| 1947 | Something to Sing About | Jack Bing | |
| 1948 | Night Express | Un des deux complices | |
| 1949 | La bataille du feu | Jacques Legrand | |
| 1949 | At the Grand Balcony | Belfort | |
| 1951 | Tomorrow We Get Divorced | Johnny Buck | |
| 1951 | La peau d'un homme | Moussac | |
| 1951 | They Were Five | Marcel - le boxeur | |
| 1951 | Duel in Dakar | Fred | |
| 1952 | Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré | Finot | |
| 1952 | The Crime of Bouif | Michel | |
| 1952 | Plume au vent | François Bontemps | |
| 1953 | The Baker of Valorgue | Le curé | |
| 1954 | The Big Flag | Le lieutenant Lachenal | |
| 1954 | Obsessio | Alexandre Buisson | |
| 1955 | The Babes Make the Law | Frédéric Langlet - le mari de Christine | |
| 1955 | Madonna of the Sleeping Cars | Don Armando Félix | |
| 1955 | Sophie and the Crime | Ernest Sapinaud | |
| 1955 | Scandal in Montmartre | Félix Michaux | |
| 1956 | If All the Guys in the World | Jos - le second | |
| 1956 | La Loi des rues | André Remoulin dit Dédé la Glace | |
| 1957 | The River of Three Junks | Capitaine Brichet | |
| 1957 | The Crucible | Peter Corey | |
| 1957 | Young Girls Beware | Petit Jo | |
| 1958 | Les aventuriers du Mékong | Le Scaph | |
| 1959 | Du rififi chez les femmes | James | |
| 1959 | Visa pour l'enfer | Carlos | |
| 1960 | Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit | Paul | |
| 1961 | Leon Garros ishchet druga | Grégoire | |
| 1962 | Le bateau d'Émile | ||
| 1964 | Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno | Paul | |
| 1965 | Trap for Cinderella | Gabriel | |
| 1966 | Our Men in Bagdad | General Yuri Fiodorenko | |
| 1968 | Pasha | Marc | |
| 1970 | Rider on the Rain | Toussaint | |
| 1971 | Un aller simple | Dietrich | |
| 1971 | Où est passé Tom? | Anton Caras | |
| 1972 | And Hope to Die | Rizzio | |
| 1975 | Histoire d'O | Pierre | |
| 1976 | Les mal partis | Gargantua | |
| 1976 | Le trouble-fesses | Un tueur sicilien | |
| 1977 | The French Woman | Gustave Lucas | |
| 1978 | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Salpetre | |
| 1979 | Un jour un tueur | Hugo Klein | |
| 1981 | Signé Furax | L'agent sans panier à salade | |
| 1983 | One Deadly Summer | Leballech, the boss of the sawmill | |
| 1984 | Vénus | Waldo | |
| 1988 | Juillet en septembre | Monsieur Challe | |
| 1993 | L'oeil écarlate | Etienne Delvaux | |
| 1996 | Les Bidochon | Maître Nerval | (final film role) |
References edit
- ^ "Décès de Jean Gaven, le héros de Maurin des Maures - L'Express" (in French). Lexpress.fr. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
- ^ Lentz IIII, Harris. Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014, p. 126. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2015.
External links edit
- Jean Gaven at IMDb