Personal Info

Birth date

1933-07-18 (91 Years)

Day of death

2003-05-23

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Les Lilas, Seine, France

Also known as

Jean Roger Gouyé

Jean Yanne

Biography

Jean Yanne (born Jean Roger Gouyé; 18 July 1933 – 23 May 2003) was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, director and composer.

During his career, he won a Cannes Film Festival Award for his leading role in We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) and received a César Award nomination for his supporting role in Indochine (1992).

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Filmography

Apostrophes

8.5

Overview:

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.

Midi Première

10

Overview:

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.

Palace

6.7

Overview:

The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...

Les Thibault

6.7

Overview:

Between 1905 and 1918, the opposing destinies of two brothers from a large Catholic bourgeois family.

Le Champ Dolent, le roman de la terre

NYR

Overview:

Brotherhood of the Wolf

6.72

Overview:

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

Indochine

7.038

Overview:

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.

Gramps Is in the Resistance

6.868

Overview:

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Madame Bovary

6.3

Overview:

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

Weekend

6.976

Overview:

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

The Horseman on the Roof

6.493

Overview:

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

6.084

Overview:

In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.

Blood for Dracula

5.7

Overview:

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

The Butcher

7.1

Overview:

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.

This Man Must Die

7.434

Overview:

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.

Flesh for Frankenstein

5.8

Overview:

Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre and hilarious combination of death and dismemberment.

Armageddon

5.738

Overview:

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.

Belle Maman

5.144

Overview:

At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.

See How They Fall

6.5

Overview:

A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.

Acting

2022The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox as Self (archive footage)

2022Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70 as Self - actor (archive footage)

2014Le triomphe inattendu de Ben-Hur Marcel as Self (archive footage)

2009Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) as Self (archive footage)

2007Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2 as Self (archive footage)

2003Les Thibault (4 Episodes) as Oscar Thibault

2003Payoff as Tonton

2003Small Cuts as Gérard

2003Une preuve d'amour as Fantin

2002Le Champ Dolent, le roman de la terre (4 Episodes) as Jean-Baptiste

2002Adolphe as The Count

2001Vertiges de l'amour as Le beau-père

2001Brotherhood of the Wolf as Le Comte de Morangias

2000Actors as Doctor Belgoder

2000Les Shadoks, mythe ou légende ? as Self

1999Je règle mon pas sur le pas de mon père as Bertrand

1999Belle Maman as Paul

1999Hygiène de l'assassin as Prétextat Tach

1998La dame du jeu as Unknown

1998Vivement dimanche (2 Episodes) as Self

1998Le radeau de la Méduse as Chaumareys

1997Run for Your Life as Père Cambournac

1997Proper Attire Required as M. Brucker

1996Victory as Mr. Schomberg

1996Should Not!... as Magic

1996News from the Good Lord as Dieu

1996The Year of Certificate as Le Grand-père

1996Desire as Corniche

1996Enfants de salaud as Julius

1996Beaumarchais the Scoundrel as Louis Goezman

1995The Horseman on the Roof as Hawker

1995Ils n'ont pas vingt ans as Bakoulian

1994See How They Fall as Simon

1994Every Man for Yourself as Georges Flavier / L'imperator

1993Low Profile as Plana

1993Le ciel pour témoin as Gustave

1993À la Mode as Mietek Breslauer

1993La Légende as Roland Pikas

1993Pétain as Pierre Laval

1993L'Affaire Seznec as Quémeneur

1992Indochine as Guy Asselin

1992Le Bal des casse-pieds as H33, l'emmerdeur

1992La sévillane as Polougaievski

1991The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck as Germain, l'escroc

1991Madame Bovary as M. Homais

1989Quicker Than the Eye as Inspector Sutter

1988Palace (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as L'alcoolique anti-tiers monde, Le client qui pêche dans sa baignoire, Romancier, Le mari qui a une pulsion, Le mari infidèle sauvé par un poulpe, L'homme qui vend sa femme à 49%

1987Cayenne Palace as Equateur

1987Fucking Fernand as André Binet

1987Sacrée soirée (1 Episode) as Self

1987Bandits as L'Expert (Simon Verini)

1986The Wolf at the Door as William Molard

1986The Nonentity as Kommissar

1985Liberté, égalité, choucroute as Marat

1985The Telephone Always Rings Twice as L'homme au téléphone

1983Gramps Is in the Resistance as Murat, fonctionnaire à la Kommandantur

1983Hanna K. as Victor Bonnet

1982Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ as Paulus

1982A Day in a Taxi as Michel