Personal Info
Birth date
1883-08-14 (141 Years)
Day of death
1970-01-28
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Lanas, Ardèche, France
Also known as
Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet
Gaston Jacquet
Biography
Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet was a French actor. Jacquet was born in Lanas, Ardèche, France and died in 1970 in Thonex in Switzerland.
Filmography
The End of the Day
6.8
Overview:
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.Lovers of Paris
6
Overview:
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.A Man's Neck
6.2
Overview:
Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.The Golem
4.8
Overview:
The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.David Golder
6.2
Overview:
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.Miss Europe
6.2
Overview:
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?L'Eau du Nil
NYR
Overview:
Wirsoq, who belongs to the type of cosmopolitan financier, gets into his power a young French aristocrat, Arthur de Sorgepois, and insists that the boy's sister should marry him. The girl is in love with a young artist, Pierre Levannier, who secretly returns her affection, but does not declare himself at this critical moment because he is not rich enough to support a wife.The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower
5.3
Overview:
The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing the money. This formidable brotherhood, whose headquarters are in the Eiffel Tower, send the Mironton Brothers on impossible adventures and countless traps.The Maelstrom of Paris
NYR
Overview:
Story of a woman who thinks she prefers a life of glory on stage in Paris to life with her Scottish lord of a husband in his castle.Le Billet de mille
NYR
Overview:
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.Latin Quarter
NYR
Overview:
A wealthy man pretends to be a starving artist to gain the affections of a young painter.The Emigrant
6
Overview:
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.The Road to Paradise
7
Overview:
Willy, Jean and Guy are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love for the same girl. Simultaneously filmed French version of the German musical "Die Drei von der Tankstelle".Girls in Distress
4.5
Overview:
Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931), the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal.Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes
NYR
Overview:
The atheism of a French doctor is tested when he sees for himself the miraculous healing powers of the shrine at Lourdes.The Musicians of the Sky
6.7
Overview:
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.La Neige sur les pas
5
Overview:
Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She runs away with her lover. But, during a mountain excursion, Norans is killed and Thérèse is herself seriously injured. But she recovers. The husband then forgives the unfaithful wife, and the couple reunites.The Sins of Love
NYR
Overview:
The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.Paris
NYR
Overview:
Jean Fleury, a young engineer who has designed a revolutionary engine for the Revoil motor company, is engaged to Aimée Valois, a seamstress, his neighbor across the hall. But the charming young lady is hired one day by a nightclub and lets herself be lured by the easy life in Paris. So much so that, to Jean's great distress, she breaks up with him. But, along with time, Aimée gets tired of her vain and frivolous lifestyle and comes back to Jean.Pavement Butterfly
6
Overview:
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.Sensation im Wintergarten
NYR
Overview:
The son of a Countess runs away to join the circus and becomes a great trapeze artist. He returns years later and falls in love with a young woman.The Three Musketeers
7
Overview:
A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.Woman of Destiny
NYR
Overview:
Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.Charlemagne
NYR
Overview:
After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula.The Duke's Motto
NYR
Overview:
The Prince of Gonzague kills the Duke of Nevers and tries to marry his widow, Aurore de Nevers, so he can get his hand on his fortune. The Chevalier Lagardère takes the child Irène de Nevers with him to Spain only to return disguised as a hunchback years later to unmask the Prince for the villain he is.Acting
1957Lovers of Paris as Hippolyte Vabre, the father, owner of the building
1942La Neige sur les pas as Unknown
1941Hopes ... as Grigou
1940The Musicians of the Sky as Unknown
1940The Emigrant as Officer
1939The End of the Day as Lacour
1939Girls in Distress as Le père d'Amélie
1938Escadrille of Chance as President
1936The Golem as Friedrich, le chef de la police
1935Le Billet de mille as Unknown
1934Dernière heure as Unknown
1933Charlemagne as Director
1933Son altesse impériale as The Grand Duke
1933Une idée folle as Brown-Duvant
1933A Man's Neck as Willy Ferrière
1933Caprice de princesse as Superintendent
1932Love in speed as Unknown
1932Barranco as Stanton Muir
1932The Winner as Le directeur de l'hôtel
1931Coquecigrole as Saint-Palmier
1931My Heart and Its Millions as Mirgaudon
1931Television: French Version as Stephany, le financier
1931David Golder as Graf Hoyos
1931The indictment as J.B. Albey
1930The Road to Paradise as Monsieur Bourcart
1930Miss Europe as Le Duc
1930Rapacity as Unknown
1930The girl from USA as Prinz Diebenstein
1930Illusions as Unknown
1929Das Mädel mit der Peitsche as Professor Nebenkrug
1929The Sins of Love as Unknown
1929Sensation im Wintergarten as Baron von Mallock
1929House in the Sun as Unknown
1929Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht as Unknown
1929Latin Quarter as Baron Harvey
1929Pavement Butterfly as Baron de Neuve
1928L'Eau du Nil as Basil Lescoe
1928Woman of Destiny as Buguelle
1928The Maelstrom of Paris as Unknown
1928The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower as Sir William Dewitt
1927The Labyrinth as Unknown
1927Liebe geht seltsame Wege as Unknown
1927L'Ile enchantée as Gabriel Lestrange
1927Revelation as Larsac
1925The Duke's Motto as Unknown
1924Paris as Unknown
1924Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes as Jean-Elie
1923The Bachelor Girl as Lucien Vigneret
1923The Reflection of Claude Mercoeur as Unknown
1923Le crime d'une sainte as Corvel
1922The Sinister Guest as l'inspecteur David
1921The Three Musketeers as De Winter
1921Ernoa's Way as Unknown