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Jean Marais

Actor / Theatre Director / Film Director / Stunt Performer / Photographer | * 12/11/1913 († 84, 11/08/1998) | Cherbourg, Manche (France)
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Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), known professionally as Jean Marais (French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁɛ]), was a French actor, film director, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. He performed in over 100 films and was the lover, muse and friend of acclaimed director Jean Cocteau. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe ...

The Count of Monte Cristo

NR

1954 | 3.5/5 | 3h 3min
Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
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The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her tha ...

Beauty and the Beast

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1946 | 3.7/5 | 1h 36min
Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
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At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus ...

Orpheus

NR

1950 | 3.8/5 | 1h 35min
Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
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Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kis ...

Stealing Beauty

R

1996 | 3.4/5 | 1h 56min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Jean Marais

Victoires du Cinéma Français Honorary César Commander of The Legion of Honour
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Movies with Jean Marais as Actor(93)

as Self (archive footage)2022 Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
as Self (archive footage)2011 Belmondo: Il était une fois le beau monde
as Self (archive footage)2010 Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
as Djoko2009 At World's End
as himself2006 Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
as Self (archive footage)2000 Federico Fellini's Autobiography
as himself1999 Luchino Visconti
as Self (archive footage)1997 The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as himself1997 Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
as M. Guillaume1996 Stealing Beauty
as Self (archive footage)1995 The World of Jacques Demy
as Mgr Myriel1995 Les Miserables
1993 Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas
as Marc Antoine1992 Shipwrecked Children
as himself1989 Damia: Concert in Black Velvet
as Hadès / The Devil1985 Parking
as Self (Archival Footage)1980 My American Uncle
as Christian1970 The Provocation
as Le roi1970 Donkey Skin
as Le vieil homme1969 Le Jouet criminel
as Manuel Thomas, dit Manu1969 Diamond Rush
as Captain Dorgeval1967 Seven Guys and a Gal
as Fantômas / Fandor / Sir Walter Brown / Giuseppe Luigi1967 Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
as Simon Templar1966 The Saint Lies in Wait
as Jean-Luc Hervé de la Tommeraye1965 Ivory Coast Adventure
as Le narrateur1965 Thomas the Impostor
as Antoine Donadieu1965 Operation Double Cross
as Stanislas Dubois1965 Killer Spy
as Fantômas / Fandor / Professeur Lefèvre / Marquis de Rostelli1965 Fantomas Unleashed
as Noël Carradine1964 Friends of the family
as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)1964 Cherchez l'idole
as Fantômas / Fandor / Lord Shelton / Vieux gardien de la prison1964 Fantomas
as Stanislas1963 The Reluctant Spy
as Rodolphe de Sombreuil1962 The Mysteries of Paris
as Charles D'Artagnan1962 The Iron Mask
as Ponzio Pilato1962 Pontius Pilate
as Le Prince de Clèves1961 Princess of Cleves
as Robert de Neuville1961 Blood on His Sword
as Marte1961 Romulus and the Sabines
as Fracasse alias Sigognac1961 Captain Fracasse
as General de Montholon1961 Napoléon II, l'aiglon
as Carnot1960 The Battle of Austerlitz
as Oedipe1960 Testament of Orpheus
as François de Capestang, dit Le Capitan1960 Captain Blood
as Henri de Lagardère1959 The Hunchback of Paris
as Teddy Brooks1958 Life Together
as Henri La Tour1958 King on Horseback
as Xavier Lezcano1958 Every Day Has Its Secret
as Pierre Marsac1957 Typhoon Over Nagasaki
as Prof. Jerome1957 A Girl in a Pocket
as L'inquilino1957 Le Notti Bianche
as Frédéric Coulibaud1957 S.O.S. Noronha
as François Nérac1956 The Whole Town Accuses
as Général François Rollan1956 Elena and Her Men
as François Ier1956 If Paris Were Told to Us
as Goubbiah1956 Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl
as Count Montholon1955 Napoleon
as Eric Walter1955 School for Love
as himself1954 Boom on Paris
as Edmond Dantès1954 The Count of Monte Cristo
as Louis XV1954 Royal Affairs in Versailles
as L'ancien maquisard1953 Voice of Silence
as Inspecteur Desiré Marco1953 Inside a Girls' Dormitory
as André Landrecourt1953 Julietta
as Pierre Lachaux dit Monsieur Laurent1953 Le guérisseur
as Lorenzo Lombardi1953 The Call of Destiny
as Marcel Dulac1953 The Lovers of Midnight
as Roger de Tainchebraye1952 Leathernose
as himself1952 Love, Madame
as Jérôme1951 Miracles Only Happen Once
as Orphée1950 Orpheus
as Rémy Marsay1950 The Glass Castle
as L'archiduc Rodolphe d'Autriche-Hongrie1949 The Secret of Mayerling
as Ruy Blas / Don César de Bazan1948 The Queen's Lover
as Michel1948 The Storm Within
as Stanislas1948 The Eagle with Two Heads
as Jacques Forestier1948 In the Eyes of Memory
as le marquis de Montauran1947 The Royalists
as The Beast / The Prince / Avenant1946 Beauty and the Beast
as Don José1944 Carmen
as Alain Ginestier1943 Voyage Without Hope
as Patrice1943 The Eternal Return
as Remy Bonvent1942 The Four-Poster Bed
as Daniel1941 The Pavilion Burns
1938 Le Patriote
as L'Abbé-Précepteur1938 Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
as Le fêtard assommé par un Chinois1937 Bizarre, Bizarre
as Le secrétaire1936 The New Men
as Le jeune ouvrier1934 The Adventurer
as Le liftier1934 Le Scandale
as Journalist - Un journaliste1934 Le Bonheur
1933 Étienne
1933 The Hawk

TV Shows/Series with Jean Marais as Actor(12)

as himself1987 Le monde est à vous
as himself1982 Champs-Elysées
as himself1975 Apostrophes
as himself1975 Midi Première
as himself1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as l'Empereur1973 Karatékas and Co
as Joseph Balsamo1973 Joseph Balsamo
as Self (archive footage)1972 Midi trente
as himself1972 Le Grand Échiquier
as himself1965 Dim Dam Dom
as himself1959 Discorama
as himself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show

Movies with Jean Marais as Crew(2)

Crew/Stunts1967 Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Crew/Stunts1965 Fantomas Unleashed

Full Name: Jean Marais
Citizenship: France
Born: Thursday, 12/11 1913 (December) in Cherbourg, Manche (France)
Died: Sunday, 11/08 1998 (November) in Cannes (aged: 84)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: French (FR)
Educated at: Lycée Condorcet
Spouses (current/former): Mila Parély
Other names for Jean Marais (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Жан Марэ"
"Жан Маре"
"Jean Alfred Villain-Marais"
Jean Marais frequently works together with these people:
Jean Cocteau (26x, Crew)
Sacha Guitry (13x, Crew)
André Hunebelle (12x, Crew)
Louis de Funès (9x, Actor)
Serge Gainsbourg (9x, Actor)
Christian-Jaque (9x, Crew)
Johnny Hallyday (9x, Actor)
Sacha Distel (9x, Actor)
Marcel L'Herbier (9x, Crew)
Jean Halain (9x, Crew)
Tino Rossi (9x, Actor)
Serge Lama (9x, Actor)

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