Biography
Jacques Castelot (born Jacques Marie Paul Éloi Storms) (11 July 1914 – 25 August 1989) was a French film actor. He appeared in 86 films between 1938 and 1982. His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas. From 1940 to 1945 he was married to actress and theater director Héléna Bossis (pseudonym of Henriette Berthe Blanche Berriau). Source: Article "Jacques Castelot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Complete Filmography
December
1973
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most viole...
Repeated Absences
1972
as Le directeur de la banque
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Sappho
1971
as Uncle Edward
Françoise Legrand, better known as "Sappho", attractive young woman of the Parisian bourgeoisie, flits from man to man with the consent of Maurice Dur...
Love Me Strangely
1971
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws ...
Falling Point
1970
as Le père
Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, i...
Vertigo For A Killer
1970
as Mario
Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss when he fails to execute a man who happens to be his frie...
Why America
1970
as Narrator
A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United ...
Time of the Wolves
1970
as Investigating judge
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former ...
Desert Assault
1969
as Le sergent du char allemand
Allied and German forces are stranded in desert during WW II and attempt to surrender each other.
Misdeal
1969
as Le chef des justiciers
A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a...
Brigade Anti Gangs
1966
as Director of the P.J.
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
The Invincible
1966
as Conte d'Artois
In addition to his passion for red roses, Count Henri de Verlaine adores wooing all the women he meets.
The Other Truth
1966
as The prosecutor
Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't br...
The Two Orphans
1965
as Marquis de Presle
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
Angelique
1964
as L'archevêque de Toulouse
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls i...
Comment épouser un premier ministre
1964
as Un ministre d'État
Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife ...
La Cousine Bette
1964
as Baron Hulot
Élisabeth Fischer, a farmer's daughter and cousin of Adeline Fischer, now Baroness Hulot d'Ervy, has been furiously jealous of the latter since their ...
Trouble Among Widows
1964
as Cyril
When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she r...
The Gallant Musketeer
1964
as King Henri III
Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vie...
Les gros bras
1963
as Otto Werner
Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet u...
Lafayette
1962
as Duke of Ayen
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
1961
as Baumann
Paul fishes out of the water the body of his greatest enemy. To avoid accusations that he is a killer, taking steps that will clear his good name.
The Baron of the Locks
1960
as Marquis François-Marie de Villamayor
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town...
Marie of the Isles
1960
as Comte Cheneau de Saint-André
In 1635, Jacques du Parquet, the nephew of the well known explorer Belain d'Esnambic, enters a tavern in Dieppe, and falls in love with the daughter o...
La Mort n'est pas à vendre
1960
The Great Deception
1959
as le marquis de L'Hospital, l'ambassadeur de France en Russie
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit...
Le souffle du désir
1958
as Mario
Daniel Bellanger, a night-club crooner, is a basically straight,honest man. He has just married Christiane, a cashier in a Montmartre hotel and his ma...
Dishonorable Discharge
1957
as Gérard Lester, Legrand's deputy
Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his services to survive. Perez, a drug trafficker, calls on ...
She's a girl from Paris
1957
as Jean Paget
Lyane is a singer and daughter of the producer of the operetta: "C'est une fille de Paris". She convinces the composer of the music, Jacques Kellerman...
The Mysteries of Paris
1957
as Notaio Ferrand
Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as...
La Garçonne
1957
La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When she...
Soupçons
1956
as Thierry de Villesec
"Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, a...
An Evening at the Music Hall
1956
as Philippe Loiselet
A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star of the theater.
Meeting in Paris
1956
as Marquis Arnaud de Cernay
A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the ca...
The Adventures of Gil Blas
1956
as Marquis de Mosquera
Nana
1955
as Le comte de Vandeuvres
Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
1954
as Marchese de Boysson
In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the v...
Casta diva
1954
as Ernesto Tosi
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
The Two Orphans
1954
as Marquis de Presles
One Bullet Is Enough
1954
as Me Fidler
After leaving the prison where they have served their sentence, some criminals plan a new robbery.
Obsession
1954
as Me Ritter
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is inj...
The Rebels of Lomanach
1954
as Rocheville
A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
Before the Deluge
1954
as Serge de Montesson
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le delug...
The Count of Monte Cristo
1954
as Gérard Noirtier, Count of Villefort, the King's Prosecutor
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, ...
L'aventurière du Tchad
1953
as Norbert
Alain de Blomette, a family man, is in danger of becoming a deviant under the influence of his mistress Fanny Lacourt. He steals a bracelet, loses at ...
Other Side of Paradise
1953
as Gabriel Dautrand
Complicated intrigues fester in the warmth of Segnac, a charming village on the Cô te d'Azur. The hô teliers' daughter, Violaine, has only a few month...
My Husband Is Marvelous
1953
as Christian
A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.
Fatal Affair
1953
as Commissioner Lotte
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bru...
Forbidden Fruit
1952
as Boquet, le propriétaire du 'Poker bar'
A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As their relationship deepens, he becomes viol...
Don Juan's Night of Love
1952
as Baron de Villemure
Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws att...
The Truth About Bebe Donge
1952
as Doctor Jalabert
François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hos...
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
1951
as Gabory, the president
In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be Françoise, Mart...
Dirty Hands
1951
as le prince
A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given...
Les Petites Cardinal
1951
as The Baron of Glaïeuls
Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, talented sisters, Virginie and Pauline Cardinal. They ...
Victor
1951
as Marc Pélicier
Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.
Topaze
1951
as Roger Gaëtan de Bersac
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, ...
Justice Is Done
1950
as Gilbert de Montesson, first juror
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal ...
No Pity for Women
1950
as Investigating judge
The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken...
Cartouche, King of Paris
1950
as Duke of Maine
The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a...
Paris Waltz
1950
as The Duke of Morny
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
The Big Meeting
1950
as Forestier
One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.
Maya
1949
as Ernest
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sor...
Marlène
1949
as Breteville
Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigat...
Impasse of Two Angels
1948
as Le Vicomte
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives h...
Convicted
1948
as Le docteur Yvame
After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places ...
The Murdered Model
1948
as Emile
Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the fe...
Road Blocked
1948
as Larsac
Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she h...
Captain Blomet
1947
as Rodolphe
Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him tha...
Passionnelle
1947
as Le comte de Vétheuil
Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury t...
Paméla
1945
as Prince de Carency
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
Children of Paradise
1945
as Georges
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actr...
The Island of Love
1944
as Serlys, Xénia's friend
A Corsican fisherman is the victim of a vendetta, when he was wrong to date the niece of a businessman proposing to create a seaside resort, much to t...
La Malibran
1944
as Lamartine
On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted ...
Monsieur des Lourdines
1943
as Prince Stimov
A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with re...
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943
as Jean Plantel
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they...
Cavalcade of Love
1939
as Dancer (uncredited)
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that who...
La Marseillaise
1938
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the kin...