Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean-Claude Dreyfus (born February 18, 1946, Paris) is a French actor. He began his career in film acting in 1973 in the film Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard. Dreyfus is notable for his portrayal of a butcher in the black comedy Delicatessen by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He collaborated again with Jeunet and actor Dominique Pinon in the films The City of Lost Children and A Very Long Engagement. Description above from the Wikipe...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Flash Drive
2025
as L'agent Pit - Chef du service action à la CIA

Bernard Duvert, l'Esprit souffle où il veut
2024
as Self

Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!
2023
as Philippe Rougeard
A small village in the north of France is plagued by zombies after a meteorite landed. 3 Homeless peoples must fight for there lives and if zombies we...

Un portrait d’Armande Altaï
2023
as Lui-mëme
Armande Altaï, an artist, a free woman, a singer, a former singing teacher at Star Academy and an underground hero, cross over Paris from sidewalks to...

The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
as Self
Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and cinema, Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus has been dragging his i...

Death and the Winemaker
2021
as Mathilde's Father
In a fairy tale world, a winemaker creates the most exquisite wine in the world. When Death herself wants to taste the wine, he discovers that his bri...
Bless Me, Father
2020
as The Man
A man goes to the church in order to confess his last sin to an exasperated young priest.

Necrologies
2018
as The Cemetery Guardian
After getting into a cemetery to take pictures for his website, Ludovic is caught by the old grave keeper. Waiting for the police, he shows Ludovic hi...

Menina
2017
as M. Sertin
An 8-year old Portuguese child fled with her parents to France in the early seventies. But the Portuguese terror travels along with her, with an alcoh...

Two Snails Set Off
2017
as (voice)
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate t...

Sélection Officielle
2017
as Michel Rivière
Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion ...

Vive la crise !
2017
as Montaigne
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.

Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
2015
as Self

A Carcass
2015
An attempt to illustrate in animation Baudelaire's poem "A Carcass". A mixture of horror and irony, sacred and profane, life and death.

Attila Marcel
2013
as M. Kruzinsky
Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thir...
L'art des Thanatier
2012
as Prosper Thanatier (voice)

The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
2012
as Éléonore
Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy.

Dernier Voyage improvisé
2011

Requiem for a Killer
2011
as Le maître de chant
Lucretia is a killer for hire. Specialised in poisoning and passionate about opera, she'll have to fulfill a difficult contract in the heart of the Sw...
Die Weihnachts-GmbH
2009

Anne of Brittany - Live at Castle of the Dukes of Brittany
2009
as Le narrateur
Rock opera.

L'Affaire Salengro
2009
as Henri Béraud
July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy. B...

Ugly Melanie
2008
as le narrateur
This is the story of too nice girl who one day decides to become evil. And who will find out it is not so easy to do wrong when you have always been n...

Coco Chanel
2008
as Paul Poiret
Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to t...

Ukiyo-e: Floating World Images
2008
as (voice)
400 years ago, in Japan, a revolutionary art was born and would influence the greatest Western artists of the late nineteenth century, the Ukiyo-E "fl...

Le Prince de ce monde
2008
as Debruges
Abbé Donato believed he could live a quiet little life, far from all temptation, in the village of Sainte-Urulle, well placed in the race for the titl...

The Great Vincent
2008
as Pierre

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as The husband (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

Les Cerfs-volants
2007
as The Count
Normandy, 1934. Ludo, raised by his uncle Ambroise, a kite maker, befriends little Lila. For five years he loses sight of her, but when they meet agai...

Cinéma érotique
2007
as Marido
A middle aged couple watching Emmanuelle are annoyed by an apparent masturbator.

Le Bénévole
2007
as Docteur Museau
In a Mediterranean city, the association of volunteers The Rescue is expecting a new director. A former trade unionist, Birgos, who’s just escaped fro...

Jean de La Fontaine, le défi
2007
as Châteauneuf

Le deal
2007
as Hervé Radius

Monsieur Max
2007
as Sacha Guitry
Portrait of a homosexual bohemian who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and was captured by the Gestapo in the 1940s.
Last cigarette
2006
as L'homme énervé
David buys a pack of cigarettes, smokes one, takes the metro and gives the rest of the pack to François, whom he meets on the platform, before walking...

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
as Self

A Very Long Engagement
2004
as Commander Lavrouye
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...

Autumn
2004
as Hugo
Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a childhood friend. He's ready to commit himself to her...

3 Guys, 1 Girl, 2 Weddings
2004
as Camille's Father
Romance meets farce against the backdrop of a quiet campaign to legalize gay marriage. Laurent loves his roommate Dan, who's straight and a playboy. L...

The Curious Boy
2004
as Mr. Dubois
Clement, nine, curious about everything, wants to understand life. Camera in hand, he walks the streets of his small provincial town, following and st...

Two Brothers
2004
as Eugène Normandin
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces...

Lovely Rita
2003
as l'antiquaire
Edgar Lamarck - an accountant and auditor is coming to the the shipyard on Cote d'Azur in order to check the statements. After completing his mission,...

The Lady and the Duke
2001
as Le duc d'Orléans
Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered ...

Philosophale
2001

La Ballade de Titus
1997
as Shrink
Once upon a time, Titus was locked up in a cellar by his adoptive parents with only a television set, a VCR... and five hundred cartoon tapes... Twent...

The Target
1997
as Le Préfet
A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of subma...

Limited Edition
1997
as Georges Récamier
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old...

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
as Foreman
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someda...

The Alarm Clock
1996
as The Man
t's 6:20 a.m. The camera pans a slew of alarm clocks that start to ring simultaneously, all set to awaken a solitary middle-aged man. The alarms are e...

Krim
1995
as Maître d'hôtel / Transvestite
A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French h...

The City of Lost Children
1995
as Marcello
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Too Loud A Solitude
1995
as Boss
An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric sc...

Mayday
1995
as Daniel
This a beautiful May evening. The sun has just set behind the hill. Tonight the inhabitants of the Le Corbusier housing unit are going to experience a...

Son of Gascogne
1995
as Marco Garciano
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because t...

Cache Cash
1994
as Max Desartre, malfrat dans le fourgon blindé
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, h...

Bonsoir
1994
as Inspecteur Bruneau
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himse...

Pétain
1993
as Dumoulin
During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial.
Love Affairs Usually End Badly
1993
as Dennard
Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at...

The Voice
1992
as Maitre d'hôtel
The tale of two lovers spending time in Rome when, suddenly, in a restaurant, the man believes he recognizes the voice of a woman he once loved... rem...

Coyote
1992
as M. Poireau
Story of a wild first love that takes place at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River between the refineries at Pointe-Au-Trembles and the rock culture o...

The Girl in the Air
1992
as Marcel
Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in...

The Beautiful Story
1992
as L'inspecteur du grand magasin
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief an...

All the Mornings of the World
1991
as Abbe Mathieu
Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life change...

Delicatessen
1991
as Clapet
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low sup...

25 décembre 58, 10h36
1991
Two children are cycling in a street of the Butte Montmartre, one of them falls and kills himself on the spot. The witnesses of the tragedy meet again...

Radio corbeau
1989
as Rosati, le boucher
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was pro...
Damia: Concert in Black Velvet
1989
as Self
Documentary on the singer Damia.

Black Mic Mac 2
1988
In the African district of Paris, a man tries by all means to find his jacket, accidentally lost, which contains a winning lotto ticket.

Ville étrangère
1988
as Taxi driver
An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself emotionally distanced from his world. He feels abso...

Tandem
1987
as le conseiller
Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistan...

How Wang-Fo Was Saved
1987
as L'empereur (voice)
Wang Fo, the greatest master of medieval China, aided by his assistant who has given up everything to follow him, desperately seeks aesthetic perfecti...

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
1984
as Marquis Du Hickey
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.

Our Story
1984
as Un voisin
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Don...

Le fou du roi
1984
as Courtemise
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels.

Dog Day
1984
as Le Barrec
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

Street of the Damned
1984
as Un homme de main de Hagen, surnommé « Nez-de-Bœuf »
In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who v...

The Outsider
1983
as Un travesti au commissariat
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of ...

English Education
1983
as Georges / Georgina
After losing both her parents, young Sylvie is enrolled in a strict boarding school of Victorian English education. The school readily and willingly ...

The Prize of Peril
1983
as Bertrand
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired li...

Le péril rampant
1982
as Le Serpent
The film follows the villain “The Serpent” in his fight to conquer the world at any cost. Close to the best B series, Yaccelini runs through its plot ...

Fitzcarraldo
1982
as Opera 'Ernani' - Sarah Bernhardt
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an ...

The Boy Soldier
1981
as Capitaine Maryla
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son...

Memoirs of a French Whore
1979
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoratio...

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979
as L'adjoint De Chodaque
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of findin...

Immoral Women
1979
as Bini
The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a way, most substantial: it’s set in Renaissance Rome, wi...

Sugar
1978
as Mimine
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
1977
as Le prêcheur
Basil Hallward is a mediocre painter. His exhibitions owe their success to his social position and nothing more. But one day Basil meets Dorian Gray, ...

Shadow of Angels
1976
as Zwerg
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what litt...

One Man Against the Organization
1975
as Lady Rebecca Rosenbaum
An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail.

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974
as Le transformiste du cabaret
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and i...
Un ange au paradis
1973
as Transvestite from the Grande Eugène (uncredited)
A bored undertaker, married to an ex prostitute, falls in love with a transsexual.

The Adventures of Zadig
1970
In the time of King Moabdar, in ancient Babylon, the young philosopher, Zadig, undergoes many misadventures.