Biography
Jean Servais was a Belgian actor best known for the French heist movie 'Rififi' and Luis Bunuel's 'Fever Mounts at El Pao'.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Protector
1974
Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs link...

Threshold of the Void
1974
as De Gournais, le directeur de la galerie
The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysteri...

The Crazy Capo Affair
1973
as Joseph Marchesi, dit Crazy Capo
Jean Diserens has a double life: he's a property developer and... drug dealer. He's looking for a new way to sell it. But his superior, Crazy Capo, do...

The Devil's Nightmare
1971
as Baron von Rhoneberg
Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins.
Der Mann aus London
1971
as Maloin

Better a Widow
1968
as Baron Misceni
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to bui...

Coplan Saves His Skin
1968
as Saroghu
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot th...

Black Jesus
1968
as Commander
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by pas...

They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968
as Gino
After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang col...

La Femme de 100 têtes
1968
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Surrealist short film of images viewed to a surrealist poem by Max Ernst.

Every Man Is My Enemy
1967
When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...

To Skin a Spy
1966
as Weigelt
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire...

Lost Command
1966
as Gen. Melies
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of t...

Thomas the Impostor
1965
as Pesquel-Duport
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacua...

X-Ray of a Killer
1965
The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.

Rififi in the City
1964
as Maurice Leprince
In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncoveri...

That Man from Rio
1964
as Prof. Norbert Catalan
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late fa...

Agent of Doom
1963
as Piort
Scientist André Ségonne hits the headlines with his discovery of anti-matter. On his way to a few days' vacation, he is involved in a motorcycle accid...

Chicken Soup
1963
as Commissioner Beronnet
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...

The Cage
1963
as Michel
An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to life in the bucolic splendor of his native land. Wh...

The Cage
1963
Writer
An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to life in the bucolic splendor of his native land. Wh...

The Longest Day
1962
as RAdm. Janjard
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...

Crime Does Not Pay
1962
as Vaughan
Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.

The Corsican Brothers
1961
as Gerolamo Sagona
The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

The Game of Truth
1961
as Jean-François Vérate
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They b...
House of Sin
1961
as Paul Dutraz
In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for a wife and begins adverti...

On Friday at Eleven
1961
as Gypo
An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exa...

Sahara on Fire
1961
as Wagner
A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers u...

Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1960
as Maurice Faugères
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, th...

Fever Mounts at El Pao
1959
as Alejandro Gual
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the pena...

Dangerous Games
1958
as Fournier
Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she is going ...

That Night
1958
as André Reverdy
Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cyn...

Tamango
1958
as Dr. Corot
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistr...

When a Woman Meddles
1957
as Henri Godot
French film favorite Edwige Feuillere plays a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awk...

The Wheel
1957
as Pierre Pelletier
Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother.

He Who Must Die
1957
as Priest Fotis
Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that...
La Déroute
1957
as Narrator (voice)
How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo.

The Lebanese Mission
1956
as Maj. Charles Hobson
In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese, with the...

The Knife to the Throat
1955
as Marc Hourtin
Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during th...

Heroes and Sinners
1955
as François Séverin
A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a s...

Rififi
1955
as Tony le Stéphanois
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend ...

The Knight of the Night
1953
as le châtelain
Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a few years together, the couple slowly sinks into ...

Tourbillon
1953
as Fred Maurin
Taking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfairly accused.

Rue de l'estrapade
1953
as Jacques Christian
While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique to luxury boutique with her best friend D...

Mina de Vanghel
1953
as Ruppert
A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work ...

Les Crimes de l'amour
1953
as Ruppert (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provi...

Le Plaisir
1952
as l'ami de Jean
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and y...

Loguivy-de-la-Mer
1952
as Narrator (voice)
A small Breton port is falling asleep: individual and coastal fishing is dying, as is the case for François, an old sailor close to retirement. The on...

The Glass Castle
1950
as Laurent Bartel
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband an...

The Ferret
1950
as Stadler
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around P...
Mademoiselle de la Ferté
1949
as Lord Osborne
Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him.

Such a Pretty Little Beach
1949
as Fred
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains ope...

Paul Gauguin
1949
Short documentary on Paul Gauguin by Alain Resnais

Lovers Without Love
1948
as Enrico Miller
This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns...

La Danse de mort
1948
as Kurt
A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.

The Seventh Door
1947
as The bus driver
An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) a...
Sunless Neighborhood
1946
as Jo
In a slum set to be demolished, dramas are played out among the picturesque slum dwellers, including a young couple who, denounced by the police, are ...

Life of Pleasure
1944
as Viscount Roland de la Chaume
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".

Mahlia the Mestiza
1943
Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de Roussière. Their son, Henri, would like to marry h...

Finance noire
1943
as François Carré
In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A w...

Tornavara
1943
as Anders
In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his father, a rich owner of gold mines.

Patricia
1942
as Fabien
Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt ...

Fromont Young and Risler Elder
1941
An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.

Those of the Sky
1941
as Monval
An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes t...

L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
1939
as Le docteur Maire
Taking advantage of their uncle's absence, André and Raymond Rafet organize a New Year's Eve party at his house. The uncle returns unexpectedly, distu...

La vie est magnifique
1939
Two campers meet two young girls in the Landes. Love will bloom, with its heartbreaks.

Land of Fire
1939
as Franco

Harvest
1937
as Albin
In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from ...

Social Police
1937
as Engineer Philippe Dancourt
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, a...

Gigolette
1937

Les Réprouvés
1937
as Prieur
At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.

Daddy's Girl
1936
as Henri Guiraud
After winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her father.

Valse éternelle
1936

Rose
1936

Bourrasque
1935
A young settler from Algeria is in love with the boss's niece. Of course, the father of the young man is formally opposed to the marriage. But helped ...
Song of Farewell
1934
as Frédéric Chopin

Angele
1934
as Albin
Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is seduced and a...
Dernière heure
1934
A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hours of happiness, before his arrest...

Jeunesse
1934
as Pierre
After being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, but lands up rejoining her husband in the colonies a...

Amok
1934
as Jean
Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions n...

Les Misérables
1934
as Marius Pontmercy
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
La Voix sans visage
1933
as Gérard
The singer Saltore is accused of the murder of his wife's lover, and is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. His daughter proves his innocence when sh...

Mater Dolorosa
1933
One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully hi...

Criminal
1933
as Bob Graham
A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.