Jean Servais

Jean Servais

1912-09-24 Antwerp, Belgium 84 Credits

Biography

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

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The Protector

The Protector

1974

3.5
Acting

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

Threshold of the Void

Threshold of the Void

1974

as De Gournais, le directeur de la galerie

7.3
Acting

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

The Crazy Capo Affair

1973

as Joseph Marchesi, dit Crazy Capo

4.5
Acting

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

The Devil's Nightmare

1971

as Baron von Rhoneberg

6.3
Acting

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

Acting
Better a Widow

Better a Widow

1968

as Baron Misceni

Acting

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

Coplan Saves His Skin

1968

as Saroghu

4.8
Acting

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

Black Jesus

1968

as Commander

5.4
Acting

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

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

1968

as Gino

5.9
Acting

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

La Femme de 100 têtes

1968

as Récitant / Narrator (voice)

6.7
Acting

Surrealist short film of images viewed to a surrealist poem by Max Ernst.

Every Man Is My Enemy

Every Man Is My Enemy

1967

3.0
Acting

When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...

To Skin a Spy

To Skin a Spy

1966

as Weigelt

5.7
Acting

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

Lost Command

1966

as Gen. Melies

6.2
Acting

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

Thomas the Impostor

1965

as Pesquel-Duport

6.3
Acting

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

X-Ray of a Killer

1965

Acting

The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.

Rififi in the City

Rififi in the City

1964

as Maurice Leprince

5.0
Acting

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

That Man from Rio

1964

as Prof. Norbert Catalan

7.4
Acting

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

Agent of Doom

1963

as Piort

2.0
Acting

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

Chicken Soup

1963

as Commissioner Beronnet

Acting

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

The Cage

1963

as Michel

6.2
Acting

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

The Cage

1963

Writer

6.2
Writing

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

The Longest Day

1962

as RAdm. Janjard

7.6
Acting

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

Crime Does Not Pay

1962

as Vaughan

5.1
Acting

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

The Corsican Brothers

1961

as Gerolamo Sagona

5.5
Acting

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

The Game of Truth

The Game of Truth

1961

as Jean-François Vérate

5.9
Acting

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

4.0
Acting

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

On Friday at Eleven

1961

as Gypo

6.9
Acting

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

Sahara on Fire

1961

as Wagner

Acting

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.

Murder at 45 R.P.M.

1960

as Maurice Faugères

5.7
Acting

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

Fever Mounts at El Pao

1959

as Alejandro Gual

6.1
Acting

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

Dangerous Games

1958

as Fournier

5.0
Acting

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

That Night

1958

as André Reverdy

5.0
Acting

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

Tamango

1958

as Dr. Corot

6.7
Acting

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

When a Woman Meddles

1957

as Henri Godot

5.3
Acting

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

The Wheel

1957

as Pierre Pelletier

6.0
Acting

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

He Who Must Die

1957

as Priest Fotis

6.1
Acting

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)

Acting

How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo.

The Lebanese Mission

The Lebanese Mission

1956

as Maj. Charles Hobson

2.5
Acting

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

The Knife to the Throat

1955

as Marc Hourtin

4.5
Acting

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

Heroes and Sinners

1955

as François Séverin

8.3
Acting

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

Rififi

1955

as Tony le Stéphanois

7.8
Acting

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

The Knight of the Night

1953

as le châtelain

5.6
Acting

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

Tourbillon

1953

as Fred Maurin

Acting

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

Rue de l'estrapade

Rue de l'estrapade

1953

as Jacques Christian

5.2
Acting

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

Mina de Vanghel

1953

as Ruppert

Acting

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

Les Crimes de l'amour

1953

as Ruppert (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')

6.0
Acting

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

Le Plaisir

1952

as l'ami de Jean

7.6
Acting

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

Loguivy-de-la-Mer

1952

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

The Glass Castle

1950

as Laurent Bartel

5.6
Acting

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

The Ferret

1950

as Stadler

5.6
Acting

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

8.5
Acting

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

Such a Pretty Little Beach

1949

as Fred

6.7
Acting

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

Paul Gauguin

1949

6.0
Acting

Short documentary on Paul Gauguin by Alain Resnais

Lovers Without Love

Lovers Without Love

1948

as Enrico Miller

7.0
Acting

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

La Danse de mort

1948

as Kurt

5.9
Acting

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

The Seventh Door

1947

as The bus driver

10.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Life of Pleasure

1944

as Viscount Roland de la Chaume

6.9
Acting

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

Mahlia the Mestiza

1943

Acting

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

Finance noire

1943

as François Carré

Acting

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

Tornavara

1943

as Anders

Acting

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

Patricia

1942

as Fabien

Acting

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

Fromont Young and Risler Elder

1941

6.0
Acting

An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.

Those of the Sky

Those of the Sky

1941

as Monval

Acting

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

L'Étrange Nuit de Noël

1939

as Le docteur Maire

Acting

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

La vie est magnifique

1939

Acting

Two campers meet two young girls in the Landes. Love will bloom, with its heartbreaks.

Land of Fire

Land of Fire

1939

as Franco

Acting
Harvest

Harvest

1937

as Albin

6.8
Acting

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

Social Police

1937

as Engineer Philippe Dancourt

Acting

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

Gigolette

1937

Acting
Les Réprouvés

Les Réprouvés

1937

as Prieur

Acting

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.

Daddy's Girl

Daddy's Girl

1936

as Henri Guiraud

2.0
Acting

After winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her father.

Valse éternelle

Valse éternelle

1936

Acting
Rose

Rose

1936

Acting
Bourrasque

Bourrasque

1935

Acting

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

Acting
Angele

Angele

1934

as Albin

6.6
Acting

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

Acting

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

Jeunesse

1934

as Pierre

Acting

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

Amok

1934

as Jean

5.4
Acting

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

Les Misérables

1934

as Marius Pontmercy

7.9
Acting

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

Acting

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

Mater Dolorosa

1933

Acting

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

Criminal

1933

as Bob Graham

Acting

A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.