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Jean-Pierre Kalfon (born 30 October 1938) is a French actor and singer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Kalfon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
2024
as Self
Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and R...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
2023
as Old Man (voice)
A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tok...

Finale
2020
as Jean-Pierre

Film Français
2017
as The director
A director from the French New Wave has a meeting with a young, fashionable female actor with a background in television. Nothing goes the way it shou...

Panthéon Discount
2016
as M. Bove
The year is 2050. Doctors have been replaced by a machine called Sherlock, a kind of super-scanner that not only diagnoses but also heals depending on...

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
2016
as Self
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual...

This Summer Feeling
2015
as Faris
In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their gri...

Miroir mon amour
2012
as le roi Jacob
The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers a world where the dwarves have become tall, and her Pr...

The Rabbi's Cat
2011
as Malka of the lions (voice)
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's te...

Parc
2009
as le propriétaire
Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by hi...

La deuxième femme
2008
as Self
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see...

Souvenirs souvenirs
2008
as Self
Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.

Positano
2008
as Self
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the i...

Asylum
2008
as Le grand patron
Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new a...

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008
as Max
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they migh...

Heartbeat Detector
2007
as Karl Rose
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.

American Vertigo
2007
as Narrator
A subjective documentary, a real logbook that follows the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy in the U.S.A.

On The Ropes
2007
as Henri
Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.

Suzanne
2007
as Max
After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine successivel...

S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
2005
as Pierre Debizet

Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Since the beginning of the 70s, committed and willing, Philippe Nahon has been exploring the strangest roles and became at the dawn of the 90s, with "...

Don't Do That!
2004
as le monologuant au comptoir
Joël is jealous and violent. After one crisis too many, Nicole, his young wife, returns to live with her parents with their three-year-old son. Joël h...

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
2004
as Self
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

The Dreamers
2003
as Jean-Pierre Kalfon
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in wh...

The Bathers
2003
as Lebel
Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian p...

Lulu
2002
as Simon
It's the beginning of the bullfighting season and all paths seem to lead from the arena straight to Lulu's bar. Lulu is radiant. When she was seventee...

Replay
2001
as Walter Amar
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the ...

Gamer
2001
as Albert
Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contac...

Total Western
2000
as Ludo
After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he a...

The King's Daughters
2000
as Louis XIV
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Main...

What I Did for Love
1998
as Anderson
A man falls in love from afar with a woman who has just broken up acrimoniously with her husband and is disgusted with all men except her gay friends.

Day and Night
1997
as Lucien
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a ...
God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
1995
as Henri Larrieux
The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is ac...

One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as The First Jean-Pierre (uncredited)
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all ...

Et demain... Hollywood
1992
as Jean-Philippe Chaumont
A director and a secretary conspire to swindle a banker who is blinded by his dream of becoming an actor.

Jesuit Joe
1991
as Le vautour (Récitant) (voice)
Canada, 1911. Narrated by a vulture, the story of Jesuit Joe, a mixed-race who belongs to a rebel Indian family, which have pay a lot for the defense ...

The Expert Halima
1991
as Narrator
Kamar, who just arrived at Bassra, falls in love with the young wife of the old Obeid. But, until now, nobody has survived to be able to praise himsel...

Witchcraft Through the Ages
1990
as Narrator
An alternate, 82-minute, French cut of Häxan featuring narration by the Parisian actor Jean-Pierre Kalfon.

Plato's Banquet
1989
as Eryximaque
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervene...
La Garçonne
1988
as Marly
The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with he...

Corps z'à corps
1988
as President-Director
A newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.

The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
1988
as Lt. Krovitch
S02E12 of “The Ray Bradbury Theater.” A ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.

Septième ciel
1987
as Eddie
Vicky goes to Paris to become an actress and ends up as a hostess in a phone sex company. Her friend Jimmy, who lives in the Camargue, discovers her o...

Vent de panique
1987
as Humphries
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with chi...

The Cry of the Owl
1987
as Le commissaire / Police commisionneer
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of ...

Funny Boy
1987
as Aboulkian
Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.

Public Security
1987
as Francis
Tempted by an important contract, Anna, a renowned writer, agrees to write a screenplay. But she lacks inspiration. She talks to her old university pr...
Le Cimetière des durs
1986
as Rayner
Criminals Rayner and Simon organize a diamond heist, but are outsmarted by Jean and Rémy, two aspiring crooks.

In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
1986
as Captain Speed
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government hides the dead. ...

L'Amour ou presque
1985
as Max
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to ge...

The Night Wears Suspenders
1985
Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Par...

The Click
1985
as Dr. Fez
A man, Dr. Fez, is blackmailed into taking a fall for his boss. However, with a cruel invention that he created, Dr. Fez has plans of his own to seek ...

Love on the Ground
1984
as Clémont Roquemaure
A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.

The Twin
1984
as Ernest Volpinex
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin ...

Laisse béton
1984
as Gilles More
Brian and Nourredine are two lousy young offenders. Their flights have a motive: a film brought back from San Francisco where the father of Brian, sin...

Dog Day
1984
as Marcel Torontopoulos
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 Paul Chetman, dit 'Rocky Malone', un rocker has been, frère de Chet
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...

Liberty Belle
1983
as Brinon
Liberty Belle tells the story of a group of student's involvement with a group who oppose the French Algerian war. The film premiered at the 1983 Cann...
Hughie
1983
as Alex Leclerc

Confidentially Yours
1983
as Massoulier's brother (The Priest)
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Masso...

Rock
1982
as Serge
An eccentric, poor young couple who constantly lives in a dream world, desperately trying to make their existence feel like an adventure movie.

Hecate
1982
as Massard
Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is wh...

Nestor Burma, détective de choc
1982
as Delpierre
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.

Chassé-croisé
1982
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.

A Thousand Billion Dollars
1982
as Bronsky, then Stan Hankins, the informant
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determ...

Strange Affair
1981
as François Lingre
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his fa...

Condorman
1981
as Morovich
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hosti...

Bolero
1981
as Père Antoine
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930...

The Boy Soldier
1981
as Commandant de la Mazardière
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...
Jetzt und alles
1981
as Rudy Smirak
A singer and a mysterious foreigner plan an abduction.

The Dogs of War
1980
as Benny
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.

La Tisane de sarments
1980
as Sabbas

La Femme flic
1980
as Backmann, le directeur de la MJC
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Ber...

New Old
1979
Original Music Composer
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, s...

The Police War
1979
as Marc
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworl...
Le coup du singe
1979
Director

Destins parallèles
1979

The Song of Roland
1978
as Marsile / Turold / Charlemagne
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a k...
The Sorceror's Apprentice
1977
as Robespierre
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than act...

The Apprentice Heel
1977
as Robert Forelon, le directeur du journal
After a car accident in which his mother dies, Antoine Chapelote decides to change his life and become a con-artist. He meets a young girl Caroline wh...

A Second Chance
1976
as Le bijouter
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunit...

Visa de censure n° X
1976
as (uncredited)
Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded, and...

The Good and the Bad
1976
as Lafont
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well befo...

Zig Zig
1975
as Le guitariste
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.

An Angel Passes
1975
Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discussi...

La Dolce Vita Grande
1973
Taylor plays Carlo, a famous Italian film producer, and Cyrinda Fox plays his wife Sophia, a famous Italian movie star. Sophia, who has fired his driv...

The White Gloves of the Devil
1973
as Le député Caron
A murder at the Whisky Bar leads a Buddhist policeman on the trail of a strange deal that links the owner to a crooked politician. A zany, satirical d...

The Valley
1972
as Gaëtan
Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route...

The Inner Scar
1972
as Fire-keeper / King
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Le Maître du temps
1971
An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.
Jupiter
1971
as Hippie

Paul
1969
as Evariste
Paul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim, leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by be...
Les Gauloises bleues
1969
as Ivan à 30 ans
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of t...

The Virgin's Bed
1969
as Horseman
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His cl...

L'Amour fou
1969
as Sébastien-Pyrrhus
A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'
1968
as Self
An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman.

Bonnot's Gang
1968
as Garnier
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.

Birds in Peru
1968
as Chauffeur
A nymphomaniac young woman, unsatisfied by her husband, searches for sex in the brothels of a seaside town while he sets to kill her.

The Idols
1968
as 'Simon le Magicien'
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, mani...
The Revolution Is Only a Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting.
1968
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May ‘68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the fil...

Weekend
1967
as Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French...

My Love, My Love
1967
as Yan
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as ...

Mamaia
1967
as Balthazar
The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of j...

Les grands moments
1966
as Jean Mafitte
Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.

Diamond Safari
1966
as Éric
Raphaël, a former paratrooper, is unable to adapt to the constraints of social life. One day, he becomes the unwilling accomplice of jewel thieves and...

Long March
1966
as Pitou
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He ...

Et la femme créa l'amour
1966
as Kardec
Laurent, a young playboy, lives off his charms, maintained by wealthy women of the world. He becomes the lover of Sonia, a young woman painter, a love...
La vie très étrange de Madame Anastasie
1966

To Be a Crook
1965
as Jean-Pierre
Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the f...

Night Women
1964
as 2nd friend at the funeral (uncredited)
A mondo-movie on the theme of women, with interviews and mock reports: plastic surgery, transvestites, Victoria Nanquin stripper, divorce and jealousy...

Night of Lust
1963
as Sacha Markriff
A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battl...

Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
1960
as The young priest
End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.