Biography
Jean-Pierre Cassel (October 27, 1932 – April 19, 2007) was a French actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008
as Panoramix
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to h...

Où avais-je la tête ?
2008
as Albert

Vous êtes de la police ?
2007
as Simon Sablonnet
A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.

Le Vrai Coupable
2007
as Léonard Manderley

Gone for a Dance
2007
as Guy adulte
After seeing 'Singin' in the Rain', a man decides to give up his peaceful life of happiness to pursue his new dream of tap dancing.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
as Father Lucien
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his...

Counter Investigation
2007
as Docteur Delmas
A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.

Bad Faith
2006
as Victor Breitmann
In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child...

Fair Play
2006
as Édouard
A company, where manipulation and harassment is a problem between colleagues, decides to organize a canyoning trip for its employees. The building ten...

Call Me Agostino
2006
Hélène and Marianne are two girls with love on their minds. Together, they decide to play a short-lived game of deception. A guy called Agostino Stone...

Congorama
2006
as Hervé Roy
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child w...

Bunker Paradise
2006
as Henri Devaux
Friendly and broke, Mimmo dreams of being rich and famous, but for now he's a taxi driver. One evening, he meets John Deveau, a wealthy and perverse m...

Mag Bodard, un destin
2005
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.

La Femme coquelicot
2005
as Félix
A septuagenarian widow feels revived by an old painter with whom she falls in love.

Virgil
2005
as Ernest
Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting...

In Your Dreams
2005
as Mike
Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj, hair...

Narco
2004
as Le père de Gus
Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best f...
Une deuxième chance
2003
as Anatole
It's Christmas Eve. Nicolas feels very lonely since Natacha, the woman he loves, has left him. Nothing interests him anymore. He wanders aimlessly in ...

Michel Vaillant
2003
as Henri Vaillant
Michel Vaillant is # 1 of pilots, undisputed champion in rallying in all circuits in the world. His success arouses admiration and envy. Ruth Wong, di...

The House by the Canal
2003
as Louis
After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.

La Chanson du maçon
2002
as Arnold
Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.

Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
2002
as Self
In this documentary, produced by Philippe Quinconneau for StudioCanal, editor Françoise Bonnot, actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, composer Éric Demarsan, writ...

À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002
as Le balayeur claquettiste
January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting ...

Les Rivières pourpres: L'enquête
2001
as (archive footage)
Behind the scenes of Mathieu Kassovitz's 'The Crimson Rivers'

Un pique-nique chez Osiris
2001
as Victor Ancelin
The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of r...

The Crimson Rivers
2000
as Dr. Bernard Chernezé
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by ...

Sade
2000
as Le vicomte de Lancris
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as Ambassador
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palac...

The Happiest Place on Earth
1999
as Blondel
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).

Influence Peddling
1999
as Pierre-Jean Guisard
Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer...
Les Montagnes bleues
1999
as David

Heart and Sword
1998
as Hoel
After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish k...

La Patinoire
1998
as Ice Rink's Manager
La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey tea...

Le Président et la garde barrière
1997
as Deschanel
Con rabbia e con amore
1997
At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office, and Claudio, a university student. The two begin ...

Flairs ennemis
1996
as Jean-Charles Cuvelier
By becoming attached to animals, one can learn to love humans. This is what Mathias Lefort, a thirty-five year old photographer, will discover. Mathia...

Les Bidochon
1996
as Le PDG de Canal B
Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur,...
Amores que matan
1996
Consuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would be a mysterious neighbor, a science professor who...

La Ceremonie
1995
as Georges Lelièvre
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encou...
Le Cœur étincelant
1995
A young woman is sure that her son is alive
Valse Nocturne
1995
as Le Comte

Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Olivier de la Fontaine
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Casque bleu
1994
as Nicolas
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to...

Torment
1994
as M. Vernon
Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has ...
Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs
1993
as Lucien Rameau
After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she becom...

Métisse
1993
as Gynecologist
Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student.

L'Œil écarlate
1993
as Leprince
An unorthodox police commissioner investigates the suspicious death of a man run over by a train.

Chá Forte com Limão
1993
as Tiago
In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an od...

Pétain
1993
as Hans Roberto
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.

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
1993
as Gonçalo Botelho
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunn...

La Treizième Voiture
1993
as Charles
A Scottish woman with her nephew travels to Russia in the Paris-Moscow express. On the same flight in the 13th carriage, the old icons are returning f...

Blood and Dust
1992
as Ridefort
The warlike and sentimental adventures of a young French knight who participates in the crusades.

Between Heaven and Earth
1992
as Le rédacteur en chef
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down e...

Aqui D'El Rei!
1992
as Rodrigo
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief...

Notorious
1992
as Alex Sebastian
After Alicia Velorus' father is convicted as a communist spy, CIA asks her to prove her loyalty by getting close to her father's friend, who's a suspe...

The Cave of the Golden Rose
1991
as The General
After a queen's tragic death, the king abandons his newborn daughter in a cave, but a witch saves her. Years later, the tomboy princess must confront ...

Mountain of Diamonds
1991
as Louis de Thiry
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Mic...

The Maid
1991
as C.P. Olivier
A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he disco...

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
1991
as Zalman
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds...

Vincent & Theo
1990
as Dr. Paul Gachet
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written b...

The Fatal Image
1990
as Vandelle
A woman and her daughter vacationing in Paris get caught up in intrigue after being witnesses to a murder.

Mister Frost
1990
as Corelli
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and t...

Vado a riprendermi il gatto
1989
Having always lived in solitude, working the land (his only company being a cat), one day Alceo meets Ester, a girl much younger than him.

The Return of the Musketeers
1989
as Cyrano de Bergerac
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, ...

Young Toscanini
1988
as Maestro Miguez
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

Nailcruncher
1988
as De Surville
Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.
A Matter of Convenience
1988
as Alphonse
Valma wants a baby with her partner Joe but he has trouble sustaining himself financially. She agrees to help Alphonse and to marry an immigrant.

Chouans!
1988
as Baron de Tiffauges
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouan...

Casanova
1987
as Louis XV
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and ...

Liberty
1986
as Eduard de Laboulaye
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

Slices of Life
1985
as Le comte de Forcheville
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

Vive la sociale !
1983
as Le camelot
A student demonstration in Paris leads to an unexpected reunion between two childhood friends.

La Guérilléra
1982
as Coronel Larzac

The Trout
1982
as Rambert
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two we...

Ehrengard
1982
as Cazotte
Wolfgang Cazotte, a famous, refined and charming court painter of the early 19th century, plans to seduce Ehrengard, an attractive and proud virgin, w...

Alice
1982
as Rabbit
Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she thinks he's a jerk later she finds him nice and r...

Portrait of a Nude Woman
1981
as Pireddu
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make ...

La vie continue
1981
as Pierre
Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
Il caso Graziosi
1981

Superman II
1980
as French Officer at the White House (uncredited)
Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop t...

5% de risque
1980
as Henri Tanin
A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior gover...

Le Soleil en face
1980
as Marat
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with...
Hle Praha, pane Pařížane!
1980
as Self

La giacca verde
1979
as Walter Salvini

The City of Silences
1979
as Private detective
Creuzeville, a small provincial town with its woods, its countryside, its ramparts, its mass and its little Sunday cakes. A stranger arrives. He's a p...

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

From Hell to Victory
1979
as Dick Sanders
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.

The Meetings of Anna
1978
as Daniel
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to the...

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as Louis Kohner
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each...

Grandison
1978
as Oppenheimer
The case of stagecoach robber Carl Grandison, who lived in Heidelberg as a respected merchant and committed suicide in prison in 1814, as material for...

The Twist
1976
as Jacques
Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's pub...

Scrambled Eggs
1976
as The Representative of the Italian Leader
Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his government.

Doctor Francoise Gailland
1976
as Daniel Letessier
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her...
Eine Frau zieht ein
1975
as Hans Emmerich

That Lucky Touch
1975
as Leo
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO ...

Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Pierre Paul Michel
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

The Four Musketeers
1974
as Louis XIII
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

Love at the Top
1974
as Claude Fabre
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the...

The Three Musketeers
1973
as Louis XIII
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, ea...

Baxter!
1973
as Roger Tunnell
A young boy struggles to overcome his speech problem and strained relationship with his parents.

Wife for Sale
1973
The engineer Furio Cicerone came up from nothing and entered the circle of the great industrialists; he is married to Clara, but has a series of adven...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
as Henri Sénéchal
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a v...

The Boat on the Grass
1971
as David
Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. Whe...

Malpertuis
1971
as Lampernisse
Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridd...

The Breach
1970
as Paul Thomas
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.

The Bear and the Doll
1970
as Gaspard
A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a wealthy, temperamental woman in a Rolls-Royce. Ange...

Army of Shadows
1969
as Jean-François Jardie
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in o...

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as French Colonel
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...

La Double Inconstance
1968
as The prince
Silvia and Harlequin, two young peasants, are in love. The Prince, who is also enamoured of Silvia, will test their feelings. Will the rural world wit...

October Revolution
1967
as Narrator (French version) (voice)
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock footage...

Anyone Can Play
1967
as Luisa's husband
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

The Killing Game
1967
as Pierre Meyrand
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the n...

Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
1967
as Dorante
Unwilling to marry, Silvia poses as a maid in order to meet the man she is to marry incognito. This will allow her to study the character and behaviou...

Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Lt. Henri Karcher
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if ...

The Lace Wars
1965
as Joliecoeur
In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the...

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
as Pierre Dubois
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the Engl...

Male Companion
1964
as Antoine Mirliflor
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.

Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1964
as D'Artagnan
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964
as Alain des Arcys (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Neth...

High Infidelity
1964
as Tonino
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.

Nothing Ever Happens
1963
as Juan
The star of a magazine company suffers an appendicitis attack during a shift and has to stay in a small Spanish town to be operated. But the doctor wh...

Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962
as Gérard Dagmar
André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses t...

The Elusive Corporal
1962
as Caporal
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of ...

The Seven Deadly Sins
1962
as Raymond (segment "L'avarice")
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates i...

Greed
1962
as Raymond
A group of university students in Paris dream of a night of love with Suzon, whose rates are staggering. To raise the money, they organize a lottery a...

The Dance
1962
as Albert
The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is base...

The Marriage of Figaro
1961
as Figaro
Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in kee...

Napoléon II, the Eagle
1961
as Gustav von Neipperg
The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken ...

Goodbye Again
1961
as Dancer
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her lo...

Five Day Lover
1961
as Antoine
Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madelein...

The Joker
1961
as Édouard Berlon
A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his disli...

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
1960
as Candide
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, an...

The Love Game
1960
as Victor
Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de ...

La Marraine de Charley
1959
as Claude
Living in cramped quarters with Charley, an architecture student, four of his friends force him to dress up as a woman and play the role of his own go...

La Nuit de Tom Brown
1959
as Toby
How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nathaniel Hawthorne's character recounts the night whe...

Et ta sœur…
1958
as Acteur
Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he is no ordinary criminal mind you. As a matter of ...

Love Is My Profession
1958
as Le trompettiste (uncredited)
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.

Sacred Youth
1958
as Young man at the nightclub (uncredited)
Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives the same, but more advantageous, offer from his ins...

The Night Affair
1958
as Un jeune militaire (uncredited)
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be mo...

The Overworked
1958
as Bernard
A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.

On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
1957
as Mariel
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a ...

La Peau de l'ours
1957
as Duquenne's son
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the...

The Happy Road
1957
as Young lover
Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.

Crazy in the Noodle
1957
as Journalist (uncredited)
Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do th...

Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
1950
as Un figurant
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques...