Biography
Jacques Perrin was a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Last Men
2024
Screenplay, Producer
March 1945. The Japanese army launches a sudden and extremely brutal assault against the French garrisons in the Far East. Thousands of civilians and ...

Goliath
2022
as Richard Vannec
Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer f...

Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
as Self (archive footage)
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed Frenc...

Poumon Vert et Tapis Rouge
2021
as Self
To help Francis Hallé in his fight to save the last tropical forests, a documentary filmmaker with a passion for nature decides to make his first film...

Remi, Nobody's Boy
2018
as Rémi, elderly
At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its ...

Mia and the White Lion
2018
Producer
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018
as Self
A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac

The Mercy
2018
Producer
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in t...

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2017
Executive Producer
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the...

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
2016
Executive Producer
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the...

Seasons
2016
Director, Producer
Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud travel throughout Europe to film brown bears, wild horses, wolves and other animals in their natural habitat.
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
2014
as Self

La Nuit des éléphants
2014
as Narrator (voice)

Borderline
2014
as Henri Van Roy
A police superintendent, after 25 years of a flawless professional career, is arrested by internal affairs for 4 days, before being indicted for crimi...

Richelieu: The Purple and the Blood
2014
as Richelieu
In the Kingdom of France from 1640 is the old with his body ailing Cardinal Richelieu, powerful man under Louis XIII, faced with the machinations of h...

The Years of Lost Images
2012
as Self
A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year he...
Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
2012
as Self

Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
2011
as Self
Pierre Schoendoerffer revisits his life and career, with a strong focus on the impact that his experience as a war cinematographer for the French army...

Kingdom of the Oceans
2011
Director
Diving into the planet’s waters, Kingdom Of The Oceans features astonishing footage that showcases the majesty of the underwater world. Shot at over 5...

Louis XI, le pouvoir fracassé
2011
as Louis XI

The Empire of Mid-South
2010
Director
Using never-before-seen archival footage from around the world, accompanied by texts from Vietnamese, French and American literature, Jacques Perrin a...

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self

Oceans
2010
as Self - Narrator (voice)
An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

Oceans
2010
Director, Producer, Writer
An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

Le Bel Âge
2009
Producer
At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but ...

Paris 36
2008
Producer
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of ...

Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
2008
as Victor Fabrizzi
Marion is a high-powered cop. Luc is a gentleman thief. He thinks she's a lawyer, she thinks he's in real estate. They're married, with two kids, and ...

Modern Love
2008
Producer
Several couples break up and get back together.

200,000 Phantoms
2007
Thanks
In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the at...

Le Piano oublié
2007
as Benjamin
Julien is eleven years old and loves music. However, his father wants his son to eventually take over the family printing business. Julien's life chan...

Deep Water
2006
Producer
DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ev...

Stranger Than Fiction
2006
Thanks
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

L'odyssée de la vie
2006
as Narrateur
A documentary on the nine months of pregnancy, from conception to the birth of a human being, alternating computer graphics and interviews with a youn...

Hell
2005
as Frédéric
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

The Young Lieutenant
2005
as Le juge Serge Clermont
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective...

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

The Chorus
2004
as Pierre Morhange adult
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

The Chorus
2004
Producer
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

Above the Clouds
2003
as Henri Lanvern, le cinéaste
Henri Lanvern is shooting a film in Thailand. One evening, at the end of the shooting, he sees a friend of the war, General Cao Ba Ky, escaped from a ...

Deep Blue
2003
as Narrator
Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinematic rollercoaster ride for all ages, Deep Blue uses ...

11’09”01—September 11
2002
Producer
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer d...

Ti voglio bene Eugenio
2002
as Federico

Winged Migration
2001
as Narrator (voice)
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of ...

Winged Migration
2001
Director, Producer, Screenplay
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of ...

Brotherhood of the Wolf
2001
as Thomas Agé
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the ...
Un enfant, un secret
2000
as Pierre Ancelin

Prima la musica, poi le parole
2000
as Lanfranco Bentivoglio

Himalaya
1999
Producer
As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community's allegiances are split between a...

I Didn't Do It!
1999
as Etienne
Eleven-year-old Martin is a basically good boy. Unfortunately each time he decides to give a hand things end in disaster. This summer, he has been inv...

The Deep End of the Ocean
1998
as Professeur Silvestri
A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case.

Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
1998
as Victor Schœlcher
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

Love in Ambush
1997
as Pascal Lasalle
An Australian woman searches for her soldier brother in Cambodia during the civil breakdown from which Pol Pot would emerge.

Microcosmos
1996
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting ne...

Microcosmos
1996
Producer, Presenter
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting ne...

Le Silence des fusils
1996
as Jean-Pierre Lafond

The World of Jacques Demy
1995
as Self
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

Les Enfants de Lumière
1995
as Narrator (voice)
This French documentary is comprised of almost 300 clips from the past 100 years of cinema Francaise. The images within the documentary are free flowi...
Missus
1994
as Father Vladimir, Lucifero
Italian Made-for-TV film by Alberto Negrin.

Le trajet de la foudre
1994
as Wens

Kim Novak Is on the Phone
1994
as Enrico
A heavily indebted film producer tries to get back on his feet by producing a film starring Kim Novak. He also hopes to start a new relationship with ...

Montparnasse-Pondichéry
1994
as Raoul Marquet
After raising her daughter, one would think that Julie's life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission ...

Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
1994
as Richard
Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigne...

The Young Girls Turn 25
1993
as Self
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.

The Long Silence
1993
as Judge Marco Canova
Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is ...

Oh pardon ! Tu dormais...
1992
as Him
A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, their work, their anguish.

Oh pardon ! Tu dormais...
1992
Producer
A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, their work, their anguish.

Flight of the Innocent
1992
as Davide Rienzi
The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his ...

Nothing But Lies
1991
as Antoine, Muriel's husband
Frustrated with her life, a Parisian tells her philandering husband about her lover.

Both Sides of the Street
1991
as Daniel
Marie has always been somewhat independent and is considered by some to be a bit of a tomboy. Though she is not quite a teenager, her photographer fat...

Touch and Die
1991
as Steuben
Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands...

In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
as Don Ugo Bassi
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.

Everybody's Fine
1990
as Alvaro adulte
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to...

Flight from Paradise
1990
as Eliseo
In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two ...

Manon Roland
1989
as Jean-Marie Roland de La Platière
The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.

Vanille fraise
1989
as Guillaume Forestier
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.

Cinema Paradiso
1988
as Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (adult)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's proje...

Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
1988
as Julien

Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
1988
Scenario Writer, Director

Top Kids
1987
as Emile Levassor
A fun journey through the history of the automobile, this film is about a group of future computer hackers that wire an arcade game to work as a time ...

L'Herbe rouge
1985
as Mr. Brul
Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past, apparently with the aim of curing his present mi...

Cop's Honor
1985
as Stéphane Rainer
Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt. H...

Paroles et musique
1984
as Yves
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also ...

Year of the Jellyfish
1984
as Vic
Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability...

The Judge
1984
as Le juge François Muller
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
Pablo Est Mort
1983
as Maxime Blanchet
A retired doctor, who participated in the events of May 1968, is led to reconnect with former comrades still active in the underground.

A Captain's Honor
1982
as Marcel Caron
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. T...

The Roaring Forties
1982
as Julien Dantec
Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his origi...

The Roaring Forties
1982
Producer
Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his origi...

Blood of the Flamboyant Tree
1981
as Georges Delorme

Disobedience
1981
as Dario
Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war end...

Une robe noire pour un tueur
1981
as Lucien Lebesque
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risl...

Operation Leopard
1980
as L'ambassadeur Berthier
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of...

Adoption
1979
as Jacques
A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work extremely informally and without many regulations. Bu...

Adoption
1979
Producer
A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work extremely informally and without many regulations. Bu...
Sophie et le Capitaine
1978
as Le Capitaine
Unfinished movie after two weeks shooting in May 1978.

Fire's Share
1978
as Jacques Noblet
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their mee...

Drummer-Crab
1977
as Lieutenant Willsdorff, 'Le Crabe-Tambour'
"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-...

The Desert of the Tartars
1976
as Sten. Giovanni Drogo
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

The Desert of the Tartars
1976
Producer
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

Black and White in Color
1976
Producer
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their pr...

That Kid
1976
Producer
A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

Special Section
1975
as Roger Lafarge
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty crimina...

Special Section
1975
Producer
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty crimina...

Home Sweet Home
1973
as Jacques
Jules, a rebellious septuagenarian, foments a revolt in his home ruled by quasi-military rules. He and his twenty supporters will oppose the managemen...

Home Sweet Home
1973
Producer
Jules, a rebellious septuagenarian, foments a revolt in his home ruled by quasi-military rules. He and his twenty supporters will oppose the managemen...

Blanche
1972
as Bartolomeo
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his ...

The Strangler
1971
as Émile
Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to un...

The Strangler
1971
Producer
Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to un...

Goya: A Story of Solitude
1971
as Alvaro
A biography of the Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828), who went from being a court painter to creating heartbreaking images denouncing...

Donkey Skin
1970
as Prince Charming
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

Les Ajoncs
1970
Producer
An unemployed Algerian worker leaves Paris by hitchhiking. He soon found himself in Brittany and, seduced by the beauty of wild gorse, eventually esta...

The Uninvited
1969
as Laurent
When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the ...

The American
1969
as Patrick Sarrutel
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.

Z
1969
as Photojournalist
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. ...

Z
1969
Producer
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. ...

Love in the Night
1968
as Philippe
Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.

Spray of the Days
1968
as Colin
Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the...

A Little Virtuous
1968
as Ferdinand 'Fred' Thibault
In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the you...

The Big Softie
1967
as Alain Quesnard
A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he ...

Horizon
1967
as Antonin
Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow, Antonin ques...

Shock Troops
1967
as Kerk
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is s...

The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967
as Maxence
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet ...

Almost a Man
1966
as Michele
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to t...

Line of Demarcation
1966
as Michel
It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel...

The Invincible
1966
as Henri de Verlaine
In addition to his passion for red roses, Count Henri de Verlaine adores wooing all the women he meets.

The Search
1966
as Manuel
Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the unforgiv...
La Grimace
1966

The Sleeping Car Murder
1965
as Daniel
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead...

The 317th Platoon
1965
as Le sous-lieutenant Torrens
In Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four french soldiers and 41 laotian combatants – has been...

Chance at Love
1964
as Marc Bizet (segment "Fiancés de la chance, Les")
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.

All the Other Girls Do!
1964
as Gabriele
The innocent love of two young students is hindered by their families. The two meet in a squalid apartment where they will perhaps decide their future...

La calda vita
1964
as Fredi
Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage mal...

Corruption
1963
as Stefano Mattioli
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich M...

The Scapegoat
1963
as Pietro, il fornaretto
Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote screenplay with Marcello Fondato,...

And Satan Calls the Turns
1962
as Yvan
On a sun-kissed beach, six people linger lazily, each confident of fulfilling his or her desires before the day is out. A wealthy heiress, Emmanuelle...

Family Diary
1962
as Lorenzo Mainardi
Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recall...

Sun in Your Eyes
1962
as Frédéric
A love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières) and the younger man (Jacques Perrin) she meets while ...

The Crumblers Are Doing Well
1961
as Michel Legrand
In his desirable mansion, a widower wants to marry again with a twenty-year old brunette. His children disagree and they tell him so .

Girl with a Suitcase
1961
as Lorenzo Fainardi
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In...

First Taste of Love
1961
as Philippe
Lucien, a modest engineering student, discovers that his steady girl friend Mireille is using him to cover up her dates with Mario, an older man. Luci...

The Truth
1960
as Jérôme
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the...

Green Harvest
1959
as Jean-Louis Mesnier
In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow...

The Cheaters
1958
as le jeune qui monte sur la Vespa
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces hi...

La Peau de l'ours
1957
as Philippe Ledrut
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...

Gates of the Night
1946
as Un des gosses Quinquina (uncredited)
In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.