Jacky Nercessian

Jacky Nercessian

1950-11-16 Saint-Étienne, Loire, France 41 Credits

Biography

Jacky Nercessian (or Nersessian (Armenian: Ժաքի Ներսեսյան), born November 16, 1950) is a French actor who is ethnically Armenian. One of his most known roles is Apkar in Mayrig by Henri Verneuil. Nercessian was born in 1950 in Saint-Etienne. He graduated from the Department of Theology to become a Pastor in England. He has played both in cinema and TV – including the role of Mustafa Ismael Faruki in Long Journey (Golden Lion for the Best Feature Film, Venice IFF, 2004). Nercessian played in the...

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God Save the Tuche

God Save the Tuche

2025

as Vieux Lord

5.1
Acting

When Jeff and Cathy’s grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it’s a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to Englan...

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

2024

as Pastor

6.7
Acting

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save m...

The President's Wife

The President's Wife

2023

as Father Mouret

6.4
Acting

When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of he...

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard

2023

as Mr. Pascal

5.2
Acting

The tasty story of a retired teacher who decides to make his former students pay for years of heckling and humiliation.

Sarcelles, Nord

Sarcelles, Nord

2023

Acting
Simone: Woman of the Century

Simone: Woman of the Century

2022

as Président Edgar Faure

7.9
Acting

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic po...

Hear Me Out

Hear Me Out

2021

as Monsieur Molina

6.4
Acting

Antoine, a history teacher in his early 50s, learns that he has become very hard of hearing. Unable to own up to his handicap, he resigns himself to l...

Voyeur(s)

Voyeur(s)

2020

as Voyeur

6.5
Acting

The story of a man who has decided to turn his hotel into a laboratory for personal fantasies. Behind each door, in the intimacy of crossed paths in t...

Golden Youth

Golden Youth

2019

as Aziz

4.6
Acting

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the d...

The Nansen Passport

The Nansen Passport

2016

as Self

8.0
Acting

On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to prot...

Pitchipoï

Pitchipoï

2015

as Le rabbin

5.0
Acting

Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in...

In the Name of the Son

In the Name of the Son

2012

as Bishop

6.1
Acting

When Elisabeth, a woman of faith, host of a radio show on a Catholic radio station, devoted to her family and the suffering of the world, is confronte...

Do Not Forget Me Istanbul

Do Not Forget Me Istanbul

2012

6.9
Acting

Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein o...

Elsewhere

Elsewhere

2010

as Boss of the Hôtel du Palais

7.0
Acting

Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doe...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

2010

as Marie-Joseph Espérandieu

6.2
Acting

An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and ...

Legal Aid

Legal Aid

2009

as La seconde présidente du tribunal (as Jackie Nercessian)

6.7
Acting

At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his missi...

Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu

Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu

2007

as Brickman

Acting
Let's Dance

Let's Dance

2007

as Mayor

5.5
Acting

In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance...

Jean-Philippe

Jean-Philippe

2006

as Teacher

5.7
Acting

A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed mu...

Le Procès de Bobigny

Le Procès de Bobigny

2006

5.8
Acting

In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine a...

Comedy of Power

Comedy of Power

2006

as Le maître d'hôtel du club

6.2
Acting

Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her i...

Incontrôlable

Incontrôlable

2006

as Pierre-Emmanuel

4.0
Acting

Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.

Le Cactus

Le Cactus

2005

as Le producteur

4.8
Acting

Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurabl...

La Femme coquelicot

La Femme coquelicot

2005

as le professeur de tango

Acting

A septuagenarian widow feels revived by an old painter with whom she falls in love.

Coup de vache

Coup de vache

2004

as Le chauffeur de taxi

Acting

An old man bequeaths his fortune to a television host, much to the chagrin of his own family.

The Great Journey

The Great Journey

2004

as Mustapha

6.8
Acting

Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important,...

The Butterfly

The Butterfly

2002

as Policeman

6.8
Acting

An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.

Zone reptile

2002

as Jean-Pierre

Acting

17 year old Mic feels constrained in a world which is not his own: a lower middleclass suburb of Marseilles, conformism... His being different drives ...

The Three Kings

The Three Kings

2001

as Le moine bouddhiste

5.7
Acting

The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inex...

Monsieur Naphtali

Monsieur Naphtali

1999

as Riaz Hiridjee

3.5
Acting

Monsieur Naphtali is a good-natured but somewhat feeble older man turned away from the rest home where he lives. In search of a place to stay, he find...

Le double de ma moitié

Le double de ma moitié

1999

2.0
Acting

With the help of a hidden twin sister, a couturier tries to take revenge on his wife who cheats on him with his partner.

Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan

1998

as Remzi

5.7
Acting

Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The ori...

Christmas at Bunny's

Christmas at Bunny's

1997

Acting

Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged with finding him and cheering him up back into his j...

The Three Brothers

The Three Brothers

1995

as Le présentateur du Millionnaire

6.9
Acting

Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that ...

Peggio di così si muore

Peggio di così si muore

1995

as Flanagan

4.4
Acting

In this deliberately campy, slightly slapstick European parody of Alfred Hitchcock films from the 1950s, a newlywed couple returns from their honeymoo...

Colonel Chabert

Colonel Chabert

1994

as Delbecq

6.4
Acting

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

Why Is Mother in My Bed?

Why Is Mother in My Bed?

1994

5.3
Acting

Following a bet with his friends, Antoine steals a jacket. The life of his parents will be turned upside down.

The Thirst for Gold

The Thirst for Gold

1993

as Le représentant

5.4
Acting

Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - wa...

Les Mamies

Les Mamies

1992

as Le prêtre

Acting

When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.

588 rue Paradis

588 rue Paradis

1992

as Apkar

7.2
Acting

A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He n...

Mother

Mother

1991

as Apkar

7.8
Acting

Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Mar...