Biography
Jean Bouise (3 June 1929 – 6 July 1989) was a French actor. He was born in Le Havre. In the 1950s he helped to found Théâtre de la Cité, and was a player in the company. He entered films in the 1960s, and played a supporting roles in The Shameless Old Lady, Z, L'Aveu, Out 1, The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Section spéciale, and Monsieur Klein. He received César nominations for his roles in Le vieux fusil and Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff, before winning the Best Supporting...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019
as Self (archive footage)
A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug in Marseille turned gigolo in Paris, he became acto...
Out 1
1990
as Warok
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
La Femme Nikita
1990
as The Embassy Attaché
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by ...
Stormy Summer
1989
as Robert
Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arriv...
The French Revolution
1989
as Maurice Duplay
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt p...
The Power of Speech
1988
as Agatos
Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be...
The Abyss
1988
as Campanus
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe unde...
The Big Blue
1988
as Uncle Louis
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, ...
Spiral
1987
as Jean-François
Whilst spending a few days on the Côte d’Azur with his friends, Jérôme meets Simorre, a strange young woman who will have a profound impact on him. Jé...
Châteauroux district
1987
as Commissioner Feuille
Reading old letters, a young girl from Châteauroux, Carole, discovers that her father was an American soldier whose regiment was based in town in the ...
Jenatsch
1987
as Dr. Tobler
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mys...
L'été en pente douce
1987
as Olivier Voke
When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must ...
Dans les griffes de Thulius
1986
Professor Wilcox, recognized for his research on magnetic phenomena, decides, in the company of his assistant and a famous adventurer, to fight the ev...
Last Image
1986
as Langlois
Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical a...
Zone Red
1986
as Antoine Sénéchal
Claire Rousset visits her ex-husband Pierre who lives in the Lyon region. For some time now, Pierre's health and that of the other inhabitants of the ...
Strictement personnel
1985
as Le commissaire
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French polic...
Le hasard mène le Jeu
1985
as Le commissaire
Subway
1985
as Le Chef de Station
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen so...
Going and Coming Back
1985
as Vicar
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot the...
For Those I Loved
1983
as Dr. Ciljimaster
Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.
Equator
1983
as Public Prosecutor
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality...
La Bête noire
1983
as Pépé
In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the d...
No Rest for Billy Brakko
1983
as Récitant (voice)
On a winter evening Billy Brakko buys a paper and reads: "The famous Billy Brakko is dead!" An early short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro...
The Last Battle
1983
as The Doctor
The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identi...
Credo
1983
as Le Père Serge
Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defend his Christian faith while under Soviet interroga...
If I Were 1000 Years Old
1983
A long time ago, on a French island, a group of villagers saved a girl from being sacrificed by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed. Myste...
Edith and Marcel
1983
as Lucien Roupp
This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerd...
Hecate
1982
as le consul de France
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...
Merette
1982
as Le pasteur Magnoux
Merette is a pretty child, living within a patrician, strictly Calvinist family in the Switzerland of the 19th century. She is happy, until her mother...
Bluff
1982
as Doctor
A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...
Dessert for Constance
1981
as M. Broccart
Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an o...
Anthracite
1980
as Rector
In a Jesuit secondary school , the headmaster imposes an iron discipline on the unfortunate students. Enter Father Godard who believes in Christian lo...
Paco the Infallible
1979
as Ambroise
In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest servi...
Hothead
1979
as President Sivardière
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the ...
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978
as Le docteur
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who bro...
Roads to the South
1978
as Sharecropper
France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his ...
Sale rêveur
1978
as Robert
A young man struggling with reality and dreams finds himself caught between his fantasies and the harshness of everyday life. As he drifts through sur...
Death of a Corrupt Man
1977
as Commissaire Pernais
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a rackete...
Focal Point
1977
as Bob
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually...
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977
as Arnould
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re...
Mado
1976
as André
A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the tr...
Mr. Klein
1976
as Seller
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly p...
The Old Gun
1975
as François
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois...
Mad Enough to Kill
1975
as Dr Rosenfeld
Julie Ballenger has spent five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic apparently cured, she is hired by a wealthy industrialist, Mostri, to...
The Brigade
1975
as Charles
This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "L...
Special Section
1975
as René Linais
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty crimina...
The Common Man
1975
as Inspecteur Boulard
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where th...
Madame Bovary
1974
as Charles Bovary
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
as Le ministre
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Fra...
The Burned Barns
1973
as Journalist
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
The Big Shots
1972
as Nino Murelli
Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.
The Assassination
1972
as French Officer
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. ...
Hearth Fires
1972
as Bouteiller
The French Calvinists
1972
as Coachman
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed ...
Appointment in Bray
1971
as le rédacteur
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacq...
Touch and Go
1971
as Man on the terrace
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, tran...
To Die of Love
1971
as le juge des mineurs
A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of his students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young ...
The Confession
1970
as Boss of factory
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement...
The Things of Life
1970
as François
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memo...
Le chien qui a vu Dieu
1970
as Defende Sapori
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from ...
The American
1969
as Paul
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
Z
1969
as Deputy Georges Pirou, friend of the Deputy
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. ...
The Outlaws
1969
as Marc
In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authorit...
The Most Beautiful Month
1968
as Le curé
The life of the inhabitants of a village in the Drôme region during the debacle of May-June 1940. Liberated, Cyprien Boromès returns to his village to...
To Skin a Spy
1966
as Margery, dit « le boiteux »
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...
The War Is Over
1966
as Ramón
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages t...
Ubu Roi
1965
as Father Ubu
Based on Alfredy Jarrry's 1896 play about a greedy, overweight, selfish dude named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the cur...
Tintin and the Blue Oranges
1964
as Capitaine Haddock
Professor Calculus's friend develops a blue-skinned orange that can grow on any kind of land and survive harsh weather (in the manner of Lue Gim Gong)...
I Am Cuba
1964
as Jim
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes...
The Blockhead Fair
1963
as le directeur
On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.
The Other Christopher
1963
as Cristobal
The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from th...