Biography
Jean Yanne (born Jean Roger Gouyé; 18 July 1933 – 23 May 2003) was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, director and composer. During his career, he won a Cannes Film Festival Award for his leading role in We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) and received a César Award nomination for his supporting role in Indochine (1992). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), wh...
Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
2022
as Self - actor (archive footage)
Le triomphe inattendu de Ben-Hur Marcel
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Payoff
2003
as Tonton
Two very different cops are forced to work together...
Small Cuts
2003
as Gérard
Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his political...
Une preuve d'amour
2003
as Fantin
A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemingly crass farmer. She finds out that h...
Adolphe
2002
as The Count
Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her y...
Vertiges de l'amour
2001
as Le beau-père
A man has pre-wedding jitters on the eve before his marriage. His thoughts switch between sweet dreams and nightmares of a life with another woman.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
2001
as Le Comte de Morangias
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 ...
Actors
2000
as Doctor Belgoder
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the stor...
Les Shadoks, mythe ou légende ?
2000
as Self
Documentary on the French phenomenon in celebration of a reboot of the series.
Je règle mon pas sur le pas de mon père
1999
as Bertrand
Sauveur (Savior) needs someone to save him, and so he begins to look for his father, a fast- talking ladies' man. The son becomes attached to his misa...
Belle Maman
1999
as Paul
At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de ...
Hygiène de l'assassin
1999
as Prétextat Tach
Part police thriller and part exploration of the dark side of men's attitudes about women, Hygiene de l'assassin concerns a young female journalist, N...
La dame du jeu
1998
Venice, 1580. The Marquis Della Porta lives alone in his villa with his secretary Jacopo, his servant Paolo and his beloved courtesan Veronica. Veroni...
Le radeau de la Méduse
1998
as Chaumareys
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis...
Run for Your Life
1997
as Père Cambournac
Nicolas, 13 years old, lives in a suburb north of Paris with his mother, a cleaning lady, and his older sister, a cashier in a supermarket. Left to hi...
Proper Attire Required
1997
as M. Brucker
His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces char...
Victory
1996
as Mr. Schomberg
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, He...
Should Not!...
1996
as Magic
Bernard, an executive for a big company, tries to get home in time for his wedding but is caught in the middle of a mass suicide. He saves a sect memb...
News from the Good Lord
1996
as Dieu
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, ...
The Year of Certificate
1996
as Le Grand-père
This certificate was formerly obtained by pupils at the end of primary school. The teacher of a small village has a dream: he wants his son to get his...
Desire
1996
as Corniche
Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Od...
Enfants de salaud
1996
as Julius
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have muc...
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996
as Louis Goezman
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities...
The Horseman on the Roof
1995
as Hawker
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
1995
as Bakoulian
See How They Fall
1994
as Simon
A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a...
Every Man for Yourself
1994
as Georges Flavier / L'imperator
Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a stran...
Low Profile
1993
as Plana
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.
Le ciel pour témoin
1993
as Gustave
Sophie investigates the death of her sister who disappeared while taking pictures in the mountains with Bastien, a rather taciturn guide accused of be...
À la Mode
1993
as Mietek Breslauer
Fausto enters an orphanage and is initially bullied, but then makes friends with a new bunkmate, Raymond. He is apprenticed to Mietek, a tailor in the...
La Légende
1993
as Roland Pikas
A young girl sees the theater in which her parents play burn down, and they disappear in the fire. Twenty years later, the orphan girl, who has become...
Pétain
1993
as Pierre Laval
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.
L'Affaire Seznec
1993
as Quémeneur
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with th...
Indochine
1992
as Guy Asselin
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnam...
Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992
as H33, l'emmerdeur
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
La sévillane
1992
as Polougaievski
An orange, yellow and gray film which tells a love story or more precisely the birth of the feeling of love.
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
as Germain, l'escroc
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
Madame Bovary
1991
as M. Homais
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous de...
Quicker Than the Eye
1989
as Inspector Sutter
An expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately, he finds himself hopelessly entangled in an elaborate terrori...
Cayenne Palace
1987
as Equateur
French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this story, Noel Caradec (Richard Berry) is a bereft so...
Fucking Fernand
1987
as André Binet
A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to...
Bandits
1987
as L'Expert (Simon Verini)
On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the je...
The Wolf at the Door
1986
as William Molard
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inab...
The Nonentity
1986
as Kommissar
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner,...
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
1985
as Marat
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipmen...
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
1985
Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipmen...
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985
as L'homme au téléphone
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "te...
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
as Murat, fonctionnaire à la Kommandantur
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do ...
Hanna K.
1983
as Victor Bonnet
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United Sta...
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
1982
as Paulus
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar c...
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
1982
Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar c...
A Day in a Taxi
1982
as Michel
Two men spend 24 hours driving around the outskirts of Montreal.
Asphalt
1981
as Arthur Colonna
Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that...
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979
as Inspecteur Chodaque
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of findin...
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979
Director, Screenplay, Writer
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of findin...
State Reasons
1978
as Jean-Philippe Leroi
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions between the French government, in the face of its...
Stop Calling Me Baby!
1977
as Max
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first ...
The Accuser
1977
as Director of human relations
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundate...
Armageddon
1977
as Louis Carrier
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time t...
That's Show Business
1975
as Clément Mastard
Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former...
That's Show Business
1975
Director, Writer, Screenplay
Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former...
Blood for Dracula
1974
Producer
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of i...
Chinese In Paris
1974
as Régis Forneret
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, w...
Chinese In Paris
1974
Director, Producer, Writer
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, w...
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
Producer
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Pari...
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
Producer
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As th...
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
1973
as Benoît Lepape
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods...
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
1973
Director, Producer, Writer
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods...
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
1972
as Christian Gerber
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur déno...
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
1972
Director, Producer, Musical
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur déno...
We Won't Grow Old Together
1972
as Jean
Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative...
Angel's Leap
1971
as Louis Orsini
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asi...
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
1971
as Roger Blanchard
Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an important...
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
1971
Writer
Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an important...
Troubleshooters
1971
as Serge Aubin
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the ...
Fantasia among the squares
1971
as Doc Noonan
Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite de son frère Doc Noon...
The Butcher
1970
as Paul Thomas, aka 'Popaul'
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a ...
Jean Yanne (La Joie de vivre)
1970
as Self
This Man Must Die
1969
as Paul Decourt
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acqu...
Erotissimo
1969
as Philippe
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the de...
De la pauvreté du dessin Shadoks attribuée au manque de crédits de l'Office
1969
A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968
as Barton
Barton and Cutterfeet, two London mobsters, team up with stripper Marina to pull off the big jobs. But the arrival of a rival who signs his crimes "Th...
Weekend
1967
as Roland Durand
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French...
Bang Bang
1967
as Robert Vaucamu
Sheila's uncle has just died; many of his relatives come, but,much to their displeasure, it's his niece who inherits his private detective agency. But...
The Viscount
1967
as Billete
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pre...
Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
as Le centurion
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the...
The Men in the Family
1967
as Marco Broca
Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he didn't have a family of rare originality. The day Gab...
The Saint Lies in Wait
1966
as Mueller-Strasse
Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for hi...
Line of Demarcation
1966
as M. Tricot
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...
Funny Money
1966
as Félix
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a ...
Tell Me Whom to Kill
1965
as Federucci
On the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the courteous challenge of discovering a war treasure lying at...
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
1965
as Tropos
Catherine Guérande (Valeria Ciangottini), a 19-year-old attractive Parisian girl, decides to become a prostitute after a messy love affair. She did no...
Life Upside Down
1964
as Monsieur Kerbel
A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By convent...
Jaloux comme un tigre
1964
as Alphonse
Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends much of his time watching his wife's every move, an...
Night Women
1964
as 'Journalist' (uncredited)
A mondo-movie on the theme of women, with interviews and mock reports: plastic surgery, transvestites, Victoria Nanquin stripper, divorce and jealousy...
The Road to Damascus
1952
as Extra (uncredited)
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes...
Dr. Schweitzer
1952
In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French colony, to fight malaria, which is ravaging the popul...
Leathernose
1952
as Extra (uncredited)
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decid...