Biography
Jacques Weber is a French actor, director and writer. Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for Tartuffe. In 1972, he was Haroun in Faustine et le Bel Été and played the role of Hugo in État de siège by Costa-Gavras. He was seduced by Claude Jade in Le Malin Plaisir (1975...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Origin of Evil
2022
as Serge Dumontet
In a luxurious seaside villa, a modest young woman finds herself in the company of a strange family : an unknown and wealthy father, his extravagant w...

The World of Yesterday
2022
as Lue Gaucher
A moral tale and a political thriller: a few days before the term of her mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the destiny of F...

Atelier Cyrano
2021

Atelier Cyrano
2021
Adaptation, Director

Le Tartuffe
2021
as Orgon
A staging of Molière's play "Tartuffe" by Peter Stein.

Les Damnés de la Commune
2021
as Victor Hugo (voice)
Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in...

Crise de nerfs
2021

Andy
2019
as Serge
A lazy man becomes a prostitute.

Architecture
2019
A staging of Pascal Rambert's play "Architecture" by himself.

Meurtres en Haute-Savoie
2018
as Francis Garibaldi
At the cable car station connecting Avoriaz to Morzine, 75-year-old Barbara Herbier emerges from between the cabins, looking distraught. Cornered by h...

Yesterday
2018
as Werner
50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to g...

Je ne t'aime pas
2018
as Paul

Death in Sarajevo
2016
as Jacques
Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On th...

Sleepless Night in Paris
2015
as Louis's father
Paris. Winter. One night, Antoine, a 22 year-old boy, decides to go to the seaside. All night long, dealing with drug and love, he will try to buy his...

Les Bêtises
2015
as André
A man named François, adopted as a child, sets out to find his biological mother. Posing as a waiter at a family gathering, he infiltrates her home, h...

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
2014
as Marcel Grobz
Josephine and Iris, sisters with opposite personalities, have their relationship radically transformed while working on a book.

Désolée pour hier soir
2013
as Marc

Le Grand Retournement
2013
as Le banquier Weber

A Prince (almost) Charming
2013
as Charles Lavantin
A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony...

Welcome Aboard
2012
as Max
Despite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the sixty-year-old decides to go away. He has no clear goal and explain...

Arrête de pleurer Pénélope
2012
as Aimé Badaroux
Chloé, Léonie and Pénélope, three friends who have not set eyes on each other for many years, are reunited in a notary’s office. It appears that Chloé...

HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
2012
as Papa Dan
When reporter Dan Geraldo (Alain Chabat) arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery.....

Joseph l'insoumis
2011
as Joseph Wresinski
1956, a handful of families survive in makeshift shelters in appalling poverty and daily violence. A man, Joseph Wresinski , a priest, himself born in...

Mystery at Moulin Rouge
2011
as Harold Meyer
In 1892 Diane arrives in Paris to search for her missing sister. To learn the fate of her sister she auditions for the quadrille at Moulin rouge.

Together Is Too Much
2010
as Roger
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what...

Mom Lost It!
2009
as Claude Monceau
Finding that her loved ones are neglecting her, Juliette decides to pretend she has amnesia. Her plan works perfectly, and her children finally decide...

Please, Please Me!
2009
as Elisabeth's Father
Ariane is convinced that her boyfriend, Jean-Jacques, is having fantasies about another woman, Élisabeth. In an attempt to save their relationship, Ar...

All About Actresses
2009
as Jacques Weber
A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgo...

Les Héritières
2008
as Ottavio della Roca
In 1945, Corsica, an important landowner named Ottavio Della Rocca decides to marry her youngest daughter, Vanina, the son of the Caponi family. Becau...

Intrusions
2008
as André de Saché, Pauline's father
Pauline, une riche héritière, a été mariée contre son gré par son père à un de ses employés, François, qui l'avait mise enceinte.Quand, quelques mois ...

Figaro
2008
as Le Comte Almaviva
Seville, 1766. Count Almaviva falls in love with a young woman called Rosina, who lives under the tutelage of the old doctor Bartolo. Thanks to the he...

Figaro
2008
Writer, Director
Seville, 1766. Count Almaviva falls in love with a young woman called Rosina, who lives under the tutelage of the old doctor Bartolo. Thanks to the he...

Odette Toulemonde
2007
as Olaf Pims
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly ...

Ambitious
2007
as Saint-Clair
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookse...

Les Aristos
2006
as Le comte Charles-Valérand d'Arbac de Neuville
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of ...

L’Évangile selon Pilate
2005
as Pilate

Seven Years of Marriage
2003
as Claude
After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.

Ruy Blas
2002
as Don César
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compr...

Ruy Blas
2002
Director
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compr...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

Mausolée pour une garce
2001
as Henri Taride
Adapted from a best-selling novel by Frédéric Dard. Agnès Taride has a closet full of skeletons. A beautiful woman, accustomed to using her body to ge...

L'affaire Kergalen
2001
as Jean Leguennec
After the discovery of the bodies of two women raped and murdered, Lieutenant Sarlat, is assigned to the case. During your research you will find a fa...

Bérénice
2000
as Antiochus
An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Pa...

Sooner or Later
2000
as Pierre
A musician leaves his wife in Prague, comes back to his native France and meets a singer.

Let There Be Light!
1998
as professeur Lang
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Don Juan
1998
as Don Juan
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countr...

Don Juan
1998
Director, Writer
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countr...

Papa est un mirage
1996
as Philippe
Philippe is a movie star on the comeback trail. He shoots a film in Morocco, which will allow him to find the top of the bill. But nothing goes right,...

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996
as Duc de Chaulnes
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 Epilogue narrator
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

The Little Boy
1995
as The father
Eight-year old Francois has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his fathe...

Bari
1994
as Pierre
A Native American woman flees from an obsessive fur trader who stalks her across the wilds of turn of the century North America. In her travels, a wol...
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
1994
as Self

Rupture(s)
1993
as un clochard
When a woman fed-up with life in general commits suicide, what's left ? In the same vein, a lover, a mother, a friend, a few buddies, all orphans, all...

The Elegant Criminal
1990
as Jacques Arago
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while...

Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
as Count of Guiche
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines...

Anthony's Crime
1989
as Julien
A young man loses his fiancee, struck by lightning, on his wedding day.

À deux minutes près
1989
as Tristan
In this romantic comedy, an astrologer matches up two people who are married to other people. Each is convinced that what they need in order to have a...

The Witches' Sabbath
1988
as Prof. Cadò
The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a wit...

Vaines recherches
1987
as Claude Schneider
An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedu...

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986
as Jacques Weber
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director who...

Follow My Gaze
1986
as Le client du café
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. A...

Staircase C
1985
as Conrad
Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.

A Suspended Life
1985
as Karim
Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from ...

Rive droite, rive gauche
1984
as Guarrigue
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night...

Cyrano de Bergerac
1983
as Cyrano de Bergerac

The Adolescent
1979
as Jean
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity ...
Le Loup blanc
1977
as Le capitaine Didier
In the 18th century, the peasants of the forest of Rennes were oppressed by the Regent in the name of taxation. Their lord, the Marquis de Trémi, goes...

The Barons
1975
as Carlo
Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the ev...

Aloïse
1975
as L'ingénieur
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise ...

Evil Pleasure
1975
as Marc
Philippe Malaiseau, writer and historian, died before completing his study of Charles le Témeraire, so the publisher sent Marc Lancelot, Malaiseau's “...

The Woman with Red Boots
1974
as le peintre
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.

Une femme fatale
1974
as Philippe Mathelin
A young, easygoing pilot discovers the mutual attraction between his chief pilot's wife and himself. The two become lovers, and are nearly discovered ...

Private Screening
1973
as Philippe / Le comédien
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions ...

Hilda Muramer
1973
as Frédérick von Glauda (Jeune)

Nothing to Report
1973
as Alain Charpentier
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at ...

State of Siege
1972
as Hugo
Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government...

Vagabond Humor
1972
Benoît, a young provincial, arrives in the capital. He has left his family (mother, wife and child) in his native Charente. But for him, the differenc...

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972
as Haroun
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two broth...

Tartuffe
1971
as Damis
Orgon and his mother swear by Tartuffe, the self-styled devout who lives off them. The other members of the family, scandalized by the clergyman's hol...

Raphael or the Debauched One
1971
In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical ...

Lancelot of the Lake
1970
as Gauvain
This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round...

Un ange passe
1970
as Albert