Biography
Jacques Morel (29 May 1922 in Paris – 9 April 2008 in Paris) was a French film and television actor. He was, perhaps, best known as the French language voice of the cartoon character, Obelix, in the animated adaptation of the comic book, Asterix. Jacques Morel died in Paris, France, on 9 April 2008, at the age of 85. Source: Article "Jacques Morel (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
1983
as Sam Game (voice)
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.

Les Bons Bourgeois
1981
as Benoît, the father
In May of 1968, a well-off family from the XVIth district in Paris lives through the revolutionary fever of the Latin District in its own idiosyncrati...

Question of Love
1978
as Le président
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom...

L'Exercice du pouvoir
1978
as Albert Larchat
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of po...

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
1976
as Obélix / Employé sur la balançoire (voice)
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with...

L'Or et la paille
1974
as Raoul Gachard
La Reine Blanche
1973

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
1969
as Kleinfuchs
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of ...

Asterix and Cleopatra
1968
as Obélix (voice)
Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius...

Mademoiselle
1968
as Lucien

Asterix the Gaul
1967
as Obelix (voice)
In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the ...

Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
as Obélix (voice)
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the...

Le Père de Mademoiselle
1966
as M. Renaudin, ministre de la justice

J'y suis, j'y reste
1966
as Le cardinal de Tramone

Killer Spy
1965
as Tax collector
The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, p...

Diamonds Are Brittle
1965
as Amédée de St. Leu
Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high life, and...

Rope Around the Neck
1965
as Taxi driver
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his mis...

Les mordus de Paris
1965
Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists, o...

Ivory Coast Adventure
1965
as Rouffignac
An Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs.

Le mari ne compte pas
1963
as M. Léon Grosjean, magistrat

Rencontres
1962
as David
Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari. It is the sta...

Unexpected
1961
as Inspector Chattard
An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a weal...

À rebrousse-poil
1961
as Mr. Durand
Two scientists have invented a kindness serum which can turn the fiercest human being into the sweetest kindest person. Testing the product on a wild ...

The Crab Basket
1960
as The producer
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides ...

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959
as Attorney-at-law Mauléon
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has re...

Drôles de phénomènes
1959
as Jérôme Dandaine
Since the day their mother Aline remarried, Patrice and Eric, a joyful pair of twins, have been very happy. Indeed, François Chantour, their stepfathe...

Clara and the Villains
1958
as Charlemagne
A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress.

Madame et son auto
1958
as Victor Martini
Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a 2CV. The good-natured woman is both happy and slig...

Life Together
1958
as Claude Montignac
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's...

Sacred Youth
1958
as Étienne Longué, nephew of Thomas
Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives the same, but more advantageous, offer from his ins...

A Certain Mr. Jo
1958
as Inspecteur Loriot
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not wa...
The Suspects
1957
as Inspector Paul Duchamp
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans...

The Seventh Commandment
1957
as Pilou
Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts herself ...

An Evening at the Music Hall
1956
as Roland
A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star of the theater.

Elena and Her Men
1956
as Duchêne
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Me...

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
1956
as Louis XVI
While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Lo...

If Paris Were Told to Us
1956
as Gouverneur Jourdan
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's h...

La Môme Pigalle
1955
as M. Maugeat, directeur de la compagnie d'assurances
Released from prison, Arlette returns to her job as a cabaret star. The police try to get her to confess where the stolen jewels are hidden.

The Grand Manoeuvre
1955
as Mr. Monnet, Gisèle's husband
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothi...

Men Think Only of That
1954
as Perfect seducer
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusi...

After You, Duchess
1954
When she married her snobbish lawyer husband a woman hid her family's modest background from him. Her father, who is in fact a plumber dresses up as a...

Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954
as Böhmer
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, ...

Mandat d'amener
1953
as Gaston
Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards,...

Une nuit à Megève
1953
Régine was married to Léon. She is currently engaged to Daniel, but still has feelings for Maurice. Young Georgette would like to find me a sister at ...

Rue de l'estrapade
1953
as Marcel
While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique to luxury boutique with her best friend D...

Fatal Affair
1953
as Van Goffin
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bru...

Un trésor de femme
1953
as Albert Brunet
Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remov...

Une fille dans le soleil
1953
as Boissières
The young mayor of Fontenac, Virgile, is much loved by his constituents who appreciate the improvements he has made in their peaceful village. This be...

Full House
1952
as Commentary (voice)
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.

We Are All Murderers
1952
as Charles
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution ...

Poison
1951
as (voice)
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Pau...

The Turkey
1951
as Me Crépin Vatelin
Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he ...

Victor
1951
as Jacques Genoust
Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.

Over the waves
1951
as Self
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.

Topaze
1951
as Régis Castel-Bénac
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, ...

The Gamblers
1950
as Stepan Ivanovich Uteshitelnyy
Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.

L'homme de joie
1950
as Édouard Jolivet
A boudoir adventure during which the seductive Madame Jolivet, shocked by the behavior of her husband who appears with an actress, calls on the servic...

Girl from Maxim's
1950
as Le docteur Petypon
After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General Petypon invites her to his castle for the engageme...

Voyage à trois
1950
as Maurice
A couple and a friend find themselves on a desert island. The friend asks the husband to share his wife, the situation being very particular. But a fr...

Au P'tit Zouave
1950
as Félix Lambert
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.

Between Eleven and Midnight
1949
as Bouture
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assig...

Toute la famille était là!
1948
as Villediou
Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does it...

Alone in the Night
1945
as Melor
A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his favorite...

L'aventure est au coin de la rue
1944
as Mysterious man
A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts...