Biography: life and films
Jacques Perrin is a French actor, film director and producer. He was born in Paris, France on 13th July 1941.His best films as an actor include Pierre Schoendoerffer's La 317e section (1965), Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), Costa-Gavras's thriller Z (1969), L'Honneur d'un capitaine (1982) and Le Peuple migrateur (2001), and whose best work as a film director include Le Peuple migrateur (2001) and Océans (2010).
Jacques Perrin has so far appeared in 94 films, scripted 2 films and directed 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Pierre Schoendoerffer (4 films), Valerio Zurlini (3), Costa-Gavras (3), Vittorio De Seta (2), Paul Vecchiali (2), Marcel Carné (2), Jacques Demy (2), Giuseppe Tornatore (2), Ettore Pasculli (2), Christopher Frank (2) and Agnès Varda (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (61 films), Thriller (10), War (7), comedy-drama (6), comedy (6), Documentary (6), romance (5), crime-thriller (5) and history (4).
Our average rating for Jacques Perrin over all films is: 2.8
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
Les Portes de la nuit (1946) [a]
La Vérité (1960) [a]
La Ragazza con la valigia (1961) [a]
Les Croulants se portent bien (1961) [a]
Cronaca familiare (1962) [a]
Et Satan conduit le bal (1962) [a]
Le Soleil dans l'oeil (1962) [a]
Il Fornaretto di Venezia (1963) [a]
La Calda vita (1963) [a]
La Corruzione (1963) [a]
La Chance et l'amour (1964) [a]
Oltraggio al pudore (1964) [a]
Compartiment tueurs (1965) [a]
La Ligne de démarcation (1966) [a]
Un Uomo a metà (1966) [a]
L'Horizon (1967) [a]
La Busca (1967) [a]
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) [a]
Vivre la nuit (1967) [a]
L'Écume des jours (1968) [a]
Rose rosse per Angelica (1968) [a]
L'Américain (1969) [a]
L'Invitée (1969) [a]
Z (1969) [a]
Blanche (1971) [a]
Goya, historia de una soledad (1971) [a]
Home Sweet Home (1973) [a]
Le Désert des Tartares (1976) [a]
Raoni (1978) [a]
L'Adoption (1979) [a]
La Légion saute sur Kolwezi (1980) [a]
La Disubbidienza (1981) [a]
Le Sang du flamboyant (1981) [a]
Une robe noire pour un tueur (1981) [a]
L'Honneur d'un capitaine (1982) [a]
Les Quarantièmes rugissants (1982) [a,w]
L'Année des méduses (1984) [a]
Le Juge (1984) [a]
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) [a]
Vanille fraise (1989) [a]
Escape from Paradise (1990) [a]
In nome del popolo sovrano (1990) [a]
Stanno tutti bene (1990) [a]
L'Ombre (1991) [a]
La Contre-allée (1991) [a]
Rien que des mensonges (1991) [a]
Touch and Die (1991) [a]
Il Lungo silenzio (1993) [a]
La Corsa dell'innocente (1993) [a]
Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1993) [a]
C'è Kim Novak al telefono (1994) [a]
Les Hirondelles ne meurent pas à Jerusalem (1994) [a]
Montparnasse-Pondichéry (1994) [a]
L'Univers de Jacques Demy (1995) [a]
Les Enfants de Lumière (1995) [a]
Le Silence des fusils (1996) [a]
Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (1996) [a]
Love in Ambush (1997) [a]
C'est pas ma faute! (1999) [a]
Prima la musica... poi le parole (2000) [a]
Le Peuple migrateur (2001) [a,d,w]
Ti voglio bene Eugenio (2002) [a]
Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages (2003) [a]
L'Enfer (2005) [a]
Le Petit lieutenant (2005) [a]
Océans (2010) [a,d]
Les Saisons (2016) [d,w]
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