Biography: life and films
Jean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor whose birth name was Jean-Pierre Crochon. He was born in Paris, France on 27th October 1932 and died in Paris, France on 18th April 2007, aged 74.His best films as an actor include Edouard Molinaro's comedy Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962), Jean Renoir's Le Caporal épinglé (1962), Jean-Pierre Melville's L'Armée des ombres (1969), Claude Chabrol's thriller La Cérémonie (1995) and Philippe Falardeau's Congorama (2007).
Jean-Pierre Cassel appeared in 120 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Philippe de Broca (6 films), Claude Chabrol (5), Richard Lester (3), Umberto Lenzi (2), Pierre Kast (2), Norbert Carbonnaux (2), Moshé Mizrahi (2), Michel Deville (2), Maurice Delbez (2), Mathieu Kassovitz (2), Jean Marboeuf (2), Claude Boissol (2), Ben Lewin (2) and Anatole Litvak (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (45 films), comedy (37), comedy-drama (19), Thriller (11), War (8), history (6), romance (5), crime-thriller (5), Fantasy (5), comedy-romance (4) and comedy-thriller (2).
Our average rating for Jean-Pierre Cassel over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor
La Route du bonheur (1953) [a]
À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) [a]
The Happy Road (1957) [a]
À pied, à cheval et en spoutnik! (1958) [a]
Et ta soeur (1958) [a]
Le Désordre et la nuit (1958) [a]
La Marraine de Charley (1959) [a]
Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960) [a]
Les Jeux de l'amour (1960) [a]
L'Amant de cinq jours (1961) [a]
Napoléon II, l'aiglon (1961) [a]
Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962) [a]
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1962) [a]
Nunca pasa nada (1963) [a]
Alta infedelta (1964) [a]
Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964) [a]
Les Plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964) [a]
Un monsieur de compagnie (1964) [a]
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) [a]
Révolution d'octobre (1967) [a]
Le Dolci signore (1968) [a]
L'Ours et la poupée (1969) [a]
Le Bateau sur l'herbe (1971) [a]
Malpertuis (1971) [a]
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) [a]
Baxter! (1973) [a]
The Three Musketeers (1973) [a]
Il magnate (1974) [a]
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) [a]
The Four Musketeers (1974) [a]
That Lucky Touch (1975) [a]
Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976) [a]
Les Oeufs brouillés (1976) [a]
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978) [a]
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) [a]
Contro 4 bandiere (1979) [a]
Grandison (1979) [a]
Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette (1979) [a]
La Ville des silences (1979) [a]
5 % de risques (1980) [a]
Alicja (1982) [a]
Ehrengard (1982) [a]
La Guérilléra (1982) [a]
La Truite (1982) [a]
Vado a riprendermi il gatto (1987) [a]
Chouans! (1988) [a]
Il Giovane Toscanini (1988) [a]
Mangeclous (1988) [a]
The Return of the Musketeers (1989) [a]
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991) [a]
The Maid (1991) [a]
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé (1992) [a]
Sur la terre comme au ciel (1992) [a]
Chá Forte com Limão (1993) [a]
Coup de jeune (1993) [a]
L'Oeil écarlate (1993) [a]
Métisse (1993) [a]
Pétain (1993) [a]
L'Enfer (1994) [a]
Amores que matan (1996) [a]
Les Bidochon (1996) [a]
Con rabbia e con amore (1997) [a]
Le Plus beau pays du monde (1999) [a]
Les Rivières pourpres (2000) [a]
Sade (2000) [a]
Michel Vaillant (2003) [a]
Narco (2004) [a]
Virgil (2005) [a]
Fair Play (2006) [a]
Congorama (2007) [a]
J'aurais voulu être un danseur (2007) [a]
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007) [a]
Où avais-je la tête? (2007) [a]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
The very best sci-fi movies
