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Jean Carmet

Jean Carmet

Acting1920Bourgueil, Indre-et-Loire, France

Biography

Jean Carmet (25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor.

Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internationally for his role as a French colonist in the 1976 film, La Victoire en Chantant (Black and White in Color).

Because of his good-natured manner, he was as popular with members of the film crew as he was with the audiences. During his long career, he appeared in more than 200 films, and although he played dramatic parts, he usually acted in a supporting role as a comedic character.

He was nominated for the César Award for Best Actor for his leading role in the 1986 film, Miss Mona. Twice he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated on two other occasions. In February 1994, to celebrate his 50th year in film, he was honored by the French motion picture industry with a special César Award. Just a few months later, Jean Carmet died of a heart attack.

Jean Carmet is interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. In his birthplace of Bourgueil, a theater and an avenue were named in his honor.

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Acting History

2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2009
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Eugénie Grandet
as Père Grandet
Cache Cash
as M. Durandet, vétérinaire en retraite
1993
Germinal
as Vincent Maheu, aka Bonnemort
Coup de jeune
as Ponsard
La chambre 108
as René Bertillon
Coucou c'est nous !
TVas Self• 1 eps
1992
Le Bal des casse-pieds
as Monsieur Vandubas
Les carnassiers
as Chauveau
Dispute in Valladolid
as Le Légat du Pape
Stars 90
TVas Self• 1 eps
1991
Thank You, Life
as Raymond Pelleveau, le père âgé
A Lesson of Hope
as Le directeur
1990
My Mother's Castle
as Drunkard guard
Bouvard et Pécuchet
as Juste Pecuchet
Un jeu d'enfant
as Le grand-père
Le Sixième Doigt
as Le commandant
Bouvard et Pécuchet
TVas Juste Pécuchet
1989
La Vouivre
as Requiem
L'Invité surprise
as Le Colonel
Périgord noir
as Jean-Lou
Nulle part ailleurs
TVas Self• 2 eps
Sacrée Soirée
TVas Self• 2 eps
1988
Nailcruncher
as Scipion
Télématin
TVas Self• 1 eps
Palace
TVas Pilier de comptoir
1987
La Brute
as M. Deliot
Miss Mona
as Miss Mona
Sorceress
as Le curé / Vicar
The Two Crocodiles
as Emile Rivereau
L'âge de Monsieur est avancé
as Le régisseur / Désiré
1986
The Fugitives
as Doctor Martin, veterinarian
L'été 36
as Vichy Fraise
Follow My Gaze
as Désiré, the farmer
1985
The Alley Cat
as Egon Ratablavasky
All Mixed Up
as Le pharmacien
Châteauvallon
TVas Forger
1984
Dog Day
as Socrate
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
as Pacifique Berthet
Fire on Sight
as Inspector Robert Casti
Champs-Elysées
TVas Self• 4 eps
1983
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as André Bourdelle, « Capitaine Raymond » chef d'un mouvement de résistants
1982
Guy de Maupassant
as François
Les Misérables
as Thénardier, innkeeper of Montfermeil
1981
The Boy Soldier
as L'adjudant Chalumot
The Cabbage Soup
as Francis Chérasse (Le Bombé)
La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet
TVas Théophraste Longuet
1980
The Lady Banker
as Duvernet
Le Curé de Tours
as L'abbé Birotteau
1979
Such a Lovely Town...
as Le juge Fernand Noblet
Buffet Froid
as Le vieil assassin
Gros câlin
as Emile Cousin
Silver Anniversary
as François Dupuis
1978
Sugar
as Adrien Courtois
Violette Nozière
as Baptiste Nozière
Spécial cinéma
TVas Self• 5 eps
1977
The Seventh Company Outdoors
as M. Albert, le passeur qui ne parle pas Anglais
Rene the Cane
as L'indicateur
Plus ça va, moins ça va
as Inspecteur Melville
1976
Scrambled Eggs
as Marcel Dutilleul
Black and White in Color
as Sergeant Bosselet
30 millions d'amis
TVas Self• 2 eps
1975
The Common Man
as Georges Lajoie
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TVas Self• 9 eps
Système 2
TVas Self
1974
No Pockets in a Shroud
as Commissioner Bude
Kisses Till Monday
as Henri-Pierre
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
as Doctor Féraud (segment "Le roi d'Yvetot")
La Gueule de l’emploi
as Le Restaurateur
1973
Le Concierge
as Ludovic, frère de Jocelyne
The Right of the Maddest
as Le mari de la directrice de la Maison de Repos
Le Grand Échiquier
TVas Self• 3 eps
1972
The Artless One
as Fisherman
The Annuity
as Maître Vierzon, l'avocat de Noël
Five Leaf Clover
as Lord Picratt
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Maurice Lefebvre, Perrin's best friend
1971
Samedi soir
TVas Self• 3 eps
1970
The Breach
as M. Pinelli
The Novices
as Le client au chien
Adieu Berthe
as Léo Clapier
1969
Les gros malins
as Tax collector
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
as Man who wants to buy the bus (uncredited)
A Golden Widow
as Member of Yiddish International Power
1968
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
as The superstitious security guard (uncredited)
Very Happy Alexander
as 'La Fringale'
1967
Idiot in Paris
as Ernest Grafouillères, transporteur de légumes
1966
1965
Cloportes
as Effeminate art critic (uncredited)
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
as Paulo, le complice de Léonard Maburon (sketch "Le Procès")
1964
The Counterfeit Constable
as Le porte drapeau
Les Gorilles
as 'La Fauche'
Trouble Among Widows
as L'horloger à l'enterrement
The Last Steps
as Déde Lemartin
1963
Any Number Can Win
as Bartender
The Blockhead Fair
as Station master
1962
The Elusive Corporal
as Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
1961
1959
Oh! What a Mambo
as Jo le Bègue
Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women
as Martial, customs officer
1958
Sunday Encounter
as le pompiste
1957
The Irony of Money
as Feliciano
Trois de la marine
as Papillote
1956
Hello Smile!
as Jean Courtebride
Babies Galore
as Hubert, le beau-fils
Les Duraton
as Gaston Duvet, le rôle radiophonique de « Gaston Duraton »
These Sacred Holidays
as Second inspector
1955
Give 'em Hell
as Alvarez
La Madelon
as Soldier Mathieu
1954
1953
Midnight... Quai de Bercy
as Merle, l'adjoint de l'inspecteur
1952
Mister Taxi
as François
She and Me
as Gaston, l'ami de Jean
Bille de clown
as Gaston Lemeunier
Drôle de noce
as Paullaud
They Were Five
as Jean - le postier
1951
Dr. Knock
as Le premier gars
Le Roi des camelots
as La Globule, ami de Robert
1950
Cartouche, King of Paris
as 'Brin d'Amour', soldier
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
as le pianiste malade
The Patron
as The Brigadier
1949
Bonheur en location
as Guy Piponnet
La Bataille du feu
as Albert Farjon
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as Mechanic (uncredited)
Branquignol
as Bidel - un fantaisiste raté
I Love Only You
as Le père affolé (uncredited)
La louve
as Gustave
1948
1947
Monsieur Vincent
as L'abbé Pontail
Carbon Copy
as Ismora's accomplices
1946
Dawn Devils
as Durand, aka 'Durandal'
Dropped from Heaven
as A man of Laurent
Le destin s'amuse
as Third accomplice
1945
François Villon
as Companion of François (uncredited)
Children of Paradise
as Un spectateur au paradis des Funambules (uncredited)
1943
Mysteries of Paris
as Tortillard (uncredited)
1942
The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
as Typographer (uncredited)
1941

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Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
4/25/1920
Day of Death
4/20/1994
Place of Birth
Bourgueil, Indre-et-Loire, France