Jean-Pierre Cassel

1932-2007

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

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La Route du bonheur (1953) [a]

Un acte d'amour (1953) [a]

À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) [a]

La Peau de l'ours (1957) [a]

The Happy Road (1957) [a]

À pied, à cheval et en spoutnik! (1958) [a]

En cas de malheur (1958) [a]

Et ta soeur (1958) [a]

Le Désordre et la nuit (1958) [a]

Sacrée jeunesse (1958) [a]

La Marraine de Charley (1959) [a]

Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960) [a]

Les Jeux de l'amour (1960) [a]

Goodbye Again (1961) [a]

L'Amant de cinq jours (1961) [a]

Le Farceur (1961) [a]

Napoléon II, l'aiglon (1961) [a]

Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962) [a]

La Gamberge (1962) [a]

Le Caporal épinglé (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]

Les Fêtes galantes (1965) [a]

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) [a]

Paris brûle-t-il? (1966) [a]

Jeu de massacre (1967) [a]

Révolution d'octobre (1967) [a]

Le Dolci signore (1968) [a]

L'Armée des ombres (1969) [a]

L'Ours et la poupée (1969) [a]

La Rupture (1970) [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]

Le Mouton enragé (1974) [a]

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) [a]

The Four Musketeers (1974) [a]

That Lucky Touch (1975) [a]

Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976) [a]

Folies bourgeoises (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]

Le Soleil en face (1980) [a]

Superman II (1980) [a]

La Vie continue (1981) [a]

Nudo di donna (1981) [a]

Alicja (1982) [a]

Ehrengard (1982) [a]

La Guérilléra (1982) [a]

La Truite (1982) [a]

Vive la sociale! (1983) [a]

Tranches de vie (1985) [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]

Mister Frost (1990) [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]

Casque bleu (1994) [a]

L'Enfer (1994) [a]

Prêt-à-Porter (1994) [a]

La Cérémonie (1995) [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]

Trafic d'influence (1999) [a]

Les Rivières pourpres (2000) [a]

Sade (2000) [a]

Michel Vaillant (2003) [a]

Narco (2004) [a]

Bunker paradise (2005) [a]

Dans tes rêves (2005) [a]

Virgil (2005) [a]

Call Me Agostino (2006) [a]

Fair Play (2006) [a]

Mauvaise foi (2006) [a]

Congorama (2007) [a]

Contre-enquête (2007) [a]

J'aurais voulu être un danseur (2007) [a]

Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007) [a]

Où avais-je la tête? (2007) [a]

Vous êtes de la police? (2007) [a]

Astérix aux jeux olympiques (2008) [a]



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