
Jacques Dufilho
Known for Acting · 145 credits
- Born
- 1914-02-19
- Died
- 2005-08-28
- Place of birth
- Bègles, Gironde, France
- Also known as
- Dufilho
Biography
Jacques Dufilho is a French comedian, born February 19, 1914 in Bègles (Gironde, France) and died August 28, 2005 in Ponsampère (Gers, France).
Originally from the south-west of France, Jacques Jacques-Gabriel Dufilho studied agriculture then went to Paris to live his passion for painting and sculpture. It was there that he met Charles Dullin, a great man from the theater world who passed on his passion for the stage to him and made his cabaret-theatre debut in 1951 with Agnès Capri. Jacques Dufilho then begins by playing sketches before turning to the big screen. In 1939, he participated in Marc Allégret's project in the film "Le Corsaire" but the film remained unfinished. Jacques Dufilho is not worried about it as two years later, he plays the role of a lumberjack in André Zwobada's feature film "Croisières Sidérales".
Subsequently, the actor chained the roles in the cinema but it was in 1949 that he was noticed by the general public in "La Ferme des Sept Péchés" by Jean-Devaivre. Jacques Dufilho also went to the theater and went on stage for the first time in Dostoyevsky's play, "The Brothers Karamazov" directed by André Barsacq. When the Second World War broke out, Jacques Dufilho was part of the 2nd Hussard Regiment, particularly in the 29th infantry division reconnaissance group as he received the Legion of Honor in 1998. In 1953, he played in the play by Molière "The Doctor Despite Him" under the direction of Jean-Pierre Darras. The following year, he returned with André Barsacq to the Théâtre de l'Atelier in "Colombe" by Jean Anouilh. He still plays in the cinema as in "Marie-Antoinette, Reine De France" by Jean Delannoy in 1956. Same year, same director, he plays in "Notre-Dame De Paris".
In 1961 and 1962, Jacques Dufilho returned to the stage with André Barsacq in "Les Maxibules" by Marcel Aymé and "L'Avare" by Molière. The actor made an impression in "The Guardian", adapted from the English play "The Caretaker" by Harold Pinter. The year 1978 marks a new turning point in the career of Jacques Dufilho, with the film "Le Crabe-Tambour" by Pierre Schoendoerffer, thanks to his interpretation of the role of the chief mechanic in the film, he will be rewarded with a César in the Best Supporting Actor category. In 1980, he played Adrien Dussart in "A bad son" by Claude Sautet, which earned him a second César award, still in the same category. At the theater, in 1988 the actor was awarded the Molière du Comédien for his role in Herb Gardner's play "Je Ne Suis Pas Rappaport" directed by Georges Wilson. Over the years, Jacques Dufilho will play under the direction of Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, André Hunebelle, Yves Robert and many others. In 1999, he played in "C'est Quoi La Vie?" by François Dupeyron, which earned him a new nomination for the Césars. On television, he received the Seven d'Or for best actor after his role in the film "Une Femme Innocente". In 2003 he released his autobiography "Les Sirènes Du Bateau-Loup" published by Fayard.
The actor died on August 28, 2005 in Ponsampère at the age of 91 after playing his last role in "Up There, A King Above The Clouds" by Pierre Schoendoerffer.
Known For
TV Shows (10)

Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self

Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Midi trente
1972
as Self

Discorama
1959
as Self

Plaisir du théâtre
1956
as Me Pachevin, le huissier

Lagardère
1967
as Passepoil

Fantômas
1980
as Inspektor Juve

Sogni e bisogni
1985
as Il Male

Le Vent des moissons
1988
as Alexandre Leclerc

Orages d'été, avis de tempête
1990
as Léon
Movies (135)

Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
as Captain

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956
as Guillaume Rousseau

Pétain
1993
as Maréchal Philippe Pétain

The Visit
1964
as Police Officer Fisch

Chut !
1972
as Fritz Ducharrel

Supermen Against the Orient
1973
as American Consul

La Vouivre
1989
as Urbain

Saadia
1953
as Bandit leader

The Doctor...the Schoolgirl
1976
as Colonel Oreste Raselli

Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009
as Self (archive footage)

Nailcruncher
1988
as Mattathias

The Overtaxed
1959
as Prison superintendent

Dear Caroline
1951
as Le valet de Pont-Bellanger

War of the Buttons
1962
as L'Aztec's father

The Children of the Marshland
1999
as Old man

Amazons of Rome
1961

Unusual Tales
1949
as The Drunken Conscript

A Full Day's Work
1973
as Jean Rousseau

Soldier of Fortune
1976
as Mariano de Trani

Zazie dans le Métro
1960
as Ferdinand Grédoux

The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968
as Camille

Lady L
1965
as Bealu

In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
1961
as Le fossoyeur

Nathalie
1957
as Simon

The Lonely Heart
1973
as Antonio

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
1962
as Le directeur de la 'Maison de la Radio'

The Happy Road
1957
as Michel Bertrand (uncredited)

Bibi Fricotin
1951
as Oncle unijambiste

Sweet and Sour
1963
as Monsieur Alfonso

Hardboiled Egg Time
1958
as Jules Grandvivier

How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
1974
as Colonnello Rambaldo Buttiglione

A Caprice of Darling Caroline
1953
as Giuseppe

A Golden Widow
1969
as Joseph

Et ta sœur…
1958
as Puymartin

Black and White in Color
1976
as Paul Rechampot

Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
1958
as Taxi Customer

Until the Last One
1957
as Pépé

Les Aventures de Lagardère
1968
as Amable Passepoil

Fantasia Among the Squares
1971
as Oncle Noé

The Bamboo Stroke
1963
as Le chauffeur de taxi

Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
1975
as Colonnello Rambaldo Buttiglione

Rookies Run Amok
1971
as Colonel

Shipwrecked Children
1992
as Petit Louis

Snobs!
1962
as Lambotte & his brother

Pierrot mon ami
1979
as Mounnezergues

Sideral Cruises
1942
as Lumberjack (uncredited)

Erotomania
1974
as Prof. Pazzoni

Public School
1965
as Le paysan

A Bad Son
1980
as Adrien Dussart

Signed, Arsène Lupin
1959
as Albert, manservant

Slightly Ahead
1956
as Le garçon d'écurie

Is There a Frenchman in the House?
1982
as Jean-Marie, the blackmailer

Crimson Curtain
1952
as An actor

The Doll
1962
as Theodora, old Indian woman

Cher Victor
1975
as Victor Lasalle

The Black Monocle
1961
as Charvet, le guide

James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966
as Y

L'Intoxe
1983
as Monsieur Doucet

The Heavenly Bodies
1973
as The priest

L'Or du duc
1965
as Annibal

L'assassin connaît la musique
1963
as Le docteur Hublot, médecin légiste

The Big Scare
1964

First in Line
1944
as Fernand Lourtier

Vagabonds imaginaires
1950
as Shepherd (segment 'The Stars')

Dimmi che fai tutto per me
1976
as 'Dodo' Spinacroce

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
1969
as Job, le domestique

The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self

Adieu Léonard
1943
as Chestnut merchant (uncredited)

Work and Freedom
1959
as Agent Grosjean

Honey, Scare Me
1958
as Emile, the floor boy

Drummer-Crab
1977
as Chief mechanic

The Farm of Seven Sins
1949
as François Sovignant

Vow of Chastity
1976
as Annibale

L'Auberge de l'ange gardien
1962
as Bournier Aîné

Call Me Mathilde
1969
as Petitjean

Mission to Venice
1964
as César, majordome

In the Mouth of the Wolf
1961
as Paul Prunier

Autour d'un Film de Montagne
1944
as Self

My Priest Among the Poor
1956
as Fernand

The Figurehead
1948
as Commander Clement

Criminal Brigade
1947
as Lucien
Rue du Pied de Grue
1979
as Le commissaire

Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
1997

Above the Clouds
2003
as le recteur

Cadet Rousselle
1954
as Carlos

Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer
1977
as Colonnello Von Buttiglione

Premeditated
1960
as Martinot

Clémentine chérie
1964
as Spanish maid

To Our Late Husband
1988
as Romeo

L'Homme qui n'était pas là
1987
as Strosser

Bobosse
1959
as Gaston, manservant

Maxime
1958
as Flick

Julie la rousse
1959
as Le garçon d'hôtel / Waiter

The Fast Set
1957
as Pedro Avendetti

The Little Professor
1958
as Head of the civil status department

The Horse of Pride
1980
as Alain, le grand-père

La Brigade en folie
1973
as Commissaire Richard

Ma femme, ma vache et moi
1952

Life is beautiful
1956
as le chef de la fanfare

C'est quoi la vie ?
1999
as Noël

Vendetta in Camargue
1950
as Zacramir

The Mill of M. Fabre
1983
as Felix Fabre

Les Bottes de sept lieues
1990
as le Marchand

Le Bateau à soupe
1947
as Zélize

Un ufficiale non si arrende mai nemmeno di fronte all'evidenza, firmato Colonnello Buttiglione
1974
as Colonel Buttiglione
Doctor Lerne, Subgod
1983
as Le docteur Lerne

The Road to Damascus
1952
as Pierre

Love in a Hot Climate
1954
as Chispa
And Tomorrow?
1967
as Jeroom

Que les hommes sont bêtes
1957
as L'inspecteur

Basta con la guerra... facciamo l'amore
1974
as Gustavo

The Hotheads
1967
as Dante

Milady
1976
as Commander Gardefort
Les Insulaires
1979
as M. Palladion
Voglia di Volare
1984
as Father of Davide

Le Huguenot récalcitrant
1969
as Marshall Jérémie Boutre

Jeanne, Marie et les autres
2000
as Frantz

Le Bossu
1969

The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
1948
as Monk
About Jacques Dufilho
Jacques Dufilho is a French comedian, born February 19, 1914 in Bègles (Gironde, France) and died August 28, 2005 in Ponsampère (Gers, France). Originally from the south-west of France, Jacques Jacques-Gabriel Dufilho studied agriculture then went to Paris to live his passion for painting and sculpture. It was there that he met Charles Dullin, a great man from the theater world who passed on his passion for the stage to him and made his cabaret-theatre debut in 1951 with Agnès Capri. Jacques Dufilho then begins by playing sketches before turni… With 145 credits spanning from 1942 to 2021, Jacques Dufilho has appeared in 135 films and 10 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jacques Dufilho Movies
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) — as Captain
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) — as Guillaume Rousseau
- Pétain (1993) — as Maréchal Philippe Pétain
- The Visit (1964) — as Police Officer Fisch
- Chut ! (1972) — as Fritz Ducharrel
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