Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber

Nascimento : 1949-08-23, Paris, France

História

Jacques Weber is a French actor, director and writer. Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for Tartuffe. In 1972, he was Haroun in Faustine et le Bel Été and played the role of Hugo in État de siège by Costa-Gavras. He was seduced by Claude Jade in Le Malin Plaisir (1975), and by Anicée Alvina in Une femme fatale (1976). The young actor with much sex-appeal (he appeared in Le Malin Plaisir completely naked) was in Bel Ami (1983) after the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant in the adaptation by Pierre Cardinal. On television, he was, among others, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Denys de La Patellière and Judge Antoine Rives in the show by Gilles Béhat. Noticeable on film as Comte de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Don Juan (1998), where he seduces Emmanuelle Béart. In 2008, he joined Isabelle Adjani in a televised adaptation of Figaro which he directed for France 3. From 1979 to 1985, he appeared at the Centre dramatique national in Lyon (Théâtre du 8th), and from 1986 to 2001, the Théâtre de Nice, Centre dramatique national Nice-Côte d'Azur. He has starred and directed in many of the great roles of classical theatre, including Cyrano, where he excelled for many seasons. Jacques Weber published Des petits coins de paradis in October 2009, his first work, which relates to his work as an artist and his friends. He is married to Christine Weber and has three children: two sons, Tommy and Stanley, and one daughter, Kim. Source: Article "Jacques Weber" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Perfil

Jacques Weber

Filmes

The Origin of Evil
Serge
In a luxurious seaside villa, a modest young woman finds herself in the company of a strange family : an unknown and wealthy father, his extravagant wife, his daughter, an ambitious woman, a rebellious teenager, and their creepy maid.
The World of Yesterday
Lue Gaucher
A moral tale and a political thriller: a few days before the term of her mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the destiny of France.
Les Damnés de la Commune
Victor Hugo (voice)
Crise de nerfs
Andy
Serge
A lazy man becomes a prostitute.
Meurtres en Haute-Savoie
Francis Garibaldi
Yesterday
Werner
50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.
Je ne t'aime pas
Paul
Death in Sarajevo
Jacques
Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace and understanding is supposed to start from here. But the hotel staff have other worries: having not been paid for months, they are planning to go on strike. Hatidza from the hotel laundry is elected strike leader even though her daughter Lamija, who works in reception, is firmly against industrial action. Meanwhile, in the sealed-off presidential suite, a guest from France rehearses a speech. Elsewhere, a television reporter conducts interviews about war and its consequences. Was Gavrilo Princip, the 1914 assassin, a criminal or a national hero? What long shadow does his deed cast into the present?
Sleepless Night in Paris
Louis's father
Paris. Winter. One night, Antoine, a 22 year-old boy, decides to go to the seaside. All night long, dealing with drug and love, he will try to buy his train ticket, which will leave at the crack of dawn.
Les Bêtises
André
Os Olhos Amarelos dos Crocodilos
Marcel Grobz
Iris (Emmanuelle Béart), uma socialite francesa, contrata como “Ghost Writer” sua tímida irmã Josephine (Julie Depardieu), pesquisadora especialista em Idade Média. O sucesso do livro faz de Iris famosa e desperta a transformação da irmã.
Désolée pour hier soir
Marc
Le Grand Retournement
Le banquier Weber
A Prince (almost) Charming
Charles Lavantin
A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony...
Welcome Aboard
Max
Despite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the sixty-year-old decides to go away. He has no clear goal and explains nothing to his close friends. During his travels, he has a strange encounter with Marylou, a wild teenager who was rejected by her mother. The lost girl and the man at the end of his tether will travel together awhile. Finally living like a father and daughter, at peace.
Arrête de pleurer Pénélope
Aimé Badaroux
Chloé, Léonie and Pénélope, three friends who have not set eyes on each other for many years, are reunited in a notary’s office. It appears that Chloé’s aunt, with whom they used to spend their summer holidays, has died and bequeathed them her house in the country. The three young women agree to spend the weekend at the house, to clear it out so that they can sell it. As soon as they arrive at the house, old memories come flooding back. It is the beginning of a very long weekend...
Na Trilha do Marsupilami
Papa Dan
Quando o repórter Dan Geraldo chega em Palombia para explorar o local, ele não suspeita que vai fazer as descobertas mais surpreendentes... Ao lado de Pablito, um guia local cheio de recursos, ele vai embarcar numa aventura alucinante para revelar uma extraordinária notícia: o Marsupilami, animal mítico e brincalhão, realmente existe!
Joseph l'insoumis
Joseph Wresinski
Mystery at Moulin Rouge
Harold Meyer
In 1892 Diane arrives in Paris to search for her missing sister. To learn the fate of her sister she auditions for the quadrille at Moulin rouge.
Together Is Too Much
Roger
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what happens to Marie-France, when her husband, Henri, pulls out panties from his pocket to be used as a handkerchief. Marie-France becomes furious, storming out of the house. His son, Sebastian and his wife, Clementine, a struggling couple, decide to take Marie-France to their tiny apartment, something they feel it is a temporary arrangement. Little did they know what they were getting into...
Mom Lost It!
Claude Monceau
Please, Please Me!
Elisabeth's Father
Ariane is convinced that her boyfriend, Jean-Jacques, is having fantasies about another woman, Élisabeth. In an attempt to save their relationship, Ariane encourages Jean-Jacques to pursue Élisabeth, believing that this is the best way to free him from his own desires. Jean-Jacques presents himself at Élisabeth's house, not realising that she is the daughter of the French President.
O Baile das Atrizes
Jacques Weber
Uma cineasta resolve fazer um documentário sobre todos os tipos de atrizes existentes, das desconhecidas às mais populares. Para tanto resolve filmar tudo em torno das personagens escolhidas para retratar seu filme, mesmo que não tenha o consentimento delas. Só que, aos poucos, a cineasta é tragada para o universo das atrizes e passa a ser manipulada por elas.
Les Héritières
Ottavio della Roca
Não há nada como a distribuição de uma ...
Intrusions
André de Saché, Pauline's father
Pauline, une riche héritière, a été mariée contre son gré par son père à un de ses employés, François, qui l'avait mise enceinte.Quand, quelques mois plus tard, son mari lui annonce qu'il veut la quitter, Pauline, furieuse, laisse sur le téléphone de ce dernier des menaces de mort.Alexis Target, un ouvrier qui travaille dans la maison de Pauline, entend la jeune femme proférer ces menaces.François meurt, le soir même, dans un accident de voiture.Le jour de l'enterrement, Alexis revient voir Pauline en affirmant qu'il a exaucé son souhait et a tué François.Alexis entre alors par effraction dans la vie de Pauline. Car lui aussi poursuit une vengeance...
Odette Toulemonde
Olaf Pims
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.
Ambitious
Saint-Clair
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, bitchy Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
Les Aristos
Le comte Charles-Valérand d'Arbac de Neuville
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
L’Évangile selon Pilate
Pilate
Seven Years of Marriage
Claude
After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.
Ruy Blas
Director
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
Ruy Blas
Don César
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
Mausolée pour une garce
Henri Taride
Adapted from a best-selling novel by Frédéric Dard. Agnès Taride has a closet full of skeletons. A beautiful woman, accustomed to using her body to get what she wants, she persuades her lover to murder her ex-husband for the life insurance money that will otherwise go to her daughter when she reaches her upcoming 18th birthday. The murder attempt goes awry, and not only does the ex survive, but a witness calls on his underworld connections to avenge the attack on his friend. From here, the plot and counter-plot become ever more complicated, with blackmail, kidnap, murder, seduction and suicide on the agenda, and a surprise twist in the ending.
L'affaire Kergalen
Jean Leguennec
After the discovery of the bodies of two women raped and murdered, Lieutenant Sarlat, is assigned to the case. During your research you will find a family linked to black magic, and two gypsy women, Ana and her mother Marina, without having any connection that may be the key to the whole mystery. Sarlat will be responsible for discovering the connection between a serial murderer, and this dark and complex family.
Bérénice
Antiochus
An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Palestine).
Let There Be Light!
professeur Lang
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Don Juan
Writer
Espanha, século XVII. O país está assolado por uma série de guerras sangrentas. Neste tráfico cenário de perdas e mortes, um personagem clássico ressurge das cinzas: Don Juan ( Jacques Weber), depois de seduzir e prometer casamento à bela Elvira (Emmanuelle Béart), a abandona foge. Atrás dele vão os dois irmãos da donzela, prontos para lavar a honra da família. Na fuga, don Juan e seu criado acabam vitimas de uma tempestade, indo parar numa ilha desconhecida. É ali que o incorrigível conquistador se envolve com mais duas beldades: as donzelas Mathurine ( Penélope Cruz) e Charlotte ( Ariadna Gil). O incorrigível conquistador ganha uma versão atualizada. Mas ágil, mais moderna, com mais bom humor…e com as mais belas atrizes do cinema.
Don Juan
Director
Espanha, século XVII. O país está assolado por uma série de guerras sangrentas. Neste tráfico cenário de perdas e mortes, um personagem clássico ressurge das cinzas: Don Juan ( Jacques Weber), depois de seduzir e prometer casamento à bela Elvira (Emmanuelle Béart), a abandona foge. Atrás dele vão os dois irmãos da donzela, prontos para lavar a honra da família. Na fuga, don Juan e seu criado acabam vitimas de uma tempestade, indo parar numa ilha desconhecida. É ali que o incorrigível conquistador se envolve com mais duas beldades: as donzelas Mathurine ( Penélope Cruz) e Charlotte ( Ariadna Gil). O incorrigível conquistador ganha uma versão atualizada. Mas ágil, mais moderna, com mais bom humor…e com as mais belas atrizes do cinema.
Don Juan
Don Juan
Espanha, século XVII. O país está assolado por uma série de guerras sangrentas. Neste tráfico cenário de perdas e mortes, um personagem clássico ressurge das cinzas: Don Juan ( Jacques Weber), depois de seduzir e prometer casamento à bela Elvira (Emmanuelle Béart), a abandona foge. Atrás dele vão os dois irmãos da donzela, prontos para lavar a honra da família. Na fuga, don Juan e seu criado acabam vitimas de uma tempestade, indo parar numa ilha desconhecida. É ali que o incorrigível conquistador se envolve com mais duas beldades: as donzelas Mathurine ( Penélope Cruz) e Charlotte ( Ariadna Gil). O incorrigível conquistador ganha uma versão atualizada. Mas ágil, mais moderna, com mais bom humor…e com as mais belas atrizes do cinema.
Papa est un mirage
Philippe
Philippe is a movie star on the comeback trail. He shoots a film in Morocco, which will allow him to find the top of the bill. But nothing goes right, his partner, Alexi, breaks his arm during the shooting of a scene. Later, a phone call puts him in all his states: Julie, his ex-wife, who is a scriptwriter, asks him to keep their young films, Mathias and Victor. She has to go to Hollywood where she is nominated for an Oscar. Philippe is furious, but agrees to receive them in Morocco. Always absent, he does not know his children well. They have the (false) impression that their father does not love them. So, they do stupid things. And when a set catches fire, Philippe is certain that his children are responsible for the fire.
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Duc de Chaulnes
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
The Little Boy
The father
Eight-year old Francois has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his father's mistress works as a tutor. Soon his father allows a refugee family of Polish Jews to move into the basement. Francois has a terrible crush upon their daugther. Real trouble begins when a Nazi commander and his unit also move into the house, totally unaware of the refugees living below them.
Bari
Pierre
A Native American woman flees from an obsessive fur trader who stalks her across the wilds of turn of the century North America. In her travels, a wolf becomes her guardian. Sequel to Eye of the Wolf (1994).
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
Self
Rupture(s)
un clochard
When a woman fed-up with life in general commits suicide, what's left ? In the same vein, a lover, a mother, a friend, a few buddies, all orphans, all well-to-do, but mainly lost at sea without a ship. The lover : Paul, a lone wolf who tries to escape from his memories through drink or by chasing women as though they were the cure to everything. The best friend : Lucie, coming and going, suitcase in hand , as though she were carrying a corpse or a time bomb, ready to flee at the drop of a hat with her suitcase of course. The mother : Marthe. Between shovel and incinerator, she counts her dead, cat and husband included. And then, there is Lucien, madly running after Lucie, screeching guitar in hand. And the others, always running.
The Elegant Criminal
Jacques Arago
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Cyrano
Count of Guiche
Um romântico poeta e arrojado oficial da guarda, Cyrano de Bergerac é apaixonado por sua prima Roxane sem que ela saiba. Sua maldição, ele acha, é o seu grande nariz e embora possa ter sido uma influência formando sua sagacidade na arte do florete, ele acredita que Roxane vai rejeitá-lo. Ele começa a escrever cartas a ela em nome de um de seus cadetes, Christian, que também é apaixonado por Roxane. Mas simplesmente nenhum dos dois sabe como dizer a ela. Ela se apaixona pelo charme poético das cartas, mas acredita que elas foram escritos por Christian.
Anthony's Crime
Julien
A young man loses his fiancee, struck by lightning, on his wedding day.
À deux minutes près
Tristan
In this romantic comedy, an astrologer matches up two people who are married to other people. Each is convinced that what they need in order to have a more fulfilling life is an extramarital affair, and they intend to take their medicine, no matter how distatsteful it proves to be. Luckly for the audience, it proves to be awful indeed, as they attempt to set fire to this soggy fuel for romance in a series of ill-starred dates.
The Witches' Sabbath
Prof. Cadò
The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil.
Vaines recherches
Claude Schneider
An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedules, he finds himself running after a provocative murderer who announces his crimes over the phone. Very quickly, a doubt comes over him: could the culprit be closer to him than he thought?
Um Homem e Uma Mulher: 20 Anos Depois
Jacques Weber
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
Staircase C
Conrad
Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.
The Razor's Edge
Karim
Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from life, remains in his apartment in war-torn West Beirut, confident that he is safe in his familiar neighborhood. An unlikely bond is formed between the two as they face the devastating civil war.
Margem Direita, Margem Esquerda
Guarrigue
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Adolescent
Jean
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
Le loup blanc
Le capitaine Didier
In the 18th century, the peasants of the forest of Rennes were oppressed by the Regent in the name of taxation. Their lord, the Marquis de Trémi, goes to Paris to denounce these abuses.
Aloïse
L'ingénieur
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
The Barons
Carlo
Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the eve of the wedding with his cousin Mariantonia, that he has become impotent.
Le malin plaisir
Marc
A Mulher Com Botas Vermelhas
le peintre
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.
Une femme fatale
Philippe Mathelin
A young, easygoing pilot discovers the mutual attraction between his chief pilot's wife and himself. The two become lovers, and are nearly discovered on several occasions. However, when the wife becomes pregnant, her husband has reason to believe he is not the father and, indeed, that the culprit is the young pilot. He arranges for the young man to have an unfortunate accident, and all proceeds as if nothing had happened.
Private Screening
Philippe / Le comédien
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechanics of filmmaking.
Nothing to Report
Alain Charpentier
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...
Estado de Sítio
Hugo
No Uruguai, no início dos anos 1970, um funcionário da Agência para o Desenvolvimento Internacional (um grupo usado como uma frente para a formação policial estrangeira ) é seqüestrado por um grupo de guerrilha urbana. Usando seu interrogatório como um pano de fundo, o filme explora as consequências frequentemente brutal da luta entre o governo do Uruguai e da guerrilha esquerdista Tupamaro.
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Haroun
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
Tartuffe
Damis
French television adaptation of Moliere's play.
Raphael or the Debauched One
1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for it by chasing women and drinking. He first tries to seduce her, but is impressed by her and gives up. But Aurore felt in love with him, and tries not to look as inacessible. A romantic drama, with dispair, cynism, disgust for life and love.
Lancelot du Lac
Gauvain
This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.
Un ange passe
Albert
Hilda Muramer
Frédérick von Glauda (Jeune)