Jacques Spiesser

Jacques Spiesser

Nascimento : 1947-06-07, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France

História

Jacques Spiesser (born 7 June 1947) is a French actor. After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film, debut in 1972, in Nina Companeez's Faustine et le bel été with Muriel Catala. He is best known to English-speaking audiences for playing the role of Gilles in Priceless. Source: Article "Jacques Spiesser" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Jacques Spiesser

Filmes

Everyday Portabella
Quand sort la recluse
Danglard
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
Imposture
Alexandre Caussey
Alice learns of her mother's accidental death while travelling in Canada. The body has been repatriated to France at the request of her husband, Alice's father. But he has supposedly been dead for 22 years. Is it really her father? Why would her mother have lied to her?
Mongeville et Magellan : Un amour de jeunesse
Magellan
A commissioner and a former examining magistrate are asked to find a woman, whom they both loved, just disappeared.
Entre vents et marées
Ferdinand Lebovitz
Na Bretanha, um notável é morto com dua...
O Último Diamante
Pierre Neuville
Julia (Bérénice Bejo) trabalha vendendo peças raras em leilões e sua próxima grande venda será o lendário diamante Florentin. Dias antes do leilão, ela contrata uma equipe, liderada por Simon (Yvan Attal), para cuidar da segurança do item. Ao se conhecerem melhor, Julia e Simon começam um relacionamento. O que ela não sabe é que ele é um ladrão de cofres profissional, que fez um acordo com seu parceiro no crime, Albert (Jean-Francois Stevenin), para roubar o diamante.
A Place On Earth
Monsieur Morin
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.
A Solidão do Poder
Stéphane Prévost
Pierre Vasseur es Presidente de la República. Tiene una agenda ocupada: debe resolver las crisis políticas, contener la ira popular, soportar la ironía de la prensa y los ataques de la oposición. En lo que respecta a su vida privada, debe manejar principalmente las relaciones tensas que mantiene con su hija.
Mon frère Yves
Le commandant
Bay of Algiers
Louis
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at the Bay of Algiers, Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear. The first events of the War of Independence have begun. The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside: swimming, dancing, flirting. But, little by little, the war becomes part of their daily life.
The Gordji Affair
Edouard Balladur
Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are released. Political scandal in France: there is suspicion that the government had intervened in the case and to have exchanged the liberation of the hostages with that of Gordj. Discredited, the judge commits suicide. Mitterand and Chirac keep lobbing the responsibility of the case to each other.
Here Below
L'évêque
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
A Bad Encounter
Teacher
Conheça o mau é a história de uma amizade simbiótica entre dois meninos, Wolf e Mando ... Eles se encontram em um banco em uma praça e crescer juntos , compartilhando os mesmos interesses : livros, meninas , política , espiritismo. E então, pouco a pouco, seus caminhos divergem . Uma quebra de promessas ...
Bouquet final
Gabriel
O Caso Mendès France
President Perré
A história de um homem vítima de um complô com a única arma para defender sua integridade. Confrontado com este homem, um grupo hostil que insiste em aniquilador. Destruir o grupo socialista, o secretário de Estado Blum, o maçom, mas especialmente o judeu.
Conférence de Berlin 1885 - La ruée sur l'Afrique
Otto Von Bismarck
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.
Lily Sometimes
Odile, Pierre's Father
Clara é casada com um advogado promissor e mora em Paris. Após a morte repentina de sua mãe, Clara tem que assumir a responsabilidade por sua irmã mais nova, Lily, cuja extrema sensibilidade a torna vulnerável.
A Dubious Place
Adrien Danglard
A gruesome discovery is made outside a London cemetery one night. Meanwhile in Paris, Police Captain Adamsberg discovers a body chopped into pieces. Could there be a link?
The Blonde with Bare Breasts
Victor Durieux
Julian, 25, and Louis, 12, are two brothers who work and live on a barge in the centre of Paris. They transport gravel and resort to petty crime to make ends meet. They have grown up alone and now they are inseparable, wedded to a life on the river. A receiver of stolen goods offers them the opportunity of a lifetime, to steal a painting by Manet from the Musée d'Orsay. Louis takes charge of the theft and, against the odds, he succeeds in removing it from the gallery and taking it aboard his barge. Rosalie, a museum guard, follows Louis to his home and confronts him. After a fight, the two brothers secure Rosalie in the hold of their boat and make a quick getaway. Later, Rosalie emerges from her hidey hole and makes the brothers an unexpected offer...
Mom Lost It!
Sam
Seeking Whom He May Devour
Adrien Danglard
A wave of carnage is sweeping through Southern France, with locals blaming the return of wolves. However some begin talking of a werewolf, and Police Captain Adamsberg must investigate.
The Chalk Circle Man
Adrien Danglard
For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved when a dead woman is found in one of the circles.
Mais que o Máximo
Le préfet
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.
Die Jahrhundertlawine
Pfarrer Josef
In the Austrian Alps have found the body of a young woman who died in a skiing accident eight years earlier. Dr. Marc Pelletier decides to return to the scene, as it is the brother of his ex-girlfriend. When he reach the ski resort, a dreadful avalanche buries all the people.
Marie-Octobre
Roland Herbelin
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...
Sous les vents de Neptune
Adrien Danglard
Le vrai coupable
Inspecteur Barton
Nos retrouvailles
Ruiz
The Missing Granddaughter
Meunier
Eva is a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France, after the Second World War. During the war her whole family was sent to the German extermination camps by French collaborators. Eva survived by chance. Then by chance a new girl enters her class, a girl who resembles Eva's dead daughter.
Fissures
Le père de Charlotte
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.
Amar... Não Tem Preço
Gilles
A jovem e interesseira Irène (Audrey Tautou) está hospedada em um luxuoso hotel com seu amante rico, quando conhece o tímido garçom Jean (Elmaleh), surge uma atração entre os dois. Mas Irène confunde Jean com um ricaço e acha que pode unir o útil ao agradável. A partir daí começa uma sessão de encrencas e confusões, envolvendo identidades trocadas, e o esforço de Jean para manter sua farsa. Será que ele irá conseguir manter seu segredo, e se virar para sustentar os gostos caros da sua amada?
A City Is Beautiful at Night
The manager
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.
10 Dias para Encontrar um Melhor Amigo
Letellier
François é um negociante de antiguidades, um homem completamente imerso no seu negócio. Por ocasião do seu aniversário, a sua sócia Catherine ingenuamente diz-lhe que ele não tem amigos. Os outros convidados concordam: a paixão de François está confinada aos objectos que compra e vende; ele não consegue relacionar-se emocionalmente. Quando a discussão fica realmente acesa entre eles, Catherine propõe-lhe um desafio: François tem dez dias para arranjar um amigo real – o seu melhor amigo. E assim começa a sua busca.
Le temps de la désobéissance
le divisionnaire
In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the two policemen will shatter with all the suffering and disappointment that implies.
Itinéraires
Guy Chartrier
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and a tattoo. But above all a guilt forever anchored. It is now up to him to rebuild his life.
Celle qui reste
Gallard
Alice has lost her father and one leg in a car accident. She lives with her mother (Jeanne) and grandfather in a farm. Summer holidays start and she can't go to the sea with other children of the village. Then she meets Vincent, a younger boy who stayed in the village as well, and Alain, the mayor's son who's back in town to train his athleticism female club. Alice would like to run with her prosthesis but Jeanne doesn't want her to run nor to approach Alain.
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
Bonacieux
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and their reckless romantic friend D'Artagnan. Supernatural powers and dark mystical forces add an exciting twist to this classic tale.
The Hook
Kouznetov
A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.
Nature contre nature
Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the local customs, he joined "Troc'en Creuse", an association that promotes exchange between individuals. He proposes, within this framework, psychoanalysis sessions.
L'affaire Dominici
Juge Péries
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence.
She's One of Us
Danjard
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a supervisor to dinner. When the supervisor takes Christine on a spontaneous outing that disorients her, her oddities become something else. Can things ever be normal?
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Lassagne
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.
C'est la vie
Jean-Louis
Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is dedicated to supporting people at the end of their lives.
Quatre copains
Charles Biraud
After the Reconciliation
Arthur
An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.
Dessine-moi un jouet
Raoul Monge
A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz
Rembrandt
Joost Van den Vondel
This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.
Life Doesn't Scare Me
Stella's father
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Pécoul
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
Madame Jacques on the Croisette
Jo
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.
Lulu, roi de France
Victor
Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the public assistance, a notary comes to announce that his father died and left him an extraordinary inheritance: a castle, a title of duke and a royal filiation. But problems arise, the deceased duke has left heavy debts and suitors to the title.
Le mas Théotime
L'inspecteur
Pascal lives on the land in Provence that his father left him. He is supported by the Alibert family, his tenant farmers, to counter the maneuvers of his cousin Clodius who wants to compromise the irrigation of the vines or contaminate the beehives. It is in this atmosphere of suspicion that Geneviève returns to the country, charged with a mysterious past.
L'Affaire Seznec
Petitcolas
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit.
All That... for This?!
Zuckmeyer, le directeur de l'hôtel
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge who get on with the trial and who are being unfaithful to their couples.
L’homme imaginé
L'homme
The itinerary full of pitfalls, funny and serious encounters of a young dreamer who lives with an obsession.
El Corazón de las Tinieblas
Joseph is a sailor who returns to his aunt's home after 14 years at sea, there he will be involved in the process of African colonialism signing a contract to travel to Congo captaining a ship called Florida that is shipwrecked as soon as it reaches Congo forcing them to walk the Congolese forest in the heart of darkness
Thick Skinned
Gérard
Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison.
Baxter
Michel Ferrer
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
On a volé Charlie Spencer!
L'inspecteur
Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a real he-man. Given his diffident, shy nature, it comes as a bit of a surprise that not only does he actually have a girlfriend, but he has managed to get her pregnant. However, she doesn't fit his image of himself, and he can't bring himself to marry her. When the bank he works in is robbed by a daring group which includes a magnetically attractive woman, the clerk throws his lot in with them and becomes an outlaw.
Folie suisse
Nicholas' father
Uma Estranha Mulher
Galuchat
Isabelle Huppert interpreta uma ruiva atraente chamada Frédérique. Por puro tédio e ressentimento pelo fato de seu pai mulherengo e amigos molestarem jovens em seu chalé, ela troca a fazenda de criação de trutas do pai por Paris. Lá, ela se casa com um gay suicida chamado Galuchat.
Le Sang des Atrides
Le juge Chabrand
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Martin
Monsieur Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns
The imaginary adventures of musician Sans-Saëns.
Autopsie d’un complot
Jean-Marie Bigot
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Jacques Steiner
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
The Devil in the Heart
Éric Bouvier
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student is far from the post May 68 clichés and the movie walks a fine line off the beaten path. Philippe Lemaire and Emmanuelle Riva are ideally cast as the bourgeois parents who urge their offspring to attend the grandma's Christmas meal.
Little Marcel
Marcel
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms.
Lumière
Saint-Loup
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…
A Nudez de Alexandra
Jacques
A wealthy French promoter based in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but trapped in her strict education.
Preto e Branco em Cores
Hubert Fresnoy
Colonos franceses na África de repente se veem em meio a uma guerra contra os alemães. Certos de que precisam cumprir com o dever e ao mesmo tempo lutar contra os inimigos, eles imediatamente recrutam a população nativa. E dão a eles botas e armamentos, a fim de transformá-los em soldados. Diante do caos que se instala, surge um jovem e idealista geógrafo francês, o único mais racional, que decide controlar a guerra quando vê o fracasso daqueles inexperientes combatentes.
Serious as Pleasure
L'homme au km 103
"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."
Ariane
The clown sphinx
A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.
O Tapa
Rémy Abeillé
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Stavisky ou o Império de Alexandre
Michel Grandville
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
Uma Noite no Ano 43
Jean Rimbert
The Man Who Sleeps
Man
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.
Nothing to Report
Rémy March
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...
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Florent
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...