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Acting

Jean Marais

Career: Active from 1934 to 2018, with a break from 1993 to 2017, busiest in 1953 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 62
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Orpheus
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 32 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jean Marais Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.6, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2
Coming of Age
1.8, average 3.0
Scare
1.5, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

French Cinema 12
Character-Driven 4
Political Intrigue 4
Romantic Comedy 3
1960s 3
Intrigue 3
Satire 3
Swashbuckler 3
Forbidden Love 3
Classic Film 3
Historical Adventure 3
Poetic Dialogue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

82

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title · average score 72

The Image Book

72

as (archive footage)

2000s

1 title · average score 46

At World's End

46

as Djoko

1990s

3 titles · average score 69

Stealing Beauty

61

as M. Guillaume

Les Miserables

77

as Mgr Myriel

Shipwrecked Children

as Marc Antoine

1980s

2 titles · average score 40

Lien de parenté

as Victor Blaise

Parking

40

as Hadès / The Devil

1970s

4 titles · average score 76

Joseph Balsamo

TV show · as Joseph Balsamo

Karatékas and Co

TV show · as l'Empereur

Donkey Skin

76

as The King

The Provocation

as Christian

1960s

25 titles · average score 61

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

66

as Fantômas / Fandor / Sir Walter Brown / Giuseppe Luigi

Fantomas Unleashed

67

as Fantômas / Fandor / Professeur Lefèvre / Marquis de Rostelli

Ivory Coast Adventure

as Jean-Luc Hervé de la Tommeraye

Fantomas

69

as Fantômas / Fandor / Lord Shelton / Vieux gardien de la prison

Friends of the family

as Noël Carradine

The Mysteries of Paris

65

as Rodolphe de Sombreuil

The Iron Mask

59

as Charles D'Artagnan

Captain Fracasse

57

as Baron Philippe de Sigognac / Captain Fracasse

Blood on His Sword

60

as Robert de Neuville

Princess of Cleves

59

as Prince of Clèves

Romulus and the Sabines

50

as Marte

Captain Blood

63

as François de Capestang, aka 'Le Capitan'

1950s

27 titles · average score 66

The Hunchback of Paris

71

as Henri de Lagardère

King on Horseback

56

as Henri La Tour

Life Together

60

as Teddy Brooks

White Nights

86

as L'Inquilino

Elena and Her Men

62

as Général François Rollan

If Paris Were Told to Us

61

as François Ier

School for Love

56

as Eric Walter

The Count of Monte Cristo

69

as Edmond Dantès

The Healer

as Pierre Lachaux dit « Monsieur Laurent »

Inside a Girls' Dormitory

59

as Inspecteur Desiré Marco

Orpheus

89

as Orphée

The Glass Castle

59

as Rémy Marsay

1940s

12 titles · average score 77

The Secret of Mayerling

as L'archiduc Rodolphe d'Autriche-Hongrie

The Queen's Lover

as Ruy Blas / Don César de Bazan

The Eagle with Two Heads

66

as Stanislas

The Storm Within

85

as Michel

In the Eyes of Memory

as Jacques Forestier

The Royalists

as Marquis of Montauran

Beauty and the Beast

86

as La Bête / Le Prince / Avenant

Carmen

as Don José

Voyage Without Hope

as Alain Ginestier

The Eternal Return

72

as Patrice

The Four-Poster Bed

as Remy Bonvent

The Pavilion Burns

as Daniel

1930s

7 titles · average score 68

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

60

as L'Abbé-Précepteur

The Patriot

as (uncredited)

Bizarre, Bizarre

76

as Le fêtard assommé par un Chinois (uncredited)

The New Men

as Le secrétaire

The Scandal

as Le liftier

The Adventurer

as Le jeune ouvrier

Le Bonheur

68

as Journalist (uncredited)