Alex Descas
Acting • Born 1958-01-01
Biography
Alex Descas (born January 1, 1958) is a French actor known for his roles in films by Claire Denis and Jim Jarmusch. In France, he is also known for his role as Schneider in the French TV series Un Flic. He is a frequent collaborator of Claire Denis, appearing in more than half of her theatrical feature-length films, including No Fear, No Die, Nénette et Boni, I Can't Sleep, Trouble Every Day, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum and Bastards, as well as Ten Minutes Older: The Cello. He is of Antillean (Guadeloupean) descent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Descas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
82 credits
Coffee and Cigarettes
Movie • 2004
Alex (segment "No Problem")
Never Twice
Movie • 1995
Never Twice
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Movie • 2021
(Voix Off)
The Limits of Control
Movie • 2009
Creole
Irma Vep
Movie • 1996
Desormeaux
The House
Movie • 1997
35 Shots of Rum
Movie • 2009
Lionel
Rapt
Movie • 2009
Maître Walser
Trouble Every Day
Movie • 2001
Dr. Léo
I Can't Sleep
Movie • 1994
Théo
Last Harem
Movie • 1999
Nadir
Africa Dreaming
Movie • 1997
Michael
Against Oblivion
Movie • 1991
Self
The Dope
Movie • 2003
Shaft
Lumumba
Movie • 2000
Joseph Mobutu
Persecution
Movie • 2009
Thomas
Late August, Early September
Movie • 1999
Jérémie
A Perfect Couple
Movie • 2005
Patrick
No Fear, No Die
Movie • 1990
Jocelyn
Vers Nancy
Movie • 2002
Bastards
Movie • 2013
Dr. Béthanie
The United States of Albert
Movie • 2005
Nolton Barnett
The Syringe
Movie • 1984
Le chef des 'Blackies'
My Family's Honour
Movie • 1997
Malcolm
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Movie • 1998
Yves Le Guen
Déjà vu
Movie • 2007
Kiff
How Good the Whites Are
Movie • 1988
Le travailleur chez Renault
La nuit sera longue
Movie • 2003
François
The Great White of Lambarene
Movie • 1995
Koumba
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Movie • 2002
(segment "Vers Nancy")
Brûlé neige
Movie • 2022
Henri
Murder in Pacot
Movie • 2014
L'homme
Which Way Africa?
Movie • 2024
Narrator
In a Memory of a Film Gone By
Movie • 1998
himself
Urgence
Movie • 1985
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Movie • 2002
(Segment 'Never Twice')
Nèg maron
Movie • 2005
Siwo
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
Movie • 2024
Narrator (Voice)
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
Movie • 2004
Pierre Adélaïde
Madeleine d'entre les Morts
Movie • 2014
The man
Adam's Sake
Movie • 2025
Naïm
Metropole
Movie • 2017
Un enfant en danger
Movie • 2013
André
Chocolat
Movie • 2016
Victor
Let the Sunshine In
Movie • 2017
End Man
Volontaire
Movie • 2018
Albertini
In Your Dreams
Movie • 2005
Mojo
Nord-plage
Movie • 2004
Maya
Movie • 2018
Frédéric
Clubbed to Death
Movie • 1996
Mambo
Tag!
Movie • 2007
Nkruma
Voilà l'enchaînement
Movie • 2014
Lui
Nenette and Boni
Movie • 1997
Gynecologist
The Intruder
Movie • 2005
Le prêtre
The Absence
Movie • 1993
Soldier
Boarding Gate
Movie • 2007
Andrew
Un si joli bouquet
Movie • 1995
Barthélémy
Duo
Movie • 1995
Man
Portrait of the Artist
Movie • 2015
Scottie
Gone
Movie • 2017
Claude Vannier
Négropolitain
Movie • 2008
Alain
The Heart's Cry
Movie • 1995
Ibrahim Sow
Rouge
Movie • 2015
Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
Tiresia
Movie • 2003
Marignac
So Be It
Movie • 1997
Césaire, le prix de la liberté
Movie • 2013
Aimé Césaire
The Masturbators
Movie • 1995
Narrator
Elf, Kings of Oil
Movie • 2007
Pascal Lissouba
The Elf Case
Movie • 2007
Pascal Lissouba
L'île des esclaves
Movie • 2006
Taxi Boy
Movie • 1986
Pascal
We Don't Choose Our Parents
Movie • 2008
Le juge Mauvoisin
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 2021
Sing Me Back Home
Movie • 2019
Juan
The Arrival
Movie
The Failing
Movie • 2026
L'Abbé Gomis
Exterminate All the Brutes
TV • 2021
Nina
TV • 2015
Mathias Savignon
Irma Vep
TV • 2022
Gregory Desormeaux
Iskander
TV • 2018
Oscar
Un flic
TV • 2007
Schneider
Les Cordier, juge et flic
TV • 1994
Sayyid