Jacques Dufilho
Acting • Born 1914-02-19 – Died 2005-08-28
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.
Filmography
145 credits
L'homme qui n'était pas là
Movie • 1987
Strosser
Zazie dans le Métro
Movie • 1960
Ferdinand Grédoux
War of the Buttons
Movie • 1962
L'Aztec's father
Voglia di Volare
Movie • 1984
Father of Davide
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Movie • 1979
Captain
The Doll
Movie • 1962
Theodora, old Indian woman
The Horse of Pride
Movie • 1980
Alain, le grand-père
Black and White in Color
Movie • 1976
Paul Rechampot
Unusual Tales
Movie • 1949
The Drunken Conscript
The Children of the Marshland
Movie • 1999
Old man
A Bad Son
Movie • 1980
Adrien Dussart
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
Movie • 1958
Taxi Customer
Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Movie • 1997
Fantasia Among the Squares
Movie • 1971
Oncle Noé
Trintignant by Trintignant
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Le Huguenot récalcitrant
Movie • 1969
Marshall Jérémie Boutre
Above the Clouds
Movie • 2003
le recteur
Adieu Léonard
Movie • 1943
Chestnut merchant (uncredited)
First in Line
Movie • 1944
Fernand Lourtier
Le Bateau à soupe
Movie • 1947
Zélize
The Figurehead
Movie • 1948
Commander Clement
The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
Movie • 1948
Monk
Vagabonds imaginaires
Movie • 1950
Shepherd (segment 'The Stars')
Crimson Curtain
Movie • 1952
An actor
The Road to Damascus
Movie • 1952
Pierre
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Movie • 1951
L'employé du gaz (uncredited)
The Big Scare
Movie • 1964
How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
Movie • 1974
Colonnello Rambaldo Buttiglione
Snobs!
Movie • 1962
Lambotte & his brother
The Happy Road
Movie • 1957
Michel Bertrand (uncredited)
Call Me Mathilde
Movie • 1969
Petitjean
Until the Last One
Movie • 1957
Pépé
Pierrot mon ami
Movie • 1979
Mounnezergues
Autour d'un Film de Montagne
Movie • 1944
Self
The Fast Set
Movie • 1957
Pedro Avendetti
A Full Day's Work
Movie • 1973
Jean Rousseau
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1956
Guillaume Rousseau
C'est quoi la vie ?
Movie • 1999
Noël
Slightly Ahead
Movie • 1956
Le garçon d'écurie
Nathalie
Movie • 1957
Simon
Le galopin
Movie • 1993
Edouard de Robert
La Vouivre
Movie • 1989
Urbain
A Caprice of Darling Caroline
Movie • 1953
Giuseppe
Cadet Rousselle
Movie • 1954
Carlos
La Brigade en folie
Movie • 1973
Commissaire Richard
Honey, Scare Me
Movie • 1958
Emile, the floor boy
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Movie • 1962
Le directeur de la 'Maison de la Radio'
The Visit
Movie • 1964
Police Officer Fisch
Life is beautiful
Movie • 1956
le chef de la fanfare
Drummer-Crab
Movie • 1977
Chief mechanic
Julie la rousse
Movie • 1959
Le garçon d'hôtel / Waiter
The Doctor...the Schoolgirl
Movie • 1976
Colonel Oreste Raselli
The Mill of M. Fabre
Movie • 1983
Felix Fabre
La Fièvre monte à Castelnau
Movie • 1985
L'assassin connaît la musique
Movie • 1963
Le docteur Hublot, médecin légiste
Public School
Movie • 1965
Le paysan
Les Aventures de Lagardère
Movie • 1968
Amable Passepoil
Hardboiled Egg Time
Movie • 1958
Jules Grandvivier
Basta con la guerra... facciamo l'amore
Movie • 1974
Gustavo
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Movie • 1979
Self
L'Or du duc
Movie • 1965
Annibal
Supermen Against the Orient
Movie • 1973
American Consul
Work and Freedom
Movie • 1959
Agent Grosjean
And Tomorrow?
Movie • 1967
Jeroom
The Little Professor
Movie • 1958
Head of the civil status department
Professore venga accompagnato dai suoi genitori
Movie • 1974
prof. Gustavo Negroni
A Golden Widow
Movie • 1969
Joseph
Rue du Pied de Grue
Movie • 1979
Le commissaire
Jeanne, Marie et les autres
Movie • 2000
Frantz
Ma femme, ma vache et moi
Movie • 1952
Les Insulaires
Movie • 1979
M. Palladion
Milady
Movie • 1976
Commander Gardefort
Vow of Chastity
Movie • 1976
Annibale
Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Movie • 1976
'Dodo' Spinacroce
To Our Late Husband
Movie • 1988
Romeo
Ne coupez pas mes arbres
Movie • 1995
Sir William Belmont
Doctor Lerne, Subgod
Movie • 1983
Le docteur Lerne
Pétain
Movie • 1993
Maréchal Philippe Pétain
Saadia
Movie • 1953
Bandit leader
Vendetta in Camargue
Movie • 1950
Zacramir
Rookies Run Amok
Movie • 1971
Colonel
Soldier of Fortune
Movie • 1976
Mariano de Trani
Andy... Andy Silly Andy
Movie • 1964
Rogier, de pyromaan
Talou
Movie • 1981
von Krapp
The Overtaxed
Movie • 1959
Prison superintendent
Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
Movie • 1975
Colonnello Rambaldo Buttiglione
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Movie • 1967
Shoskatovich, chef des Russes
The Bamboo Stroke
Movie • 1963
Le chauffeur de taxi
Clémentine chérie
Movie • 1964
Spanish maid
My Priest Among the Poor
Movie • 1956
Fernand
The Farm of Seven Sins
Movie • 1949
François Sovignant
Chut !
Movie • 1972
Fritz Ducharrel
Love in a Hot Climate
Movie • 1954
Chispa
Signed, Arsène Lupin
Movie • 1959
Albert, manservant
Que les hommes sont bêtes
Movie • 1957
L'inspecteur
Sideral Cruises
Movie • 1942
Lumberjack (uncredited)
Bibi Fricotin
Movie • 1951
Oncle unijambiste
Nailcruncher
Movie • 1988
Mattathias
Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer
Movie • 1977
Colonnello Von Buttiglione
Mission to Venice
Movie • 1964
César, majordome
L'Intoxe
Movie • 1983
Monsieur Doucet
Dear Caroline
Movie • 1951
Le valet de Pont-Bellanger
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Movie • 1969
Job, le domestique
Erotomania
Movie • 1974
Prof. Pazzoni
La prima donna
Movie • 1964
Reader of "Dimanche Echo" (voice)
La chavalanthrope
Movie • 1972
Actor
The Hotheads
Movie • 1967
Dante
Premeditated
Movie • 1960
Martinot
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Movie • 1961
Paul Prunier
Maxime
Movie • 1958
Flick
Shipwrecked Children
Movie • 1992
Petit Louis
Criminal Brigade
Movie • 1947
Lucien
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Movie • 1966
Y
In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
Movie • 1961
Le fossoyeur
Et ta sœur…
Movie • 1958
Puymartin
The Heavenly Bodies
Movie • 1973
The priest
L'Auberge de l'ange gardien
Movie • 1962
Bournier Aîné
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Movie • 1968
Camille
The Lonely Heart
Movie • 1973
Antonio
The Funny Guys in a Crazy World
Movie • 1974
Le vicomte Célestin Galmiche de Quibedec
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Lady L
Movie • 1965
Bealu
Sweet and Sour
Movie • 1963
Monsieur Alfonso
The Black Monocle
Movie • 1961
Charvet, le guide
Jofroi de la Maussan
Movie • 1987
Jofroi de la Maussan
Un ufficiale non si arrende mai nemmeno di fronte all'evidenza, firmato Colonnello Buttiglione
Movie • 1974
Colonel Buttiglione
Bobosse
Movie • 1959
Gaston, manservant
Cher Victor
Movie • 1975
Victor Lasalle
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Movie • 1982
Jean-Marie, the blackmailer
That damn Amédée
Movie • 1957
Placard
Le Bossu
Movie • 1969
Vincendon
Movie
Vincendon
Les bottes de sept lieues
Movie • 1990
le Marchand
Amazons of Rome
Movie • 1961
Les aiguilleurs
Movie • 1980
Alfred
Orages d'été, avis de tempête
TV • 1990
Léon
Plaisir du théâtre
TV • 1956
Me Pachevin, le huissier
Fantômas
TV • 1980
Inspektor Juve
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Le Vent des moissons
TV • 1988
Alexandre Leclerc
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
Lagardère
TV • 1967
Passepoil
Sogni e bisogni
TV • 1985
Il Male