Jean Gabin
Birthday: May 17, 1904
Birthplace: Paris, France
Biography:
Jean-Alexis Moncorge started his career with 15 years at the theatre and debuted at the "Moulin Rouge" in Paris in 1929. Despite of his rude aspect he knew to be the gentleman of the French cinema in the time between the two World Wars. One of his most popular personalities was inspector Maigret. But he was also able to play all other kind of people: aristocrats, farmers, thieves and managers. He never stopped working and when death surprised him in 1976 he was still an institution for the Fre...
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Filmography
- Holy Year (1976)
- Deux Hommes dans la Ville (Two Against the Law) (Two Men in Town) (1973)
- Le Clan des Siciliens (The Sicilian Clan) (1969)
- Mélodie en Sous-Sol (Any Number Can Win) (Big Grab) (The Big Snatch) (1963)
- Un singe en hiver (A Monkey in Winter) (It's Hot in Hell) (1962)
- Cave se rebiffe (The Counterfeiters of Paris) (Money Money Money) (1961)
- House on the Waterfront (Le Port du désir) (1959)
- French Cancan (Only the French Can) (1956)
- Deadlier Than the Male (Voici le Temps des Assassins) (1956)
- Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
- È più facile che un cammello... (His Last Twelve Hours) (1951)
- Le Mura di Malapaga (The Walls of Malapaga) (Beyond the Gates) (1949)
- Moontide (1942)
- Pépé le Moko (1941)
- Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows) (1939)
- Le Jour se lève (Daybreak) (1939)
- La Bête humaine (Judas Was a Woman)(The Human Beast) (1938)
- La Grande illusion (The Grand Illusion) (1937)
- Les Bas-fonds (The Lower Depths) (Underground) (Underworld) (1936)
- Belle équipe, La (They Were Five) (1936)
