Jean Dax

Jean Dax

Born: September 17, 1879
Died: June 6, 1962
in Paris, France

Movies for Jean Dax...

The Five Cents of Lavarede
Title: The Five Cents of Lavarede
Character: Sir Murlington
Released: March 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?
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Mon curé chez les riches
Title: Mon curé chez les riches
Character: Monsieur de Sableuse
Released: December 21, 1938
Type: Movie
In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
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Ceux de demain
Title: Ceux de demain
Character: Le colonel
Released: August 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Jean is a ten-year-old boy who runs away from boarding school because he thinks he is the cause of his parents' marital breakup. A famous opera singer offers him shelter in her home.
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Une de la cavalerie
Title: Une de la cavalerie
Released: April 13, 1938
Type: Movie
The merry Vigoulette wants to escape the yoke of his wife and asks to be recalled to a barracks regiment in Nice. Every night, he and his friend Poupardin have a great time. But one evening, he is missing. Fortunately his wife, who had arrived to spy on him, takes her place in the bedroom.
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La fille de la Madelon
Title: La fille de la Madelon
Character: Le général de Cassagnes
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon.
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Femmes
Title: Femmes
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
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La rose effeuillée
Title: La rose effeuillée
Character: Monsieur Renault
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One day she is unjustly accused of robbery, and dismissed. She suffers in her loneliness, until the day she hears that the boy is terminally ill, and there's no medical hope for him. She comes back and sits by him, praying to Saint Thérèse de Lisieux - and the miracle happens.
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Une femme qui se partage
Title: Une femme qui se partage
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Louis Cruciol, a married man, leads a double life: he maintains his mistress by taking the identity of one of his employees, Louis Cornette. A series of misunderstandings ensues.
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La Peau d'un autre
Title: La Peau d'un autre
Character: Edouard Granet
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
The very chic Parisian couturier Jean Granet has trouble with the police, and will find himself imprisoned for two weeks, in the provinces, for speeding. He manages to get himself replaced by his friend Lambelin who, for a fee, will serve the sentence in his place. This is the beginning of a series of misunderstandings.
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Un mauvais garçon
Title: Un mauvais garçon
Character: Feutrier Père
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich man, Monsieur Feutrier. Jacqueline accepts and starts her career by defending Pierre Besnard, a bad Boy. Not only does she get the case dismissed but she falls in love with Pierre as well. But she is not famous for all that and sooner or later she will have to bring herself to marry Feutrier's son.
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The Seniors
Title: The Seniors
Character: Professor
Released: September 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
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Symphonie D'Amour
Title: Symphonie D'Amour
Character: Cinema director
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
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Une gueule en or
Title: Une gueule en or
Released: June 16, 1936
Type: Movie
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
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Mayerling
Title: Mayerling
Character: L'empereur François-Joseph
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
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Mayerling
Title: Mayerling
Character: Emperor François-Joseph
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
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La Marraine de Charley
Title: La Marraine de Charley
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
To receive his fiancée and his father at his home, an Oxford student counts on the presence of his aunt from Brazil to serve as his chaperone. The latter having delayed his trip, the young man passes his servant off as his aunt. This results in multiple misunderstandings. Finally, everything works out when the aunt comes.
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Le Voyage imprévu
Title: Le Voyage imprévu
Character: Hotel Director
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.
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Jim la houlette
Title: Jim la houlette
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la Houlette and pretend to steal a manuscript to boost the sales of their novels.
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Le Petit Jacques
Title: Le Petit Jacques
Character: Investigating judge
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good education if he allows himself to be condemned.
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The Queen of Biarritz
Title: The Queen of Biarritz
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Elenita from Sierra Mirador is the darling of Biarritz. For her, a young groom abandons his wife, a forty-year-old suddenly becomes inflamed and cheats on his young wife. But Elenita, watched by her mother, resigns herself to becoming honest and returns to her husband.
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Pleasures of Paris
Title: Pleasures of Paris
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Provincials visiting Paris take the drug of Professor Jouvence, which rejuvenates them with the scabrous consequences that one can imagine.
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Iris perdue et retrouvée
Title: Iris perdue et retrouvée
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
To save her brother compromised in a case of forgery in writing, Iris agrees to marry a shady financier, lover of her sister-in-law. A young painter, in love with her, persuades her to flee with him, but tired of the life of an artist, Iris returns to her family....
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L'Oncle de Pékin
Title: L'Oncle de Pékin
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, all the heirs of a recently deceased uncle must stay in his chateau until they find a buyer for it.If no one is found or if any of them leave, the place will be left to its Chinese servants, who devise tricks to cheat the heirs.
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Charlemagne
Title: Charlemagne
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula.
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kiki
Title: kiki
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
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Baby
Title: Baby
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
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Our Lord's Vineyard
Title: Our Lord's Vineyard
Released: September 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A repentant alcoholic, Henri is promised to the young Yvonne, but he is in love with Gisèle, her sister and the fiancée of his friend Hubert. They all go on vacation, to the villa of Valentine Bourjeon, the mother of the two young girls. Henri and Gisèle begin an affair which, despite a thousand precautions, is quickly discovered. Hubert seems to be the only one not noticing anything. Mrs. Bourjeon will restore order in the sentimental life of her daughters.
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In the Name of the Law
Title: In the Name of the Law
Character: Chevalier
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen of him until his body is found floating in the Seine several days later. The only clue is a woman's glove. The dead man's friends on the force vow to avenge him, and receive information leading them to suspect one Sandra, a beautiful foreigner, played by the stunning Marcelle Chantal.
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Mr, Mrs and Bibi
Title: Mr, Mrs and Bibi
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
When his wife storms out of a dinner planned for the American boss, because the dog isn't allowed to be at the table, an engineer substitutes his secretary and pretends she is the wife.
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Ariane, Russian Maid
Title: Ariane, Russian Maid
Character: Le Professeur
Released: February 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Arianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with.
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Accused, Stand Up!
Title: Accused, Stand Up!
Character: Larivière, le régisseur du music-hall
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
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Mother Hummingbird
Title: Mother Hummingbird
Character: Baron de Rysbergue
Released: October 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.
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The Secret Courier
Title: The Secret Courier
Character: Marquis de la Môle
Released: October 25, 1928
Type: Movie
A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".
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The Crew
Title: The Crew
Released: March 30, 1928
Type: Movie
First adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the wife of one of his flying comrades.
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Education of a Prince
Title: Education of a Prince
Character: René Cercleux
Released: August 15, 1927
Type: Movie
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Les dévoyés
Title: Les dévoyés
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Battle
Title: The Battle
Character: Jean-François Felse
Released: December 23, 1923
Type: Movie
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La folie du doute
Title: La folie du doute
Released: June 1, 1923
Type: Movie
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The King of Paris
Title: The King of Paris
Released: May 14, 1923
Type: Movie
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La Nuit de la Saint-Jean
Title: La Nuit de la Saint-Jean
Released: March 3, 1922
Type: Movie
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L'assommoir
Title: L'assommoir
Character: Coupeau
Released: December 30, 1921
Type: Movie
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She Played and Paid
Title: She Played and Paid
Released: April 16, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Bridge That Failed
Title: The Bridge That Failed
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Tragic Swing
Title: The Tragic Swing
Character: Georges de Valmont
Released: October 31, 1913
Type: Movie
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The King of Prison
Title: The King of Prison
Character: Le complice de Pont d'Anson
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Fernand Pradier (Gabriel Signoret) is an honest merchant and a simple person at heart who tries to make her daughter Germaine (Gabrielle Robinne) happy. She is engaged to a rich banker St-Bris (René Alexandre). However, the fiance once belonged to a criminal organization and, despite his efforts of rehabilitation, one of his ancient accomplices makes their engagement impossible. Eventually imprisoned, she escapes with the help of a beautiful typist (Stacia Napierkowska)...