Jean Yonnel

Jean Yonnel

Born: July 21, 1891
Died: August 17, 1968
in Bucharest, Romania
Jean Yonnel (21 July 1891 – 17 August 1968) was a Romanian-born French actor.

Yonnel was born in Bucharest, Romania as Jean-Estève Schachmann and began his film career in France in the 1910s. Some of his notable performance were in Obsession (1933), Amok (1934), Fanatisme (1934), White Nights of St. Petersburg (1937), The Imperial Tragedy (1939) and A Funny Parishioner (1963). Yonnel died in Paris in 1968.

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The Lady of the Dawn
Title: The Lady of the Dawn
Character: Abuelo
Released: March 28, 1966
Type: Movie
It is three years since Martín's wife, Angélica, mysteriously disappeared in the waters of the river. Despite the bad weather and ignoring the advice of Angélica's mother, Martín leaves the house. At that moment a strange pilgrim arrives in search of shelter. She can only stop for a few minutes because she has to go to the bridge to meet Adela, a girl with an appointment with Death.
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Title: Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Character: Mattieu Lachaunaye
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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Captain Fracasse
Title: Captain Fracasse
Released: April 21, 1961
Type: Movie
A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.
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Marianne of My Youth
Title: Marianne of My Youth
Character: The Master
Released: March 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A new teenage student arrives at a prestige boarding school in Bavaria, having not only the ability to play the guitar and sing, but also to charm animals and detect ghosts. Quickly becoming part of a secretive club of five other students, he is inadvertently stranded by them at an abandoned chateau on an island in the middle of a large lake, where he encounters an enchanting young woman who wants to escape... Also filmed in a separate German-language version with largely different cast, MARIANNE MEINE JUGENDLIEBE, q.v.
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Welcome
Title: Welcome
Character: Jean Yonnel (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1953
Type: Movie
The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show there.
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Trial at the Vatican
Title: Trial at the Vatican
Character: L'Abbé Faure
Released: August 29, 1952
Type: Movie
In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint.
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The Big Meeting
Title: The Big Meeting
Character: Baron Darvey
Released: February 10, 1950
Type: Movie
One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.
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The Sharks of Gibraltar
Title: The Sharks of Gibraltar
Released: November 14, 1947
Type: Movie
In order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy Gordon has the ingenious idea of ​​transforming a lamentable drunkard into a Lady, haughty but submissive to his orders. Stella's transformation is complete, the success extraordinary. Why must a French officer touching the heart of the former pochard bring down the fragile edifice? A submarine is about to blow up, Gordon is shot down and a confessed Stella returns to her horrible taverns to drown her sorrows in alcohol for good.
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Special Mission
Title: Special Mission
Character: Jean Sartène
Released: March 8, 1946
Type: Movie
The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
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Blind Desire
Title: Blind Desire
Character: Jérôme Noblet
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past, and urges her to save each for men who truly deserve one.She squanders them all on one man who is undeserving.
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Les 3 tambours
Title: Les 3 tambours
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.
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Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
Title: Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
Released: March 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory.
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Boissière
Title: Boissière
Character: Hector Le Barois
Released: May 27, 1937
Type: Movie
In 1914, during the First World War, the rich chatelaine de Boissière, with a sulphurous past, took in Jean le Barois, a young soldier lost in territory occupied by the Germans, who was none other than the son of the man she loved, then ruined. The young man, after having despised her, falls madly in love with the woman who pushed his father to suicide.
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The Call
Title: The Call
Character: Charles de Foucauld
Released: May 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of Charles de Foucauld, a cavalry officer, who became an explorer, and then became a Catholic priest and hermit in the Sahara
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Crimson Dynasty
Title: Crimson Dynasty
Character: Le grand-duc Rodolphe
Released: December 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
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Fanatisme
Title: Fanatisme
Character: Le prince de Valnéro
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
After many difficulties, the seductive Italian dancer, Rosine Savelli, manages to clear herself of a plot hatched against Napoleon III...
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Raymond
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife is interned. His brother, needing his signature for his own business, gets him out of the asylum with the complicity of a false magistrate and against the advice of the doctor.
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Amok
Title: Amok
Character: Dr. Holk
Released: February 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illness which turns innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day, he is called on by Helene Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover's child before her husband returns from abroad. Even though Holk is enchanted by her seductive beauty, he haughtily refuses her request. Rejected, the woman turns to a Chinese practitioner. When Holk tracks her down in a dirty dive, it's already too late for the two of them.
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Vingt ans après
Title: Vingt ans après
Character: D'Artagnan
Released: December 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Charming Mimi-Trottin is in love with typographer Louis Chausson, nicknamed Godasse. She meets Doudou, actually a Vicomte, estranged with his parents who are rich automobile manufacturers. Godasse abandons Mimi because of his professional ambitions and Doudou rescues her from a suicide. After making peace with his parents, the young man has Mimi hired as a typist at the factory. After winning a race with one of his father's car, he soon wins the heart and the hand of Mimi.
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La flamme cachée
Title: La flamme cachée
Released: October 22, 1918
Type: Movie