Jacky Nercessian

Jacky Nercessian

Born: November 16, 1950
in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France
Jacky Nercessian (or Nersessian (Armenian: Ժաքի Ներսեսյան), born November 16, 1950) is a French actor who is ethnically Armenian. One of his most known roles is Apkar in Mayrig by Henri Verneuil.

Nercessian was born in 1950 in Saint-Etienne. He graduated from the Department of Theology to become a Pastor in England. He has played both in cinema and TV – including the role of Mustafa Ismael Faruki in Long Journey (Golden Lion for the Best Feature Film, Venice IFF, 2004). Nercessian played in the Theatre of Renaissance for one season and later toured with the Last Call. In 2009 he starred in Everybody Loves Juliet at Splendid Theatre. In 2010, he appeared in Luc Besson’s blockbuster Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec.

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The President's Wife
Title: The President's Wife
Character: Father Mouret
Released: October 4, 2023
Type: Movie
When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of her husband to make him president. Put aside because she was considered too old-fashioned, Bernadette decided to take her revenge by becoming a major media figure.
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Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
Title: Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
Character: M. Pascal
Released: June 28, 2023
Type: Movie
The tasty story of a retired teacher who decides to make his former students pay for years of heckling and humiliation.
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Sarcelles, Nord
Title: Sarcelles, Nord
Released: May 1, 2023
Type: Movie
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Simone: Woman of the Century
Title: Simone: Woman of the Century
Character: Président Edgar Faure
Released: October 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
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Hear Me Out
Title: Hear Me Out
Character: Monsieur Molina
Released: November 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Antoine, a history teacher in his early 50s, learns that he has become very hard of hearing. Unable to own up to his handicap, he resigns himself to living in his bubble, even though his entourage finds his behavior increasingly odd. His encounter with Claire, widow and mother of a young girl who has stopped speaking, will lead him to open up to the world. 
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Voyeur(s)
Title: Voyeur(s)
Character: Le voyeur
Released: April 12, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of a man who has decided to turn his hotel into a laboratory for personal fantasies. Behind each door, in the intimacy of crossed paths in the middle of the night, scenes play out before his prying eyes. He is the only one to see what is taboo in the light of his fantasies. Unless…
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Title: The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Character: Salpêtre (voice)
Released: October 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Our story starts with Tonio, the son the bears King, being kidnapped by some hunters in the Sicilian mountains. Because of the harshness of a winter that threatens its clan with famine, the Bear King decides to invade the land of men (in the hope of finding his son). Thanks to his powerful army and the help of a wizard, he will succeed at both quests but he will soon find out that bears are not meant to live in the land of men.
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Golden Youth
Title: Golden Youth
Character: Aziz
Released: January 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.
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The Nansen Passport
Title: The Nansen Passport
Character: Self
Released: June 21, 2016
Type: Movie
On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to protect the fundamental human rights as citizens of the world of thousands of people, famous and anonymous, who became stateless due to the tragic events that devastated Europe in the first quarter of the 20th century.
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Pitchipoï
Title: Pitchipoï
Character: Le rabbin
Released: February 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in which he requested that his other son, Pierre, who hasn't been heard from for two years, spread his ashes in Poland. His father's preference comes as a rude shock for Julien, and it opens a chasm inside him, slowly bringing to light an unspeakable secret.
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In the Name of the Son
Title: In the Name of the Son
Character: Bishop
Released: September 29, 2012
Type: Movie
When Elisabeth, a woman of faith, host of a radio show on a Catholic radio station, devoted to her family and the suffering of the world, is confronted with the pedophilia of priests and the suicide of her son, belief gives way to rage and to violence.
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Title: Perception
Character: Henri
Released: July 9, 2012
Type: TV
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Title: Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
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Title: Platane
Character: Professor Rozenstein
Released: September 5, 2011
Type: TV
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Elsewhere
Title: Elsewhere
Character: The boss of the Hôtel du Palais
Released: December 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doesn't happen overnight. To start with, Patrick decides to buy a suitcase. A nice red one with wheels that he immediately puts at the foot of his bed. All that's left to do is to fill it up and choose a destination.
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Title: Histoires de vies
Character: Lévone
Released: July 4, 2010
Type: TV
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Title: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Character: Marie-Joseph Espérandieu
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: Movie
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
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Let's Dance
Title: Let's Dance
Character: Mayor
Released: November 14, 2007
Type: Movie
In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance lessons under the high patronage of Fred Astaire and the search for a companion... The mother, Geneviève, dreams of only one thing: quietly continuing her infantilisation, with her household help, protector and guardian angel, Mr Mootoousamy.
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Jean-Philippe
Title: Jean-Philippe
Character: Teacher
Released: April 5, 2006
Type: Movie
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
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Le Procès de Bobigny
Title: Le Procès de Bobigny
Released: March 29, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine abortion. Under a 1920 law, the five women were arrested and charged. Supported by a procession of well-known French (eg Simone de Beauvoir), the five were released and the law was adapted.
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Comedy of Power
Title: Comedy of Power
Character: Le maître d'hôtel du club
Released: February 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she is amassing.
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Incontrôlable
Title: Incontrôlable
Character: Pierre-Emmanuel
Released: February 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
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Le Cactus
Title: Le Cactus
Character: Le producteur
Released: December 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurable neurological disease. He decides to live his last moments to the fullest and goes to India to be treated by a great local "doctor". In the meantime, his friend Patrick, who has been accompanying and supporting him without knowing that this illness is in fact fictitious, finds himself without a wife or job. The initial situation seems to be reversed; Patrick is out of luck and Sami seems less and less ill.
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La Femme coquelicot
Title: La Femme coquelicot
Character: le professeur de tango
Released: September 15, 2005
Type: Movie
A septuagenarian widow feels revived by an old painter with whom she falls in love.
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Coup de vache
Title: Coup de vache
Character: Le chauffeur de taxi
Released: December 19, 2004
Type: Movie
An old man bequeaths his fortune to a television host, much to the chagrin of his own family.
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The Great Journey
Title: The Great Journey
Character: Mustapha
Released: November 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.
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The Butterfly
Title: The Butterfly
Character: l'autre policier
Released: December 18, 2002
Type: Movie
An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.
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Zone reptile
Title: Zone reptile
Character: Jean-Pierre
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: Movie
17 year old Mic feels constrained in a world which is not his own: a lower middleclass suburb of Marseilles, conformism... His being different drives him into a loneliness to which rockmusic not only brings tranquillity and comfort but flings him into the adventure of discovering himself.
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Title: Napoleon
Character: Roustam Raza
Released: October 7, 2002
Type: TV
A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile.
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The Three Kings
Title: The Three Kings
Character: Le moine bouddhiste
Released: December 12, 2001
Type: Movie
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
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Monsieur Naphtali
Title: Monsieur Naphtali
Character: Riaz Hiridjee
Released: August 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Monsieur Naphtali is a good-natured but somewhat feeble older man turned away from the rest home where he lives. In search of a place to stay, he finds his way to Paris, where a woman taking surveys takes pity on him and brings him home for a meal and a bed for the night. Naphtali finds himself spending the evening with the survey woman, her brother who works in publishing, his lovely but unhappy wife, an alcoholic doctor, and his wife, an ill-tempered judge. In a simple and unpretentious manner, Naphtali forces them all to open up about themselves and discuss elements of their lives that they usually prefer to avoid.
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Le double de ma moitié
Title: Le double de ma moitié
Released: May 12, 1999
Type: Movie
With the help of a hidden twin sister, a couturier tries to take revenge on his wife who cheats on him with his partner.
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Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Title: Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Character: Remzi
Released: June 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The original French title translates as "Long Live the Bride...and the Liberation of Kurdistan." Cheto (Georges Corraface) seeks a wife via videotapes while still seeing his French girlfriend, immigration office worker Christine (Stephanie Lagarde). Cheto places an order for a beautiful girl, but he's disappointed when her sister, country girl Mina (Marina Kobakhidze), arrives at the airport as a substitute. Family pressure forces him to marry her. Unhappy with the way she's treated by Cheto, Mina acquires some progressive notions from Leila (Schahla Aalam) and other local feminists, leading to confrontations with Cheto.
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Christmas at Bunny's
Title: Christmas at Bunny's
Released: December 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged with finding him and cheering him up back into his job, including showing him some of his own old cartoons.
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The Three Brothers
Title: The Three Brothers
Character: Le présentateur du Millionnaire
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
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Peggio di così si muore
Title: Peggio di così si muore
Character: Flanagan
Released: April 21, 1995
Type: Movie
In this deliberately campy, slightly slapstick European parody of Alfred Hitchcock films from the 1950s, a newlywed couple returns from their honeymoon to discover that they have accidentally switched suitcases at the airport. They know the bag they have isn't theirs because it is stuffed with 500 million lire. At first they put out an ad for the owner; then they decide to keep it for themselves. Mayhem ensues when the bag's thuggish owners suddenly show up at the couple's housewarming party and demand they give every penny back. Later when one of them returns to threaten the bride, she accidentally kills him. His partner and a policeman chase the couple into the mountain retreat of the bride's brother, a frustrated writer. He finds the mess inspiring, and then is assisted by the gangster's ghost, who becomes his muse. The ghost gives them the advice they need for the couple to safely escape.
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Colonel Chabert
Title: Colonel Chabert
Character: Delbecq
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: Movie
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.
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Why Is Mother in My Bed?
Title: Why Is Mother in My Bed?
Released: July 6, 1994
Type: Movie
Following a bet with his friends, Antoine steals a jacket. The life of his parents will be turned upside down.
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The Thirst for Gold
Title: The Thirst for Gold
Character: Le représentant
Released: August 31, 1993
Type: Movie
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains. His plan is to deposit all this wealth in a Swiss Bank, where neither his wife - whom he is about to divorce - nor the French State can get at it. Accompanied by his money-grabbing Granny Zézette, Urbain heads off for Switzerland, with his gold concealed in the walls of a model house on the back of a trailer. Unfortunately, his scheme is threatened by his wife and his embittered ex-chauffeur, who are determined to get his money at any cost...
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Les Mamies
Title: Les Mamies
Character: Le prêtre
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: Movie
When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.
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Mother
Title: Mother
Character: Apkar
Released: November 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.