Jean-Paul Roussillon

Jean-Paul Roussillon

Born: March 5, 1931
Died: July 31, 2009
in Paris, France
Jean-Paul Roussillon (5 March 1931 – 31 July 2009) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1954 and 2008. He starred in the film Playing 'In the Company of Men', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. He won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in A Christmas Tale. For years Roussillon had been battling lung cancer and died on 31 July 2009 in Auxerre, France.

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A Christmas Tale
Title: A Christmas Tale
Character: Abel
Released: May 16, 2008
Type: Movie
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
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Zone libre
Title: Zone libre
Character: Maury
Released: January 16, 2007
Type: Movie
In 1942, the southern part of France is not yet occupied by the Nazis, but administrated by the collaborating French government in Vichy. A Parisian Jewish family flees to this "Free Zone" in Charente, where an old farmer gives them shelter. But when the Germans invade the Free Zone, their lives are at stake again.
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Kings and Queen
Title: Kings and Queen
Character: Abel Vuillard
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
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Black Mor's Island
Title: Black Mor's Island
Character: Mac Gregor (Voice)
Released: February 11, 2004
Type: Movie
Kid, a 15-year-old hard laborer, steals a map that promises to reveal the location of the notorious pirate Black Mor's treasure. Together with his crew -- MacGregor, Beanpole, Taka and Jim the monkey -- Kid procures a vessel and sets out to sea.
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Title: Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Character: Henri Jurrieu
Released: May 15, 2003
Type: Movie
A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.
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The Idol
Title: The Idol
Character: Roger Castellac
Released: August 6, 2002
Type: Movie
An Australian actress forms a spiritual bond with an elderly Chinese chef who lives across from her in a Parisian tenement house.
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Mischka
Title: Mischka
Character: Mischka
Released: February 20, 2002
Type: Movie
An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on vacation. He later finds himself in a hospital where a nurse, Gégène, calls him Mischka.
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The Girl from Paris
Title: The Girl from Paris
Character: Jean Farjon
Released: September 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who decides it's time to retire. However, Adrien wants to stay a few more months before moving away from the farm, and the rough winter finds them together...
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À chacun son tour
Title: À chacun son tour
Released: December 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A German police commissioner investigates the murders of several Tour de France yellow jerseys.
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Same Old Song
Title: Same Old Song
Character: Père
Released: November 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
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Oui
Title: Oui
Character: Monsieur Arthur
Released: November 15, 1995
Type: Movie
The crossroads of three characters: an old doctor with a general view of the world, a mother having difficulties in recovering her baby that she abandoned, and finally her young sister, a high school runaway in the heart of the problems of the suburbs. All three will meet around the Platonic tripartition, taken up by Paul Valéry: "To know... To be able... To want... Here is the triple key".
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D'Artagnan's Daughter
Title: D'Artagnan's Daughter
Character: Planchet
Released: August 24, 1994
Type: Movie
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
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Tableau d'honneur
Title: Tableau d'honneur
Character: Albert Croquebeois
Released: August 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Handsome Jules has problems with school and girls. His domineering dad doesn't make matters easier, although his mom is supportive of her only child. Contemplating an extramarital affair, Claude Jade attempts to discreetly shop for condoms, a cute twist on what is traditionally a teenage boy's awkward ordeal.
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Cherokee
Title: Cherokee
Character: Oncle Fernand
Released: August 7, 1991
Type: Movie
In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found. An occasional musician, Fred plans to pass himself off as that man. It's a goofy idea, but maybe it will work. However, before he can set up the con properly, he learns that his loser of a brother has, inexplicably, just gotten his first job in years as one of the detectives who is searching for the heir. At one time, the two brothers played together in an amateur rock band, but as a result of a heated disagreement about how to play the Ray Noble standard "Cherokee", the two haven't spoken in years. It's going to take a lot of persuading to pull this scam off.
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The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine
Title: The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine
Character: Emile
Released: July 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Legend has it that Archangel Michael confronted the Dragon and imprisoned him under a huge stone called today Mont Saint Michel. Winter 1991, the Mount is deserted. Unaware of the curse that keeps her there, Sarah transforms herself every night into a strange creature that feeds the dragon the dreams of sleeping men.
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Blaze
Title: Blaze
Released: May 26, 1991
Type: Movie
All of Europe was affected by the Great Depression of the 1930s, but some parts were hurt less badly than others. France, for instance, was relatively prosperous. In this grim drama, a sturdy Polish boxer and his family have settled into a mining town in northern France because that's where the work is. Like European "guest workers" in the 1990s, the Polish immigrants then were frequently treated badly by the locals. In this drama, the romantic aspirations of the boxer's son are thwarted by the concerted efforts of the local men and his own family's preference that he marry another Polish girl. After his romance fails, the son becomes a union activist and sacrifices a great deal to try to gain higher wages for the miners, but the contract he works out is reneged on by the duplicitous owners.
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L'Huissier
Title: L'Huissier
Character: Gorgerin
Released: January 3, 1991
Type: Movie
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La fille du magicien
Title: La fille du magicien
Character: Nadir
Released: November 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own desire. It all starts with a summer night: that summer, Lili and Bruno will find love.
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I Have You Under My Skin
Title: I Have You Under My Skin
Character: Bébert, gardien de la Bourse du travail
Released: July 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.
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Love Comedy
Title: Love Comedy
Character: Henri
Released: October 31, 1989
Type: Movie
According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.
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Baxter
Title: Baxter
Character: Joseph Barsky
Released: January 18, 1989
Type: Movie
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
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L'Argent
Title: L'Argent
Character: Busch
Released: October 18, 1988
Type: Movie
Saccard, ready to use all means, however immoral or illegal, tries to gain back the fortune he lost three years ago. All involving business and the exchange market. He has a loyal accomplice, an indifferent son, maybe-friends, partners and investors and of course, enemies.
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Malady of Love
Title: Malady of Love
Character: Jacques
Released: September 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
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Hôtel de France
Title: Hôtel de France
Character: Jean Trillat
Released: May 20, 1987
Type: Movie
A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
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Les clowns de Dieu
Title: Les clowns de Dieu
Character: Garniks
Released: April 22, 1987
Type: Movie
The adventures of Melies called super-eight because he is the greatest cursed cineaste and Absynthe, the crazy one, the strada of the breweries. They will meet Garniks who looks for God in the sewers and Carcasse, an anarchist touched by the bottle syndrome. It is also the initiatory journey that Absynthe, the mute, makes, of the lost word, thanks to three men.
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États d'âme
Title: États d'âme
Character: Arnolli
Released: May 28, 1986
Type: Movie
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.
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Title: Le Génie du faux
Character: Simon Romans
Released: November 15, 1985
Type: TV
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He Died with His Eyes Open
Title: He Died with His Eyes Open
Character: Léonce
Released: October 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara, the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth.
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War of the Maidens
Title: War of the Maidens
Character: The Judge
Released: July 4, 1984
Type: Movie
A film about the rebellion that took place in the French department of Ariège from 1829 to 1832, and continued in a less intense fashion until 1872.
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Doctor Lerne, Subgod
Title: Doctor Lerne, Subgod
Character: Gustave
Released: December 28, 1983
Type: Movie
A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...
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The Trout
Title: The Trout
Character: Verjon
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: Movie
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors.
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A Business of Men
Title: A Business of Men
Character: Le juge d'instruction Dauzat
Released: November 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.
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Les trois soeurs
Title: Les trois soeurs
Character: Tcheboutykine
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
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L'avare
Title: L'avare
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward.
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La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
Title: La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
Character: George Dandin
Released: February 17, 1973
Type: Movie
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George Dandin
Title: George Dandin
Character: Lubin
Released: January 6, 1973
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Un fil à la patte
Title: Un fil à la patte
Character: Jean
Released: December 26, 1970
Type: Movie
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Les Précieuses Ridicules
Title: Les Précieuses Ridicules
Character: Mascarille
Released: March 15, 1969
Type: Movie
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Feu la mère de madame
Title: Feu la mère de madame
Character: Joseph
Released: August 5, 1968
Type: Movie
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La Mégère apprivoisée
Title: La Mégère apprivoisée
Character: Beppo
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Title: Weekend at Dunkirk
Character: le gouape
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
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The Thousandth Window
Title: The Thousandth Window
Character: Boutain
Released: May 27, 1960
Type: Movie
An old man against the public housing project.
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Marriage of Figaro
Title: Marriage of Figaro
Released: November 4, 1959
Type: Movie
It's the day of Figaro's marriage to Susanna, but first he must help the Countess divert the Count's attention away from Susanna and back to her, while arranging the betrothal of Cherubino and Barbarina.
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Love Descends from the Sky
Title: Love Descends from the Sky
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Pau is home to the famous "Red Berets". Four of them have forged close friendships: Dominique, a Corsican with the rank of master sergeant; Julien, a peasant; Dédé, a wild Parisian; Jean, a shy provincial. On free evenings, the four friends meet in a bar where Dominique is interested in the waitress and Dédé is in love with Paulette, the owner's daughter. One day, a car breakdown brings Jean into contact with a young girl from Paris: Brigitte. But Brigitte leaves again and Jean can't stop thinking about her. Because of their good behavior, the battalion to which the four men belong is chosen to represent their arm at the July 14th parade in Paris. In the capital, each of them tries to find their loved ones.
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Deadlier Than the Male
Title: Deadlier Than the Male
Character: Amédée
Released: April 13, 1956
Type: Movie
In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin, leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle. She tells him her mother is dead and that she is without resources. Chatelin welcomes her under his roof - then marries her. Gérard, a young student that Chatelin looks upon as a son, becomes Catherine's lover, and she sets him at odds with Chatelin. She asks him to kill the restaurateur. He refuses. She kills him. Having discovered that Gabrielle is still alive, declined and drug addicted, Chatelin realises the darkness of Catherine's soul who has always lied to him.
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Flesh and Desire
Title: Flesh and Desire
Character: Apo Ancelin
Released: June 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
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Une preuve d'amour
Title: Une preuve d'amour
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemingly crass farmer. She finds out that he actually is very intelligent, and she tries to help him to study again.