Daniel Mesguich

Daniel Mesguich

Born: July 15, 1952
in Algiers, Algeria
Daniel Mesguich (born 15 July 1952) is a French actor and director in theater and opera, and professor of stage acting school.

In 1970, he was admitted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique, after which he opened the Théâtre du Miroir ("Mirror Theater"), with whom he opened a course in drama. After ten years, he returned to the school to teach at the request of Jean-Pierre Miquel, becoming the youngest professor on campus. He is currently the director of the school. He has acted in over a hundred plays, fifty operas in France and abroad, and some 40 movies and television pieces.

The actor William Mesguich is his son.

Source: Article "Daniel Mesguich" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Daniel Mesguich...

Everything Went Fine
Title: Everything Went Fine
Character: Me Georges Kiejman
Released: July 18, 2021
Type: Movie
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life.
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Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Title: Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Character: Sulfurix (voice)
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Following a fall during mistletoe picking, Druid Getafix decides that it is time to secure the future of the village. Accompanied by Asterix and Obelix, he undertakes to travel the Gallic world in search of a talented young druid to transmit the Secret of the Magic Potion.
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L'affaire Salengro
Title: L'affaire Salengro
Character: Léon Blum
Released: April 13, 2009
Type: Movie
July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy. But one man alone is about to get the French people back to work, and peacefully: Roger Salengro (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu).
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L’enfer de Matignon
Title: L’enfer de Matignon
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 23, 2008
Type: Movie
In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons of power. The function of prime minister, torn between the president and the parliament, appointed without necessarily being elected but responsible for everything, is at the center of debate. With the exception of Jacques Chirac (1974-1976 and 1986-1988), deliberately left out because of his image as French President, those who governed France for the past 35 years agreed to discuss the exercise of power, as seen through archive footage, but also how they experienced it personally. Filmed in the same studio and sitting in the same chair, 12 French prime ministers talk freely about their time in office, from their appointment until their resignation.
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Title: Sable noir
Character: Norbert
Released: March 19, 2006
Type: TV
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Dom Juan
Title: Dom Juan
Character: Dom Juan
Released: February 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Escorted by his valet Sganarelle, Dom Juan, a libertine gentleman, brave and hypocritical, seduces women, fights duels, denies his father's authority, and mocks Heaven. Carried away by his passion for women and gambling, he goes so far as to commit perjury. A classic revisited by Mesguich with a lot of visual effects: special effects, magic tricks, imposing sets. A playful staging for this tragi-comic play.
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The Rashevski Tango
Title: The Rashevski Tango
Character: David Rashevski
Released: September 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.
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The Musketeer
Title: The Musketeer
Character: King Louis XIII
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
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Un pique-nique chez Osiris
Title: Un pique-nique chez Osiris
Character: Paul-Louis Gérard
Released: May 21, 2001
Type: Movie
The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.
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Le radeau de la Méduse
Title: Le radeau de la Méduse
Character: Coudein
Released: July 15, 1998
Type: Movie
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.
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Limited Edition
Title: Limited Edition
Character: Nicolas Fabry
Released: January 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge.
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L'Affaire Dreyfus
Title: L'Affaire Dreyfus
Character: Léon Blum
Released: May 18, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Dreyfus is deported to Devil's Island. In 1896, the Army flushed out the real culprit. The truth broke out in 1898 thanks to the mobilization of intellectuals shaken by Zola's "J'accuse!"
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Jefferson in Paris
Title: Jefferson in Paris
Character: Mesmer
Released: March 31, 1995
Type: Movie
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
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The Elegant Criminal
Title: The Elegant Criminal
Character: Ida's husband
Released: December 19, 1990
Type: Movie
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
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La Femme fardée
Title: La Femme fardée
Character: Eric Lethuillier
Released: November 7, 1990
Type: Movie
Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria.
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The Austrian
Title: The Austrian
Character: Fouquier-Tinville
Released: September 19, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.
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Den döende dandyn
Title: Den döende dandyn
Character: Jules Pascin
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström.
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Title: La Garçonne
Character: Lucien
Released: September 21, 1988
Type: TV
The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with herself, Monique Lerbier is a pretty blonde with generous but strong ideas and a hard character. She has chosen to be an atheist since her adolescence and does not tolerate injustice and social hypocrisy. She was to be married to an engineer, Lucien Vigneret. It was an arranged marriage, the dowry having to allow Vigneret to enter the capital of his father's company, which needed it to finance its business. But two weeks before the wedding, Monique surprises the fiancé with a mistress.
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La Garçonne
Title: La Garçonne
Character: Lucien
Released: September 21, 1988
Type: Movie
The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with herself, Monique Lerbier is a pretty blonde with generous but strong ideas and a hard character. She has chosen to be an atheist since her adolescence and does not tolerate injustice and social hypocrisy. She was to be married to an engineer, Lucien Vigneret. It was an arranged marriage, the dowry having to allow Vigneret to enter the capital of his father's company, which needed it to finance its business. But two weeks before the wedding, Monique surprises the fiancé with a mistress.
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The Satin Spider
Title: The Satin Spider
Character: Le prêtre
Released: March 26, 1986
Type: Movie
The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.
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Le Bon Plaisir
Title: Le Bon Plaisir
Character: L'amant de Claire (voice)
Released: January 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
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La Vie de Berlioz
Title: La Vie de Berlioz
Character: Hector Berlioz
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: Movie
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Les mots pour le dire
Title: Les mots pour le dire
Released: October 12, 1983
Type: Movie
A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
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Les Îles
Title: Les Îles
Character: Mathieu
Released: March 16, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Beautiful Prisoner
Title: The Beautiful Prisoner
Character: Walter Raim
Released: February 16, 1983
Type: Movie
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
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The Sorceress
Title: The Sorceress
Character: Le génie
Released: May 25, 1982
Type: Movie
An adaptation of La Sorcière from Jules Michelet
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
Title: La Chanson du mal-aimé
Released: February 3, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Pierre Schlamovitz
Released: October 25, 1981
Type: Movie
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
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The Boy Soldier
Title: The Boy Soldier
Character: Capitaine Mourre
Released: March 4, 1981
Type: Movie
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
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The Lady Banker
Title: The Lady Banker
Character: Rémy Lecoudray
Released: August 27, 1980
Type: Movie
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...
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Charter 2020
Title: Charter 2020
Character: Christophe Le Kerlec
Released: April 19, 1980
Type: Movie
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Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Title: Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Character: The guest socialite evening / The client of the luxury brothel
Released: April 16, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Joséphine, ou la comédie des ambitions
Character: Napoléon
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: TV
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La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
Title: La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
Character: Nicolas
Released: September 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.
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Womanlight
Title: Womanlight
Character: Commissioner Curbec
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
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Love on the Run
Title: Love on the Run
Character: Xavier Barnerias
Released: January 24, 1979
Type: Movie
Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.
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Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
Title: Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The demoness Sylvie Bréal offers voyeurs a breast to die for. Notable for being the first French feature shot on video.
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Molière
Title: Molière
Character: Monsieur, frère du Roi
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
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Dossier 51
Title: Dossier 51
Character: Esculape 4
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker