Jacques Charon

Jacques Charon

Born: February 27, 1920
Died: October 15, 1975
in Paris, France
Jacques Charon (27 February 1920 – 15 October 1975) was a French actor and film director.

Born in Paris, Charon trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD) and made his début at the Comédie-Française in 1941. During his time there which lasted until his death, he played over 150 roles in the classical and modern repertoire.

Charon directed the 1968 feature film A Flea in Her Ear and the 1973 television movie Monsieur Pompadour.

He played Spalanzani in the complete recording of The Tales of Hoffmann (Decca, 1971).

Charon died in Paris and is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre.

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

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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann
Title: Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann
Released: April 13, 2019
Type: Movie
In Luther's beer-cellar, lusty singing extols the virtues of beer and wine. For this evening, the Muse decides to deflect the poet Hoffmann's attention from amorous escapades, so that he will devote himself entirely to his art. Hoffmann tells of the three unhappy loves of his life: Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta.
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Le sexe faible
Title: Le sexe faible
Character: Antoine
Released: November 2, 1974
Type: Movie
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La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
Title: La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
Character: Monsieur Jourdain / Argan
Released: February 17, 1973
Type: Movie
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Tartuffe
Title: Tartuffe
Character: Orgon
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A filmed version of Molière's play.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Le Misanthrope
Title: Le Misanthrope
Character: Oronte
Released: February 20, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Un fil à la patte
Title: Un fil à la patte
Character: Fontanet
Released: December 26, 1970
Type: Movie
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Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre
Title: Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre
Character: Pomadour
Released: October 12, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: À bout portant
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Feu la mère de madame
Title: Feu la mère de madame
Character: Lucien
Released: August 5, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Double Bed
Title: The Double Bed
Character: Le fiancé (segment 3 "La répétition")
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
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Comment épouser un premier ministre
Title: Comment épouser un premier ministre
Character: Cchief of staff
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the usherette who found it, contacts him to ask him for a "favor" in exchange for its return: to avoid eviction from the family apartment, because of the father, who gardens in every room and constantly floods the downstairs neighbors. At first, Lambert refuses to give in to the "blackmail" and calls in the police to unmask the indelicate woman, but love soon gets in the way...
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How Do You Like My Sister?
Title: How Do You Like My Sister?
Character: Jolivet
Released: March 4, 1964
Type: Movie
The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds.
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Teuf-teuf
Title: Teuf-teuf
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 5, 1963
Type: Movie
An automobile tribute
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In the French Style
Title: In the French Style
Character: Patrini
Released: September 18, 1963
Type: Movie
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
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How to Succeed in Love
Title: How to Succeed in Love
Character: Le directeur des Editions du Soleil
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
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Cartouche
Title: Cartouche
Character: Le colonel
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
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The Dreadful
Title: The Dreadful
Character: Monestier
Released: September 10, 1959
Type: Movie
César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type of carburetor to the company when César has to hand in the day's takings to his superior.
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Would-Be Gentleman
Title: Would-Be Gentleman
Character: the dancing master
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about Dorante's expenses and prefers her daughter Lucile to marry Cléonte. The two young men's servants use subterfuge to get M. Jourdain to accept Cléonte as son-in-law. They fake the arrival of the Grand Turk's son in Paris, and, in an Oriental ballet, confer upon M. Jourdain the title of Mammamouchi, his daughter marrying the son of the Grand Turk, who is none other than Cléonte in disguise.
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This Pretty World
Title: This Pretty World
Character: 'La Tulipe'
Released: September 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.
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Operation Thunder
Title: Operation Thunder
Character: Maurice Favier
Released: June 13, 1956
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major maneuvers. A foreign spy takes advantage of these maneuvers to steal secret documents. The pursuit and capture of the spy and his accomplices are successfully carried out by all those taking part in the maneuvers.
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The Scheming Women
Title: The Scheming Women
Character: Antonio Pan, le jeune premier
Released: April 7, 1954
Type: Movie
The renowned theatre manager, Paul Rémy, is accused by his general secretary Andrieux of having killed his partner. On the advice of his wife Mona, Paul goes into hiding in a psychiatric hospital to escape from the police. But Andrieux seduces Mona who then turns against her husband.
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Le petit Jacques
Title: Le petit Jacques
Released: September 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Noël Rambert is overwhelmed by fate. Marthe, his wife, has left him. His son, little Jacques, sickly and touching, has psychic gifts. Life is not a happy one. A crime is committed. Poor Rambert is unjustly suspected. A good-looking man convinces him to confess his guilt. In doing so, he secures his child's future. Resigned to everything, the sad Rambert is ready for the scaffold. The little medium brings the truth to light and Mme Mortal denounces her husband, Daniel Mortal, the man behind the despicable bargain, as the murderer. Happiness returns with a bang, as the repentant Marthe Rambert continues to watch over little Jacques during the ordeal.
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The Turkey
Title: The Turkey
Character: M. de Pontagnac
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.
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The Red Inn
Title: The Red Inn
Character: Rodolphe
Released: October 19, 1951
Type: Movie
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
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Over the waves
Title: Over the waves
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.
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Dakota 308
Title: Dakota 308
Character: Lord Vernon
Released: April 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the Camargue. On arrival, we find nails instead of gold!
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Cœur-sur-Mer
Title: Cœur-sur-Mer
Character: Le prince de Synoire
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Endive-Meunier, a prosperous silk dealer from Lyon has an affair with his secretary he tries hard to keep secret. One day, he nevertheless accepts to accompany her to the seaside resort of Coeur-sur-Mer. Unfortunately for him, once there, he finds himself in the presence of Claudius Paquito, the popular barman of a fashionable club. The trouble is that the man is no other than one of his former employees he once fired for insolence...
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Paris Waltz
Title: Paris Waltz
Character: Berthelier
Released: May 5, 1950
Type: Movie
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
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The Royalists
Title: The Royalists
Character: Le lieutenant Merle
Released: March 20, 1947
Type: Movie
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to seduce and capture him.
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Behind These Walls
Title: Behind These Walls
Character: Count Jacques de Saint-Leu
Released: March 13, 1946
Type: Movie
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
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The Queer Assignment
Title: The Queer Assignment
Character: Le barman du Neptunia
Released: October 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.
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Colonel Chabert
Title: Colonel Chabert
Character: Un clerc
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
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Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Title: Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Released: April 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic reactions.
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Her First Affair
Title: Her First Affair
Character: A college student (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...