Jérôme Deschamps

Jérôme Deschamps

Born: October 5, 1947
in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Jérôme Deschamps, born Neuilly-sur-Seine on 5 October 1947, is an actor, director and stage author, as well as a cinema actor and director associated with the Famille Deschiens troupe founded by Macha Makeïeff in 1978. In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Théâtre national de Nîmes, leaving that post for the equivalent at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in June 2007, where he remained until 2015.

Deschamps is the nephew of Hubert Deschamps and his mother was the distant half cousin to Micheline Winter who married Jacques Tati, Upon the release of the animated film The Illusionist this non-biological relationship to Tati has been openly challenged by the grandchildren of Jacques Tati in a published letter to Roger Ebert.

He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand where he met Patrice Chéreau and Jean-Pierre Vincent with whom he made his first stage appearances, before moving toward a professional career in theatre, at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris. He joined the Comédie-Française under Antoine Vitez and directed his first play in 1977.

In 1979 Jérôme Deschamps was advised by Jacques Tati on Les Oubliettes and created a play Les Deschiens from Antoine Vitez's commission for the Ivry spring. In 1981, with Makeieff he founded the Les Deschiens company, which in 1993 became a television series on Canal+ with Yolande Moreau. He was the director of the 6th Festival du court-métrage de Saint Maur in 2008.

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Goodbye Vinyle
Title: Goodbye Vinyle
Character: Antoine Meliot
Released: August 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her career. The man, her husband, Maurice Faugère, an immense author who made her and propelled her for years to the firmament of the song. And finally the lover, Jean Leprat, her pianist who adores her and burns with passion for her. The atrocious poison of jealousy will consume them to the point of tragedy, the trap of a Machiavellian plot will take them all three. And she, the other one, the so pretty Florence, so fresh. This ambitious young singer, ready to do anything to overthrow the one she admires, is she not also caught in the trap of a diabolical game that is beyond her? Where does the danger come from? Who is orchestrating this fatal merry-go-round engraved in the vinyl of the brand new singles that brings its poisonous message every day? Who will die? Who will survive?
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Constance aux enfers
Title: Constance aux enfers
Character: Lorelle
Released: February 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Except for Amine and Kimmy, the young couple of neighbors she meets regularly, visitors are rare in Constance Brunel's antique store. Loneliness is also her life. One night, Amine, in a panic, seeks help at her house: Kimmy has fallen badly when she slipped and she has killed herself. Thinking that the police will not believe this version because of his judicial past, Amine borrows Constance's car to take the corpse and make it disappear. In the days that follow, this shared secret brings Constance and Amine closer. But one morning, an anonymous letter accompanied by photos demands a ransom: someone in the building has seen everything, the blackmail begins.
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Title: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Released: January 14, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: La Garçonne
Character: Dr Paul
Released: August 31, 2020
Type: TV
Louise, framed for murder, sees the only solution is to pose as her twin brother who has just been assigned a job as a detective. The discovery of the body of a woman modelling for artists leads her into the decadent world of high society.
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An Irrepressible Woman
Title: An Irrepressible Woman
Character: Georges Mandel
Released: January 15, 2020
Type: Movie
1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They will survive together.
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Number One
Title: Number One
Character: Le PDG de Theorès
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The conguest, which was at first thrilling, turns to complete war with the men who still dominate.
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Charles Le Tallec
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Ciboulette
Title: Ciboulette
Character: Le directeur d'opéra
Released: December 31, 2013
Type: Movie
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Tati…par le geste
Title: Tati…par le geste
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2013
Type: Movie
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Professor Goudet's Lessons
Title: Professor Goudet's Lessons
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour lecture that concludes the themes and methods of the filmmaker.
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My Afternoons with Margueritte
Title: My Afternoons with Margueritte
Character: Le maire
Released: June 2, 2010
Type: Movie
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
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The True Story of Puss 'n Boots
Title: The True Story of Puss 'n Boots
Character: Le chat
Released: April 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A free adaptation of Charles Perrault's famous Puss'n Boots, "The True Story of Puss'n Boots" is a story for young and old for the first time on cinema screens.
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Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Title: Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Character: Director
Released: August 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Eight-year-old Judith was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the rocks. She makes her way back to Paris with her friend Nora, and the two of them do what they can to survive.
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Title: Un film et son époque
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: TV
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Je suis vivante et je vous aime
Title: Je suis vivante et je vous aime
Character: Julien
Released: December 30, 1998
Type: Movie
During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down the intended recipients. When he finds the woman's Jewish family, he is inspired to do what he can to protect them from the Nazi atrocities.
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Desproges est vivant
Title: Desproges est vivant
Released: April 9, 1998
Type: Movie
It is with a semblance of chronology and to the rhythm of Antoine De Caunes' not unpleasant voice-over that we are told the story of this unusual troublemaker, who, with his extraordinary ease of writing, put the competition light years away in the 1980s. A mini-documentary that reminds us, if it were necessary, that intellectual buffoonery died with Pierre Desproges.
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Les Précieuses ridicules - Les Deschiens
Title: Les Précieuses ridicules - Les Deschiens
Released: May 3, 1997
Type: Movie
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Line of Life
Title: Line of Life
Released: March 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Philippe meets the beautiful Oksana during a long layover in Moscow. Unfortunately, Oksana is the granddaughter of a murderous mafia don looking to trap a French speaking man to pull off a massive con.
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La Séparation
Title: La Séparation
Character: Victor
Released: November 9, 1994
Type: Movie
In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also is not married but live together. Out of the blue, Pierre feels Anne estranged with him and sooner she discloses that she is in love with another man. Pierre seems to accept her affair but their relationship rapidly deteriorates, and Pierre becomes violent with her.
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Les Deschiens - Les Frères Zenith
Title: Les Deschiens - Les Frères Zenith
Released: November 21, 1990
Type: Movie
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A Man in Love
Title: A Man in Love
Character: La Veillee Actor
Released: May 7, 1987
Type: Movie
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
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Le partage de midi
Title: Le partage de midi
Character: De Ciz
Released: June 23, 1977
Type: Movie
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Un amour de pluie
Title: Un amour de pluie
Released: January 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Title: The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character: Friend of Alexandre (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.