Jean Desailly (August 24, 1920, Paris – June 11, 2008) was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 – 1946, and later participated in about ninety movies. Desailly was married to the French actress Simone Valère.
The Professional
Ministre
The Soft Skin
Pierre Lachenay
Le radeau de la Méduse
La Tullaye
The Assassination of Trotsky
Alfred Rosmer
Le Doulos
Superintendant Clain
A Cop
Distinguished Man
The Grand Manoeuvre
Victor Duverger
The 25th Hour
Le ministre (uncredited)
Franciscan of Bourges
Monsieur Toledano
The Skirt Chaser
Charles-Edmond
The Last Judgment
Kyril
The Inheritor
Jean-Pierre Carnavan
Just a Big Simple Girl
Michel
L'échafaud peut attendre
Michel Vincent
Véronique
Florestan
La Veuve et l'innocent
Claude Girelle
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Max Blachet
Jocelyn
Jocelyn
The Baron of the Locks
Mr. Maurice Montbernon
With André Gide
Narrator (voice)
Heads or Tails
Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la police
Keep an Eye on Amelia
Marcel Courbois
You Will Reap the Tempest
Narrator (voice)
The Comeuppance
le commissaire
Pastoral Symphony
Jacques Martens - his son
The Seven Deadly Sins
Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (segment "La luxure")
The Laws of War
Uhrmacher Rede
Father Goriot
Bianchon
The Passion of Slow Fire
Stéphane Blanchon
Le Misanthrope
Philinte
La Chapelle de Ronchamp
Narrator
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Gilles Mauvoisin
Sylvia and the Ghost
Frederick
The Great Deception
le Roi Louis XV
125 rue Montmartre
Commissaire Dodelot
The Possessors
François Schoudler, le fils
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Marivaux
Loves, Delights and Organs
Jean Pelletier
La Dilettante
Edmond Thibault
Love and the Frenchwoman
Le narrateur (voice) (segment "L'Adolescence")
Lust
Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard
The Serpent
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Maigret Sets a Trap
Marcel Maurin
Graduation Year
Mr. Terrenoire
Chéri
Fred Peloux, dit 'Chéri'
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Le directeur de la PJ
The Revenge of Roger
Raymond de Noirville
Bullfight
Narrator (voice)
The Mark of the Day
Larzac
Homeland
Karloo
Famous Love Affairs
le baron Adrien de Jonchère
The Irony of Chance
M. Desvrières
Countdown to Vengeance
Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose
Le deuxième coup de feu
Olivier Lenoir
La Dixième de Beethoven
Stephen Fauldgate
Équipe de nuit
Le père
The Dance of the Heron
Edouard
Cambiamento d'aria
Ricky Lefèvre
The Two Orphans
Count of Linières
One Night at the Beach
Dr Francis
Premeditated
Judge Lenoir
The Dance of Death
Fred Pellmann
La pitié dangereuse
Mr. de Kesfalva
Le fou du roi
Louis XIV
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
Self (archive footage)
Les Tisserands du pouvoir
Auguste Roussel
Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
Chicago Digest
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
Hero
Les Fausses Confidences
Dorante
Amphitryon
Monsieur IL
Jacques Balmeyer
La Double Inconstance