Jacques Spiesser
Jacques Spiesser (born 7 June 1947) is a French actor. He stars as detective Simon Magellan in the television series Commissaire Magellan. which ran for six seasons in France.
After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film debut in 1972 in Nina Companeez's Faustine et le bel été with Muriel Catala.
He is best known to English-speaking audiences for playing the role of Gilles in Priceless.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3666 |
| Birthday | 1947-06-07 |
| Place of Birth | Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France |
| Also Known As |
2006
My Best Friend
6.112/249
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. S...
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My Best Friend
2006
Priceless
6.389/785
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
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Priceless
1976
Je suis Pierre Rivière
5/2
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Je suis Pierre Rivière
1976
Black and White in Color
6.4/44
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their pr...
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Black and White in Color
1985
Folie suisse
9/1
Adrien Daubigny, director at INSEE, warns his wife Anna that he now wants to lead his life by chance. Anna and her two children agree to his leaving....
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Folie suisse
2004
The Hook
6.182/11
A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.
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The Hook
2004
Péril imminent: Mortel chahut
3.333/3
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Péril imminent: Mortel chahut
2010
Lily Sometimes
5.592/60
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Lily Sometimes
2009
Coco
4.292/541
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Coco
2001
De l'histoire ancienne
8/1
Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have...
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De l'histoire ancienne
1988
Preuve d'amour
5/7
A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer.
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Preuve d'amour
1989
Baxter
6.37/92
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...
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Baxter
1982
The Trout
5.917/18
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two we...
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The Trout
1977
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
6.885/52
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re...
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1974
The Slap
6.6/101
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
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The Slap
2010
The Blonde with Bare Breasts
5.091/22
Julian, 25, and Louis, 12, are two brothers who work and live on a barge in the centre of Paris. They transport gravel and resort to petty crime to ma...
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The Blonde with Bare Breasts
2001
C'est la vie
7.1/19
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C'est la vie
2007
In Your Wake
4/7
An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him.
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In Your Wake
2007
Fissures
5.559/17
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progr...
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Fissures
2003
She's One of Us
4.722/9
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men se...
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She's One of Us
1978
Autopsie d’un complot
10/1
Terrorists blow up the consulate of an Arab country, before a journalist uncovers a larger conspiracy. The film is based on "Scorpion, autopsie d'un c...
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Autopsie d’un complot
2000
After the Reconciliation
7.1/10
An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.
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After the Reconciliation
1978
Monsieur Saint-Saëns
0/0
The imaginary adventures of musician Sans-Saëns.
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Monsieur Saint-Saëns
2008
Die Jahrhundertlawine
4.2/6
In the Austrian Alps have found the body of a young woman who died in a skiing accident eight years earlier. Dr. Marc Pelletier decides to return to t...
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Die Jahrhundertlawine
1993
L'Affaire Seznec
6.8/9
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with th...
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L'Affaire Seznec
2008
Marie-Octobre
6/3
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...
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Marie-Octobre
1973
Nothing to Report
5.788/26
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at...
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Nothing to Report
2009
The Chalk Circle Man
7.091/11
For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved...
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The Chalk Circle Man
2013
A Place on Earth
5.779/43
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One d...
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A Place on Earth
1997
Madame Jacques on the Croisette
8/1
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.
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Madame Jacques on the Croisette
2007
The Missing Granddaughter
6/1
Eva is a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France, after the Second World War. During the war her whole family was sent to the G...
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The Missing Granddaughter
2012
The Gordji Affair
6.5/4
Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are rel...
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The Gordji Affair
2009
Seeking Whom He May Devour
6.8/6
A wave of carnage is sweeping through Southern France, with locals blaming the return of wolves. However some begin talking of a werewolf, and Police...
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Seeking Whom He May Devour
2010
A Dubious Place
7.7/6
A gruesome discovery is made outside a London cemetery one night. Meanwhile in Paris, Police Captain Adamsberg discovers a body chopped into pieces. C...
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A Dubious Place
Neptunes Thunder
0/0
After his brother disappears, police captain Adamsberg re-opens the case for serial killer Trident. But when a new victim is found in Canada, accusati...
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Neptunes Thunder
2012
La solitude du pouvoir
6/1
Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, a...
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La solitude du pouvoir
2003
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
8/3
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years o...
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Jean Moulin, une affaire française
1972
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
5.882/17
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two broth...
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Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
2006
One Summer
5.74/25
A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city.
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One Summer
2003
L'Affaire Dominici
6.97/33
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near th...
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L'Affaire Dominici
2005
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
5.239/46
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D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2011
Accusé Mendès France
5/2
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Accusé Mendès France
2009
A Man and His Dog
5.846/26
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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A Man and His Dog
2014
The Last Diamond
6.3/81
Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Florentine", a mythical diamond set auction by its own...
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The Last Diamond
1976
The Devil in the Heart
4.857/7
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student...
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The Devil in the Heart
2002
Le gave
10/1
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Le gave
2011
Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
7.333/3
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.
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Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
1974
The Man Who Sleeps
7.755/139
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior...
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The Man Who Sleeps
2022
Everyday Portabella
0/0
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Everyday Portabella
2004
Nature contre nature
5/3
Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the local customs, he joined "Troc'en Creuse", an ass...
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Nature contre nature
1990
El Corazón de las Tinieblas
9/1
Joseph is a sailor who returns to his aunt's home after 14 years at sea, there he will be involved in the process of African colonialism signing a con...
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El Corazón de las Tinieblas
1998
Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
10/1
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
2005
Itinéraires
6.25/4
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populat...
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Itinéraires
2006
Le temps de la désobéissance
0/0
In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the...
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Le temps de la désobéissance
2009
Mourir d'aimer
8.4/5
Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher.
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Mourir d'aimer
2009
Mom Lost It!
6.5/16
Finding that her loved ones are neglecting her, Juliette decides to pretend she has amnesia. Her plan works perfectly, and her children finally decide...
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Mom Lost It!
1974
Ariane
0/0
A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.
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Ariane
2005
Celle qui reste
6/3
Alice has lost her father and one leg in a car accident. She lives with her mother (Jeanne) and grandfather in a farm. Summer holidays start and she c...
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Celle qui reste
2017
Duplicity
6.6/16
Alice learns of her mother's accidental death while travelling in Canada. The body has been repatriated to France at the request of her husband, Alice...
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Duplicity
1986
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
4.667/3
Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by for...
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On a volé Charlie Spencer !
2012
Here Below
4.857/14
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second...
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Here Below
1974
The Irony of Chance
5.563/8
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise co...
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The Irony of Chance
1976
Little Marcel
10/1
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Beli...
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Little Marcel
1976
Un animal doué de déraison
6.5/2
A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisoner of her strict education. He then shar...
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Un animal doué de déraison
1980
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
6.5/2
Two couples, Eva and Edy and Martin and Charlotte are separated by a very different social condition. The first are rich bourgeois, the second are wor...
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Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
1995
Le Mas Théotime
9/1
Pascal lives on the land in Provence that his father left him. He is supported by the Alibert family, his tenant farmers, to counter the maneuvers of...
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Le Mas Théotime
1974
Stavisky...
5.921/126
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But...
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Stavisky...
2006
A City Is Beautiful at Night
4.667/3
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealan...
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A City Is Beautiful at Night
2019
Quand sort la recluse
5.9/8
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector...
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Quand sort la recluse
2011
Bouquet final
1/1
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Bouquet final
1975
Serious as Pleasure
3.944/9
Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about mone...
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Serious as Pleasure
1990
L’homme imaginé
9/1
The itinerary full of pitfalls, funny and serious encounters of a young dreamer who lives with an obsession.
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L’homme imaginé
1993
All That... for This?!
6.192/52
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge w...
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All That... for This?!
2007
Le Vrai Coupable
6.2/3
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Le Vrai Coupable
2014
Entre vents et marées
5.5/7
In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband had just sold part of their property to two shady...
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Entre vents et marées
2016
Mongeville et Magellan : Un amour de jeunesse
5.5/2
A commissioner and a former examining magistrate are asked to find a woman, whom they both loved, just disappeared.
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Mongeville et Magellan : Un amour de jeunesse
1999
Dessine-moi un jouet
6/3
A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz
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Dessine-moi un jouet
1999
Rembrandt
6.083/6
This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged a...
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Rembrandt
1999
Life Doesn't Scare Me
5.722/9
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
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Life Doesn't Scare Me
2011
A Bad Encounter
0/0
Meet the wicked story of a symbiotic friendship between two boys, Wolf and Mando. They meet on a bench in a square and grow together, sharing the same...
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A Bad Encounter
1989
Thick Skinned
6.4/15
Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident...
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Thick Skinned
1995
Lulu, roi de France
8/2
Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the pu...
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Lulu, roi de France
1981
Le Sang des Atrides
9/1
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Le Sang des Atrides
2012
Mon frère Yves
5/1
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Mon frère Yves
1976
Lumière
6.818/11
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago...
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Lumière
2001
Quatre copains
0/0
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Quatre copains
2012
Bay of Algiers
3.417/6
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with presid...
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Bay of Algiers
1989
Manon Roland
7/1
The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.
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Manon Roland
2008
La Veuve tatouée
6/1
Colette, fifty years old and devoted to her children, sees her life turned upside down the day she inherits her aunt's house. Indeed, this mother of a...
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La Veuve tatouée
2000
Modern Life
6.056/9
The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who...
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Modern Life
1995
L'impossible Monsieur Papa
10/1
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L'impossible Monsieur Papa
1979
La boucle d'oreille
0/0
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