Jean Servais

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Belgium

Born

September 24, 1910

Died

February 17, 1976

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Biography

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Stage-trained lead of the 1930s who emerged as a distinguished character actor in the 50s, contributing his distinctive voice and world-weary sophistication to such films as "Rififi" (1955) and "Le Plaisir" (1951)....

Filmography

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Republic of Sin (1988)

Le Protecteur (1974)

Le Seuil Du Vide (1971)

La Notte Piu Lunga del Diavolo (1971)

The Devil's Nightmare (1971)

They Came To Rob Las Vegas (1969)

Photos & Videos

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Rififi (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Break-In

Rififi (1954) -- (Movie Clip) They Let Me Out

Family & Companions

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Dominique Blanchar

Wife

Actor. Divorced.

Biography

Stage-trained lead of the 1930s who emerged as a distinguished character actor in the 50s, contributing his distinctive voice and world-weary sophistication to such films as "Rififi" (1955) and "Le Plaisir" (1951).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Republic of Sin (1988)

Le Protecteur (1974)

Le Seuil Du Vide (1971)

La Notte Piu Lunga del Diavolo (1971)

The Devil's Nightmare (1971)

They Came To Rob Las Vegas (1969)

Better a Widow (1969)

Black Jesus (1968)

Lost Command (1966)

Murder at 45 r. p. m. (1965)

Maurice Faugères

Thomas the Imposter (1965)

The Liars (1964)

That Man From Rio (1964)

Professor Catalan

The Longest Day (1962)

Admiral Jaujard

Crime Does Not Pay (1962)

The World in My Pocket (1962)

He Who Must Die (1957)

When the Woman Butts In (1957)

Heroes and Sinners (1955)

Tony--Le Stephanois

Le Plaisir (1952)

Les Miserables - Part 3 (Liberty, Sweet Liberty) (1934)

Les Miserables - Part 2 (The Thenardiers) (1934)

Les Miserables - Part 1 (Tempest in a Skull) (1934)

Les Miserables (1934)

Life Events

1932

Screen debut "Criminel"

Videos

Rififi (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Break-In Just a portion of the roughly half-hour dialogue -free heist sequence, Tony (Jean Servais), Mario (Robert Manuel), Jo (Carl Mohner) and Cesar (Jules Dassin, the director, with mustache) from Rififi, 1954.

Rififi (1954) -- (Movie Clip) They Let Me Out Newly paroled Tony (Jean Servais), who took the fall for a jewel heist, finds his old girlfriend Mado (Marie Sabouret) well cared-for in a Paris night club, with shocking brutality, early in director Jules Dassin's Rififi, 1954.

Rififi (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Le Rififi Magali Noël performs, song by Philippe Gerard and Jacques LaRue, Jules Dassin directs, and also appears, as safecracker Cesar, at the table with Robert Manuel as Mario, who introduces him to ex-con Tony (Jean Servais) who’s rejoined the jewelry heist scheme, one of the few less intense scenes, in Rififi, 1954.

Tamango (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Coast Of Guinea, 1820 Unusually informative, perhaps provocative, opening credit sequence, from the French-Italian co-production, directed by Blacklisted American John Berry, from a story by Prosper Mérimée, introducing Curt Jurgens as Dutch slave ship captain Reiker, from Tamango, 1959, also starring Dorothy Dandridge.

Tamango (1959) -- (Movie Clip) The Blacks Like You Having been visible but obscured in earlier scenes, director John Berry offers the first full view of Dorothy Dandridge as mixed-race Aiche, mistress to Dutch slave ship captain Reiker (Curt Jurgens), and clearly favored by the doctor Corot (Jean Servais), in the French-Italian historical melodrama Tamango, 1959.

They Came To Rob Las Vegas (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Supporting Cast In A George Raft Picture Summoning I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, Spanish director Antonio Isasi has Jean Servais (rather than Paul Muni) escaping prison through a swamp, then taken by his crew to psychedelic San Francisco to see his younger brother (Gary Lockwood), opening the improbable crime caper They Came To Rob Las Vegas, 1969.

They Came To Rob Las Vegas (1969) -- (Movie Clip) No Survivors Expected High-tech action, from Spanish director Antonio Isasi, shooting on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, with cool but inexplicable movie posters, as Jean Servais and his gang try to rob an armored car, and his younger brother (Gary Lockwood), who argued against the attempt, observes, in They Came To Rob Las Vegas, 1969.

Le Plaisir (a.k.a. House Of Pleasure) -- (Movie Clip) A Kind Of Aristocracy From the beginning of the second and longest segment of the film, introducing Rosa (Danielle Darrieux) and colleagues at the brothel, in Marcel Ophuls' Le Plaisir, (a.k.a. House Of Pleasure) 1952.

Le Plaisir (a.k.a. House Of Pleasure) -- (Movie Clip) Youth And Sardines From the narrating voice of the original author Guy de Maupassant, the introduction of the painter Jean (Daniel Gelin) and model Josephine (Simone Simon), in the third segment of director Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir, (a.k.a. House Of Pleasure) 1952.

Le Plaisir (a.k.a. House Of Pleasure) -- (Movie Clip) And Above All, Girls After the prologue, the opening in the voice of author Guy de Maupassant, in the first segment, with incredible shots, from director Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir, (a.k.a. House Of Pleasure) 1952.

Longest Day, The - (Original Trailer) An all-star cast including John Wayne and Henry Fonda in a re-creation of the D-Day invasion on The Longest Day (1962).

Companions

Dominique Blanchar

Wife

Actor. Divorced.

Bibliography

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