Gaston Jacquet

Known for Acting

8/14/1883

Lanas, Ardèche, France

Biography

Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet was a French actor. Jacquet was born in Lanas, Ardèche, France and died in 1970 in Thonex in Switzerland.

Known For (53 credits)

6.0

Movie

Lovers of Paris

1957

Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.

5.0

Movie

La Neige sur les pas

1942

Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She runs away with her lover. But, during a mountain excursion, Norans is killed and Thérèse is herself seriously injured. But she recovers. The husband then forgives the unfaithful wife, and the couple reunites.

1.0

Movie

Hopes ...

1941

Grigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martin's and Aubert's fields. Both covet this plot.As Grigou has lost the title deed,the mayor of the village decides to sell it.After an interminable auction sale, Aubert carries the day .To add insult to injury,shortly after, Martin is expelled from his farm,and becomes an innkeeper (a doomed inn where the former owner hanged himself). Ten years after, Aubert's daughter falls in love with Martin's son.Their fathers being deadly enemies, their marriage seems impossible.

6.7

Movie

The Musicians of the Sky

1940

A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.

6.0

Movie

The Emigrant

1940

Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.

6.8

Movie

The End of the Day

1939

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.

4.5

Movie

Girls in Distress

1939

Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931), the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal.

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Escadrille of Chance

1938

Edwige, a rich American divorcee, goes to Morocco to look up an amazing pilot she once knew. The young woman's secretary, also an aviator, won't fly a plane because he was in a terrible accident. As he is in love with Edwige, the secretary does everything in his power to thwart her romance with the other pilot. He finally supplants his rival and wins the heart of his boss.

4.8

Movie

The Golem

1936

The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

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Le Billet de mille

1935

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.

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Dernière heure

1934

A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hours of happiness, before his arrest...

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Charlemagne

1933

After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula.