Jean-François Poron

Acting

Jean-François Poron

Born 1936-05-06 · Paris, France

Jean-François Poron (6 May 1936 – 3 September 2020) was a French actor and director. Poron began training as an actor at Cours Simon in Paris. On 12 August 1968, he lost control of his Porsche on Route nationale 20 near Angerville. He was hospitalized in Étampes with a triple fracture in his right leg. Jean-François Poron died in Southern France on 3 September 2020 at the age of 84. Source: Article "Jean-François Poron" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

What the Day Owes the Night poster
7.7

Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.

What the Day Owes the Night

2012

Ruy Blas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ruy Blas

1965

Jerk in Istanbul poster
4.7

Vincent And Gregoire have just won a lot a money. The latter wants the whole pile and flies away to Turkey where he meets a compatriot, Appoline, and her boss Samos.

Jerk in Istanbul

1967

Charlie Bravo poster
4.1

After a nurse is captured in Vietnam and held prisoner in a small jungle village, a group of soldiers is tasked with rescuing her.

Charlie Bravo

1980

Figaro-ci, Figaro-là poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Figaro-ci, Figaro-là

1972

Asphalt poster
7.6

Françoise Arnould plays here a married woman who decides one day to get away from her husband and return to her childhood place, where she meets all her former friends, and lovers.

Asphalt

1959

Air of Paris poster
6.2

Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve.

Air of Paris

1954

The Inquiry poster
6.9

A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.

The Inquiry

1986

Raphael or the Debauched One poster
6.1

In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical romance.

Raphael or the Debauched One

1971

A Captain's Honor poster
6.1

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.

A Captain's Honor

1982

The Iron Mask poster
5.9

The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.

The Iron Mask

1962

La Nuit des rois poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

La Nuit des rois

1962

Dangerous Games poster
6.0

Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she is going to kidnap him and demand a ransom from the young man's parents, money which will be used to pay for a good lawyer for her brother accused of killing a policeman.

Dangerous Games

1958

Les Fossés de Vincennes poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Fossés de Vincennes

1972

Princess of Cleves poster
5.8

A teen marries the Prince of Clèves, more than twice her age, which makes her an official Princess, a position she takes to heart. Although distracted by elite entertainments often found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duke of Nemours.

Princess of Cleves

1961

Taras Bulba poster
7.3

Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol.

Taras Bulba

1962

The Fascination poster
NR

After winning a national essay contest, Sakura travels to Europe and meets photographer Mark at the Acropolis. They settle in France, where her presence begins to unsettle those around her. As nightmares haunt her nights, Sakura’s hidden emotional wounds slowly come to light.

The Fascination

1985

Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission poster
8.4

Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during WW2.

Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission

1996

Forgive Our Trespasses poster
6.0

In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.

Forgive Our Trespasses

1956

The Wolves in the Sheepfold poster
5.7

Three gangsters on the run break into a rehabilitation center for delinquent teenagers run by the couple Roger and Irène. The residents are divided over how to deal with the three bad guys, who want to take over the home.

The Wolves in the Sheepfold

1960

When the City Awakes poster
4.7

An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.

When the City Awakes

1975

Plains of Battle poster
10.0

Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.

Plains of Battle

1962

Les filles du régiment poster
4.8

A colonel aims to make her regiment compete with that of the men, which is not to the taste of the general, who also turns out to be her lover.

Les filles du régiment

1978