Jacques Weber

Acting

Jacques Weber

Born 1949-08-23 · Paris, France

Jacques Weber (born 23 August 1949) is a French actor, director, and writer. Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for Tartuffe. In 1972, he was Haroun in Faustine et le Bel Été and played the role of Hugo in État de siège by Costa-Gavras. He was seduced by Claude Jade in Le Malin Plaisir (1975), and by Anicée Alvina in Une femme fatale (1976). The young actor with much sex-appeal (he appeared in Le Malin Plaisir completely naked) was in Bel Ami (1983) after the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant in the adaptation by Pierre Cardinal. On television, he was, among others, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Denys de La Patellière and Judge Antoine Rives in the show by Gilles Béhat. Noticeable on film as Comte de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Don Juan (1998), where he seduces Emmanuelle Béart. In 2008, he joined Isabelle Adjani in a televised adaptation of Figaro which he directed for France 3. From 1979 to 1985, he appeared at the Centre dramatique national in Lyon (Théâtre du 8th), and from 1986 to 2001, the Théâtre de Nice, Centre dramatique national Nice-Côte d'Azur. He has starred and directed in many of the great roles of classical theatre, including Cyrano, where he excelled for many seasons. Jacques Weber published Des petits coins de paradis in October 2009, his first work, which relates to his work as an artist and his friends. He is married to Christine Weber and has three children: two sons, Tommy and Stanley, and one daughter, Kim. Source: Article "Jacques Weber" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Acting credits

The Adolescent poster
4.8

In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.

The Adolescent

1979

The Origin of Evil poster
6.4

In a luxurious seaside villa, a modest young woman finds herself in the company of a strange family: an unknown and wealthy father, his extravagant wife, his daughter, an ambitious woman, a rebellious teenager, and their creepy maid.

The Origin of Evil

2022

HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami poster
5.3

When reporter Dan Geraldo arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery... With his resourceful local guide Pablito, D an has one surprise after another during a thrilling adventure that allows him to bring the world some spectacular news: the Marsupilami, a mythical and mischievous animal, really does exist! You too will believe in furry tails!

HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Michel Sardou - Show Sardou

1994

Les Héritières poster
NR

In 1945, Corsica, an important landowner named Ottavio Della Rocca decides to marry her youngest daughter, Vanina, the son of the Caponi family. Because the old Della Rocca intends to consolidate its power while the Liberation redistributes the cards. Vanina but does not want this union. During the war, she met a jazz musician in Marseille and can not imagine marry another - even to save the family estate. At night, she fled and left the island. Enraged, Ottavio decides to disinherit. But the idea to sell all his property to his two eldest, Antonia and Flavia, do little delights. In fact, he despises blithely ...

Les Héritières

2008

Cyrano de Bergerac poster
7.3

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

Cyrano de Bergerac

1990

The Horseman on the Roof poster
6.5

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

The Horseman on the Roof

1995

Les Bêtises poster
4.8

A man named François, adopted as a child, sets out to find his biological mother. Posing as a waiter at a family gathering, he infiltrates her home, hoping to uncover the truth. His clumsy nature leads to a series of comedic mishaps, disrupting the event and causing chaos. As he stumbles through misunderstandings and awkward encounters, his quest for identity becomes increasingly complicated.

Les Bêtises

2015

L'Injuste poster
NR

In 1993, in a bunker lost in a Swiss forest, François Genoud, the holder of Hitler and Goebbels' copyrights, lives out his final hours. Throughout his life, the Nazi banker escaped justice and remorse. For his last stand, he receives a young journalist from an Israeli daily newspaper. This interview will be his legacy to history, a final snub to humanity. But the young woman standing before him is determined not to make François Genoud's end of life as easy as he had imagined.

L'Injuste

2025

Un ange passe poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un ange passe

1970

Follow My Gaze poster
6.2

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.

Follow My Gaze

1986

Private Screening poster
4.8

Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechanics of filmmaking.

Private Screening

1973

State of Siege poster
7.2

Assigned to South America, US official Philip Michael Santore is employed by a counterinsurgency agency. His position makes him a target for a local band of guerrillas, and, before long, Santore is kidnapped. As a prisoner, he undergoes interrogation, shedding light on the violent situation in the country. Once the insurgents are done with their questioning, they must decide whether Santore lives or dies.

State of Siege

1972

The World of Yesterday poster
5.6

A moral tale and a political thriller: a few days before the term of her mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the destiny of France.

The World of Yesterday

2022

Bérénice poster
7.3

An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Palestine).

Bérénice

2000

Yesterday poster
4.4

50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.

Yesterday

2018

Don Juan poster
4.5

Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.

Don Juan

1998

Seven Years of Marriage poster
5.3

After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.

Seven Years of Marriage

2003

The Elegant Criminal poster
6.1

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

The Elegant Criminal

1990

All About Actresses poster
5.9

A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgotten ones... Filming everything, with or without their consent, the director gets caught up in the game and lets herself be devoured by these women, who are as fragile as they are manipulative.

All About Actresses

2009

Architecture poster
NR

A staging of Pascal Rambert's play "Architecture" by himself.

Architecture

2019

Le Tartuffe poster
NR

A staging of Molière's play "Tartuffe" by Peter Stein.

Le Tartuffe

2021

The Woman with Red Boots poster
5.6

An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.

The Woman with Red Boots

1974

A Prince (almost) Charming poster
5.1

A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony...

A Prince (almost) Charming

2013

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