Jacques Destoop

Acting

Jacques Destoop

Born 1931-06-17 · Paris, France

Jacques Destoop (17 June 1931 – 6 June 2022) was a French actor and painter. He was a Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française who attended CNSAD and was married to actress Geneviève Fontanel. Outside of his acting career, Destoop was steeped in the art of painting. He first began exhibiting his works in 1990 at the Galerie Gérard Rambaud in Paris. His paintings were inspired by the roles he played on stage, such as Cyrano de Bergerac. Source: Article "Jacques Destoop" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Hunter Will Get You poster
6.5

L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before killing them.

Hunter Will Get You

1976

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

1982

Sertorius poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sertorius

1983

The Punishment poster
4.6

Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all customers sadistic wishes, or else.

The Punishment

1973

The Guerrilla poster
6.0

Adaptation of the text of Azorin theater play. In 1808, Napoleon's troops invaded a village in the Sierra de Madrid. Love triangle between a girl, guerrilla leader and French officer who falls in love with the girl.

The Guerrilla

1973

Bye Bye Barbara poster
5.0

A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.

Bye Bye Barbara

1969

Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures poster
5.0

Catherine Guérande, a 19-year-old Parisian girl, decides to become a prostitute after a messy love affair. She did not count on Pornotropos, a brutal racketeer who runs the profitable business of model agencies, cabarets, and camping sites, backed by Thanatos, his brother, who runs the mugging and murder side of their business. Pornotropos is not taking it well that a freelancer is around reducing his profits, and he sets his girls to harass and beat her up. Catherine does not take his mistreatment and moves to another brothel. But luck has it that an old man dies in her room, and that he was the owner of a marketing agency. Paul, a young and handsome executive in his company, decides to investigate the shady causes of death of his late boss, and when Paul meets Catherine it's love at first sight.

Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures

1965

No artwork available
NR

It has been years since Don Alvaro Dabo, the Grand Master of the Order of Santiago, has given up the profession of arms. Now retired in Avila, Castile he lives there in an austere and unadorned residence. Devoting all his time to prayer, he has become contemptuous of the vanity of all earthly goods. Mariana, his daughter, accompanies this proud man's life with admiration and fear. At a gathering of his Order, the knights tell him of a prestigious position in the New World offered by the King. Nothing easier than to make a fortune in such an Eldorado. With this money, he could endow his daughter and marry her to Don Jacinto, her beloved. But will the sainted man agree to, just for the sake of Mariana, stoop to the level of those he disdains?

Le Maître de Santiago

1974

La Dame de chez Maxim poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Dame de chez Maxim

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Joséphine ou la comédie des ambitions

1979

Marceau ou Les enfants de la république poster
NR

Set during the bloody and turbulent years of the French Revolution, it follows the life and exploits of François-Séverin Marceau, an idealistic and courageous young man who would become one of the most famous generals of the First Republic.

Marceau ou Les enfants de la république

1961