Gaston Jacquet

Acting

Gaston Jacquet

Born 1883-08-14 · Lanas, Ardèche, France

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

Acting credits

L'Ile enchantée poster
9.0

The story takes place in Corsica, where a young business woman (Jacqueline Forzane) tries to construct an electric system for her steel plant. But this project is not welcomed by everyone...

L'Ile enchantée

1927

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8.0

Nivoulas is the leader of a group of "gardians" (cowherds) in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. His brother Mazar is engaged to Fanette, an orphan. After the bull run celebrating their engagement, they meet up at a café terrace. Lucie, a flirtatious waitress from the city, captivates Mazar.

Le gardian

1921

Woman of Destiny poster
10.0

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

Woman of Destiny

1928

The End of the Day poster
6.7

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.

The End of the Day

1939

Lovers of Paris poster
6.1

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

Lovers of Paris

1957

Revelation poster
7.0

A former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.

Revelation

1927

The Bachelor Girl poster
3.0

Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a decent girl must long for. When she discovers that her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois family.

The Bachelor Girl

1923

Hopes ... poster
4.7

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.

Hopes ...

1941

My Heart and Its Millions poster
7.0

Franck Crighton is a millionaire who is fed up with his hectic life. To have a bit of peace and quiet he has found the winning formula, passing himself off as Guillaume Aribeau, his own secretary. Under the cover of this modest condition Franck can both lead a freewheeling life and find true love.

My Heart and Its Millions

1931

Miss Europe poster
6.4

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?

Miss Europe

1930

The Golem poster
5.2

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.

The Golem

1936

No artwork available
7.0

A young inventor who has developed a television set falls in love. Early sound version of this film made in various languages (a not uncommon practice at the time) by Paramount Pictures , all now apparently lost.

Television: French Version

1931

David Golder poster
6.5

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.

David Golder

1931

The Sinister Guest poster
7.0

A couple on their honeymoon in the French Riviera are cursed by an old woman in black.

The Sinister Guest

1922

Saxophone Suzy poster
10.0

Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.

Saxophone Suzy

1928

No artwork available
8.0

The Ways of Love Are Strange is a 1927 German silent romantic drama film directed by Fritz Kaufmann and starring Maly Delschaft, Walter Slezak and Fritz Alberti. The film is based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin.

The Ways of Love Are Strange

1927

Caprice de princesse poster
9.0

Princess Isabelle is in love with the young man in charge of her library. But André is looking for a simple woman without money. He falls in love with a shopgirl who could be the Princess' sister. It's up to Isabelle come up with a scheme to find love...

Caprice de princesse

1933

No artwork available
6.0

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.

La Neige sur les pas

1942

Ernoa's Way poster
7.2

Etchégor, a wealthy Basque peasant is in love with the beautiful American Majesty Parnell. Her husband, about to be arrested for theft, seeks to forge an alibi.

Ernoa's Way

1921

No artwork available
10.0

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

Dernière heure

1934

Coquecigrole poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Coquecigrole

1931

No artwork available
9.0

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.

Charlemagne

1933

Pavement Butterfly poster
7.0

In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.

Pavement Butterfly

1929

Girls in Distress poster
5.0

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.

Girls in Distress

1939

Behind the camera