
Jean Bouise
Jean Bouise (3 June 1929 – 6 July 1989) was a French actor.
He was born in Le Havre. In the 1950s he helped to found Théâtre de la Cité, and was a player in the company. He entered films in the 1960s, and played a supporting roles in The Shameless Old Lady, Z, L'Aveu, Out 1, The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Section spéciale, and Monsieur Klein. He received César nominations for his roles in Le vieux fusil and Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff, before winning the Best Supporting Actor award for Coup de tête. Subsequently, he appeared in Édith et Marcel, Le Dernier Combat, Subway, The Big Blue and La Femme Nikita. He died in Lyon.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.226 |
Birthday | 1929-06-03 |
Place of Birth | Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France |
Also Known As | Jean Bouisse, Жан Буиз, |

1988

The Big Blue
7.4/1455
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood,...
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The Big Blue

1972

Hearth Fires
5.9/11
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Hearth Fires

1970

The Things of Life
7.1/234
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memo...
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The Things of Life

1976

Mado
6.5/53
A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the tr...
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Mado

1975

The Old Gun
7.5/243
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois...
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The Old Gun

1985

Subway
6.5/450
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen so...
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Subway

1989

The French Revolution: Years of Rage
7.574/47
Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror w...
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The French Revolution: Years of Rage

1974

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
6.6/315
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Fra...
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The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1971

Appointment in Bray
4.2/16
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacq...
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Appointment in Bray

1966

The War Is Over
6.3/40
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages t...
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The War Is Over

1975

The Common Man
7.1/59
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where th...
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The Common Man

1973

The Burned Barns
6.6/54
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
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1990

La Femme Nikita
7.1/1964
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by...
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1970

The Confession
7.2/122
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement...
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1985

Strictement personnel
5/1
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French polic...
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Strictement personnel

1982

Hecate
5.4/8
Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is wh...
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1988

The Abyss
5.4/16
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe unde...
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1987

L'été en pente douce
6.4/56
When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must...
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L'été en pente douce

1964

Tintin and the Blue Oranges
4.974/96
Professor Calculus's friend develops a blue-skinned orange that can grow on any kind of land and survive harsh weather (in the manner of Lue Gim Gong)...
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Tintin and the Blue Oranges

1983

The Last Battle
6.4/154
The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identi...
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The Last Battle

1977

Death of a Corrupt Man
6.6/97
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a rackete...
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Death of a Corrupt Man

1966

To Skin a Spy
5.7/17
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire...
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To Skin a Spy

1985

Le hasard mène le Jeu
0/0
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1983

For Those I Loved
6.9/29
Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.
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For Those I Loved

1978

Butterfly on the Shoulder
6/35
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who bro...
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Butterfly on the Shoulder

1977

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
7/43
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re...
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

1971

To Die of Love
6.4/41
A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of his students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young...
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To Die of Love

1976

Mr. Klein
7.2/249
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly p...
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Mr. Klein

1985

Going and Coming Back
6.2/19
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot the...
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Going and Coming Back

1979

Paco the Infallible
5/2
In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest servi...
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Paco the Infallible

1972

The Assassination
6.7/35
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....
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The Assassination

1988

The Power of Speech
5.6/13
Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be...
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The Power of Speech

1983

Credo
0/0
Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defend his Christian faith while under Soviet interroga...
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Credo

1982

Bluff
0/0
A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...
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Bluff

1969

The Outlaws
8/2
In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authorit...
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2019

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
7/2
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1986

Last Image
0/0
Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical a...
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Last Image

1987

Spiral
2/1
Whilst spending a few days on the Côte d’Azur with his friends, Jérôme meets Simorre, a strange young woman who will have a profound impact on him. Jé...
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Spiral

1965

Ubu Roi
5.6/6
Based on Alfredy Jarrry's 1896 play about a greedy, overweight, selfish dude named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the cur...
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1964

I Am Cuba
7.9/216
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes...
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1979

Hothead
7.1/138
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the...
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Hothead

1987

Jenatsch
5.5/7
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mys...
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1963

The Other Christopher
5.3/6
The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from th...
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1978

Sale rêveur
0/0
A young man struggling with reality and dreams finds himself caught between his fantasies and the harshness of everyday life. As he drifts through sur...
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Sale rêveur

1986

Dans les griffes de Thulius
0/0
Professor Wilcox, recognized for his research on magnetic phenomena, decides, in the company of his assistant and a famous adventurer, to fight the ev...
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Dans les griffes de Thulius

1987

Châteauroux district
4/1
Reading old letters, a young girl from Châteauroux, Carole, discovers that her father was an American soldier whose regiment was based in town in the...
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Châteauroux district

1977

Focal Point
5/4
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually...
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Focal Point

1971

Touch and Go
4.6/14
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, tran...
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Touch and Go

1969

Z
7.803/550
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted....
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Z

1972

The French Calvinists
6.3/6
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed...
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The French Calvinists

1990

Out 1
7.4/55
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
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1983

No Rest for Billy Brakko
6.2/5
On a winter evening Billy Brakko buys a paper and reads: "The famous Billy Brakko is dead!"
An early short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro...
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1972

The Big Shots
6.1/7
Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.
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The Big Shots

1983

Equator
3.8/6
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality...
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Equator

1983

If I Were 1000 Years Old
0/0
A long time ago, on a French island, a group of villagers saved a girl from being sacrificed by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed. Myste...
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If I Were 1000 Years Old

1982

Merette
6/2
Merette is a pretty child, living within a patrician, strictly Calvinist family in the Switzerland of the 19th century. She is happy, until her mother...
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Merette

1980

Anthracite
5/1
In a Jesuit secondary school , the headmaster imposes an iron discipline on the unfortunate students. Enter Father Godard who believes in Christian lo...
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Anthracite

1983

Edith and Marcel
5.5/12
This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerd...
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Edith and Marcel

1981

Dessert for Constance
5.5/4
Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an o...
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Dessert for Constance

1963

The Blockhead Fair
7/2
On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.
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The Blockhead Fair

1975

The Brigade
0/0
This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "L...
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1975

Mad Enough to Kill
6.8/22
Julie Ballenger has spent five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic apparently cured, she is hired by a wealthy industrialist, Mostri, to...
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Mad Enough to Kill

1975

Special Section
7.1/46
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty crimina...
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Special Section

1978

Roads to the South
3.6/8
France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his...
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Roads to the South

1970

Le chien qui a vu Dieu
0/0
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from...
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Le chien qui a vu Dieu

1969

The American
5.4/6
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
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The American

1968

The Most Beautiful Month
4/2
The life of the inhabitants of a village in the Drôme region during the debacle of May-June 1940. Liberated, Cyprien Boromès returns to his village to...
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The Most Beautiful Month

1986

Zone Red
6.4/9
Claire Rousset visits her ex-husband Pierre who lives in the Lyon region. For some time now, Pierre's health and that of the other inhabitants of the...
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Zone Red

1974

Madame Bovary
0/0
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Madame Bovary

1989

Stormy Summer
1/1
Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arriv...
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Stormy Summer

1983

La Bête noire
0/0
In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the d...
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La Bête noire

1989

The French Revolution: Years of Hope
7.3/3
First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States...
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