Jacques Spiesser

Jacques Spiesser (born 7 June 1947) is a French actor. He stars as detective Simon Magellan in the television series Commissaire Magellan. which ran for six seasons in France.

Biography After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film debut in 1972 in Nina Companeez's Faustine et le bel été with Muriel Catala.

He is best known to English-speaking audiences for playing the role of Gilles in Priceless.

Filmography

Cinema 1972: Faustine et le bel été, directed by Nina Companeez 1973: R.A.S., directed by Yves Boisset 1974: The Man Who Sleeps, directed by Bernard Queysanne after Georges Perec 1974: The Irony of Chance, directed by Édouard Molinaro 1974: Stavisky, directed by Alain Resnais 1974: La Gifle, directed by Claude Pinoteau 1974: Section spéciale, directed by Costa-Gavras 1975: Serious as Pleasure, directed by Robert Benayoun 1975: Lumière, directed by Jeanne Moreau 1975: Le Petit Marcel, directed by Jacques Fansten 1976: Je suis Pierre Rivière, directed by Christine Lipinska 1976: La Victoire en chantant, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud 1977: Le juge fayard, dit Le Shériff, directed by Yves Boisset 1982: La Truite, directed by Joseph Losey 1985: Folie suisse, directed by Christine Lipinska 1986: On a volé Charlie Spencer, directed by Francis Huster 1988: Baxter, directed by Jérôme Boivin with Lise Delamare 1989: Thick Skinned, directed by Patricia Mazuy 1989: L'Homme imaginé, directed by Patricia Bardon 1992: Tout ça... pour ça !, directed by Claude Lelouch with Fabrice Luchini 1996: Madame Jacques sur la Croisette, directed by Emmanuel Finkiel with Shulamit Adar 1998: Rembrandt, directed by Charles Matton with Klaus Maria Brandauer 1999: La Vie moderne, directed by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa with Isabelle Huppert 2000: De l'histoire ancienne, directed by Orso Miret with Yann Goven 2000: Après la réconciliation, directed by Anne-Marie Miéville with Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard 2001: C'est la vie, directed by Jean-Pierre Améris with Jacques Dutronc 2002: Elle est des nôtres, directed by Siegrid Alnoy with Sasha Andres 2003: Je suis un assassin, directed by Thomas Vincent with François Cluzet 2003: San-Antonio, directed by Frédéric Auburtin with Gérard Lanvin 2005: Itinéraires, directed by Christophe Otzenberger 2006: Le Passager de l'été, directed by Florence Moncorgé-Gabin with Catherine Frot and Laura Smet 2006: A City Is Beautiful at Night, directed by Richard Bohringer with Richard Bohringer 2006: Hors de prix, directed by Pierre Salvadori with Audrey Tautou et Gad Elmaleh 2006: My Best Friend, directed by Patrice Leconte with Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon 2007: Écoute le temps (Fissures), directed by Alantė Kavaitė with Emilie, directed byquenne and Ludmila Mikaël 2007: Nos retrouvailles, directed by David Oelhoffen with Jacques Gamblin and Nicolas Giraud 2009: A Man and His Dog, directed by Francis Huster 2009: Coco, directed by Gad Elmaleh 2014: Le Dernier Diamant, directed by Éric Barbier with Bérénice Bejo and Yvan Attal

Television 1974: Le Pain noir, directed by Serge Moati (feuilleton télévisé) 1983: Diane Lanster, directed by Bernard Queysanne 1995: Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre, directed by Denys de La Patellière : le comte de Saint-Fiacre 1998: Victor Schoelcher, l'abolition, directed by Paul Vecchiali 1999: Dessine-moi un jouet : Raoul Monge 2004: Nature contre nature : M. Lorieux 2005: Zodiaque : Maître Etienne Lefort 2005: La Belle et le sauvage : Le commissaire Perrault 2005: Les Rois maudits : Charles, Count of Valois 2006: Chasse à l'homme avec Richard Berry 2007: Le Vrai coupable, directed by Francis Huster 2007: Le Lien, directed by Denis Malleval 2007: Sous les vents de Neptune, directed by Josée Dayan: Adrien Danglard 2009: L'Homme aux cercles bleus, directed by Josée Dayan 2009: Mourir d'aimer, directed by Josée Dayan 2009: Jusqu'à l'enfer, directed by Denis Malleval 2009–2016: : Commissaire Simon Magellan 2017: Capitaine Marleau, directed by Josée Dayan : Thibault Le Preux (1 Episode)

Theatre Comedian 1985: Le Cid, directed by Corneille, mise en scène Francis Huster, Théâtre Renaud-Barrault 1987: Dom Juan, directed by Molière, mise en scène Francis Huster, Théâtre Renaud-Barrault 1992: Suite royale d’après Crébillon fils et Denis Diderot, mise en scène Francis Huster, Théâtre Marigny 1993: Le Cid, directed by Corneille, mise en scène Francis Huster 1998: Flip !, directed by Tom Rooney, mise en scène Roger Mirmont, Théâtre Fontaine

Metteur en scène 1986: Diderot et l'abbé Barthélémy after Denis Diderot, Théâtre Renaud-Barrault