About Jean Carmet
Lived 1920 – 1994 (aged 73). Jean Carmet was a French actor, screenwriter, stage actor, film actor and television actor.
Jean Carmet (; 25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor.
Life and career Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internationally for his role as a French colonist in the 1976 film, La Victoire en Chantant (Black and White in Color).
Because of his good-natured manner, he was as popular with members of the film crew as he was with the audiences. During his long career, he appeared in more than 200 films, and although he sometimes played dramatic parts, he more often acted in a supporting role as a comedic character.
He was nominated for the César Award for Best Actor for his leading role in the 1986 film, Miss Mona. Twice he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated on two other occasions. In February 1994, to celebrate his 50th year in film, he was honored by the French motion picture industry with a special César Award. Just a few months later, Jean Carmet died of a heart attack.
Jean Carmet is interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. In his birthplace of Bourgueil, a theater and an avenue were named in his honor.
Awards 1995 - 7 d'Or for his role in Eugénie Grandet 1994 - Honorary César Award 1992 - César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the film Merci la vie 1983 - César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the film Les Misérables
Nominations 1988 - César Award for Best Actor for the film Miss Mona 1987 - César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the film Les Fugitifs 1979 - César Award for Best Actor for the film Le sucre 1979 - César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the film Le sucre
Selected filmography
The Pavilion Burns (1941) The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock (1942) - Un typographe (uncredited) The Mysteries of Paris (1943) - (uncredited) Children of Paradise (1945) - Un spectateur au paradis des Funambules (uncredited) François Villon (1945) - Un compagnon de François (uncredited) Dawn Devils (1946) - Durand, dit Durandal Tombé du ciel (1946) Dropped from Heaven (1946) - La troisième complice Copie conforme (1947) - Le troisième complice Monsieur Vincent (1947) - L'abbé Pontail Le diamant de cent sous (1948) - Un invité Le destin exécrable de Guillemette Babin (1948) - Étienne La bataille du feu (1949) - Albert Farjon Bonheur en location (1949) - Guy Piponnet I Like Only You (1949) - Le père affolé (uncredited) The Wolf (1949) - Gustave Dernière heure, édition spéciale (1949) - Nestor The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949) - Le garagiste (uncredited) Branquignol (1949) - Bidel - un fantaisiste raté Not Any Weekend for Our Love (1950) - Le pianiste malade (uncredited) Cartouche, King of Paris (1950) - Brin d'Amour, un soldat The Patron (1950) - Le brigadier Women Are Crazy (1950) - Emile God Needs Men (1950) - Yvon The King of Camelots (1951) - La Globule Dr. Knock (1951) - Le premier gars Les mémoires de la vache Yolande (1951) - Le clerc They Were Five (1952) - Jean - le postier Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré (1952) - Le Guen Monsieur Leguignon, Signalman (1952) - M. Grosjean - policier et habitant du quartier La forêt de l'adieu (1952) - Baptiste Monsieur Taxi (1952) - François Bille de clown (1952) - Gaston Lemeunier Drôle de noce (1952) - Paullaud She and Me (1952) - Gaston Minuit... Quai de Bercy (1953) - Merle, l'adjoint de l'inspecteur Quintuplets in the Boarding School (1953) - Antoine The Tour of the Grand Dukes (1953) - Le curé du village Piédalu député (1954) Adam Is Eve (1954) - Gaston Le vicomte de Bragelonne (1954) - (uncredited) The Duratons (1955) - Gaston Duvet dans l'émission radiophonique Ça va barder (1955) - Alvarez Madelon (1955) - Le soldat Mathieu Bonjour sourire (1956) - Jean Courtebride Mon curé champion du régiment (1956) - Le caporal Tiroir Trois de la Canebière (1956) - (uncredited) Ces sacrées vacances (1956) - Le deuxième inspecteur Babes a GoGo (1956) - Hubert Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle (1956) - Lamme La ironía del dinero (1957) - Feliciano (segment "Francia") Three Sailors (1957) - Papillote Mademoiselle et son gang (1957) - Dédé The Amorous Corporal (1958) - Balluché Oh! Qué mambo (1959) - Jo le Bègue Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women (1959) - Martial Babette Goes to War (1959) - Antoine (uncredited) La Belle Américaine (1961) - Le malandrin / The Burglar The Three Musketeers (1961) - Planchet The Elusive Corporal (1962) - Guillaume The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962) - Le clochard / Tramp (segment "Bien d'autrui ne prendras") Moonlight in Maubeuge (1962) - Le chauffeur We Will Go to Deauville (1962) - Le porteur Any Number Can Win (1963) - Le barman La foire aux cancres (Chronique d'une année scolaire) (1963) - Le chef de gare Du grabuge chez les veuves (1964) - L'horloger à l'enterrement Les Pas perdus (1964) - Déde Lemartin The Counterfeit Constable (1964) - Le porte drapeau The Gorillas (1964) - La Fauche The Two Orphans (1965) - Picard La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965) - Le critique d'art efféminé (uncredited) How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965) - Paulo (Le voleur de la lanterne) (segment "Procès, Le") Your Money or Your Life (1966) - Le curé Roger la Honte (1966) - Tristot An Idiot in Paris (1967) - Ernest Grafouillères Alexandre le bienheureux (1968) - La Fringale Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages (1968) - Le supertitieux / The superstitious security guard (uncredited) L'auvergnat et l'autobus (1969) - L'homme qui veut acheter l'autobus (uncredited) Les gros malins (1969) - Le percepteur Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille (1969) - Karl de Kerfuntel A Golden Widow (1969) - Un membre du Yiddish International Power Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus (1969) - The owner of the café Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! (1969) - Bartender And Soon the Darkness (1970) - Renier La Rupture (1970) - Henri Pinelli The Beginner (1970) - Le client au chien The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970, TV Movie) - Le docteur Féraud (segment "Le roi d'Yvetot") Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971) - Gegene L'homme qui vient de la nuit (1971) - Angelo Just Before Nightfall (1971) - Jeannot Le drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite (1971) - Staline Le Viager (1972) - Maître Vierzon, l'avocat de Noël L'ingénu (1972) - Le pêcheur Les malheurs d'Alfred (1972) - Paul Les yeux fermés (1972) - Raoul Five Leaf Clover (1972) - Lord Picratt Elle cause plus, elle flingue (1972) - Jambe de laine Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire (1972) - Maurice La raison du plus fou (1973) - Le mari de la directrice Le Concierge (1973) - Ludovic Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full (1973) - Louis - le père Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons (1973) - Georges Armand Ursule et Grelu (1974) - Lucien Les Gaspards (1974) - Paul Bourru, le marchands de vins La gueule de l'emploi (1974) - Le restaurateur Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard (1974) - Antoine Robineau Un linceul n'a pas de poches (1974) - Comissaire Bude Bons baisers... à lundi (1974) - Henri-Pierre - le chef d'un trio de malfaiteurs médiocres The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974) - Maurice Lefebvre The Common Man (1975) - Georges Lajoie Trop c'est trop (1975) Scrambled Eggs (1976) - Marcel Dutilleul La Victoire en Chantant (1976) - Le sergent Bosselet Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977) - Colas Rene the Cane (1977) - L'indicateur The More It Goes, the Less It Goes (1977) - Inspecteur Melville The Seventh Company Outdoors (1977) - M. Albert, le passeur Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé (1978) - Camadule Violette Nozière (1978) - Baptiste Nozière Le sucre (1978) - Adrien Courtois Un si joli village (1979) - Le Juge Noblet Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (1979) - François Dupuis Gros-Câlin (1979) - Emile Cousin Buffet froid (1979) - L'assassin / The murderer The Lady Banker (1980) - Duvernet Allons z'enfants (1981) - L'adjudant Chalumot L'amour trop fort (1981) - Max Circle of Deceit (1981) - Rudnik Dead Certain (1981) - Kreps La soupe aux choux (1981) - Francis Chérasse (Le Bombé) Guy de Maupassant (1982) - François Les Misérables (1982) - Thénardier Pick Up Your Belongings (1983) - Joseph Cohen Papy fait de la résistance (1983) - André Bourdelle Dog Day (1984) - Socrate Tir à vue (1984) - L'inspecteur Robert Casti Sac de noeuds (1985) - M. Buzinski - un pharmacien qui hait les flics Night Magic (1985) - Sam Le matou (1985) - Egon Ratablavasky Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986) - Jocelyn Bouloire Suivez mon regard (1986) - Désiré, le paysan Les Fugitifs (1986) - Martin Miss Mona (1987) - Miss Mona La brute (1987) - M. Deliot Le Moine et la sorcière (1987) - Le curé / Vicar Les 2 crocodiles (1987) - Emile Rivereau L'âge de Monsieur est avancé (1987) - Le régisseur / Désiré Mangeclous (1988) - Scipion La vouivre (1989) - Réquiem Champagne amer (1989) - Zigou Périgord noir (1989) - Jean-Lou L'invité surprise (1989) - Le colonel Un jeu d'enfant (1990) - Le grand-père Le sixième doigt (1990) - Le commandant My Mother's Castle (1990) - Le garde ivrogne Merci la vie (1991) - Raymond Pelleveau (Old Father) La reine blanche (1991) - Lucien Le bal des casse-pieds (1992) - M. Vandubas Coup de jeune (1993) - Ponsard Roulez jeunesse! (1993) - Michel La chambre 108 (1993) - René Bertillon Germinal (1993) - Vincent Maheu dit Bonnemort Cache Cash (1994) - Durandet Eugénie Grandet (1993, TV Movie) - Monsieur Grandet
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Who was Jean Carmet?
French actor (1920-1994)
When was Jean Carmet born?
Jean Carmet was born on 25 April 1920 in Bourgueil, Tours.
When did Jean Carmet die?
Jean Carmet died on 20 April 1994 in Sèvres.
What was Jean Carmet's occupation?
Jean Carmet was an actor, screenwriter, stage actor, film actor and television actor.
What nationality was Jean Carmet?
Jean Carmet was French.
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