Jean Gabin
Acting
Born: May 17, 1904 · Paris, France
Died: November 15, 1976 (aged 72)
Highest Rated
Biography
Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé (born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé), known as Jean Gabin (17 May 1904 – 15 November 1976), was a French actor and singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in several classic films, including Pépé le Moko (1937), La grande illusion (1937), Le Quai des brumes (1938), La bête humaine (1938), Le jour se lève (1939), and Le plaisir (1952). During his career, he twice won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor from the Venice Film Festival, respectively. Gabin was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema. Gabin was born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, the son of Madeleine Petit and Ferdinand Moncorgé, a cafe owner and cabaret entertainer whose stage name was Gabin, which is a first name in French. He grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise (now Val-d'Oise) département, about 22 mi (35 km) north of Paris. He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. Gabin left school early, and worked as a laborer until the age of 19 when he entered show business with a bit part in a Folies Bergère production. He continued performing in a variety of minor roles before going into the military. After completing his military service in the Fusiliers marins, he returned to the entertainment business, working under the stage name of Jean Gabin at whatever was offered in the Parisian music halls and operettas, imitating the singing style of Maurice Chevalier, which was the rage at the time. He was part of a troupe that toured South America, and upon returning to France found work at the Moulin Rouge. His performances started getting noticed, and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in 1928. Two years later Gabin made the transition to sound films in a 1930 Pathé Frères production, Chacun sa chance. Playing secondary roles, he made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. But he only gained real recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine, a 1934 production directed by Julien Duvivier. He was then cast as a romantic hero in the 1936 war drama La Bandera; this second Duvivier-directed film established him as a major star. The next year he teamed up with Duvivier again in the highly successful Pépé le Moko. Its popularity brought Gabin international recognition. That same year he starred in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, an antiwar film that ran at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months. This was followed by another of Renoir's major works, La Bête Humaine (The Human Beast), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by Émile Zola and starring Gabin and Simone Simon, as well as Le Quai Des Brumes (Port of Shadows), one of director Marcel Carné's classics of poetic realism. His rugged charisma could be compared with Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. He divorced his second wife in 1939. ... Source: Article "Jean Gabin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Grand Illusion
1937
The Sicilian Clan
1969
Port of Shadows
1938
La Traversée de Paris
1956
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954
The Tattoo
1968
Daybreak
1939
La Bête Humaine
1938
A Monkey in Winter
1962
Any Number Can Win
1963
Pépé le Moko
1937
Two Men in Town
1973
Photos (8)
Movies (99)
The Sicilian Clan
Vittorio Manalese
Any Number Can Win
Charles
The Magnificent Tramp
Joseph, Hugues Guillaume Boutier-Blainville dit : Archimède
The Tattoo
Comte Enguerand de Montignac,alias « Legrain »
Varieté
Georges
Grand Illusion
Lieutenant Maréchal
Two Men in Town
Germain Cazeneuve
Pasha
Comissaire Joss, le Pacha
French Cancan
Henri Danglard
La Bête Humaine
Lantier
Méphisto
Jacques Miral
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Stormy Waters
Le capitaine André Laurent
The Night Affair
Georges Vallois
Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko
Napoleon
Marshal Jean Lannes
Le Plaisir
Joseph Rivet
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Max dit Max le Menteur
Razzia
Henri Ferré dit 'Le Nantais'
The Image Book
(archive footage)
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Ferdinand Maréchal, aka 'le Dabe'
La Traversée de Paris
Grandgil, artist painter
Mirror
Pierre Lussac
Port of Shadows
Jean
A Monkey in Winter
Albert Quentin
Golgotha
Ponce Pilate
Lilac
Martousse
Maigret Sees Red
Commissioner Jules Maigret
Daybreak
François
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
The Cat
Julien Bouin
Maigret Sets a Trap
Commissioner Jules Maigret
People of No Importance
Jean Viard
The President
Émile Beaufort
The Gentleman from Epsom
Richard Briand-Charmery
Jury of One
Leguen
Under the Sign of the Bull
Albert Raynal
The Upper Hand
Paul Berger dit Paulo les Diam's
Air of Paris
Victor Le Garrec
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Commissioner Jules Maigret
Hi-Jack Highway
Jean Chape
Love Is My Profession
André Gobillot
Speaking of Murder
Louis Bertain/Louis le blond
The Lower Depths
Pepel Wasska
Action Man
Denis Ferrand
La Bandera
Pierre Gilieth
Killer
Commissioner Le Guen
Moontide
Bobo
The Horse
Auguste Maroilleur
The Old Guard
Jean-Marie Pejat, bicycle repairer
Rue de Paris
Henri Neveu
Blood to the Head
François Cardinaud
The Possessors
Noël Schoudler, le patriarche financier
Monsieur
Monsieur
The Dominici Affair
Gaston Dominici
The Bardot mystery
2012
Holy Year
Max Lambert
That Tender Age
Émile Malhouin
The Case of Dr. Laurent
le docteur Laurent
Lady Killer
Lucien Bourrache, dit 'Gueule d'Amour'
Their Last Night
Pierre Ruffin
Deadlier Than the Male
André Chatelin
The Little Rebels
Julien Lamy
The Moment of Truth
Dr Pierre Richard
The Beautiful Sailor
Le capitaine
Martin Roumagnac
Martin Roumagnac
Goodbye Beautiful Days
Pierre Lavernay
The Gardener of Argenteuil
M. Martin dit « Le père Tulipe »
God's Thunder
Léandre Brassac
The Impostor
Clément / Maurice Lafarge
The Night Is My Kingdom
Raymond Pinsard
The Truth About Bebe Donge
François Donge
La Belle Équipe
Jean dit Jeannot
L'Étoile de Valencia
Pedro Savedra
Zouzou
Jean
The Baron of the Locks
Baron Jérôme Napoléon Antoine
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
Monsieur (archive footage)
Gloria
Robert Nourry
All That Is Not Worth Love
Jean Cordier
Crime and Punishment
Commissaire Gallet
Le Tunnel
Mac Allan
House on the Waterfront
Commander Lequévic
The Walls of Malapaga
Pierre Arrignon
Everyone Has Their Chance
Marcel Grivot
The Darling of Paris
Bob
Coral Reefs
Ted "Trott" Lennard
High and Low
Charles Boulla
Marie of the Port
Henri Chatelard
Maria Chapdelaine
François Paradis
Twelve Hours to Live
Carlo Bacchi
Fun in the Barracks
Fricot
Rhine Virgin
Martin Schmidt, alias Jacques Ledru
For One Night..!
Jean
Storms
il professore Antonio Sanna
Victor
Victor
The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Victor Ploubaz
The Crowd Roars
Joe Greer
Happy Hearts
Charles
The Messenger
Nicolas Dange
Self / Appearances (14)
Sacrée soirée
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Cérémonie des César
Self - President · 1 eps
Cinépanorama
Self · 5 eps
The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self (archive footage)
Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants
Self (archive footage)
Jean Gabin, une âme française
Self (archive footage)
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Self (archive footage)
Jean Moncorgé, la face cachée de Jean Gabin
Self (archive footage)
