Jacques Gamblin

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- Name
- Jacques Gamblin
- Birthplace
- Granville, Manche, France
- Occupation
- Actor
- Born
- 1957 · Granville.
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- theatre · cinema
- Known for
- The Children of the Marshland · Tout ça... pour ça ! · Pédale douce
- Honours
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · Molière Award for Best Actor
- Languages
- French
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Jacques Gamblin (born 1957) is a French actor, film actor and film director, among other activities. The actor was born in Granville. Jacques Gamblin is active in cinema and theatre.
Works include Pédale douce and The Children of the Marshland. Languages used include French. The actor received Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Molière Award for Best Actor.
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Biography
Biography
The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is theatre and cinema. Works named in the authority record are The Children of the Marshland, Tout ça. pour ça! and Pédale douce. Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Molière Award for Best Actor.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Jacques Gamblin • Birthplace — Granville, Manche, France • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1977-present Jacques Gamblin is a French actor.
Life and career
Life and career
Gamblin studied at the Centre dramatique de Caen (Caen Dramatic Arts Centre). He was a professional technician in a theater company before he studied at the Comédie de Caen and acted on stage in Brittany at the Totem Theatre in Saint-Brieuc before joining the National Theatre, directed by Pierre de Rennes Debauche. H He worked with theatre directors including Pierre Claude Yersin, Michel Dubois, Jeanne Champagne, Philippe Adrien, Alfredo Arias, Charles Tordjman, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Gildas Bourdet, and Anne Bourgeois. He is also the author of plays including The Touch Hardware and hip (1997).
Theater
Theater
• Year — Title — Author — Director — Notes • 1977 — George Dandin ou le Mari confondu — Molière — Bernard Lotti • 1978 — La Ballade de Billy Peau — Argile — Bernard Lotti • 1979 — Le Cid — Pierre Corneille — Pierre Debauche • 1980 — Marion du Faouët — Robert Angebaud — Robert Angebaud • 1981 — Borgnefesse — Louis-Adhémar-Timothée Le Golif — Jean-Paul Audrain • Le Fétichiste — Michel Tournier — Anne Pekoslawska • 1982 — L'Étang gris — Daniel Besnehard — Claude Yersin • 1983 — La Silhouette et l'effigie — Théophile de Viau & Georges Perec — Jean-Pierre Sarrazac • La Ballade de Billy Peau — Argile — Bernard Lotti • La Rosalie, Printemps 17 — Jean-Claude Frissung — Jean-Claude Frissung • Where the Cross Is Made — Eugene O'Neill — Claude Yersin • Actes relatifs à la vie, à la mort et à l'œuvre de Monsieur Raymond Roussel, homme de lettres — Raymond Roussel & Leonardo Sciascia — Michel Dubois • 1984 — La Tour d'amour — Rachilde — Jeanne Champagne • Double Inconstancy — Pierre de Marivaux — Michel Dubois • 1986 — La Chasse à l'amour — Violette Leduc — Agnès Célérier • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams — Peter Handke — Jeanne Champagne • 1987 — La Ronde — Arthur Schnitzler — Alfredo Arias • 1988 — La Reconstitution — Bernard Noël — Charles Tordjman • 1989 — Le Prince travesti — Pierre de Marivaux — Jean-Louis Martinelli • 1990-1991 — Bérénice — Jean Racine — Jacques Lassalle • 1991 — L'Annonce faite à Marie — Paul Claudel — Philippe Adrien • 1991-1993 — Quincailleries — Jacques Gamblin — Yves Babin • 1992 — Vendredi, jour de liberté — Hugo Claus — Catherine de Seyne • The Playboy of the Western World — John Millington Synge — Philippe Adrien • 1994 — Est-ouest — Georges Bensoussan — Jacques Gamblin • Gustave n'est pas moderne — Armando Llamas — Philippe Adrien • 1996 — The Castle — Franz Kafka — Giorgio Barberio Corsetti • 1997 — Le Toucher de la hanche — Jacques Gamblin — Jean-Michel Isabel • 1999-2001 — Raisons de famille — Gérald Aubert — Gildas Bourdet — Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor • 2002 — Maladie — Tanguy Viel — Jacques Gamblin • Clémence, à mon bras — Pierre Notte — Jacques Gamblin • 2003 — Images — Armando Llamas — Jacques Gamblin • 2004-2006 — Entre courir et voler y a qu'un pas papa — Jacques Gamblin — Claude Baqué • 2007 — Confidences trop intimes — Jérôme Tonnerre — Patrice Leconte — Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor • 2007-2009 — Les Diablogues — Roland Dubillard — Anne Bourgeois • 2008 — Léger au front — Fernand Léger — Patrice Alexandre, David Chaillou,... • 2010-2012 — La nuit sera calme — Romain Gary — Jacques Gamblin • Tout est normal, mon cœur scintille — Jacques Gamblin — Anne Bourgeois • 2011-2012 — Gamblin jazze, de Wilde sextete — Jacques Gamblin — Jacques Gamblin • 2015 — 1 heure 23’14 et 7 centièmes — Bastien Lefèvre & Jacques Gamblin — Jacques Gamblin — Molière Award for Best Actor Nominated - Molière Award for Best One-Man-Show • 2015-2017 — Ce que le djazz fait à ma djambe! — Jacques Gamblin — Jacques Gamblin • 2017-2018 — Je parle à un homme qui ne tient pas en place — Jacques Gamblin — Jacques Gamblin
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Role — Director — Notes • 1985 — Hell Train — Roger Hanin • 1986 — L'été 36 — Alain Mercier — Yves Robert — TV movie • 1989 — Périgord noir — Rémi — Nicolas Ribowski • 1990 — There Were Days... and Moons — Husband — Claude Lelouch • Le vagabond des mers — José Varela — TV Mini-Series • 1991 — Terre rouge — Tom — Jérôme Colin & Ève Heinrich • Années de plumes, années de plomb — Mahler — Nicolas Ribowski — TV movie • 1992 — Adeus Princesa — Helmut — Jorge Paixão da Costa • La Belle Histoire — The young cop — Claude Lelouch • Pont et soupirs — The man — Gilles Maillard — Short • C'est mon histoire — Julien Delorme — Pierre Joassin — TV series (1 episode) • 1993 — Fausto — Fausto's father — Rémy Duchemin • La femme à abattre — Cow-Boy — Guy Pinon • Tout ça... pour ça! — Jacques Grandin — Claude Lelouch • Un cercueil pour deux — Jean-Louis Fournier — TV movie • 1994 — Les Braqueuses — Thierry — Jean-Paul Salomé • Naissances — Frédéric Graziani — Short • Les brouches — Pierre — Alain Tasma — TV movie • Couchettes express — Antoine — Luc Béraud — TV movie • 1995 — Les Misérables — The beadle — Claude Lelouch • Au petit Marguery — Barnabé — Laurent Bénégui • À la vie, à la mort! — Patrick — Robert Guédiguian • Sans souci — Jean-Michel Isabel — Short • 1996 — My Man — 4th Client — Bertrand Blier • Pédale douce — Adrien Lemoine — Gabriel Aghion — Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor • Une histoire d'amour à la con — Gérard Delmont — Henri-Paul Korchia • La bougeotte — Pierre — Jean-Claude Morin — TV movie • Les clients d'Avrenos — Bernard de Jonsac — Philippe Venault — TV movie • 1997 — Mauvais genre — Martial Bok — Laurent Bénégui • Tenue correcte exigée — Richard Poulenc — Philippe Lioret • Le leçon de Monsieur Paillasson — Michel Fessler — Short • 1998 — Dr. Akagi — Pete — Shohei Imamura • 1999 — The Color of Lies — René Sterne — Claude Chabrol • The Children of the Marshland — Garris — Jean Becker — Cabourg Film Festival - Best Actor • 2001 — Bella ciao — Orfeo Mancini — Stéphane Giusti • Mademoiselle — Pierre Cassini — Philippe Lioret • 2002 — Carnage — Jacques — Delphine Gleize • Safe Conduct — Jean Devaivre — Bertrand Tavernier — Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Bear for Best Actor • 2003 — Dissonances — Nat — Jérôme Cornuau • The Car Keys — Himself — Laurent Baffie • À la petite semaine — Francis — Sam Karmann • 2004 — Holy Lola — Dr. Pierre Ceyssac — Bertrand Tavernier • 25 degrés en hiver — Miguel — Stéphane Vuillet • Le voyageur sans bagage — Gaston — Pierre Boutron — TV movie • 2005 — Hell — Pierre — Danis Tanović • 2006 — Serko — Fragonard — Joël Farges • Les irréductibles — Michel — Renaud Bertrand • Les Brigades du Tigre — Jules Bonnot — Jérôme Cornuau • 2007 — Fragile(s) — Vince — Martin Valente • Nos retrouvailles — Gabriel — David Oelhoffen • The Merry Widow — Léo Labaume — Isabelle Mergault • Les oubliées — Captain Christian Janvier — Hervé Hadmar — TV Mini-Series • 2008 — The First Day of the Rest of Your Life — Robert Duval — Rémi Bezançon — Nominated - César Award for Best Actor • 2009 — Bellamy — Noël Gentil — Claude Chabrol • Moi, Van Gogh — Vincent van Gogh — François Bertrand — Short • 2010 — Nous trois — The father — Renaud Bertrand • The Names of Love — Arthur Martin — Michel Leclerc — Nominated - César Award for Best Actor • 2011 — The First Man — Jacques Cormery — Gianni Amelio • Holidays by the Sea — Monsieur Cerf-volant — Pascal Rabaté • L'infiltré — Michel Carrat — Giacomo Battiato — TV movie • Une vie française — Paul Blick — Jean-Pierre Sinapi — TV movie • 2012 — Blind Man — Commandant Lassalle — Xavier Palud • 2013 — The Finishers — Paul Amblard — Nils Tavernier • Le jour attendra — Victor — Edgar Marie • 2014 — 24 Days — Commandant Delcour — Alexandre Arcady • Hippocrate — Professor Barois — Thomas Lilti • Weekends in Normandy — Jean — Anne Villacèque • 2015 — En sortant de l'école — Narrator — Charlotte Cambon, Alix Fizet,... — TV series (13 episodes) • 2016 — Père Fils Thérapie! — Charles Perronet — Émile Gaudreault • Blaise — Jacques — Dimitri Planchon — TV series (30 episodes) • 2018 — L'incroyable histoire du facteur Cheval — Joseph-Ferdinand Cheval — Nils Tavernier
Identity
Identity
Jacques Gamblin is recorded with the occupation theatre director. Recorded with the occupation stage actor. Recorded as having received Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Molière Award for Best Actor.
Life and career
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1957
Jacques Gamblin was born on 16 November 1957.
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