Jacques Boudet

Theatre actor, Jacques Boudet knows a big success in the 80s with Exercises of style deRaymond Queneau, in a staging of Jacques Seiler. But he appears on the big screen in 1971 in the comédieLa Whooping cough), and multiply then small roles. It is found in some of the works of landmark of French cinema, such as The important thing is to love from Zulawski and A strange case of Granier-Deferre. In 1984, he played the Duke of Guermantes in un amour de Swann, the adaptation by the German Schlöndorff from the novel by Marcel Proust. Jacques Boudet has been working with filmmakers as prestigious as Blier, Tavernier, Lelouch or Besson, but it is through the storyteller of l'estaque Robert Guédiguian, he rose to prominence. The actor joined the "family" of the director in marseille as early as the second feature film of it, a Red Midi in 1983, and it will then be his verve and his good-naturedness in almost all of his films. It was thus with Pascale Roberts a couple tender and mischievous in Marius and Jeannette and The town is quiet. Old sea-wolf to the false-airs of Philippe Noiret — in which he plays the brother in "Father and son" by Michel Boujenah, he found in 2004, its director-a fetish for My father is an engineer in which he has for his daughter, the muse of filmmaker, Ariane Ascaride. In 2006, he is the senator mafia opposing Isabelle Huppert faced with The Intoxication of power ' in Claude Chabrol. For Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, it interprets the father taking over from Jean-Paul Rouve in Our happy days, and held a similar role three years later (still with Rouve) in The Coach. Sophie Marceau call on him for his second feature film as a director : The Missing de Deauville (2007), and then he plays the father of the "white " become" black-Agathe Clery. He participates in Lady Jane, was also nominated for the golden Bear of Berlin, before interpreting a new father : Jacques Gamblin in the Names of The people of Michel Leclerc.