Jean Bouise

Jean Bouise was a French actor, born on 3 June 1929 in le Havre and died on 6 July 1989 in Lyon (8th). Accustomed to supporting roles, he has appeared regularly at the cinema since the mid-1960s until his death. A graduate of the superior School of chemistry of Rouen, Jean Bouise follows a stage theatre in 1950. He then meets with Roger Planchon and participates in the birth of the theatre of the Comédie de Lyon. It is also of the adventure of the théâtre de la Cité of Villeurbanne, became the NPT in 1972. It also interprets the classics of the repertoire (Georges Dandin,Tartuffe, The good Soldier Schweick, etc) that the creations of the director. He won his first film role in 1962 in The Other Cristobal of Armand Gatti, presented at the Cannes film Festival 1963, but never distributed in the room. He then played captain Haddock in Tintin and the blue oranges. From film to film, Jean Bouise becomes one of the supporting roles essential to the French cinema. It appears as well in The Things of the life of Claude protestant redemption church, Monsieur Klein Joseph Losey, Z and L'aveu of Costa-Gavras. His performance in the Old Gun by Robert Enrico won her a first nomination at the César of the best actor in a supporting role in 1976, reward he will receive in 1980 for whim. Subsequently he became one of the actors-idols of Luc Besson : old man who learns again to speak to Pierre Jolivet in The Last Battle, head of the station, in Subway, uncle Louis in the Big Blue and attached to the embassy of the USSR in France in Nikita, which will be his last role. His game withheld, his mustache provided (it does, however, not at the beginning), his deep voice, his small-sighted eyes hidden behind glasses, the intend often roles are disturbing, but also characters full of humanity, in which it is particularly touching. He thus became one of the biggest "second role" of French cinema. He died on 6 July 1989 at the Hospital Léon-Bérard, Lyon, cancer of the lung. "We came so to believe, that he has disappeared without noticing it," notes Luc Besson in his tribute. His latest film, Nikita, that he will never see finished, will be dedicated to him by the director. He is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Hilaire-de-Brens in Isère. He was married to the actress Isabelle Sadoyan.