
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Acting
Biography
Jean-Jacques Moreau is a French actor and screenwriter, born on February 4, 1947, in Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis. His artistic career spans both theater and film. He is distinguished by his versatility and the diversity of his collaborations with numerous renowned directors. In film, Jean-Jacques Moreau has appeared in several notable films, including Gérard Oury's The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, A Few Quiet Gentlemen, Jackal, and Good Kisses, Until Monday. He has also appeared in television productions, playing Leroy-Champier in the miniseries The Big Secret (1989), Duroc in Josephine or the Comedy of Ambitions (1979), and Theo van Gogh in Paul Gauguin (1975). He also appeared in the cult film Diva (1981), where he played the character of Krantz. His presence on stage has been marked by numerous roles in both classical and contemporary works. He has worked under the direction of such leading figures as Gabriel Garran in Bertolt Brecht's The Visions of Simone Machard, Denis Llorca in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Jacques Echantillon in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, a role for which he was nominated for a Molière Best Actor Award. He has also appeared in plays such as Jean-Michel Ribes' The Sycamore Tree Must Flow and Jean Genet's The Balcony. Jean-Jacques Moreau has portrayed a variety of characters, ranging from drama to comedy, both on television and in the theater. His artistic career demonstrates a great adaptability and a pronounced taste for the eclecticism of genres and registers. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with directors and producers both in France and internationally, consolidating his reputation in the world of live performance and audiovisual.
Known For

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Police Commissioner Moulin

Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
Diva

Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
Animal

In search of freedom, Duchess Alexandra, cousin of Empress Sissi, leaves Austria and her violent husband to settle incognito in Paris.
Princesse Alexandra

The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
The Seventh Company Has Been Found

Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
The Discord

Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
There Once Was a Cop

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
Black Venus

Paris Flic and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies in computer-crime. By coincidence Informations about personalities from the high-politics and police-authorities that are involved in organized crime fall into his hands. From than on he's been chased merciless, even having his ex-wife kidnapped to blackmail him. With the help from his new girlfriend he lashes back.
Spécial police

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Let Joy Reign Supreme

After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.
Act of Aggression

Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
The Seventh Target

A French crime anthology show, and one of two entires (with "Intrigues") in the "Drôles d'histoires" umbrella title that ran for 10 years.
Mésaventures

Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
La vie continue

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Des grives aux loups

When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin, a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza, whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau, the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.
Urgence

On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.