Name
Jean Dasté
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1904-08-18
Deathday
1994-10-15 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Biography
Jean Dasté (born Jean Georges Gustave Dasté; 18 September 1904 – 15 October 1994) was a French actor and theatre director.
Although Jean Dasté is best known for his career on stage as both an actor and director in a variety of works including those by Shakespeare and Molière, he made his first appearance on screen in a 1932 Jean Renoir film (Boudu sauvé des eaux), and 57 years later appeared in his final film at the age of 85. He played also the main character in two Jean Vigo movies, L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite. Later, he worked also with Alain Resnais and François Truffaut.
He married Danish-born actress Marie-Hélène Copeau (1902–1994), the daughter of the influential French writer, editor, and drama critic Jacques Copeau (1879–1949) and Agnès Thomsen. In 1947, he became the founding director of the Comedie de St.-Etienne stage company in the town of Saint-Étienne in the Loire department. A college and a theatre in the town are named in his honour.
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Known For
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A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubl...
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A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship....
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A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-cl...
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Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, b...
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At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer love...
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The true story of Victor of Aveyron. In a French forest circa 1798, an abandoned child —...
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- 1977 The Man Who Loved Women as L'urologue
- 1970 The Wild Child as Professor Philippe Pinel
- 1937 Grand Illusion as Teacher
- 1969 Z as Illya Coste
- 1966 The War Is Over as The Man in Charge
- 1983 Les Îles as Jean
- 1979 Utopia as Jean
- 1978 The Green Room as Bernard Humbert
- 1933 Zero for Conduct as Supervisor Huguet
- 1934 L'Atalante as Jean
- 1936 Life Is Ours as L'instituteur / Teacher
- 1932 Boudu Saved from Drowning as L'Étudiant
- 1980 A Week's Vacation as le père de Laurence
- 1936 Under Western Eyes as Georges
- 1938 The Time of the Cherries as Director's son
- 1963 Muriel, or the Time of Return as L'homme à la chèvre / The Goat Man
- 1942 Sideral Cruises as Pépin
- 1943 Picpus as Le clerc (uncredited)
- 1943 A Star to the Sun
- 1943 Adieu Léonard as Porcelain mender
- 1945 The Great Pack as Bailiff (uncredited)
- 1945 St. Val's Mystery as The bailiff
- 1976 The Body of My Enemy as Le gardien du chantier
- 1987 Docile Night as Le chauffeur de taxi
- 1965 Skies Above as Bazin, le savant
- 1974 Les jours gris as The old man
- 1979 Rue du Pied de Grue as Tonton
- 1972 Handsome Face as Cuvrot
- 1941 Stormy Waters as Le radio
- 2012 Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo as Self
- 1976 Little Marcel as Berger
- 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange as Model Maker
- 1980 My American Uncle as M. Louis
- 1987 Sorceress as Christophe
- 1978 Molière as Le grand-père de Molière
- 1989 White Wedding as Concierge
- 1984 Love Unto Death as Dr. Rozier
- 1982 Le Crime d'amour as L'homme de l'asile
- 1979 Pourquoi Patricia as M. Folco
- 1978 Saint-Étienne : ville secrète
