Jean Gaven

Not to be confused with Jean Gauvin.

Jean Gaven
Born	(1918-01-16)16 January 1918 Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France
Died	5 May 2014(2014-05-05) (aged 96) Paris, France
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1945-1998
Spouse	Dominique Wilms

Jean Gaven (16 January 1918 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996.^[1]

Life and career

Born in Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France on January 16, 1922, Gaven began acting sometime after the end of World War II, amassing a filmography of more than 60 motion pictures during a career spanning more than five decades. Married to the actress Dominique Wilms, he died at the age of 92 in Paris, France, on May 5, 2014.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1945	Les cadets de l'océan	Albertini, dit Tino
1946	Son of France	Le lieutenant Brévannes
1946	The Murderer is Not Guilty	Le jeune inspecteur Gustave Perkinson
1946	Dropped from Heaven	Robert
1947	Six Hours to Lose	Antoine
1947	Something to Sing About	Jack Bing
1948	Night Express	Un des deux complices
1949	La bataille du feu	Jacques Legrand
1949	At the Grand Balcony	Belfort
1951	Tomorrow We Get Divorced	Johnny Buck
1951	La peau d'un homme	Moussac
1951	They Were Five	Marcel - le boxeur
1951	Duel in Dakar	Fred
1952	Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré	Finot
1952	The Crime of Bouif	Michel
1952	Feather in the Wind	François Bontemps
1953	The Baker of Valorgue	Le curé
1954	The Big Flag	Le lieutenant Lachenal
1954	Obsessio	Alexandre Buisson
1955	The Babes Make the Law	Frédéric Langlet - le mari de Christine
1955	Madonna of the Sleeping Cars	Don Armando Félix
1955	Sophie and the Crime	Ernest Sapinaud
1955	Scandal in Montmartre	Félix Michaux
1956	If All the Guys in the World	Jos - le second
1956	La Loi des rues	André Remoulin dit Dédé la Glace
1957	The River of Three Junks	Capitaine Brichet
1957	The Crucible	Peter Corey
1957	Young Girls Beware	Petit Jo
1958	Les aventuriers du Mékong	Le Scaph
1959	Du rififi chez les femmes	James
1959	Visa pour l'enfer	Carlos
1960	Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit	Paul
1961	Leon Garros ishchet druga	Grégoire
1962	Le bateau d'Émile
1964	Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno	Paul
1965	Trap for Cinderella	Gabriel
1966	Our Men in Bagdad	General Yuri Fiodorenko
1968	Pasha	Marc
1970	Rider on the Rain	Toussaint
1971	Un aller simple	Dietrich
1971	Où est passé Tom?	Anton Caras
1972	And Hope to Die	Rizzio
1975	Histoire d'O	Pierre
1976	Les mal partis	Gargantua
1976	Le trouble-fesses	Un tueur sicilien
1977	The French Woman	Gustave Lucas
1978	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?	Salpetre
1979	Un jour un tueur	Hugo Klein
1981	Signé Furax	L'agent sans panier à salade
1983	One Deadly Summer	Leballech, the boss of the sawmill
1984	Vénus	Waldo
1988	Juillet en septembre	Monsieur Challe
1993	L'oeil écarlate	Etienne Delvaux
1996	Les Bidochon	Maître Nerval	(final film role)

References

1. "Décès de Jean Gaven, le héros de Maurin des Maures - L'Express" (in French). Lexpress.fr. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
2. Lentz IIII, Harris. Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014, p. 126. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2015.

External links

• Jean Gaven at IMDb