Jean Gaven
Jean Gaven (16 January 1922 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996.
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.548 |
| Birthday | 1922-01-16 |
| Place of Birth | Saint-Rome de Cernon, Aveyron, France |
| Also Known As | Жан Гавен, |
1957
The Witches of Salem
6.974/39
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon...
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The Witches of Salem
1975
The Story of O
5.628/145
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...
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The Story of O
1954
Obsession
6.5/10
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is inj...
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Obsession
1962
Emile's Boat
6.4/8
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been dr...
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Emile's Boat
1978
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
6.042/83
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each...
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1953
The Wild Oat
6.722/18
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's...
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The Wild Oat
1968
Pasha
6.714/96
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss lo...
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Pasha
1972
And Hope to Die
6.3/21
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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And Hope to Die
1952
Feather in the Wind
0/0
Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Mad...
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Feather in the Wind
1955
The Babes Make the Law
5.3/3
When Nathalie, a shoe seller, is abducted, her mother Flora wastes no time taking matters into her own hands. Reluctant to call in the police, she gal...
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The Babes Make the Law
1959
Riff Raff Girls
5.8/6
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge o...
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Riff Raff Girls
1956
Law of the Streets
6/1
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere frie...
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Law of the Streets
1970
Rider on the Rain
6.4/84
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
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Rider on the Rain
1981
Signé Furax
4.654/13
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
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Signé Furax
1965
A Trap for Cinderella
6.1/17
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.
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A Trap for Cinderella
1977
Madame Claude
4.8/15
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any...
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Madame Claude
1971
One Way Ticket
5.2/7
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and pro...
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One Way Ticket
1956
If All the Guys in the World...
7/11
A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.
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If All the Guys in the World...
1957
Young Girls Beware
5.3/7
Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta...
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Young Girls Beware
1957
The River of Three Junks
1/1
In Saigon, the heads of the French counter-espionage network replace the secretary of dangerous traffickers with one of their agents to uncover a trad...
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The River of Three Junks
1966
Our Men in Bagdad
0/0
The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the count...
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Our Men in Bagdad
1984
Venus on Fire
3.5/2
Two American executives for a cosmetics company travel to the Greek islands in search for a model for their new line of suntan lotion, "Venus". They r...
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Venus on Fire
1983
One Deadly Summer
6.944/188
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone no...
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One Deadly Summer
1945
Les Cadets de l'océan
6/1
In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and experts of the Navy is punctuated by permissions in to...
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Les Cadets de l'océan
1955
La madone des sleepings
3/1
Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury trains, earning her nickname. One of her riches, a...
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La madone des sleepings
1947
Six Hours to Lose
5.2/4
A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is...
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Six Hours to Lose
1958
Adventures in Indochina
1/1
A bunch of losers who can afford the price of the boat travel to Marseille are hired by a blonde woman for a mysterious mission in the jungle.
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Adventures in Indochina
1976
The Groper
1.3/3
Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thi...
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The Groper
1955
Girl on the Third Floor
5/5
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
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Girl on the Third Floor
1961
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
10/1
During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalis...
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Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
1951
La peau d’un homme
0/0
Simone's friend is murdered and the young woman is implicated. A journalist, Bernard Landry, succeeds in proving her innocence before being himself un...
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La peau d’un homme
1952
They Were Five
5.2/4
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the c...
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They Were Five
1946
Dropped from Heaven
5/1
Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay, h...
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Dropped from Heaven
1946
The Murderer Is Not Guilty
8.3/3
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his ne...
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
1959
Minuit treize
8/1
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Minuit treize
1994
The Eagle and the Horse
0/0
French Canadian TV-Movie
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The Eagle and the Horse
1986
Fred connexion
0/0
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Fred connexion
1996
Les Bidochon
3.2/6
Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur,...
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Les Bidochon
1993
L'Œil écarlate
3/3
An unorthodox police commissioner investigates the suspicious death of a man run over by a train.
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L'Œil écarlate
1971
Where Did Tom Go?
6.3/3
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested...
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Where Did Tom Go?
1946
Son of France
0/0
The crew of a tank from the 1st French army took part in the liberation of Strasbourg during the fall of 1944.
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Son of France
1947
History of Singing
0/0
Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and drug...
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History of Singing
1948
Rapide de nuit
0/0
Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands everyt...
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Rapide de nuit
1949
La Bataille du feu
0/0
Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the savi...
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La Bataille du feu
1949
At the Grand Balcony
6.4/9
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions o...
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At the Grand Balcony
1951
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
0/0
Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the disput...
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Tomorrow We Get Divorced
1951
Duel à Dakar
0/0
Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage...
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Duel à Dakar
1952
Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré
0/0
André, Pierre, Finot and Le Guen are cadets in the Fort Carré Military Academy of Antibes and they are the best friends in the world. One of them, And...
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Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré
1952
Le crime du Bouif
0/0
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
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Le crime du Bouif
1959
Visa to Hell
0/0
The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account wi...
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Visa to Hell
1954
The Big Flag
0/0
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a l...
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The Big Flag
1988
Juillet en septembre
1/1
Juillet is a young orphan girl who returns to the town she was born in to find her mother. She tries to befriend her yuppie neighbors Marie and Jacque...
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Juillet en septembre
1955
La Môme Pigalle
1.5/2
Released from prison, Arlette returns to her job as a cabaret star. The police try to get her to confess where the stolen jewels are hidden.
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La Môme Pigalle
1960
Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
0/0
A young girl, Christiane, leaves her family to join friends with whom she intends to "make a life". Two boys, Jo and Paul, look after the heroine, who...
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Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
1976
Bad Starters
6/4
15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and li...
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Bad Starters
1962
Emile's Boat
6.4/8
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been dr...
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