Jean Gabin

Acting · 1.8 popularity

Age

122

Movies

111

Born: May 17, 1904 – November 15, 1976
From: Paris, France
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Biography

Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé (born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé), known as Jean Gabin (17 May 1904 – 15 November 1976), was a French actor and singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in several classic films, including Pépé le Moko (1937), La grande illusion (1937), Le Quai des brumes (1938), La bête humaine (1938), Le jour se lève (1939), and Le plaisir (1952). During his career, he twice won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor from the Venice Film Festival, respectively. Gabin was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema. Gabin was born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, the son of Madeleine Petit and Ferdinand Moncorgé, a cafe owner and cabaret entertainer whose stage name was Gabin, which is a first name in French. He grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise (now Val-d'Oise) département, about 22 mi (35 km) north of Paris. He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. Gabin left school early, and worked as a laborer until the age of 19 when he entered show business with a bit part in a Folies Bergère production. He continued performing in a variety of minor roles before going into the military. After completing his military service in the Fusiliers marins, he returned to the entertainment business, working under the stage name of Jean Gabin at whatever was offered in the Parisian music halls and operettas, imitating the singing style of Maurice Chevalier, which was the rage at the time. He was part of a troupe that toured South America, and upon returning to France found work at the Moulin Rouge. His performances started getting noticed, and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in 1928. Two years later Gabin made the transition to sound films in a 1930 Pathé Frères production, Chacun sa chance. Playing secondary roles, he made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. But he only gained real recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine, a 1934 production directed by Julien Duvivier. He was then cast as a romantic hero in the 1936 war drama La Bandera; this second Duvivier-directed film established him as a major star. The next year he teamed up with Duvivier again in the highly successful Pépé le Moko. Its popularity brought Gabin international recognition. That same year he starred in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, an antiwar film that ran at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months. This was followed by another of Renoir's major works, La Bête Humaine (The Human Beast), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by Émile Zola and starring Gabin and Simone Simon, as well as Le Quai Des Brumes (Port of Shadows), one of director Marcel Carné's classics of poetic realism. His rugged charisma could be compared with Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. He divorced his second wife in 1939. ... Source: Article "Jean Gabin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Works

111 films

The Tattoo

19686.4

Les lions

19287.0

Les Misérables

19587.2

Pasha

19686.7

The Counterfeiters of Paris

19617.0

The Sicilian Clan

19697.6

Napoleon

19556.3

Varieté

19356.5

The Magnificent Tramp

19597.0

Grand Illusion

19377.9

Méphisto

19316.6

Pépé le Moko

19377.2

Under the Sign of the Bull

19696.5

Jean Gabin, une âme française

2015

The Image Book

20186.3

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

20228.2

Their Last Night

19535.3

Two Men in Town

19737.1

La Bête Humaine

19387.1

Le Plaisir

19527.5

French Cancan

19557.2

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

20026.5

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

19547.2

Razzia

19556.7

Port of Shadows

19387.4

Any Number Can Win

19637.2

A Monkey in Winter

19627.5

The Cat

19717.4

Stormy Waters

19416.8

Maigret Sees Red

19636.3

La Traversée de Paris

19567.3

Lilac

19325.9

The Night Affair

19586.1

Golgotha

19357.4

Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants

20156.0

Maigret Sets a Trap

19587.0

Rue de Paris

19596.6

Lady Killer

19376.8

Daybreak

19397.6

For One Night..!

19326.7

Goodbye Beautiful Days

19337.0

The Walls of Malapaga

19496.5

Mirror

19477.1

The Possessors

19586.9

Quand Jean devint Renoir

201710.0

Hi-Jack Highway

19556.4

The Gentleman from Epsom

19626.2

The Little Rebels

19556.8

The President

19617.2

Moontide

19426.4

Killer

19725.1

The Upper Hand

19666.3

The Lower Depths

19367.2

That Tender Age

19645.9

The Bardot mystery

201210.0

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

19597.0

The Darling of Paris

19317.7

Crime and Punishment

19567.0

Action Man

19676.0

Marlene Dietrich: Home Movies

2026

L'Étoile de Valencia

193310.0

Ohé! Les valises

19287.0

Zouzou

19346.2

God's Thunder

19656.3

House on the Waterfront

19557.1

Jury of One

19746.4

The Case of Dr. Laurent

19577.0

Love Is My Profession

19586.3

Speaking of Murder

19576.4

Mireille Darc, la femme libre

20188.0

Holy Year

19766.8

The Baron of the Locks

19606.6

Marie of the Port

19505.7

Everyone Has Their Chance

19307.2

The Horse

19706.9

La Bandera

19355.6

People of No Importance

19565.9

The Old Guard

19606.3

Air of Paris

19546.2

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

20116.0

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

20197.0

Deadlier Than the Male

19567.3

La Belle Équipe

19367.4

Monsieur

19646.4

The Gardener of Argenteuil

19666.4

The Moment of Truth

19526.0

Martin Roumagnac

19466.7

All That Is Not Worth Love

19316.3

The Dominici Affair

19736.8

Victor

19517.1

The Impostor

19446.4

Gloria

193110.0

Twelve Hours to Live

19506.2

The Beautiful Sailor

19325.3

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

20027.7

Lino Ventura, la part intime

20187.9

Blood to the Head

19566.3

The Night Is My Kingdom

19516.4

Rhine Virgin

19536.4

Maria Chapdelaine

19347.9

High and Low

19335.7

Storms

19535.9

The Truth About Bebe Donge

19526.9

The Messenger

19377.3

Coral Reefs

19396.6

Jean Moncorgé, la face cachée de Jean Gabin

2010

Le Tunnel

19336.3

The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow

19715.5

Fun in the Barracks

19326.4

Happy Hearts

19327.0

The Crowd Roars

19329.0