1904-05-17 Paris, France
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.
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau | Self (archive footage) | 2019-05-07 |
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Mireille Darc, la femme libre | Monsieur (archive footage) | 2018-08-24 |
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Le Livre d'image | (archive footage) | 2018-10-11 |
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Lino Ventura, la part intime | Self (archive footage) | 2018-02-04 |
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Quand Jean devint Renoir | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-30 |
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Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants | Self (archive footage) | 2015-01-12 |
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Jean Gabin, une âme française | Self (archive footage) | 2015-12-25 |
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self (archive footage) | 2011-10-25 |
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Jean Moncorgé, la face cachée de Jean Gabin | Self (archive footage) | 2010-06-01 |
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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes | Self (archive footage) | 2002-09-01 |
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-03-21 |
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L'Année sainte | Max Lambert | 1976-04-23 |
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Verdict | Leguen | 1974-09-11 |
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Deux hommes dans la ville | Germain Cazeneuve | 1973-10-24 |
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L'Affaire Dominici | Gaston Dominici | 1973-03-07 |
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Le tueur | Commissioner Le Guen | 1972-03-01 |
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Le Chat | Julien Bouin | 1971-04-24 |
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Le drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite | Victor Ploubaz | 1971-10-13 |
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La Horse | Auguste Maroilleur | 1970-02-22 |
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Sous le signe du taureau | Albert Raynal | 1969-03-28 |
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Le Clan des Siciliens | Vittorio Manalese | 1969-12-05 |
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Le pacha | Comissaire Joss, le Pacha | 1968-03-14 |
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Le Tatoué | Count Enguerand de Montignac,aka 'Legrain' | 1968-08-17 |
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Le Soleil des voyous | Denis Ferrand | 1967-05-31 |
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Du rififi à Paname | Paul Berger dit Paulo les Diam's | 1966-03-02 |
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Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil | M. Martin dit « Le père Tulipe » | 1966-10-07 |
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Le Tonnerre de Dieu | Léandre Brassac | 1965-09-08 |
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Monsieur | Monsieur | 1964-04-22 |
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L'Âge ingrat | Émile Malhouin | 1964-12-23 |
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Maigret voit rouge | Commissaire Jules Maigret | 1963-09-18 |
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Mélodie en sous-sol | Charles | 1963-03-19 |
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Le Gentleman d'Epsom | Richard Briand-Charmery | 1962-10-03 |
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Un singe en hiver | Albert Quentin | 1962-07-29 |
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Le cave se rebiffe | Ferdinand Maréchal, aka 'le Dabe' | 1961-09-27 |
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Le Président | Emile Beaufort | 1961-03-01 |
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Le Baron de l'écluse | Baron Jérôme Napoléon Antoine | 1960-04-13 |
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Les Vieux de la vieille | Jean-Marie Pejat, bicycle repairer | 1960-09-02 |
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Rue des Prairies | Henri Neveu | 1959-10-21 |
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Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre | Commissioner Jules Maigret | 1959-09-02 |
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Archimède le clochard | Joseph, Hugues Guillaume Boutier-Blainville dit : Archimède | 1959-04-08 |
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Les Grandes Familles | Noël Schoudler, le patriarche financier | 1958-11-19 |
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Maigret tend un piège | Commissaire Maigret | 1958-01-29 |
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En cas de malheur | Maître André Gobillot | 1958-09-17 |
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Le Désordre et la Nuit | Inspecteur Georges Vallois | 1958-05-14 |
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Les Misérables | Jean Valjean / Champmathieu | 1958-03-12 |
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Le rouge est mis | Louis Bertain/Louis le blond | 1957-04-12 |
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Le Cas du docteur Laurent | le docteur Laurent | 1957-04-03 |
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Crime et châtiment | Commissaire Gallet | 1956-12-04 |
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Des gens sans importance | Jean Viard | 1956-02-15 |
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Voici le temps des assassins... | André Chatelin | 1956-04-13 |
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La Traversée de Paris | Grandgil, artist painter | 1956-10-26 |
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Le Sang à la tête | François Cardinaud | 1956-08-20 |
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Napoléon | Marshal Jean Lannes | 1955-03-25 |
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Razzia sur la Chnouf | Henri Ferré dit 'Le Nantais' | 1955-04-07 |
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Gas-oil | Jean Chape | 1955-10-18 |
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Chiens perdus sans collier | Julien Lamy | 1955-10-21 |
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French Cancan | Henri Danglard | 1955-04-09 |
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Port du désir | Commander Lequévic | 1955-04-15 |
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Touchez pas au grisbi | Max dit Max le Menteur | 1954-03-17 |
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L'Air de Paris | Victor Le Garrec | 1954-09-24 |
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Bufere | il professore Antonio Sanna | 1953-05-29 |
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Leur dernière nuit | Pierre Ruffin | 1953-10-23 |
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La Vierge du Rhin | Martin Schmidt, alias Jacques Ledru | 1953-11-13 |
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La Vérité sur Bébé Donge | François Donge | 1952-02-13 |
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La Minute de vérité | Dr Pierre Richard | 1952-10-22 |
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Le Plaisir | Joseph Rivet | 1952-02-29 |
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La nuit est mon royaume | Raymond Pinsard | 1951-08-09 |
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Victor | Victor | 1951-06-13 |
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È più facile che un cammello... | Carlo Bacchi | 1950-10-19 |
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La Marie du port | Henri Chatelard | 1950-02-27 |
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Au-delà des grilles | Pierre Arrignon | 1949-09-19 |
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Miroir | Pierre Lussac | 1947-05-02 |
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Martin Roumagnac | Martin Roumagnac | 1946-12-18 |
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The Impostor | Clément / Maurice Lafarge | 1944-02-10 |
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Moontide | Bobo | 1942-05-29 |
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Remorques | Le capitaine André Laurent | 1941-11-27 |
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Le Récif de corail | Ted "Trott" Lennard | 1939-03-01 |
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Le jour se lève | François | 1939-06-09 |
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La Bête humaine | Lantier | 1938-12-23 |
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Le quai des brumes | Jean | 1938-05-17 |
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Le Messager | Nicolas Dange | 1937-09-02 |
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Pépé le Moko | Pépé le Moko | 1937-01-28 |
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Gueule d'amour | Lucien Bourrache, dit 'Gueule d'Amour' | 1937-09-15 |
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La Grande Illusion | Le lieutenant Maréchal | 1937-06-04 |
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La Belle Équipe | Jean dit Jeannot | 1936-09-01 |
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Les Bas-fonds | Pepel Wasska | 1936-12-11 |
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Varieté | Georges | 1935-10-04 |
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La Bandera | Pierre Gilieth | 1935-09-25 |
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Golgotha | Ponce Pilate | 1935-01-01 |
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Maria Chapdelaine | François Paradis | 1934-12-14 |
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Zouzou | Jean | 1934-12-21 |
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Adieu les beaux jours | Pierre Lavernay | 1933-09-03 |
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L'Étoile de Valencia | Pedro Savedra | 1933-06-16 |
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Du haut en bas | Charles Boulla | 1933-12-08 |
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Le Tunnel | Mac Allan | 1933-12-15 |
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Cœur de Lilas | Martousse | 1932-03-13 |
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Les Gaîtés de l'escadron | Fricot | 1932-09-18 |
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Pour un soir | Jean | 1932-01-29 |
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La foule hurle | Joe Greer | 1932-10-11 |
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La Belle Marinière | Le capitaine | 1932-12-02 |
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Cœurs joyeux | Charles | 1932-12-02 |
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Gloria | Robert Nourry | 1931-10-30 |
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Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour | Jean Cordier | 1931-10-15 |
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Paris-béguin | Bob | 1931-10-09 |
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Méphisto | Jacques Miral | 1931-04-17 |
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Chacun sa chance | Marcel Grivot | 1930-12-19 |
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Ohé! Les valises | 1928-12-30 | |
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Les lions | 1928-12-31 |
