Jean-François Calvé (COMEDIENS)
91 Rue Villiers de l’Isle Adam, 75020 Paris, France

Actor Jean-François Calvé studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, making his debut as a young star in both cinema and theatre in 1947. His debut in the theatre was amongst some of the greatest actors at the Comédie-Française in Molière’s Le Misanthrope. In the cinema his first film role was in Les Chouans, directed by Henri Calef, who lived nearby in Rue Jules Dumien. He worked with some of the most famous French directors from the 1950s to the 1970s; notably he embodied the “Faust” of Marguerite de la nuit by Claude Autant-Lara (1955), and played the seducer for Pierre Gaspard-Huit (La mariée est trop belle,1956), and with Michel Deville (Adorable Menteuse in 1962 and The Apartment des Filles in 1963). He twice partnered Brigitte Bardot in the cinema, first in Manina la fille sans voiles (1952), and then La mariée est trop belle (1956). After a 40 year career he retired from acting in 1997.

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