- Films
- 16
- Avg rating
- 6.86
- Peak run
- 1955’72
- 7+ run
- 3 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Jean by the numbers
Average
6.86
8 rated films
Vote weighted
6.93
bigger films count more
Median
6.9
half are better
Consistency
±0.67
rating spread
Career
54y
1946 to 1999
Total votes
65.5K
across every film
Best
7.7
Le Doulos
Worst
7.0
A Cop
Newest first
Filmography
| 1999 | La dilettante | Edmond Thibault | · | 747 |
| 1981 |  The Professional | Le ministre | 7.4 | 19,549 |
| 1980 | Pile ou face | Bourgon-Massenet | 6.6 | 1,011 |
| 1979 | Practice Makes Perfect | Charles-Edmond | · | 529 |
| 1973 | The Inheritor | Jean-Pierre Carnavan | 6.3 | 1,616 |
| 1972 |  A Cop | Distinguished gentleman who was robbed a statue | 7.0 | 12,485 |
| 1972 | The Assassination of Trotsky | Alfred Rosmer | 5.7 | 2,153 |
| 1964 | The Soft Skin | Pierre Lachenay | 7.5 | 9,239 |
| 1962 |  Le Doulos | Le commissaire Clain | 7.7 | 13,357 |
| 1961 | The Passion of Slow Fire | Stéphane Blanchon | · | 404 |
| 1959 | 125 rue Montmartre | Commissaire Dodelot | · | 799 |
| 1958 | The Possessors | François Schoudler | · | 805 |
| 1955 | The Grand Maneuver | Victor Duverger | 6.7 | 1,263 |
| 1949 | Occupe-toi d'Amélie..! | Marcel Courbois | · | 266 |
| 1946 | Sylvie and the Ghost | Frederick | · | 592 |
| 1946 | Pastoral Symphony | Jacques Martens - son fils | · | 721 |
Better together?
Jean Desailly's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Jean Desailly
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