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Jean Gabin

1904 - 1976

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Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorgé, known as Jean Gabin (French: [ʒɑ̃ gabɛ̃]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Gabin has received more than 894,130 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Jean Gabin is the 121st most popular actor (down from 110th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from France (down from 274th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Actor.

Jean Gabin is most famous for his role in the French film Pépé le Moko.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jean Gabin ranks 121 out of 13,578. Before him are Monica Bellucci, Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Falk, Jason Statham, Aishwarya Rai, and Kevin Costner. After him are Diane Keaton, Audie Murphy, Charlton Heston, Simone Signoret, Klaus Kinski, and Robert Forster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Jean Gabin ranks 9. Before him are Deng Xiaoping, Pablo Neruda, Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Seuss, Umberto II of Italy, and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. After him are B. F. Skinner, Ève Curie, Johnny Weissmuller, George Gamow, Alexei Kosygin, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Among people deceased in 1976, Jean Gabin ranks 11. Before him are Howard Hughes, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, Zhou Enlai, Fritz Lang, and Max Ernst. After him are Bernard Montgomery, André Malraux, Henrik Dam, Ulrike Meinhof, Man Ray, and J. Paul Getty.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Gabin ranks 317 out of 6,770. Before him are Chlothar I (498), Raymond Poincaré (1860), Claude Lorrain (1600), Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), and Georges Clemenceau (1841). After him are Alphonse Daudet (1840), Diane de Poitiers (1499), Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), and Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Jean Gabin ranks 9. Before him are Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Louis de Funès (1914), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Gérard Depardieu (1948), and Jean Marais (1913). After him are Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Philippe Noiret (1930), Gérard Philipe (1922), Jean Renoir (1894), Fernandel (1903), and Marcel Marceau (1923).

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Television and Movie Roles

Grand Illusion
Le lieutenant Maréchal
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
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The Sicilian Clan
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An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Dec 5o 19697.6 / 10
La Traversée de Paris
Grandgil, artist painter
Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
Oct 26o 19567.2 / 10