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name: "Jacques Boudet"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jacques-boudet"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 April 1935"
died: "15 July 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:14:06.983106+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jacques Boudet

Actor. Born 15 April 1935 in Paris, France. Died 15 July 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 April 1935, Paris, France
- **Died:** 15 July 2024

## Biography

Jacques Boudet (1935–2024) was a French actor who worked extensively in theatre, film and television. He began his stage career in the early 1960s after university theatre, taking part in the decentralisation of French theatre and appearing at the Avignon Festival.

He became known for supporting roles in cinema, notably as the pharmacist in Luc Besson’s *Nikita* (1990) and the Duke de Guermantes in Volker Schlöndorff’s *Un amour de Swann* (1984). Boudet had a long collaboration with director Robert Guédiguian, appearing in more than a dozen of his films, and played recurring characters in the series *Plus belle la vie*. He also portrayed Charles de Gaulle in season two of *The Crown* (2016).

Boudet died at his home in Montpellier on 15 July 2024.

*Sources: imdb.com, lemonde.fr, fr.wikipedia.org, allocine.fr.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nikita* (1990), Fi1m 76, as The Pharmacist — [page](https://film.one/film/nikita.md)

## Also known for

- *Those Happy Days* (2006), Albert
- *Romantics Anonymous* (2010), Rémi
- *Tanguy* (2001), Le juge
- *The Names of Love* (2010), Lucien Martin, le père d'Arthur
- *A Good Doctor* (2019), Mr. Xanakis, the old patient
- *Farewell, My Queen* (2012), Monsieur de la Tour du Pin
- *Farinelli* (1994), Felipe V
- *The Childhood of a Leader* (2016), The Priest

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