---
name: "Jean Aymé"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-ayme"
fi1m_id: "jean-ayme"
imdb_id: "nm0043923"
tmdb_id: 102849
wikidata_id: "Q3170476"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 April 1876"
died: "17 January 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T23:31:01.915516+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."
---

# Jean Aymé

## Identity

Jean Aymé

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-ayme
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-ayme
- **IMDb ID:** nm0043923
- **TMDB ID:** 102849
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3170476
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3170476, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043923/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/102849

Actor. Born 25 April 1876 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Died 17 January 1963.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 April 1876, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- **Died:** 17 January 1963
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1910s 82 (1), 1920s 94 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3170476, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043923/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/102849

## Biography

Jean Aymé (born John Louis Meilliard) was a French actor of Swiss origin. He appeared in more than eighty films between 1911 and 1950, beginning his career with Gaumont under the direction of Louis Feuillade.

He is best known for playing the first Grand Vampire (Le Grand Vampire) in six episodes of Feuillade’s serial *Les Vampires* (1915). Other notable roles include an uncredited judge in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s *The Passion of Joan of Arc* (1928), Monsieur de Fouguerolles in *La Marseillaise* (1938) and Adrien in *Lady Killer* (1937). Aymé also directed the 1919 short *Les Étapes d’une douleur*.

Born on 25 April 1876 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, he died in Paris on 17 January 1963.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris* (1915), Fi1m 82, as The Great Vampire — [page](https://film.one/film/the-vampires-or-the-arch-criminals-of-paris.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Passion of Joan of Arc* (1928), Fi1m 94, as Judge (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lost Souvenirs* (1950), as Boss (uncredited)
- *Just Out* (1949), as Bourgine
- *The Secret of Mayerling* (1949), as Le nonce
- *Fantomas Against Fantomas* (1949), Actor
- *In the Eyes of Memory* (1948), Actor
- *Impasse of Two Angels* (1948), as Guest
- *The End of the Day* (1939), as Victor
- *Mon curé chez les riches* (1938), Actor
- *Katia* (1938), Actor
- *Café de Paris* (1938), Actor
- *Beautiful Star* (1938), as Graillon, fence
- *The Little Thing* (1938), Actor
- *Street Without Joy* (1938), as Level (uncredited)
- *La Marseillaise* (1938), as Monsieur de Fouguerolles
- *Lady Killer* (1937), as Adrien, le valet de chambre
- *Southern Carrier* (1937), as Le joailler
- *Passé à vendre* (1936), Actor
- *Le Secret d'une nuit* (1934), as The director
- *Bach millionnaire* (1933), Actor
- *600,000 francs per month* (1933), as Colchester
- *Die Tochter des Regiments* (1933), as Jerome
- *Le Soir des rois* (1933), as Filon Latour
- *The ingenuous libertine* (1930), Actor
- *The Passion of Joan of Arc* (1928), as Judge (uncredited) — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/film/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc.md)
- *La jalousie du barbouillé* (1927), as Valère
- *La folie du doute* (1923), Actor
- *Les étapes d'une douleur* (1919), Director
- *Blessée au coeur* (1917), Actor
- *The King of the Sea* (1917), Actor
- *La joueuse d'orgue* (1916), Actor
- *The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris* (1915), as The Great Vampire — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-vampires-or-the-arch-criminals-of-paris.md)
- *Son passé* (1913), Actor
- *The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador* (1912), as Maître Létang de Jeandé
- *Hand of Iron* (1912), Actor
- *Graziella la gitane* (1912), Actor
- *The Living Dead* (1912), Actor
- *The Roman Orgy* (1911), as Héliogabale
- *The Defect* (1911), as Alphonse Marnier
- *The Vipers* (1911), Actor
- *La Souris blanche* (1911), Actor
- *Samson and Delilah* (1902), Actor
- *The Vampires: The Ring That Kills*, as Le comte de Noirmoutier

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