---
name: "Jean Lanier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-lanier"
fi1m_id: "jean-lanier"
imdb_id: "nm0486821"
tmdb_id: 18816
wikidata_id: "Q3172982"
roles: []
born: "2 August 1913"
died: "9 April 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:24:17.814673+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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# Jean Lanier

## Identity

Jean Lanier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-lanier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-lanier
- **IMDb ID:** nm0486821
- **TMDB ID:** 18816
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3172982
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3172982, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486821/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18816

Actor. Born 2 August 1913 in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. Died 9 April 1999.

## Details

- **Born:** 2 August 1913, Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
- **Died:** 9 April 1999
- **Also known as:** J. Lanier, Jean Lannier, Jean Le Boulaire, Eugène Le Boulaire
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3172982, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486821/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18816

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Last Year at Marienbad*](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md) (82)

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## Biography

Jean Lanier (also credited as J. Lanier, Jean Lannier or Jean Le Boulaire) was a French actor born on 2 August 1913 in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis. He appeared in supporting roles in French cinema and television from the 1940s to the 1980s.

His credits include *Children of Paradise* (1945), *The Lovers of Montparnasse* (1958), *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961) as a hotel guest, *The Soft Skin* (1964), *The Toy* (1976), *Pardon Mon Affaire* (1976), *My New Partner* (1984) and *The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent* (1984). He also had television roles, notably recurring appearances in *Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret*.

Lanier trained as a violinist. Under his birth name Eugène Le Boulaire he performed in the premiere of Olivier Messiaen's *Quartet for the End of Time* in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1941. He died on 9 April 1999 in Paris.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961), Fi1m 82, as A Character from the Hotel — [page](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md)

## Complete filmography (52)

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

- *Fleur de cactus* (1989), as Monsieur Cochet
- *Châteauvallon* (1985), series, Actor
- *The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent* (1984), as Gaston Lefebure
- *My New Partner* (1984), as L'officiel
- *L'Homme fragile* (1981), as Luguet
- *L'entourloupe* (1980), as le marquis
- *Charles Clément, canut de Lyon* (1979), as Bouvier-Dumolard
- *The Toy* (1976), as Head waiter
- *Pardon Mon Affaire* (1976), as Deschanels
- *The Twist* (1976), as 2nd Guest
- *Doctor Justice* (1975), Actor
- *Ces grappes de ma vigne* (1975), series, as Basile
- *The Irony of Chance* (1974), as Hauteclaire
- *Lucien Leuwen* (1973), series, as Le colonel de Saint-Mégrin
- *The Accursed Kings* (1972), series, as L'Évêque Adam Orleton
- *Lancelot of the Lake* (1970), as l'aveugle
- *The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret* (1967), series, as Le directeur de la P.J.
- *The Sleeping Sentinel* (1966), as Duromel
- *Le bluffeur* (1964), Actor
- *The Soft Skin* (1964), as Michel
- *Quatrevingt-treize* (1962), as Grand Francoeur
- *Font-aux-Cabres* (1962), as Corregidor
- *Le Scorpion* (1962), Actor
- *The Little Boy from the Lift* (1962), Actor
- *Cartouche* (1962), Actor
- *Lafayette* (1962), as Rochambeau
- *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961), as A Character from the Hotel — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md)
- *Blood on His Sword* (1961), as Un évêque
- *Marie of the Isles* (1960), as (uncredited)
- *The Possessors* (1958), as Voisart, l'agent de change de Lucien
- *Provincial Chronicle* (1958), Actor
- *Women's Prison* (1958), Actor
- *The Lovers of Montparnasse* (1958), as Monsieur Hébuterne
- *The Wages of Sin* (1956), as Pastor
- *A Missionary* (1955), Actor
- *Hi-Jack Highway* (1955), as Le second commissaire (uncredited)
- *Queen Margot* (1954), as Ambroise Paré
- *La Cage aux souris* (1954), as Resistant doctor (uncredited)
- *Rasputin* (1954), as Le docteur
- *The Big Flag* (1954), as Paul Aubry
- *The Drunkard* (1953), as Professor (uncredited)
- *The Call of Destiny* (1953), as Crespi, l'ami
- *Dr. Schweitzer* (1952), as Monsieur Cristal
- *Rayés des vivants* (1952), Actor
- *Secret Document: Vienna* (1950), as Military Attaché von Kellendorf
- *Ève et le serpent* (1949), as Notary
- *The Dream Vagabonds* (1949), as Dalcourt
- *Dr. Laennec* (1949), as Docteur Louis
- *Une belle garce* (1947), as Tamer
- *Alert Nights* (1946), as (uncredited)
- *The Ideal Couple* (1946), as Justex
- *Children of Paradise* (1945), as Iago - dans la représentation d' "Othello" (uncredited)

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