--- name: "Jean-Pierre Marielle" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-pierre-marielle" fi1m_id: "jean-pierre-marielle" imdb_id: "nm0547339" tmdb_id: 20795 wikidata_id: "Q739521" roles: ["Actor"] born: "12 April 1932" died: "24 April 2019" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-05T04:11:06.563051+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-Pierre Marielle ## Identity Jean-Pierre Marielle - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-pierre-marielle - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jean-pierre-marielle - **IMDb ID:** nm0547339 - **TMDB ID:** 20795 - **Wikidata ID:** Q739521 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Marielle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0547339/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20795 Actor. Born 12 April 1932 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. Died 24 April 2019. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 12 April 1932, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France - **Died:** 24 April 2019 - **Also known as:** Jean Pierre Marielle, J.P. Marielle - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Marielle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0547339/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20795 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*The Da Vinci Code*](https://film.one/film/the-da-vinci-code.md) (42) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Jean-Pierre Marielle was a French actor. He trained at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique in Paris, where he became friends with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Rochefort, and graduated with a second prize in comedy in 1954. He began his career in theatre, appearing with the Comédie-Française and later with the Compagnie Grenier-Hussenot, and maintained a parallel stage career throughout his life, winning the Molière Award for Best Actor in 1994. Marielle appeared in more than a hundred films from the late 1950s to the 2010s. His credits include *Let's Rob the Bank* (1964), *Coup de Torchon* (1981), *Ménage* (1986), *All the Mornings of the World* (1991), *Micmacs* (2009) and *The Dream Team* (2012). He played Jacques Saunière in *The Da Vinci Code* (2006). He was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 1992. Marielle was married to actress Agathe Natanson from 2003 until his death. He died on 24 April 2019 in Saint-Cloud, France. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Da Vinci Code* (2006), Fi1m 42, as Jacques Saunière — [page](https://film.one/film/the-da-vinci-code.md) ## Complete filmography (128) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Belmondo: The Incorrigible* (2022), Actor - *Two Snails Set Off* (2017), as (voice) - *FantastiCozzi* (2016), as (archive footage) - *Phantom Boy* (2015), as The Man with the Broken Face (voice) - *Capitaine Marleau* (2015), series, as Frantz Meyer - *Do Not Disturb* (2014), as Michel's Father - *Valse à trois* (2014), Actor - *Sex, Love & Therapy* (2014), as Lui-même - *Des roses en hiver* (2014), as Jean - *Indiscrétions* (2013), as Bernard Lefort - *La Fleur de l'âge* (2013), as Hubert Dassonville - *Max* (2013), as Nick - *The Dream Team* (2012), as Titouan Leguennec - *Rondo* (2012), as Abraham - *Second Chances* (2012), as The psychoanalyst - *Bouquet final* (2011), as Jean-Pierre - *Santa's Apprentice* (2010), as Contrary Santa (voice) - *The Skin of Sorrow* (2010), as Oswald - *The Wedding Cake* (2010), as Victor - *Darwin (R)évolution* (2009), as Charles Darwin - *Micmacs* (2009), as Placard - *Elles et moi* (2009), series, as Emile de Montellier - *The Vanishing Point* (2007), as Jean Dussart - *Let's Dance* (2007), as Salomon Bellinsky - *Chez Maupassant* (2007), series, as Sosthène - *The Great Meaulnes* (2006), as M. de Galais - *The Da Vinci Code* (2006), as Jacques Saunière — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/the-da-vinci-code.md) - *Galilée ou L'Amour de Dieu* (2006), as Le Pape Barberini - *Grey Souls* (2005), as Pierre-Ange Destinat - *The Return of James Battle* (2004), as Bosco - *Tomorrow We Move* (2004), as Popernick - *Little Lili* (2003), as Simon - *Madame De...* (2001), as Le général - *Actors* (2000), as Jean-Pierre Marielle - *One 4 All* (1999), as Comissaire Bayard - *Le Nouveau Testament* (1999), as Le docteur Jean Marcellin - *The Pupil* (1996), as Armand - *The Grand Dukes* (1996), as Georges Cox - *Les Milles* (1995), as Commandant Perrochon - *Le Sourire* (1994), as Pierre-François Le Clainche - *The Perfume of Yvonne* (1994), as Dr. René Meinthe - *One, Two, Three, Sun* (1993), as L'homme seul / The lonely man - *Max & Jeremie* (1992), as Almeida - *Dispute in Valladolid* (1992), as Bartolomé de las Casas - *All the Mornings of the World* (1991), as Monsieur de Sainte Colombe - *Uranus* (1990), as Archambaud - *Bouvard et Pécuchet* (1990), as François Bouvard - *Bouvard et Pécuchet* (1990), series, as François Bouvard - *Six crimes sans assassins* (1990), as Darnoncourt - *A Few Days with Me* (1988), as Monsieur Fonfrin - *Un château au soleil* (1988), series, as Artus de Montdeny - *The Two Crocodiles* (1987), as René Boutancard - *The Murderous Months of April* (1987), as Fred - *Ménage* (1986), as The Rich and Depressed Man - *Hold-up* (1985), as Simon Labrosse - *Love on the Quiet* (1985), as Antoine Garnier, industrialist and companion of Jeanne - *Partenaires* (1984), as Gabriel Gallien - *Les Capricieux* (1984), as Simon - *...e la vita continua* (1984), series, as Arnoldo Betocchi - *Outward Signs of Wealth* (1983), as Jérôme Bouvier, expert en comptabilité - *Jamais avant le mariage* (1982), as Patrick Le Kermadec - *L'Indiscrétion* (1982), as Daniel - *Coup de Torchon* (1981), as Le Peron / Le Peron's twin brother - *Asphalt* (1981), as Albert Pourrat - *Pétrole ! Pétrole !* (1981), as Jean-Marie Tardel - *Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel ?* (1980), as Victor Delacroix - *L'entourloupe* (1980), as Castelard - *Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses* (1979), as François Perrin - *One Wild Moment* (1977), as Pierre - *The Accuser* (1977), as Roustev - *As the Moon* (1977), as Pouplard - *Plus ça va, moins ça va* (1977), as Inspecteur Pignon - *Stormtroopers* (1976), as il Milite Ignoto - *Run After Me Until I Catch You* (1976), as Paul - *The Bottom Line* (1976), as Bob Morlock - *Femmes Fatales* (1976), as Paul Dufour - *Cookies* (1975), as Henri Serin, umbrella representative and painter - *The Track* (1975), as Albert Danville - *Let Joy Reign Supreme* (1975), as The Marquis de Pontcallec - *The Common Man* (1975), as Léo Tartaffione - *Tell Me You Love Me* (1974), as Richard le Royer - *No Pockets in a Shroud* (1974), as Doctor Carlille - *How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby* (1974), as Gérard Malempin - *Charlie and His Two Chicks* (1973), as Tony - *Man in the Trunk* (1973), as Major Bloch - *The Crazy Capo Affair* (1973), as Commissaire Martin - *Tom Thumb* (1972), as L'Ogre - *Sex Shop* (1972), as Lucien - *La Chavalanthrope* (1972), as Narrator (voice) - *P'pa je serai serrurier* (1972), as (voice) - *Four Flies on Grey Velvet* (1971), as Gianni Arrosio - *Without Apparent Motive* (1971), as Perry Rupert-Foote - *One Is Always Too Good to Women* (1971), as Mac Cormack - *Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad* (1971), as Maxime - *The Man with Connections* (1970), as Lieutenant Casanova - *Give Her the Moon* (1970), as Léopold Panneton - *The Vixen* (1969), as l'éditeur - *48 Hours of Love* (1969), as Mazoillac - *The Devil by the Tail* (1969), as Jean-Jacques Leroy-Martin, le "play-boy" - *The Man in the Buick* (1968), as Le Marquis - *All Mad About Him* (1967), as Le Révérend-Père Fouquet - *L'Emploi du temps* (1967), as Le narrateur - *Tender Scoundrel* (1966), as Bob - *Trap for the Assassin* (1966), as Lucien de Noirville - *Funny Money* (1966), as Raymond Vernet - *How Not to Rob a Department Store* (1965), as Justin - *The Real Bargain* (1965), as Landrut - *Weekend at Dunkirk* (1964), as Pierson - *Male Companion* (1964), as Balthazar - *Backfire* (1964), as Van Houde - *Relax Yourself Darling* (1964), as David Kouglov - *Que personne ne sorte* (1964), as Jo Adams - *Let's Rob the Bank* (1964), as André Durand-Mareuil - *The Animals* (1963), as Récitant (voice) - *Sweet and Sour* (1963), as Monsieur Rakanowsky - *Banana Peel* (1963), as Paul Reynaldo - *La Nuit des rois* (1962), as Malvolio - *Climates of Love* (1962), as Philippe Marcenat - *Pete the Tender* (1960), as Emile - *Sheep* (1960), as Le chef de la préfecture de police - *Les Trois Sœurs* (1960), as Toujenbach - *Les Joueurs* (1960), as Outiechitelny - *Notre petite ville* (1959), as Morgan - *There Is the Brunette* (1958), as Cauteret - l'inconnu - *Too Many Lovers* (1957), as Reception manager at the Deauville hotel - *Anyone Can Kill Me* (1957), as Lucien, le détenu bavard - *Fernand the Tramp* (1957), Actor - *The Big Bluff* (1957), as Me Philippe Norbert ## Gallery - ![Jean-Pierre Marielle](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-f6d6c78c96f1.jpg) Jean-Pierre Marielle — Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Salon_du_livre_de_Paris_2011_-_Jean-Pierre_Marielle.jpg/1280px-Salon_du_livre_de_Paris_2011_-_Jean-Pierre_Marielle.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jean-Pierre Marielle, invité d'honneur du festival international du film d'Amiens en 2014](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-df0057d1a9a1.jpg) Jean-Pierre Marielle, invité d'honneur du festival international du film d'Amiens en 2014 — MonsieurDisorder, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/JP_Marielle_AMIENS_2014.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jean-Pierre Marielle - Forêt des Livres 2014](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-5882a0755d61.jpg) Jean-Pierre Marielle - Forêt des Livres 2014 — ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Jean-Pierre_Marielle_-_For%C3%AAt_des_Livres_2014_%2815081746046%29.jpg/1280px-Jean-Pierre_Marielle_-_For%C3%AAt_des_Livres_2014_%2815081746046%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jean-Pierre Marielle e Michael Brandon in una scena di Quattro mosche di velluto grigio (1971)](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-cff816ace4ea.jpg) Jean-Pierre Marielle e Michael Brandon in una scena di Quattro mosche di velluto grigio (1971) — Dario Argento (director), Franco Di Giacomo (cinematographer), Seda Spettacoli (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Quattro_mosche_di_velluto_grigio_%281971%29_Jean_Pierre_Marielle_%26_Michael_Brandon_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jean-Pierre Marielle](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-e33ec749c0df.jpg) Jean-Pierre Marielle — Image via TMDB - ![Jean-Pierre Marielle](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-7793b747b570.jpg) Jean-Pierre Marielle — Image via TMDB - ![Jean-Pierre Marielle](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-4078c7197dec.jpg) Jean-Pierre Marielle — Image via TMDB - ![Jean-Pierre Amielle e Michael Brandon in una scena di Quattro mosche di velluto grigio (1971)](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-db518228c374.jpg) Jean-Pierre Amielle e Michael Brandon in una scena di Quattro mosche di velluto grigio (1971) — Dario Argento (director), Franco Di Giacomo (cinematographer), Seda Spettacoli (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Quattro_mosche_di_velluto_grigio_%281971%29_Jean_Pierre_Marielle_%26_Michael_Brandon.jpg/1280px-Quattro_mosche_di_velluto_grigio_%281971%29_Jean_Pierre_Marielle_%26_Michael_Brandon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jean-Pierre Marielle](https://film.one/media/person/5687149/gallery-a4c466032ce2.jpg) Jean-Pierre Marielle — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 5 won, 1 nominated - Honorary Lumière Award 2008: Honorary Lumière Award (won) - Officer of the Legion of Honour 2007: Officer of the Legion of Honour (won) - Officer of the National Order of Merit 1997: Officer of the National Order of Merit (won) - César Award for Best Actor 1976: César Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Cookies* - Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism 1973: Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism (won) - Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism 1969: Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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