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name: "Jo Dest"
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roles: ["Actor"]
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# Jo Dest

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Also known as:** Jodest, Albert Jodest

## Biography

Jo Dest, also credited as Jodest or Albert Jodest, was a film and television actor. He appeared in French and international productions from the 1940s to the 1950s.

His credits include the role of Forster in *The Damned* (1947) and Hans Smerloff in *The Wages of Fear* (1953). Other appearances encompass *Poison Ivy* (1953), *Flesh and the Woman* (1954) and episodes of the series *Foreign Intrigue* (1952–1954).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Wages of Fear* (1953), Fi1m 90, as Hans Smerloff — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wages-of-fear.md)

## Also known for

- *The Damned* (1947), Forster

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