Jacques Gamblin is a French actor.

Life and career

Gamblin studied at the Centre dramatique de Caen (Caen Dramatic Arts Centre).

He was a professional technician in a theater company before he studied at the Comédie de Caen and acted on stage in Brittany at the Totem Theatre in Saint-Brieuc before joining the National Theatre, directed by Pierre de Rennes Debauche. H

He worked with theatre directors including Pierre Claude Yersin, Michel Dubois, Jeanne Champagne, Philippe Adrien, Alfredo Arias, Charles Tordjman, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Gildas Bourdet, and Anne Bourgeois.

He is also the author of plays including The Touch Hardware and hip (1997).

Theater

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! Year

! Title

! Author

! Director

! Notes

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| 1977

| George Dandin ou le Mari confondu

| Molière

| Bernard Lotti

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| 1978

| La Ballade de Billy Peau

| Argile

| Bernard Lotti

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| 1979

| Le Cid

| Pierre Corneille

| Pierre Debauche

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| 1980

| Marion du Faouët

| Robert Angebaud

| Robert Angebaud

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| rowspan=2| 1981

| Borgnefesse

| Louis-Adhémar-Timothée Le Golif

| Jean-Paul Audrain

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| Le Fétichiste

| Michel Tournier

| Anne Pekoslawska

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| 1982

| L'Étang gris

| Daniel Besnehard

| Claude Yersin

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| rowspan=5| 1983

| La Silhouette et l'effigie

| Théophile de Viau & Georges Perec

| Jean-Pierre Sarrazac

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| La Ballade de Billy Peau

| Argile

| Bernard Lotti

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| La Rosalie, Printemps 17

| Jean-Claude Frissung

| Jean-Claude Frissung

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| Where the Cross Is Made

| Eugene O'Neill

| Claude Yersin

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| Actes relatifs à la vie, à la mort et à l'œuvre de <br> Monsieur Raymond Roussel, homme de lettres

| Raymond Roussel & Leonardo Sciascia

| Michel Dubois

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| rowspan=2| 1984

| La Tour d'amour

| Rachilde

| Jeanne Champagne

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| Double Inconstancy

| Pierre de Marivaux

| Michel Dubois

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| rowspan=2| 1986

| La Chasse à l'amour

| Violette Leduc

| Agnès Célérier

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| A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

| Peter Handke

| Jeanne Champagne

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| 1987

| La Ronde

| Arthur Schnitzler

| Alfredo Arias

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| 1988

| La Reconstitution

| Bernard Noël

| Charles Tordjman

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| 1989

| Le Prince travesti

| Pierre de Marivaux

| Jean-Louis Martinelli

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| 1990-1991

| Bérénice

| Jean Racine

| Jacques Lassalle

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| 1991

| L'Annonce faite à Marie

| Paul Claudel

| Philippe Adrien

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| 1991-1993

| Quincailleries

| Jacques Gamblin

| Yves Babin

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| rowspan=2| 1992

| Vendredi, jour de liberté

| Hugo Claus

| Catherine de Seyne

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| The Playboy of the Western World

| John Millington Synge

| Philippe Adrien

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| rowspan=2| 1994

| Est-ouest

| Georges Bensoussan

| Jacques Gamblin

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| Gustave n'est pas moderne

| Armando Llamas

| Philippe Adrien

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| 1996

| The Castle

| Franz Kafka

| Giorgio Barberio Corsetti

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| 1997

| Le Toucher de la hanche

| Jacques Gamblin

| Jean-Michel Isabel

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| 1999-2001

| Raisons de famille

| Gérald Aubert

| Gildas Bourdet

| Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor

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| rowspan=2| 2002

| Maladie

| Tanguy Viel

| Jacques Gamblin

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| Clémence, à mon bras

| Pierre Notte

| Jacques Gamblin

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| 2003

| Images

| Armando Llamas

| Jacques Gamblin

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| 2004-2006

| Entre courir et voler y a qu'un pas papa

| Jacques Gamblin

| Claude Baqué

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| 2007

| Confidences trop intimes

| Jérôme Tonnerre

| Patrice Leconte

| Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor

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| 2007-2009

| Les Diablogues

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| Anne Bourgeois

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| 2008

| Léger au front

| Fernand Léger

| Patrice Alexandre, David Chaillou, ...

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| rowspan=2| 2010-2012

| La nuit sera calme

| Romain Gary

| Jacques Gamblin

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| Tout est normal, mon cœur scintille

| Jacques Gamblin

| Anne Bourgeois

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| 2011-2012

| Gamblin jazze, de Wilde sextete

| Jacques Gamblin

| Jacques Gamblin

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| 2015

| 1 heure 23’14 et 7 centièmes

| Bastien Lefèvre & Jacques Gamblin

| Jacques Gamblin

| Molière Award for Best Actor<br>Nominated - Molière Award for Best One-Man-Show

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| 2015-2017

| Ce que le djazz fait à ma djambe !

| Jacques Gamblin

| Jacques Gamblin

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| 2017-2018

| Je parle à un homme qui ne tient pas en place

| Jacques Gamblin

| Jacques Gamblin

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Filmography

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! Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! Notes

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| 1985

| Hell Train

|

| Roger Hanin

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| 1986

| L'été 36

| Alain Mercier

| Yves Robert

| TV movie

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| 1989

| Périgord noir

| Rémi

| Nicolas Ribowski

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|-

| rowspan=2| 1990

| There Were Days... and Moons

| Husband

| Claude Lelouch

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|-

| Le vagabond des mers

|

| José Varela

| TV Mini-Series

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| rowspan=2| 1991

| Terre rouge

| Tom

| Jérôme Colin & Ève Heinrich

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|-

| Années de plumes, années de plomb

| Mahler

| Nicolas Ribowski

| TV movie

|-

| rowspan=4| 1992

| Adeus Princesa

| Helmut

| Jorge Paixão da Costa

|

|-

| La Belle Histoire

| The young cop

| Claude Lelouch

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|-

| Pont et soupirs

| The man

| Gilles Maillard

| Short

|-

| C'est mon histoire

| Julien Delorme

| Pierre Joassin

| TV series (1 episode)

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| rowspan=4| 1993

| Fausto

| Fausto's father

| Rémy Duchemin

|

|-

| La femme à abattre

| Cow-Boy

| Guy Pinon

|

|-

| Tout ça... pour ça !

| Jacques Grandin

| Claude Lelouch

|

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| Un cercueil pour deux

|

| Jean-Louis Fournier

| TV movie

|-

| rowspan=4| 1994

| Les Braqueuses

| Thierry

| Jean-Paul Salomé

|

|-

| Naissances

|

| Frédéric Graziani

| Short

|-

| Les brouches

| Pierre

| Alain Tasma

| TV movie

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| Couchettes express

| Antoine

| Luc Béraud

| TV movie

|-

| rowspan=4| 1995

| Les Misérables

| The beadle

| Claude Lelouch

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|-

| Au petit Marguery

| Barnabé

| Laurent Bénégui

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|-

| À la vie, à la mort!

| Patrick

| Robert Guédiguian

|

|-

| Sans souci

|

| Jean-Michel Isabel

| Short

|-

| rowspan=5| 1996

| My Man

| 4th Client

| Bertrand Blier

|

|-

| Pédale douce

| Adrien Lemoine

| Gabriel Aghion

| Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor

|-

| Une histoire d'amour à la con

| Gérard Delmont

| Henri-Paul Korchia

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|-

| La bougeotte

| Pierre

| Jean-Claude Morin

| TV movie

|-

| Les clients d'Avrenos

| Bernard de Jonsac

| Philippe Venault

| TV movie

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| rowspan=3| 1997

| Mauvais genre

| Martial Bok

| Laurent Bénégui

|

|-

| Tenue correcte exigée

| Richard Poulenc

| Philippe Lioret

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|-

| Le leçon de Monsieur Paillasson

|

| Michel Fessler

| Short

|-

| 1998

| Dr. Akagi

| Pete

| Shohei Imamura

|

|-

| rowspan=2| 1999

| The Color of Lies

| René Sterne

| Claude Chabrol

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| The Children of the Marshland

| Garris

| Jean Becker

| Cabourg Film Festival - Best Actor

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| rowspan=2| 2001

| Bella ciao

| Orfeo Mancini

| Stéphane Giusti

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| Mademoiselle

| Pierre Cassini

| Philippe Lioret

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| rowspan=2| 2002

| Carnage

| Jacques

| Delphine Gleize

|

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| Safe Conduct

| Jean Devaivre

| Bertrand Tavernier

| Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Bear for Best Actor

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| rowspan=3| 2003

| Dissonances

| Nat

| Jérôme Cornuau

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|-

| The Car Keys

| Himself

| Laurent Baffie

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|-

| À la petite semaine

| Francis

| Sam Karmann

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| rowspan=3| 2004

| Holy Lola

| Dr. Pierre Ceyssac

| Bertrand Tavernier

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| 25 degrés en hiver

| Miguel

| Stéphane Vuillet

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| Le voyageur sans bagage

| Gaston

| Pierre Boutron

| TV movie

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| 2005

| Hell

| Pierre

| Danis Tanović

|

|-

| rowspan=3| 2006

| Serko

| Fragonard

| Joël Farges

|

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| Les irréductibles

| Michel

| Renaud Bertrand

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|-

| Les Brigades du Tigre

| Jules Bonnot

| Jérôme Cornuau

|

|-

| rowspan=4| 2007

| Fragile(s)

| Vince

| Martin Valente

|

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| Nos retrouvailles

| Gabriel

| David Oelhoffen

|

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| The Merry Widow

| Léo Labaume

| Isabelle Mergault

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| Les oubliées

| Captain Christian Janvier

| Hervé Hadmar

| TV Mini-Series

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| 2008

| The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

| Robert Duval

| Rémi Bezançon

| Nominated - César Award for Best Actor

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| rowspan=2| 2009

| Bellamy

| Noël Gentil

| Claude Chabrol

|

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| Moi, Van Gogh

| Vincent van Gogh

| François Bertrand

| Short

|-

| rowspan=2| 2010

| Nous trois

| The father

| Renaud Bertrand

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| The Names of Love

| Arthur Martin

| Michel Leclerc

| Nominated - César Award for Best Actor

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| rowspan=4| 2011

| The First Man

| Jacques Cormery

| Gianni Amelio

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|-

| Holidays by the Sea

| Monsieur Cerf-volant

| Pascal Rabaté

|

|-

| L'infiltré

| Michel Carrat

| Giacomo Battiato

| TV movie

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| Une vie française

| Paul Blick

| Jean-Pierre Sinapi

| TV movie

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| 2012

| Blind Man

| Commandant Lassalle

| Xavier Palud

|

|-

| rowspan=2| 2013

| The Finishers

| Paul Amblard

| Nils Tavernier

|

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| Le jour attendra

| Victor

| Edgar Marie

|

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| rowspan=3| 2014

| 24 Days

| Commandant Delcour

| Alexandre Arcady

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| Hippocrate

| Professor Barois

| Thomas Lilti

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| Weekends in Normandy

| Jean

| Anne Villacèque

|

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| 2015

| En sortant de l'école

| Narrator

| Charlotte Cambon, Alix Fizet, ...

| TV series (13 episodes)

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| rowspan=2| 2016

| Père Fils Thérapie!

| Charles Perronet

| Émile Gaudreault

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|-

| Blaise

| Jacques

| Dimitri Planchon

| TV series (30 episodes)

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| 2018

| L'incroyable histoire du facteur Cheval

| Joseph-Ferdinand Cheval

| Nils Tavernier

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