
Acting
Jun 6, 1947
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Jacques Spiesser
Acting
Biography
Jacques Spiesser (born 7 June 1947) is a French actor. He stars as detective Simon Magellan in the television series Commissaire Magellan. which ran for six seasons in France. After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film debut in 1972 in Nina Companeez's Faustine et le bel été with Muriel Catala. He is best known to English-speaking audiences for playing the role of Gilles in Priceless. Source: Article "Jacques Spiesser" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Feature Films (93)

Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
My Best Friend

A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
Priceless

The story about Pierre Riviere, who tired of the constants demands of her mother to her father decides to kill her, but also his brother and his siste
Je suis Pierre Rivière

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
Black and White in Color

Adrien Daubigny, director at INSEE, warns his wife Anna that he now wants to lead his life by chance. Anna and her two children agree to his leaving. The family must meet again a year later.
Folie suisse

A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.
The Hook

Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.
Coco

Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have him incinerated, following a wish their dad had expressed when he was still alive. But Guy soon starts feeling uncomfortable about this move. Haven't they, by cremating the body of their father, make a hero disappear from man's memory? Haven't they used the same method as the Nazis to get rid of the remains of a hated enemy?
De l'histoire ancienne

A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer.
Preuve d'amour

A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
Baxter
Television & Series (28)

The Section de recherches is a special unit of the Gendarmerie nationale, responsible for the most complex cases. In Bordeaux (from 2006 to 2013) and then in Nice (since 2014), child abductions, disappearances, heinous or sexual crimes are the daily lot of the investigators in this research unit. In the search for witnesses, the team is authorised to extend its investigations beyond France's borders.
Research Unit

A French police inspector solves crimes and mysteries while also raising two teenage daughters.
Magellan

Set in and around Bagdad of the old times ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES is the highly entertaining tale of kind but luckless Ali, played by French superstar Gérard Jugnor who finds himself unwilling in the centre of multiple difficult situations.
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

In the Marseille region, a woman returns home for her father's birthday, only to be swept into a chilling investigation. As a string of seemingly random murders unfolds, Esther races against time to uncover the truth behind the elusive Zodiac killer.










