Jean Gaven

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| name = Jean Gaven

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|1|16|df=y|}}

| birth_place = Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|5|5|1918|1|16|df=y}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| spouse = Dominique Wilms

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1945-1998}}

Jean Gaven (16 January 1918 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/cinema/deces-de-jean-gaven-le-hero-de-maurin-des-maures_1536084.html|title=Décès de Jean Gaven, le héros de Maurin des Maures - L'Express|date=6 May 2014 |publisher=Lexpress.fr|accessdate=6 May 2014|language=French}}

Life and career

Born in Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France on January 16, 1922, Gaven began acting sometime after the end of World War II, amassing a filmography of more than 60 motion pictures during a career spanning more than five decades. Married to the actress Dominique Wilms, he died at the age of 92 in Paris, France, on May 5, 2014.Lentz IIII, Harris. [https://books.google.com/books?id=11diCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Dominique+Wilms%22+and+actress&pg=PA126 Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014], p. 126. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2015.

Filmography

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Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1945 \|Les cadets de l'océan \|Albertini, dit Tino \|
1946 \|Son of France \|Le lieutenant Brévannes \|
1946 \|The Murderer is Not Guilty \|Le jeune inspecteur Gustave Perkinson \|
1946 \|Dropped from Heaven \|Robert \|
1947 \|Six Hours to Lose \|Antoine \|
1947 \| Something to Sing About \|Jack Bing \|
1948 \| Night Express \|Un des deux complices \|
1949 \|La bataille du feu \|Jacques Legrand \|
1949 \| At the Grand Balcony \|Belfort \|
1951 \| Tomorrow We Get Divorced \|Johnny Buck \|
1951 \|La peau d'un homme \|Moussac \|
1951 \| They Were Five \|Marcel - le boxeur \|
1951 \|Duel in Dakar \|Fred \|
1952 \|Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré \|Finot \|
1952 \| The Crime of Bouif \|Michel \|
1952 \| Feather in the Wind \|François Bontemps \|
1953 \| The Baker of Valorgue \|Le curé \|
1954 \| The Big Flag \|Le lieutenant Lachenal \|
1954 \|Obsessio \|Alexandre Buisson \|
1955 \| The Babes Make the Law \|Frédéric Langlet - le mari de Christine \|
1955 \|Madonna of the Sleeping Cars \|Don Armando Félix \|
1955 \| Sophie and the Crime \|Ernest Sapinaud \|
1955 \| Scandal in Montmartre \|Félix Michaux \|
1956 \|If All the Guys in the World \|Jos - le second \|
1956 \|La Loi des rues \|André Remoulin dit Dédé la Glace \|
1957 \|The River of Three Junks \|Capitaine Brichet \|
1957 \|The Crucible \|Peter Corey \|
1957 \|Young Girls Beware \|Petit Jo \|
1958 \|Les aventuriers du Mékong \|Le Scaph \|
1959 \|Du rififi chez les femmes \|James \|
1959 \|Visa pour l'enfer \|Carlos \|
1960 \|Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit \|Paul \|
1961 \|Leon Garros ishchet druga \|Grégoire \|
1962 \|Le bateau d'Émile \| \|
1964 \|Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno \|Paul \|
1965 \|Trap for Cinderella \|Gabriel \|
1966 \|Our Men in Bagdad \|General Yuri Fiodorenko \|
1968 \|Pasha \|Marc \|
1970 \|Rider on the Rain \|Toussaint \|
1971 \|Un aller simple \|Dietrich \|
1971 \|Où est passé Tom? \|Anton Caras \|
1972 \|And Hope to Die \|Rizzio \|
1975 \|Histoire d'O \|Pierre \|
1976 \|Les mal partis \|Gargantua \|
1976 \|Le trouble-fesses \|Un tueur sicilien \|
1977 \|The French Woman \|Gustave Lucas \|
1978 \|Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? \|Salpetre \|
1979 \|Un jour un tueur \|Hugo Klein \|
1981 \|Signé Furax \|L'agent sans panier à salade \|
1983 \|One Deadly Summer \|Leballech, the boss of the sawmill \|
1984 \|Vénus \|Waldo \|
1988 \|Juillet en septembre \|Monsieur Challe \|
1993 \|L'oeil écarlate \|Etienne Delvaux \|
1996 \|Les Bidochon \|Maître Nerval \|(final film role)

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Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1945

|Les cadets de l'océan

|Albertini, dit Tino

1946

|Son of France

|Le lieutenant Brévannes