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Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Highest Rated: 100% L'Amour Fou (1969)

Lowest Rated: 27% Condorman (1981)

Birthday: Oct 30, 1938

Birthplace: Paris, France

Jean-Pierre Kalfon has frequently appeared in French movies centered on murder, sometimes as an officer of the law and sometimes as the murder victim himself. In "The Cry of the Owl," Claude Chabrol's tale of murder, faked deaths, revenge, and suicide, Kalfon played a police commissioner trying to make sense of the movie's byzantine plot. In François Truffaut's "Confidentially Yours," the last film ever made by the French New Wave director, Kalfon played the murdered Massoulier, whose mysterious death sets off a bizarre police investigation. Kalfon has also played royalty, receiving his second César nomination for his portrayal of Louis XIV in "The King's Daughters," the 2000 film about a woman's attempts to create a boarding school for the daughters of French aristocrats. During his career, he appeared in a couple of American productions. One of these was the 1980 thriller "The Dogs of War." The film was based on Frederick Forsyth's novel of the same name, and depicted a group of mercenaries hired to overthrow an African country's ruling military junta. Interestingly enough, some people suspect that the book was inspired by Forsyth's own involvement in plans to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, though such claims have never been proven.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 92% L'Amour Fou
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94% 75% The Rabbi's Cat
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93% 78% Weekend
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80% 48% Heartbeat Detector
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40% 58% Valley
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27% 65% Condorman
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Briques a Braques
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Vent de panique
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Birds in Peru (Les Oiseaux Vont Mourir Au Peru)
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The Click
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Filmography

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Pantheon Discount 2016 Actor Mirror My Love 2012 le roi Jacob Actor The Rabbi's Cat 94% 75% 2011 Le malka des lions Voice Le chat du rabbin 2011 Le malka des lions Voice Asylum 2008 Le grand patron Actor On the Ropes 2007 Henri Actor I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster 72% 2007 Max Actor Heartbeat Detector 80% 48% 2007 Karl Rose Actor La Question Humaine 2007 Karl Rose Actor La vie d'artiste 2007 Joseph Costals Actor Parc 2007 Le propriétaire Actor American Vertigo 2006 Narrator The Bathers 2003 Actor Lulu 2002 Simon Actor Replay 53% 2001 Walter Amar Actor The King's Daughters 61% 2000 Louis XIV Actor L.A. Without a Map 63% 1998 Jean-Mimi Actor Le Jour et la Nuit 12% 1997 Lucien Actor God, My Mother's Lover, and the Pork-Butcher's Son 1995 Henri Larrieux Actor Briques a Braques 1992 Jean-Philippe Chaumont Actor Et Demain Hollywood 1992 Jean-Philippe Chaumont Actor The Cry of the Owl 37% 1987 Le commissaire/Police commisionneer Actor Vent de panique 1987 Humphries Actor In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal 1986 Docteur Speed Actor The Click 1985 Dr. Fez Actor
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