Jean-Pierre Darras
Actor
Born November 26, 1927 in Paris, France
Jean‑Pierre Darras, born in 1927 in Paris, turned to theatre early on after studying literature. Trained in the post‑war dramatic centres, he joined Jean Vilar’s TNP, where he learned the discipline of classical repertoire and worked alongside major figures of the French stage. He became known to the wider public through his satirical duo with Philippe Noiret, where his sharp wit and gift for caricature stood out. Darras then built a versatile career: popular comedies, boulevard theatre, ambitious directing projects, and more dramatic roles from the 1980s onward.
Filmography
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
Georges Dandin de Molière
Monsieur de Sottenville
Le Groom
My Mother's Castle
Narrator, Marcel Pagnol (voice)
My Father's Glory
Marcel Pagnol, elderly, narrator (voice)
Diary of a Madman
The director
La Calanque
Francis Cambalette
L'Amour à la lettre
Quentin Granier
Asterix vs. Caesar
(voice)
Le Voleur de feuilles
Mr. Marguerite
Le Braconnier de Dieu
Frisou
Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
Flavacourt
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Le maître de philosophie
Champs-Elysées
Self
For a Cop's Hide
Commissaire Chauffard
Signé Furax
Socrate
Le Chêne d'Allouville
Minister of Culture
La Puce et le privé
Colonel Jean-Hilaire Marcellin
The Impostures of Scapin
Argante
Three Men to Kill
Chocard
L'Hôtel du libre échange
Mathieu
Out of It
Jacques Panivaux, Owner of the Rolls-Royce
Madame le Juge
le commissaire
Parisian Life
Le baron de Gondremark
Genre masculin
Adolphe
Don't Bite, We Love You
'Papy'
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Le ministre
Love and Cool Water
Clément
Forget Me, Mandoline
Gérard Gouttières, aka 'G.G.'
Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Co-Producer
La Décharge
M. Brunet
Beyond Fear
Bourrier
Numéro un
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Apostrophes
Self
Tell Me You Love Me
Lucien Dorgeval
Molière pour rire et pour pleurer
Molière
Folie douce
Jérôme
A Pain in the Ass
Dr. Edgar Fuchs
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Ducros
At the Meeting with Joyous Death
Peron
La Main passe
Étienne Massenay
the famous escapes
Saint-Marc
Midi trente
Self
The Annuity
Emile Galipeau
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
The Old Maid
Sacha
Fric-Frac
Marcel
Graf Luckner
Wallace
The Wedding Ring
M. Duvernet
Elise, or Real Life
Le commissaire
Et qu'ça saute !
Jorge Blanco
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Georges, 'Monsieur le Comte'
L'Amour des 4 colonels
L'homme
A Golden Widow
Rapha
The Fighting Cock
Paoli
Would-Be Gentleman
Le maître de ballet
Azaïs
Félix, professeur de piano
The Tattoo
Lucien, facteur de Montignac
Les Aventures de Lagardère
Peyrolles
Lagardère
Peyrolles
Ami-Ami
Alexandre
Four Queens for an Ace
Detective in Interrogation Room
At Theatre Tonight
Félix, professeur de piano
Diamond Safari
Pascal Moratti
The Other Truth
The commissioner
A Young World
Le professeur d'art dramatique
Lucky Jo
Napo
Monsieur
José, Small-time Crook
A Man Named Rocca
Névada
Les Trois Sœurs
Koulyguine
Two Men in Manhattan
Discorama
Self - Host