Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 26, 1927
Died
Jul 05, 1999
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
74 titles
Jean-Pierre Darras
Biography
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. Deeply passionate about Molière, he devoted several productions and writings to him, seeking to reveal the man behind the legend. In cinema, he appeared in notable films such as Le Viager and L’Emmerdeur, where his precise, ironic acting naturally found its place. In 1982, he moved into directing with Le Braconnier de Dieu. Later, he founded a theatre festival in Carpentras with his wife Corinne Lahaye, continuing his commitment to the stage until the end of his life.
Known For
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
Midi trente
Self
the famous escapes
Saint-Marc
The Annuity
Emile Galipeau
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
The Old Maid
Sacha
Fric-Frac
Marcel
Graf Luckner
Wallace
The Wedding Ring
M. Duvernet