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Jean-François Adam

Actor, Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Born February 14, 1938Died October 14, 1980 (42 years)
Jean-François Adam (1935/1936 – 14 October 1980) was a French actor and director.

Adam was an assistant to French filmmakers François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Melville.

He is known for having played the small role of Colette's lover in the Antoine Doinel saga, and for playing the philosophy teacher in the French drama film Graduate First (1978), directed by Maurice Pialat.

Adam directed the French drama film Return to the Beloved (1979), which stars Isabelle Huppert.

He was also a part-time clown.

Adam was married to Brigitte Fossey, and had a daughter, the actress Marie Adam. At the age of 44 Adam shot himself.

Source: Article "Jean-François Adam" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

  • Vivre sa vie
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • The Soft Skin
  • Le deuxième souffle
  • Antoine and Colette
  • Love at Twenty
  • Return to the Beloved
  • The Secret
  • Graduate First
  • The Army Game

Filmography

1981
Au bon beurre (TV Series) · as L'inspecteur Sanitaire Simonin
1979
Return to the Beloved · as Police Inspector Corbin
1978
Graduate First · as Philosophy Teacher
1974
The Secret · as Claude Vandal
1968
Stolen Kisses · as Albert Tazzi (uncredited)
1967
1962
Antoine and Colette · as Albert Tazzi
1962
Love at Twenty · as Albert Tazzi (segment "antoine Et Colette")
1960
The Army Game · as Un Troupier

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