- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 18, 1940
- Place of Birth
- Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France
- Died
- April 6, 2018
Jacques Higelin
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Higelin was born on 18 October 1940. His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian descent, introduced his two sons to various forms of music, while his mother, Renée, of Belgian descent, raised them both. Higelin's entertainment career began at age 14, when he left school to work as a stunt double. While playing a number of minor roles in motion pictures, Higelin was taught to play the guitar by Henri Crolla, a French-Italian jazz guitarist and a composer of film scores. By the early 1960s, Higelin was attending the René Simon drama school, where he won the François Perier award. For two years beginning in 1961, Higelin served in the French military in various countries. Upon returning to France, he resumed his film career but increasingly be…
Filmography
movieCe que le temps a donné à l'homme
2014 · Self
movieBrigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité
2013 · Self
movieJappeloup
2013 · Henry Dalio, first owner of Jappeloup
tvColette, une femme libre
2004 · Georges Wague
movieRaining Cats and Frogs
2003 · Le lion (voice)
tvVivement dimanche
1998 · Self
movieUn homme à la mer
1993 · Pierre
movieLest We Forget
1991 · Self (segment "Pour Vera Chirwa, Malawi")
tvLes Nuls, l'émission
1990 · Self
movieSavannah
1988 · Colin
tvLe monde est à vous
1987 · Self
tvSacrée soirée
1987 · Self
tvNulle part ailleurs
1987 · Self
tvVictoires de la musique
1985 · Self
tvChamps-Elysées
1982 · Self
movieLa bande du Rex
1980 · Daniel Pautard aka 'Frankie Mégalo'
tvNuméro un
1975 · Self, Self (archive footage)
tvLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
tvApostrophes
1975 · Self
tvRockpalast
1974 · Self (piano vocal)
movieGuitare au poing
1973
movieSalut, voleurs!
1973 · Charlie
movieThe Suburbs Are Everywhere
1973 · Bernard Réval
movieThe Year 01
1973 · The banjo singer
tvLe Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Léa in Winter
movieLéa in Winter
1971 · Harold
movieSeven Days Somewhere Else
1969 · Jacques
movieErotissimo
1969 · Bob
movieWe Won't Go to the Woods Anymore
1969 · Simon
movieL'art de la turlute
1969
movieThe Surrounded
1968 · Jean-Claude Dessay, Original Music Composer
movieCrime on a Summer Morning
1965 · Le motard
movieBebert and the Train
1963 · Tiennot Martin
movieMechanical Concerto for Madness or Mad Mechanomorphosis
1963 · The man
movieSaint-Tropez Blues
1961 · Jean-Paul Capelier
movieLe bonheur est pour demain
1961 · Alain
movieGreen Harvest
1959 · Mercadier
movieAtomic Agent
1959 · Loulou
tvDiscorama
1959 · Self