Biography: life and films
Jean-François Balmer is a Swiss actor. He was born in Valangin, Switzerland on 18th April 1946.His best films as an actor include Alain Corneau's crime-thriller La Menace (1977), Jacques Bral's comedy-thriller Polar (1984), Charles Matton's La Lumière des étoiles mortes (1994), Raoul Ruiz's Ce jour-là (2003) and Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan's Lucifer et moi (2009).
Jean-François Balmer has so far appeared in 64 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Claude Chabrol (4 films), Jacques Bral (3), Robert Enrico (2), Raoul Ruiz (2) and Jean-Paul Salomé (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (35 films), Thriller (14), comedy-drama (11), crime-thriller (10), comedy (9), romance (8), comedy-thriller (4), War (4), history (3), comedy-romance (3) and Fantasy (2).
Our average rating for Jean-François Balmer over all films is: 2.8
Filmography
Key: a = actor
R.A.S. (1973) [a]
Le Petit Marcel (1976) [a]
Les Naufragés de l'île de la Tortue (1976) [a]
La Menace (1977) [a]
Ils sont grands, ces petits (1979) [a]
Les Égouts du paradis (1979) [a]
Neige (1981) [a]
Une étrange affaire (1981) [a]
Il buon soldato (1982) [a]
Le Quart d'heure américain (1982) [a]
La Derelitta (1983) [a]
Polar (1984) [a]
Folie suisse (1985) [a]
L'Amour ou presque (1985) [a]
Urgence (1985) [a]
Golden Eighties (1986) [a]
La Dernière image (1986) [a]
La Révolution française (1989) [a]
Bal perdu (1990) [a]
Diên Biên Phu (1992) [a]
La Fenêtre (1992) [a]
Vent d'est (1993) [a]
La Lumière des étoiles mortes (1994) [a]
Le Livre de cristal (1994) [a]
Lou n'a pas dit non (1994) [a]
Ma soeur chinoise (1994) [a]
Twist à Popenguine (1994) [a]
Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996) [a]
XY, drôle de conception (1996) [a]
Saint-Cyr (2000) [a]
T'aime (2000) [a]
Belphégor - Le Fantôme du Louvre (2001) [a]
Ripoux 3 (2003) [a]
L'Ivresse du pouvoir (2006) [a]
Un printemps à Paris (2006) [a]
Tokyo! (2008) [a]
La Valle delle ombre (2009) [a]
Mumu (2010) [a]
Celles qui aimaient Richard Wagner (2011) [a]
Équinoxe (2011) [a]
Dead Europe (2012) [a]
Cosmos (2015) [a]
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