Jacques Vanaire

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography36 Titles

#1Casablanca

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Frenchman (uncredited)

8.1 / 10
DramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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#2Ninotchka

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

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#3Baby Face

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m as Paris Bank Clerk (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Drama

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

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#4Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as French Attendant (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
DramaHorrorSci-Fi

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

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#5Jezebel

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Durette (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

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#6Once Upon a Honeymoon

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as French Radio Announcer (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ComedyRomanceDrama

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

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#7Sylvia Scarlett

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Steward

6.3 / 10
ComedyDramaRomance

When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.

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#8I'll Give a Million

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Gendarme (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyDrama

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.

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#9Bluebeard's 8th Wife

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Barbuchet (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.

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#10Jewel Robbery

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m as Jewelry Manager (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
RomanceComedyCrime

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

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#11Mad Love

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Police Broadcaster (Uncredited)

7.0 / 10
HorrorRomance

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

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#12Arise, My Love

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Employee (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ComedyRomanceDrama

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

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#13Suez

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Old Engineer (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
DramaHistoryRomance

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

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#14The Road to Glory

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as Doctor

6.5 / 10
DramaWar

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.

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#15The Princess Comes Across

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as Reporter (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
ComedyRomanceMystery

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.

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#16Madame X

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Waiter

6.1 / 10
Drama

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

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#17Too Many Husbands

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Headwaiter

6.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

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#18Arsène Lupin Returns

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Gendarme (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
Mystery

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?

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#19A Dispatch from Reuters

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as French Telegrapher (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
DramaHistory

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

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#20City in Darkness

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Gendarme

6.5 / 10
CrimeThrillerMystery

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

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#21Behind the Make-Up

Movie - 1930, 2h 15m as Valet

6.8 / 10
Drama

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.

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#22Ebb Tide

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Assistant Port Doctor

7.0 / 10
Adventure

In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.

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#23I Met Him in Paris

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as French Restaurant Masher

6.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.

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#24Fatal Lady

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

10.0 / 10
Mystery

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...

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#25Pack Up Your Troubles

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as French Soldier

6.8 / 10
WarComedy

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

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#26Florian

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Travel Bureau Clerk

4.5 / 10
Drama

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

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#27Mama Steps Out

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as French Guard

7.3 / 10
ComedyRomance

A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.

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#28Fashions in Love

Movie - 1929, 2h 15m as Valet

7.0 / 10
ComedyDramaMusic

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#29Woman Against Woman

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Alex - Headwaiter

7.0 / 10
RomanceDrama

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

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#30Here's to Romance

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Maître d'hôtel

7.0 / 10
ComedyMusic

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.

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#31Shanghai

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Headwaiter

7.3 / 10
DramaRomance

A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.

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#32The Big Trail

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m as Mayer

7.0 / 10
Western

A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. French-language version of The Big Trail (1930) with an alternate cast and co-director.

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#33I Was an Adventuress

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
DramaCrimeRomance

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

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#34Espionage

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as French Inspector

7.0 / 10
Drama

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

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#35Navy Blues

Movie - 1929, 2h 15m as Cabaret Dancer

7.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own.

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#36The Panther's Claw

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as Guiseppe Bartarelli (as Jack Vanaire)

6.5 / 10
ThrillerMysteryCrime

The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.

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