Jean-Max

AKA: Jean Max Marie Mehouas
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1896-02-16

Paris, France

Biography

Crew Roles

Par le sang des autres
Scenario Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {36}

1936-12-18 0

Nitchevo

A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about her troubled past. ...
Genre :Drama

Dédé

1931-10-09 7

The Darling of Paris

In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit. ...
Genre :Drama

Duvernon

1932-10-28 0

Suzanne

The many difficulties of a couple to harmonize, between the need for independence of one and the brutality of the other... ...
Genre :

Baddington

1933-10-06 0

Once Upon a Time

A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful. ...
Genre :Drama

Maître Forestier

1934-07-13 0

La cinquième empreinte

Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and ch ...
Genre :Crime

Dechelette

1934-04-07 0

Sapho

During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a great coquette. He leaves her, he comes back, he for ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Romani

1935-01-16 6.8

Pension Mimosas

Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Nobl ...
Genre :Drama

Count Brusilot

1935-09-19 0

Second Bureau

Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Prince Korany

1937-07-02 0

Les hommes de proie

A blackmailer is murdered. Vauzelle, the lover of the beautiful Michelle Korany, is suspected because he was the one who was being blackmailed. ...
Genre :Drama

Agent von Haidingen

1937-02-25 0

A Man to Kill

Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents. ...
Genre :Thriller

Barchevin

1938-03-30 0

The Woman Thief

The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin the husband she is happy with. ...
Genre :Drama

Count of Larzac

1942-03-26 0

Dernière aventure

Comte de Larzac, an aging seducer, leaves Paris for Lannemezan. Accompanied by his friend Charmeuil, he goes there to acknowledge the paternity of Jean, a twenty-year old young man who knows nothing a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Lieutenant Kompartz

1939-06-07 0

Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue ...
Genre :War, Drama, Comedy

Franz Hermann

1941-09-17 0

Face au destin

Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had jo ...
Genre :

Maurice Arvers

1943-11-24 0

Finance noire

In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A woman, Helene, betrays them first, then in love wit ...
Genre :

Alvarez

1947-08-26 4.5

Last Refuge

Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that Philippe take refuge in his quiet family. His younger s ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Mystery

Marquis of Aubenton

1950-05-10 0

Les Nouveaux Maîtres

Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Christiani

1950-10-20 0

Les Aventuriers de l'air

A pilot, hero of the war, finds himself implicated in spite of himself in a traffic. He is wanted by the police, but his former companions and an air hostess will help him prove his innocence. ...
Genre :

Pierrot

1952-04-30 2.5

Le Costaud des Batignolles

Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a w ...
Genre :Comedy

Nick Jumeau

1950-02-10 5.6

The Ferret

A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt ...
Genre :Crime

Henri Chimay

1938-01-23 6.4

I Accuse

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent wa ...
Genre :War, Drama, Horror

Désormeaux

1938-12-21 5

I Was an Adventuress

Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Commodore Schoubersky

1955-12-07 5.8

More Whiskey for Callaghan

Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate the theft. But his tracks soon lead him to the welcoming skies of the Côte d'Azur. There, he decide ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Mr. Martichou, president

1953-11-10 6

Children of Love

In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of ...
Genre :Drama

1932-03-13 5.7

Lilac

Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces of the Bertold Brecht-Weill piece The Threepenny ...
Genre :Crime

Le commandant de Boose

1935-12-04 5.3

Crimson Dynasty

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's ...
Genre :Drama, History

Le procureur Hallers

1930-08-31 0

The Prosecutor Hallers

The simultaneously filmed French language version of the 1930 German film The Other. A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1921-11-04 0

Rose de Nice

Genre :

Roudine

1935-09-05 10

Dark Eyes

In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing ...
Genre :Drama

Malestroy - le banquier

1938-09-03 0

Satan's Paradise

Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of leading to ruin, under cover of administering it, a huge cocoa plantation on the island of São Tomé. ...
Genre :

Councilor Smolen

1958-08-14 5.9

The Mask of the Gorilla

Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunit ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Oudrach

1947-09-05 0

Criminal Brigade

After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the national defense of the country robbed by a gang of ...
Genre :Crime

Colonel

1961-09-07 1

My Wife Is a Panther

During an evening in a bar, Roger, a friendly cognac salesman and connoisseur, overhears a telephone conversation that intrigues him, then worries him: "... a few bullets to the head and she'll be dea ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain Iwamoura, Youki's brother

1936-12-11 0

Port Arthur

French-language version of Port Arthur (1936), a German language film (q.v.) co-produced by German, French and Czechoslovakian film interests. About espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese ...
Genre :Drama, War

Director of the bank

1958-10-26 6.3

The Gambler

In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers ...
Genre :Drama

Le matelot Cass

1931-04-03 0

The Lost Course

Bored with her life with her husband the lighthouse keeper, Hélène sleeps with two other men who fight for her. ...
Genre :Drama