History Creator / JeanMarais

* {{Swashbuckler}}: Starting in the late 1950s, he played quite a few dashing swashbuckling heroes in TheCavaliersYears, in films such as ''La Tour prends garde!'', ''Le Bossu'', ''Le Capitan'', ''Le Capitaine Fracasse'' (which introduced his younger stage successor in Cocteau's plays Creator/GerardBarray to the genre) and ''The Iron Mask''.

* {{Swashbuckler}}: Starting in the late 1950s, he played quite a few dashing swashbuckling heroes, in films such as ''La Tour prends garde!'', ''Le Bossu'', ''Le Capitan'', ''Le Capitaine Fracasse'' (which introduced his younger stage successor in Cocteau's plays Creator/GerardBarray to the genre) and ''The Iron Mask''.

!!Some of his roles:

* ''Ruy Blas'' (1948) as Ruy Blas and Don César de Bazan

Jean Alfred Villain-Marais, better known as Jean Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French stage and screen actor, writer, stage director and sculptor.

He became a prominent leading man in the TheFifties and TheSixties (especially in {{swashbuckler}} films), and performed in over 100 films in his career. He devoted his time to sculpture in the last years of his life, influenced by a friend of his and Cocteau's, German sculptor Arno Breker, who protected both Cocteau and Marais from German occupation authorities during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. In 1996, Marais was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema.

* ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' (1946) as The Beast and Avenant

* ''Film/{{The Iron Mask|1962}}'' (1962) as [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers D'Artagnan]]

* ''[[Film/LesMiserables1995 Les Misérables]]'' (1995) as Bishop Bienvenu Myriel / 1942 bishop

* ''Film/{{Fantomas}}'' film series (1964-1967) as Fandor and Fantômas

* ''Film/Parking1985'' as Hades
* ''[[Film/LesMiserables1995 Les Misérables]]'' (1995) as Bishop Bienvenu Myriel

* ActingForTwo: He played two different roles in the same film in ''Beauty and the Beast'', in ''Ruy Blas'' and in the ''Fantômas'' trilogy. There's also his double role as Bishop Bienvenu Myriel and a French bishop during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in the 1995 Claude Lelouch film that loosely adapted ''Literature/LesMiserables''.

* ''Franchise/LesMiserables'' (1995) as Bishop Bienvenu Myriel and 1942 bishop

* {{Swashbuckler}}: Starting in the late 1950s, he played quite a few dashing swashbuckling heroes, in films such as ''La Tour prends garde!'', ''Le Bossu'', ''Le Capitan'', ''Le Capitaine Fracasse'' (which introduced his younger stage collaborator Creator/GerardBarray to the genre) and ''The Iron Mask''.

* {{Swashbuckler}}: Starting in the late 1950s, he played quite a few dashing swashbuckling heroes, in films such as ''La Tour prends garde!'', ''Le Bossu'', ''Le Capitan'', ''Le Capitaine Fracasse'' and ''The Iron Mask''.

* KnightInShiningArmor: His TypeCasting in 1950s/1960s French swashbucking films in a nutshell. A man of honor who fights for justice and stops at nothing to protect his friends and loved ones. ''The Iron Mask'' stands out among these with his humorous and LargeHam take on the character of D'Artagnan, and he gets to ''spank'' a lady as punishment in it.

* BasedOnATrueStory: On June 22, 1941, Jean Marais inflicted a beatdown on critic Alain Laubreaux at a Parisian restaurant. Laubreaux was a homophobic and antisemitic [[LesCollaborateurs collaborationist]] who lambasted the plays of Marais' lover Jean Cocteau and Marais' stage acting purely out of homophobic Nazi-compatible ideological bias. This event inspired a similar scene in ''Film/TheLastMetro''.

* BasedOnATrueStory: On June 22, 1941, Jean Marais inflicted a beatdown on critic Alain Laubreaux at a Parisian restaurant. Laubreaux was a homophobic and antisemitic [[LesCollaborateurs collaborationist]] who lambasted the plays of Marais' lover Jean Cocteau purely out of Nazi-friendly ideological bias. This event inspired a similar scene in ''Film/TheLastMetro''.

He became a prominent leading man in the TheFifties and TheSixties (especially in {{swashbuckler}} films), and performed in over 100 films in his career. He devoted his time to sculpture in the last years of his life, influenced by a friend of his and Cocteau's, German sculptor Arno Breker. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema.

* KnightInShiningArmor: His TypeCasting in 1950s/1960s French swashbucking films in a nutshell. A man of honor who fights for justice and stops at nothing to protect his friends and loved ones. ''The Iron Mask'' stands out among these with his humorous and LargeHam take on the character of D'Artagnan.

He became a prominent leading man in the TheFifties and TheSixties, and performed in over 100 films in his career, then devoted his time to sculpture in the last years of his life, influenced by a friend of his and Cocteau's, German sculptor Arno Breker. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema.

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* ''Literature/LesMiserables'' (1995) as Bishop Bienvenu Myriel and 1942 bishop

* ActingForTwo: He played two different roles in the same film in ''Beauty and the Beast'', in ''Ruy Blas'' and in the ''Fantômas'' trilogy. There's also his double role as Bishop Bienvenu Myriel and a French bishop during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in the loose 1995 version of ''Les Misérables'' by Claude Lelouch.

He became a prominent leading man in the TheFifties and TheSixties, and performed in over 100 films in his career. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema.

He became a prominent leading man in the 1950s and 1960s, and performed in over 100 films in his career. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema.

He was TheMuse and longtime lover of [[RenaissanceMan multifaceted artist]] Creator/JeanCocteau, who directed ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'', his [[StarMakingRole big break]] at age 33 (he's been acting since the age of 20), and ''Film/{{Orpheus}}'', Marais' other famous role at the time.