# Jean Benguigui

Jean Benguigui (born 8 April 1944 in Oran) is a French actor. He is of Jewish-Algerian descent. In 2006 and 2007 he played the role of impresario Cartoni in a new adaptation of the operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico at the Théâtre du Châtelet.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1967 | Vampirisme | Taxi driver | Bernard Chaouat & Patrice Duvic | Short |
| 1972 | Les camisards | Jean-Baptiste Fort | René Allio | |
| 1973 | George Who? | The musical critic | Michèle Rosier | |
| 1973 | La ligne de démarcation | The driver | Jacques Ertaud | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1974 | La mort d'Ivan Ilitch | Guerassime | Nat Lilienstein | TV movie |
| 1975 | The Story of Paul | The Italian | René Féret | |
| 1975 | Le pain noir | La Reynie's son | Serge Moati | TV mini-series |
| 1976 | Little Marcel | | Jacques Fansten | |
| 1976 | Don César de Bazan | Gregorio | Jean-Pierre Marchand | TV movie |
| 1977 | La question | Claude | Laurent Heynemann | |
| 1977 | L'amour en herbe | Langelin | Roger Andrieux | |
| 1977 | On ne badine pas avec l'amour | Bridaine | Caroline Huppert | TV movie |
| 1977 | Brigade des mineurs | The baker | Claude Loursais | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1978 | Stephen | | Jean-Jacques Bernard | Short |
| 1978 | Une épouse romantique | | Robert Réa | Short |
| 1978 | Un professeur d'américain | The professor | Patrick Jeudi | TV movie |
| 1978 | Commissaire Moulin | Max | François Dupont-Midi | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1979 | Buffet froid | The hired killer | Bertrand Blier | |
| 1979 | Le pull-over rouge | Charlie | Michel Drach | |
| 1979 | Le mors aux dents | René Bosc | Laurent Heynemann | |
| 1979 | Memoirs of a French Whore | Jean-Jean | Daniel Duval | |
| 1979 | Le journal | Zanucci | Philippe Lefebvre | TV mini-series |
| 1980 | Comme le temps passe | Matricante | Alain Levent | TV movie |
| 1980 | La traque | Guérin | Philippe Lefebvre | TV mini-series |
| 1980 | Cinéma 16 | Samuel | Gérard Chouchan | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1980 | Julien Fontanes, magistrat | Didier Lamiral | François Dupont-Midi | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1981 | Dickie-roi | Alex | Guy Lefranc | TV mini-series |
| 1982 | Le grand pardon | Albert Bettoun | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 1982 | Maman que man | | Lionel Soukaz | |
| 1982 | La déchirure | Relbach | Franck Apprederis | TV movie |
| 1982 | Deuil en vingt-quatre heures | Favart | Frank Cassenti | TV mini-series |
| 1983 | L'Africain | Aristote Poulakis | Philippe de Broca | |
| 1983 | Le jeune marié | Pierrot | Bernard Stora | |
| 1983 | Le grand carnaval | Benjamin Fitoussi | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 1983 | La traversée de l'Islande | Olivier | Alain Levent | TV movie |
| 1983 | Emmenez-moi au théâtre | Jean | Guy Séligmann | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1984 | Le juge | Maître Donati | Philippe Lefebvre | |
| 1984 | La Garce | Rony | Christine Pascal | |
| 1984 | Le vol du Sphinx | Mendel | Laurent Ferrier | |
| 1984 | Souvenirs, Souvenirs | Samuel | Ariel Zeitoun | |
| 1984 | L'appartement | Monsieur Da Silva | Dominique Giuliani | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1985 | Série noire | Stevio | Jacques Ertaud | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1985 | Les Bargeot | | Jean-Pierre Barizien | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1986 | Les Fugitifs | Labib | Francis Veber | |
| 1987 | Control | Max Bloch | Giuliano Montaldo | |
| 1987 | Série noire | Massin | Daniel Duval | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1988 | Milan noir | De Giorgi | Ronald Chammah | |
| 1988 | Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale | Marcel | Jean-Pierre Mocky | |
| 1989 | Le banquet | Apollodore | Marco Ferreri | TV movie |
| 1990 | Dr. M | Rolf | Claude Chabrol | |
| 1990 | My New Partner II | Cesarini | Claude Zidi | |
| 1990 | Le Gorille [fr; de] | Dom Castro | Roger Hanin | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1990-1996 | Imogène | Trouillet | François Leterrier, Paul Vecchiali, ... | TV series (9 episodes) |
| 1991 | La Totale! | Sarkis | Claude Zidi | |
| 1991 | My Life Is Hell | Mr. Chpil | Josiane Balasko | |
| 1991 | Le cri des hommes | Fuentès | Okacha Touita | |
| 1991 | A Day to Remember | Marcel | Jean-Louis Bertucelli | |
| 1991 | Kaddish | | Serge Zeitoun | Short |
| 1992 | Loulou Graffiti | Commissaire Bloc | Christian Lejalé | |
| 1992 | La Belle Histoire | Doga | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1992 | Day of Atonement | Albert Bettoun | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 1992 | L'élixir d'amour | M.G.M. | Claude d'Anna | TV movie |
| 1993 | Tango | Lefort | Patrice Leconte | |
| 1993 | 3-5-8 | | Thierry Aoudja | Short |
| 1993 | Anges ou démons ? | Louis Blancard | Pierre Aknine | TV movie |
| 1994 | La règle de l'homme | Arthur | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | TV movie |
| 1994 | Julie Lescaut | Chapuis | Josée Dayan | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1995 | Navarro | Negri | Gérard Marx | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1996 | Hi Cousin! | Maurice | Merzak Allouache | |
| 1996 | Le Fils de Gascogne | Himself | Pascal Aubier | |
| 1996 | Méfie-toi de l'eau qui dort | Monsieur Salmain | Jacques Deschamps | |
| 1996 | La pitié du diable | Raziel | Ghislain Allon & Michaela Heine | TV movie |
| 1996 | Berjac | Guy Jacquet | Jean-Michel Ribes | TV mini-series |
| 1997 | The Swindle | Guadeloupe Gangster | Claude Chabrol | |
| 1997 | Over the Rainbow | Guardian | Alexandre Aja | Short |
| 1998 | Bingo! | Tikossian | Maurice Illouz | |
| 1998 | Dossier: disparus | Finidori | Antoine Lorenzi | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1999 | Merci mon chien | Raph | Philippe Galland | |
| 1999-2004 | Pepe Carvalho | Biscuter | Franco Giraldi, Merzak Allouache, ... | TV series (10 episodes) |
| 2000 | En face | Henri | Mathias Ledoux | |
| 2000 | Vérité oblige | Morel | Jacques Malaterre | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2000 | Les redoutables | | Yves Boisset | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2001 | Un aller simple | Place Vendôme | Laurent Heynemann | |
| 2001 | La juge Beaulieu | Simon Etcheverry | Joyce Buñuel | TV movie |
| 2002 | Le Boulet | Saddam | Alain Berbérian & Frédéric Forestier | |
| 2002 | Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra | Malococsis | Alain Chabat | |
| 2002 | Il giovane Casanova | Silhouette | Giacomo Battiato | TV movie |
| 2002-2012 | Le 17 | Roger Carrasco | Éric Lavaine, Bénabar, ... | TV series (7 episodes) |
| 2003 | I, Cesar | Papy | Richard Berry | |
| 2003 | L'adieu | Lucien | François Luciani | TV movie |
| 2004 | Les Dalton | The Village Chief | Philippe Haïm | |
| 2004 | Mariage mixte | Maurice Abecassis | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 2004 | Turn Left at the End of the World | Isaac Shushan | Avi Nesher | |
| 2004 | Qui mange quand? | M. Arnaud | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | TV movie |
| 2005 | La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre | Himself | Michel Muller | |
| 2005 | Don Quichotte ou Les mésaventures d'un homme en colère | Sancho Panza | Jacques Deschamps | TV movie |
| 2006 | Those Happy Days | Mimoun | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | |
| 2007 | Gomez vs Tavarès | Jacques | Gilles Paquet-Brenner & Cyril Sebas | |
| 2007 | Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs | Cassim | Pierre Aknine | TV movie |
| 2008 | Dinle neyden | | Jacques Deschamps | |
| 2008 | Hello Goodbye | Simon Gash | Graham Guit | |
| 2008 | Les héritières | Ange Caponi | Harry Cleven | TV movie |
| 2009 | Coco | Zerbib | Gad Elmaleh | |
| 2009 | Tellement proches | Prosper | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | |
| 2009-2011 | Aïcha | Doctor Accoca | Yamina Benguigui | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2010 | Fatal | Tony Tarba | Michaël Youn | |
| 2010 | A Cat in Paris | Victor Costa | Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol | |
| 2011 | La Croisière | The commander | Pascale Pouzadoux | |
| 2011 | Le sang de la vigne | Massip | Marc Rivière | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2012 | La baie d'Alger | Steiger | Merzak Allouache | TV movie |
| 2012 | Yann Piat, chronique d'un assassinat | Joseph Sercia | Antoine de Caunes | TV movie |
| 2014 | Un homme d'État | Michel Tourande | Pierre Courrège | |
| 2015 | Les gorilles | Vargas | Tristan Aurouet | |
| 2015 | Scènes de ménages: Enfin en vacances, à la mer | Norbert | Karim Adda & Francis Duquet | TV movie |
| 2015 | Capitaine Marleau | Pierre Lacoudre | Josée Dayan | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2015 | Nos chers voisins | Kévin | Elsa Bennett | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2016 | Prof T. | Valéry d'Ormont | Nicolas Cuche & Jean-Christophe Delpias | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2017 | Scènes de ménages: Cap sur la Riviera! | Norbert | Karim Adda & Francis Duquet | TV movie |
| 2018 | Brillantissime | The butcher | Michèle Laroque | |
| 2018 | Une intime conviction | Maître Francis Szpiner | Antoine Raimbault | |
| 2020 | Les copains d'abord | Bernard | Denis Imbert | TV series (6 episodes) |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Author | Director |
| 1966 | L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine | Eugène Marin Labiche | Patrice Chéreau |
| 1967 | The Soldiers | Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | Patrice Chéreau |
| 1967 | Le Voleur de femmes | Guan Hanqing | Patrice Chéreau |
| 1971 | Le Camp du drap d'or | Serge Rezvani | Jean-Pierre Vincent |
| 1971 | Capitaine Schelle, Capitaine Eçço | Serge Rezvani | Jean-Pierre Vincent |
| 1972-1973 | In the Jungle of Cities | Bertolt Brecht | André Engel |
| 1974 | An Optimistic Tragedy | Vsevolod Vishnevsky | Bernard Chartreux & Jean-Pierre Vincent |
| 1976 | As You Like It | William Shakespeare | Benno Besson |
| 1977 | On ne badine pas avec l'amour | Alfred de Musset | Caroline Huppert |
| 1979 | Platonov | Anton Chekhov | Gabriel Garran |
| 1985-1986 | The Underpants | Carl Sternheim | Jacques Rosner |
| 1986 | The Threepenny Opera | Bertolt Brecht | Giorgio Strehler |
| 1987-1988 | L'Éloignement | Loleh Bellon | Bernard Murat |
| 1993 | Staline | Gaston Salvatore | Alain Maratrat |
| 1994 | Marchands de caoutchouc | Hanoch Levin | Jacques Nichet |
| 1995 | Brèves de comptoir | Jean-Marie Gourio | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 1997 | Derrière les collines | Jean-Louis Bourdon | Jean-Louis Bourdon |
| 2004-2006 | Grosse chaleur | Laurent Ruquier | Patrice Leconte |
| 2006 | The Singer from Mexico | Raymond Vincy & Jesus Maria de Arozamena | Emilio Sagi |
| 2006 | La République de Mek-Ouyes | Jacques Jouet | Jean-Louis Martinelli |
| 2009 | Chat en poche | Georges Feydeau | Pierre Laville |
| 2010 | Miam miam | Édouard Baer | Édouard Baer |
| 2013 | Le Plus Heureux des trois | Eugène Marin Labiche & Edmond Gondinet | Didier Long |
| 2013-2015 | Address Unknown | Kressmann Taylor | Delphine de Malherbe |
| 2015-2016 | The Cat | Georges Simenon | Didier Long |
| 2018 | La Moustâche | Sacha Judaszko & Fabrice Donnio | Jean-Luc Moreau |
| 2018 | Address Unknown | Kressmann Taylor | Delphine de Malherbe |

## Dubbing

| Year | Title | Role | Actor |
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Tommy DeVito | Joe Pesci |
| 1994 | Léon: The Professional | Mathilda's father | Michael Badalucco |
| 2004 | Shark Tale | Sykes | Martin Scorsese |

## Author

| Year | Book | Publishing |
| 2014 | Un parfum d'orange amère | Fayard |