# Jean-François Balmer

Jean-François Balmer (born 18 April 1946 in Valangin) is a Swiss actor. He has worked extensively in French cinema, television and stage productions since the early 1970s.

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director |
| 1972 | The Imaginary Invalid | Molière | Jean-Laurent Cochet |
| 1973 | Scapin the Schemer | Molière | Jacques Weber |
| 1974 | La Mandore | Romain Weingarten | Daniel Benoin |
| 1974 | Folies bourgeoises | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1974 | Les Ressources naturelles | Pierre Laville | André-Louis Perinetti |
| 1975-76 | Rameau's Nephew | Denis Diderot | Jacques Weber |
| 1975-76 | A.A., Théâtres d’Arthur Adamov | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1976 | Collaborators | John Mortimer | Andréas Voutsinas |
| 1977 | Mercredi trois quarts | Helvio Soto | Maurice Garrel |
| 1980 | Attends que je me lève | Philippe Adrien | Guy Seligmann |
| 1980-81 | The Marriage of Figaro | Pierre Beaumarchais | Françoise Petit |
| 1981 | Chaine conjugale | Pierre Laville | Gérard Follin |
| 1986 | The Misanthrope | Molière | Françoise Petit |
| 1986-87 | Pour un oui ou pour un non | Nathalie Sarraute | Simone Benmussa |
| 1989-91 | Una notte di Casanova | Franco Cuomo | Françoise Petit |
| 1998-99 | Pour un oui ou pour un non | Nathalie Sarraute | Simone Benmussa |

## Filmography
### Cinema

| Year | Title | Role | Director |
| 1972 | Repeated Absences | The waiter | Guy Gilles |
| 1973 | R.A.S. | Raymond Dax | Yves Boisset |
| 1974 | Love at the Top | Vischenko | Michel Deville |
| 1975 | Fear Over the City | Julien Dallas | Henri Verneuil |
| 1976 | Little Marcel | Pottier | Jacques Fansten |
| 1976 | The Castaways of Turtle Island | The Big Boss | Jacques Rozier |
| 1977 | La Menace | Inspector Waldeck | Alain Corneau |
| 1978 | Passe montagne | Georges's colleague | Jean-François Stévenin |
| 1979 | Cop or Hood | Inspector Massard | Georges Lautner |
| 1979 | The Adolescent | André | Jeanne Moreau |
| 1979 | Rien ne va plus | The diner guest | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 1979 | Les Égouts du paradis | 68 | José Giovanni |
| 1979 | Ils sont grands ces petits | Monestier | Joël Santoni |
| 1981 | Neige | The second Inspector | Juliet Berto & Jean-Henri Roger |
| 1981 | Strange Affair | Paul Belais | Pierre Granier-Deferre |
| 1982 | Il buon soldato | Lawyer | Franco Brusati |
| 1982 | Le quart d'heure américain | François-Albert | Philippe Galland |
| 1983 | L'africain | Paul Planchet | Philippe de Broca |
| 1983 | La derelitta | The mailman | Jean-Pierre Igoux |
| 1984 | Polar | Eugène Tarpon | Jacques Bral |
| 1984 | Les fauves | Jeff Garcia | Jean-Louis Daniel |
| 1984 | Swann in Love | Dr. Cottard | Volker Schlöndorff |
| 1985 | Urgence | Paul Murneau | Gilles Béhat |
| 1985 | Le transfuge | Captain Pierre Clément | Philippe Lefebvre |
| 1985 | Folie suisse | Carl | Christine Lipinska |
| 1985 | L'amour ou presque | Albert | Patrice Gautier |
| 1986 | The Last Image | Miller | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina |
| 1986 | Golden Eighties | Monsieur Jean | Chantal Akerman |
| 1989 | La Révolution française | Louis XVI | Robert Enrico & Richard T. Heffron |
| 1990 | Bal perdu | Jérôme Dentrain | Daniel Benoin |
| 1998 | Le Radeau de la Méduse | Napoleon | Iradj Azimi |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1974 | Gil Blas de Santillane | The rider | Jean-Roger Cadet | TV mini-series |
| 1977 | Le chandelier | Clavaroche | Claude Santelli | TV movie |
| 1977 | Bonheur, impair et passe | Ladislas | Roger Vadim | TV movie |
| 1979 | Brigade des mineurs | Michel | Peter Kassovitz | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1980 | Une page d'amour | Father Jouve | Élie Chouraqui | TV movie |
| 1980 | Les amours du mal-aimé | Guillaume Apollinaire | Marcel Camus | TV movie |
| 1983 | Par ordre du Roy | Monsieur Tiquet | Michel Mitrani | TV movie |
| 1983 | Les poneys sauvages | Barry Roots | Robert Mazoyer | TV mini-series |
| 1984 | Le scénario défendu | Serge Rossmann | Michel Mitrani | TV movie |
| 1984 | The Blood of Others | Arnaud | Claude Chabrol | TV movie |
| 1985 | Le roi de la Chine | Grégor Vartanian | Fabrice Cazeneuve | TV movie |
| 1987 | Visa pour nulle part | Julien Costa | Alain Bloch | TV movie |
| 1988 | Médecins des hommes | Marc | Jacques Perrin | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1988 | Espionne et tais-toi | Colonel Malone | Claude Boissol | TV series (7 episodes) |
| 1989 | En attendant Godot | Estragon | Walter D. Asmus | TV movie |
| 1989 | L'or du diable | Bérenger Saunière | Jean-Louis Fournier | TV mini-series |

## Selected filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director |
| 1991 | Madame Bovary | Charles Bovary | Claude Chabrol |
| 1992 | Dien Bien Phu | the AFP employee | Pierre Schoendoerffer |
| 1993 | Vent d'est | father Siegler | Robert Enrico |
| 1996 | Beaumarchais | Antoine de Sartine | Édouard Molinaro |
| 1997 | The Swindle | Monsieur K | Claude Chabrol |
| 2000 | The King's Daughters | Jean Racine | Patricia Mazuy |
| 2003 | That Day | Treffle | Raúl Ruiz |
| 2006 | Comedy of Power | Boldi | Claude Chabrol |
| 2008 | Tokyo! | Mr Voland | Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho |
| 2010 | Mumu | the priest | Joël Séria |
| 2012 | Dead Europe | Gerry | Tony Krawitz |
| 2015 | Cosmos | Leon | Andrzej Żuławski |
| 2016 | Dieumerci ! | Ventura | Lucien Jean-Baptiste |
| 2020 | Waiting for Anya | Narrator | Ben Cookson |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result |
| 1978 | César Award for Best Supporting Actor | La Menace | Nominated |