Alex Descas
Birthday
1958/01/01 (67 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
France
Also know as
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Biography
Alex Descas (born 1958) is a French actor known for his roles in Jim Jarmusch films and for his role as Schneider in the French TV series Un Flic. He is a frequent collaborator of Claire Denis, appearing in her films No Fear, No Die, Nénette et Boni, Trouble Every Day, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, 35 Shots of Rum and Bastards. He is of Antillean (Guadeloupean) descent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Descas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
(2004) Coffee and Cigarettes
as Alex (segment "No Problem")
(1995) Never Twice
as Never Twice
(2021) Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
as (Voix Off)
(2009) The Limits of Control
as Creole
(1996) Irma Vep
as Desormeaux
(1997) The House
as ---
(2009) 35 Shots of Rum
as Lionel
(2009) Rapt
as Maître Walser
(2001) Trouble Every Day
as Dr. Léo
(1994) I Can't Sleep
as Théo
(1999) Last Harem
as Nadir
(1997) Africa Dreaming
as Michael
(1991) Against Oblivion
as Self
(2003) The Dope
as Shaft
(2000) Lumumba
as Joseph Mobutu
(2009) Persecution
as Thomas
(1999) Late August, Early September
as Jérémie
(2005) A Perfect Couple
as Patrick
(1990) No Fear, No Die
as Jocelyn
(2002) Vers Nancy
as ---
(2013) Bastards
as Dr. Béthanie
(2005) The United States of Albert
as Nolton Barnett
(1984) The Syringe
as Le chef des 'Blackies'
(1997) My Family's Honour
as Malcolm
(1998) Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
as ---
(2007) Déjà vu
as Kiff
(1988) How Good the Whites Are
as Le travailleur chez Renault
(2003) La nuit sera longue
as François
(1995) The Great White of Lambarene
as Koumba
(2002) Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
as (segment "Vers Nancy")
(2022) Brûlé neige
as Henri
(2014) Murder in Pacot
as L'homme
(2024) Which Way Africa?
as Narrator
(1985) Urgence
as ---
(1998) In a Memory of a Film Gone By
as himself
(2002) La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
as (Segment 'Never Twice')
(2005) Nèg maron
as Siwo
(2024) Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
as Narrator (Voice)
(2004) The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
as Pierre Adélaïde
(2014) Madeleine d’entre les Morts
as ---
In Adam’s Interest
as Naïm
(2017) Metropole
as ---
(2013) Un enfant en danger
as André
(2016) Chocolat
as Victor
(2017) Let the Sunshine In
as End Man
(2018) Volontaire
as Albertini
(2005) In Your Dreams
as Mojo
(2004) Nord-plage
as ---
(2018) Maya
as Frédéric
(1996) Clubbed to Death
as Mambo
(2007) Tag!
as Nkruma
(2014) Voilà l'enchaînement
as Lui
(1997) Nenette and Boni
as Gynecologist
(2005) The Intruder
as Le prêtre
(1993) The Absence
as Soldier
(2007) Boarding Gate
as Andrew
(1995) Un si joli bouquet
as Barthélémy
(1995) Duo
as Man
(2015) Portrait of the Artist
as Scottie
(2017) Gone
as Claude Vannier
(2008) Négropolitain
as Alain
(1995) The Heart's Cry
as Ibrahim Sow
(2015) Rouge
as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
(2003) Tiresia
as Marignac
(1997) So Be It
as ---
(2013) Césaire, le prix de la liberté
as Aimé Césaire
(1995) The Masturbators
as Narrator
(2007) Elf, Kings of Oil
as Pascal Lissouba
(2007) The Elf Case
as Pascal Lissouba
(2006) L'île des esclaves
as ---
(2021) Exterminate All the Brutes
as ---
(2015) Nina
as Mathias Savignon
(2022) Irma Vep
as Gregory Desormeaux
(2018) Iskander
as Oscar
(2007) Un flic
as Schneider
(1994) Les Cordier, juge et flic
as Sayyid