Jacques Mathou

Jacques Mathou — Biography

French actor Jacques Mathou worked in French cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. He is best known for playing Roger in Delicatessen (Delicatessen, 1991). Today he works as a documentary filmmaker and publishes his films on his own YouTube channel.

He studied business administration at HEC Paris. His film credits stretch back to The Wing or the Thigh (1976), and from the mid-1980s he worked steadily. He played Gauthier in Police (1985), Bob in Betty Blue (1986), Sully in Le moustachu (1987), Jeannot in L'été en pente douce (1987) and Tonio in Poker. In Dédé he played a priest, and in The Hairdresser's Husband (1990) he was Monsieur Chardon.

In Patrice Leconte's Ridicule (Ridicule, 1996) he played the Abbé de l'Épée. His filmography also includes Le mangeur de lune (1994), Les Grands Ducs (1996), The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998), La vie est à nous ! (2005), My Best Friend (2006) and Voir la mer (2011), and he has worked in television productions such as Maigret and Quai n°1. He shared the cast of Betty Blue and Delicatessen with Dominique Pinon.