Actor
Alex Descas
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. ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants | Narrator (Voice)
2024 -- Which Way Africa? | Narrator
2022 -- Brûlé neige | Henri
2021 -- Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté | (Voix Off)
2018 -- Maya | Frédéric
2018 -- Volontaire | Albertini
2017 -- Let the Sunshine In | End Man
2017 -- Gone | Claude Vannier
2017 -- Metropole |
2016 -- Chocolat | Victor
2015 -- Rouge | Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
2015 -- Portrait of the Artist | Scottie
2014 -- Madeleine d’entre les Morts |
2014 -- Voilà l'enchaînement | Lui
2014 -- Murder in Pacot | L'homme
2013 -- Un enfant en danger | André
2013 -- Bastards | Dr. Béthanie
2013 -- Césaire, le prix de la liberté | Aimé Césaire
2009 -- Rapt | Maître Walser
2009 -- Persecution | Thomas
2009 -- The Limits of Control | Creole
2009 -- 35 Shots of Rum | Lionel
2008 -- Négropolitain | Alain
2007 -- Déjà vu | Kiff
2007 -- Boarding Gate | Andrew
2007 -- Tag! | Nkruma
2007 -- The Elf Case | Pascal Lissouba
2007 -- Elf, Kings of Oil | Pascal Lissouba
2006 -- L'île des esclaves |
2005 -- A Perfect Couple | Patrick
2005 -- The Intruder | Le prêtre
2005 -- In Your Dreams | Mojo
2005 -- The United States of Albert | Nolton Barnett
2005 -- Nèg maron | Siwo
2004 -- The Man Who Came From Elsewhere | Pierre Adélaïde
2004 -- Nord-plage |
2004 -- Coffee and Cigarettes | Alex (segment "No Problem")
2003 -- La nuit sera longue | François
2003 -- Tiresia | Marignac
2003 -- The Dope | Shaft
2002 -- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | (segment "Vers Nancy")
2002 -- Vers Nancy |
2002 -- La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan | (Segment 'Never Twice')
2001 -- Trouble Every Day | Dr. Léo
2000 -- Lumumba | Joseph Mobutu
1999 -- Last Harem | Nadir
1999 -- Late August, Early September | Jérémie
1998 -- Le serpent a mangé la grenouille |
1998 -- In a Memory of a Film Gone By | himself
1997 -- The House |
1997 -- Nenette and Boni | Gynecologist
1997 -- My Family's Honour | Malcolm
1997 -- So Be It |
1997 -- Africa Dreaming | Michael
1996 -- Irma Vep | Desormeaux
1996 -- Clubbed to Death | Mambo
1995 -- Un si joli bouquet | Barthélémy
1995 -- The Great White of Lambarene | Koumba
1995 -- The Heart's Cry | Ibrahim Sow
1995 -- Duo | Man
1995 -- The Masturbators | Narrator
1995 -- Never Twice | Never Twice
1994 -- I Can't Sleep | Théo
1993 -- The Absence | Soldier
1991 -- Against Oblivion | Self
1990 -- No Fear, No Die | Jocelyn
1988 -- How Good the Whites Are | Le travailleur chez Renault
1986 -- Taxi Boy | Pascal
1985 -- Urgence |
1984 -- The Syringe | Le chef des 'Blackies'
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