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Alex Descas

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

Born: France, 1958-01-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	The Syringe	Le chef des 'Blackies'	45
2	1985	Urgence		48
3	1986	Taxi Boy	Pascal	30
4	1988	How Good the Whites Are	Le travailleur chez Renault	60
5	1990	No Fear, No Die	Jocelyn	60
6	1991	Against Oblivion	Self	65
7	1993	The Absence	Soldier	53
8	1994	I Can't Sleep	Théo	64
9	1995	Never Twice	Never Twice	0
10	1995	The Masturbators	Narrator	10
11	1995	Duo	Man	0
12	1995	The Heart's Cry	Ibrahim Sow	54
13	1995	The Great White of Lambarene	Koumba	50
14	1995	Un si joli bouquet	Barthélémy	0
15	1996	Clubbed to Death	Mambo	62
16	1996	Irma Vep	Desormeaux	67
17	1997	Africa Dreaming	Michael	0
18	1997	So Be It		0
19	1997	My Family's Honour	Malcolm	0
20	1997	Nenette and Boni	Gynecologist	65
21	1997	The House		72
22	1998	In a Memory of a Film Gone By	himself	0
23	1998	Le serpent a mangé la grenouille		0
24	1999	Late August, Early September	Jérémie	59
25	1999	Last Harem	Nadir	55
26	2000	Lumumba	Joseph Mobutu	68
27	2001	Trouble Every Day	Dr. Léo	58
28	2002	La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan	(Segment 'Never Twice')	0
29	2002	Vers Nancy		80
30	2002	Ten Minutes Older: The Cello	(segment "Vers Nancy")	66
31	2003	The Dope	Shaft	46
32	2003	Tiresia	Marignac	59
33	2003	La nuit sera longue	François	0
34	2004	Coffee and Cigarettes	Alex (segment "No Problem")	69
35	2004	Nord-plage		0
36	2004	The Man Who Came From Elsewhere	Pierre Adélaïde	60
37	2005	Nèg maron	Siwo	61
38	2005	The United States of Albert	Nolton Barnett	35
39	2005	In Your Dreams	Mojo	55
40	2005	The Intruder	Le prêtre	66
41	2005	A Perfect Couple	Patrick	52
42	2006	L'île des esclaves		0
43	2007	Elf, Kings of Oil	Pascal Lissouba	0
44	2007	The Elf Case	Pascal Lissouba	50
45	2007	Tag!	Nkruma	55
46	2007	Boarding Gate	Andrew	50
47	2007	Déjà vu	Kiff	0
48	2008	We Don't Choose Our Parents	Le juge Mauvoisin	0
49	2008	Négropolitain	Alain	0
50	2009	35 Shots of Rum	Lionel	68
51	2009	The Limits of Control	Creole	60
52	2009	Persecution	Thomas	45
53	2009	Rapt	Maître Walser	61
54	2013	Césaire, le prix de la liberté	Aimé Césaire	0
55	2013	Bastards	Dr. Béthanie	58
56	2013	Un enfant en danger	André	70
57	2014	Murder in Pacot	L'homme	42
58	2014	Voilà l'enchaînement	Lui	58
59	2014	Madeleine d'entre les Morts	The man	0
60	2015	Portrait of the Artist	Scottie	57
61	2015	Rouge	Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»	65
62	2016	Chocolat	Victor	68
63	2017	Metropole		0
64	2017	Gone	Claude Vannier	50
65	2017	Let the Sunshine In	End Man	52
66	2018	Volontaire	Albertini	58
67	2018	Maya	Frédéric	54
68	2021	Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard		0
69	2021	Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté	(Voix Off)	100
70	2022	Brûlé neige	Henri	0
71	2024	Which Way Africa?	Narrator	0
72	2024	Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants	Narrator (Voice)	70
73	2025	Adam's Sake	Naïm	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1994	Les Cordier, juge et flic	Sayyid	54
2	2007	Un flic	Schneider	72
3	2015	Nina	Mathias Savignon	58
4	2018	Iskander	Oscar	52
5	2021	Exterminate All the Brutes		74
6	2022	Irma Vep	Gregory Desormeaux	67