Birthday:
Jan 01, 1958
Place of Birth: France
Place of Birth: France
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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Coffee and Cigarettes | Alex (segment "No Problem") | 2004 |
| Never Twice | Never Twice | 1995 |
| Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté | (Voix Off) | 2021 |
| The Limits of Control | Creole | 2009 |
| Irma Vep | Desormeaux | 1996 |
| The House | 1997 | |
| 35 Shots of Rum | Lionel | 2009 |
| Rapt | Maître Walser | 2009 |
| Trouble Every Day | Dr. Léo | 2001 |
| I Can't Sleep | Théo | 1994 |
| Last Harem | Nadir | 1999 |
| Africa Dreaming | Michael | 1997 |
| Against Oblivion | Self | 1991 |
| The Dope | Shaft | 2003 |
| Lumumba | Joseph Mobutu | 2000 |
| Persecution | Thomas | 2009 |
| Late August, Early September | Jérémie | 1999 |
| A Perfect Couple | Patrick | 2005 |
| No Fear, No Die | Jocelyn | 1990 |
| Vers Nancy | 2002 | |
| Bastards | Dr. Béthanie | 2013 |
| The United States of Albert | Nolton Barnett | 2005 |
| The Syringe | Le chef des 'Blackies' | 1984 |
| My Family's Honour | Malcolm | 1997 |
| Le serpent a mangé la grenouille | 1998 | |
| Déjà vu | Kiff | 2007 |
| How Good the Whites Are | Le travailleur chez Renault | 1988 |
| La nuit sera longue | François | 2003 |
| The Great White of Lambarene | Koumba | 1995 |
| Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | (segment "Vers Nancy") | 2002 |
| Brûlé neige | Henri | 2022 |
| Murder in Pacot | L'homme | 2014 |
| Which Way Africa? | Narrator | 2024 |
| In a Memory of a Film Gone By | himself | 1998 |
| Urgence | 1985 | |
| La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan | (Segment 'Never Twice') | 2002 |
| Nèg maron | Siwo | 2005 |
| Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants | Narrator (Voice) | 2024 |
| The Man Who Came From Elsewhere | Pierre Adélaïde | 2004 |
| Madeleine d’entre les Morts | 2014 | |
| L'Intérêt d'Adam | Naïm | 1970 |
| Metropole | 2017 | |
| Un enfant en danger | André | 2013 |
| Chocolat | Victor | 2016 |
| Let the Sunshine In | End Man | 2017 |
| Volontaire | Albertini | 2018 |
| In Your Dreams | Mojo | 2005 |
| Nord-plage | 2004 | |
| Maya | Frédéric | 2018 |
| Clubbed to Death | Mambo | 1996 |
| Tag! | Nkruma | 2007 |
| Voilà l'enchaînement | Lui | 2014 |
| Nenette and Boni | Gynecologist | 1997 |
| The Intruder | Le prêtre | 2005 |
| The Absence | Soldier | 1993 |
| Boarding Gate | Andrew | 2007 |
| Un si joli bouquet | Barthélémy | 1995 |
| Duo | Man | 1995 |
| Portrait of the Artist | Scottie | 2015 |
| Gone | Claude Vannier | 2017 |
| Négropolitain | Alain | 2008 |
| The Heart's Cry | Ibrahim Sow | 1995 |
| Rouge | Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts» | 2015 |
| Tiresia | Marignac | 2003 |
| So Be It | 1997 | |
| Césaire, le prix de la liberté | Aimé Césaire | 2013 |
| The Masturbators | Narrator | 1995 |
| Elf, Kings of Oil | Pascal Lissouba | 2007 |
| The Elf Case | Pascal Lissouba | 2007 |
| Series | Cast | Year |
| Exterminate All the Brutes | 2021 | |
| Nina | Mathias Savignon | 2015 |
| Irma Vep | Gregory Desormeaux | 2022 |
| Iskander | Oscar | 2018 |
| Un flic | Schneider | 2007 |
| Les Cordier, juge et flic | Sayyid | 1994 |
