Jean Driant
Jean-Charles Driant was a French-born character actor remembered for numerous supporting roles in British film and TV.
Life
He was born in Paris, France on 12 July 1922.He came to England in or before 1947. In the 1970s he was teaching French at Latymer Upper School.
He died in Kensington in 1989.
Family
In 1947 he married Joan Fulton in Kensington.Film
- The Colditz Story as French orderly
- House of Secrets aka Triple Deception as Gratz's assistant
- The Whole Truth as servant
- The Ugly Duckling as Monsieur Blum
- Return from the Ashes as train conductor
- Soft Beds, Hard Battles as Jean
- Aces High as corporal at dressing station
TV
- Douglas Fairbanks Presents aka Rheingold Theatre several appearances from 1953 to 1957
- Glencannon as photographer
- No Hiding Place as French clerk
- International Detective as bartender
- Zero One as Pierre
- Drama 61-67 as a waiter
- A Man of Our Times as hotel proprietor
- The Troubleshooters 1970 as a gendarme
- The Persuaders! several episodes 1971
- Doctor in Charge several appearances 1972/73 as Dr Lascelles
- Mission: Monte Carlo
- Wings as a mechanic
- Return of the Saint several appearances 1978/79