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in the Loire department. A college and a theatre in the town are named in his honour.

Filmography as actor

* '' Boudu sauvé des eaux'' (''Boudu Saved from Drowning'') (1932) - The student * '' Zéro de conduite'' (''Zero for Conduct'') (1933) - Surveillant Huguet * ''

'' (1934) - Jean * '' Le Crime de monsieur Lange'' (''The Crime of Monsieur Lange'') (1936) - The Model maker * '' Sous les yeux d'occident'' (''Under Western Eyes'') (1936) - Georges * '' La vie est à nous'' (1936) - L'instituteur/Teacher * ''

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'' (''Grand Illusion'') (1937) - The teacher * '' Le Temps des cerises'' (The Time of the Cherries) (1938) - Le fils du directeur / The director's son * ''

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'' (1941) - Le radio * '' Croisières sidérales'' (1942) - Pépin * '' Picpus'' (1943) - Le clerc * ''

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'' (1943) * '' Adieu Léonard'' (1943) - Le raccommodeur de porcelaine * '' La Grande Meute'' (1945) - L'huissier * '' Le Mystère Saint-Val'' (1945) - L'huissier * '' Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour'' (1963) - L'homme à la chèvre / The Goat Man * '' Heaven on One's Head (Le Ciel sur la tête)'' (1965) - M. Bazin * '' La guerre est finie'' (''The War Is Over'') (1966) - Le chef du réseau clandestin / Chief * '' Z'' (1969) - Illya Coste * '' L'Enfant sauvage'' (''The Wild Child'') (1970) - Professor Philippe Pinel * ''

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'' (1972) - Cuvrot * '' Les Jours gris'' (1974) - Le vieil homme * '' Le Petit Marcel'' (1976) - Berger * '' Le Corps de mon ennemi'' (1976) - Le gardien du chantier / Keeper * '' L'Homme qui aimait les femmes'' (''The Man Who Loved Women'') (1977) - Docteur Bicard * ''

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'' (''The Green Room'') (1978) - Bernard Humbert * ''

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'' (1978) - Jean * ''

'' (1978) - The grandfather * '' La Tortue sur le dos'' (1978) - Bad-tempered invalid * '' Rue du Pied de Grue'' (1979) - Tonton * ''

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'' (''My American Uncle'') (1980) - M. Louis * '' Une semaine de vacances'' (1980) - Le père de Laurence * '' Le Crime d'amour'' (1982) - L'homme de l'asile * '' Les Îles'' (1983) - Jean * '' L'Amour à mort'' (1984) - Dr. Rozier * '' Le Moine et la Sorcière'' (1987) - Christophe * '' Nuit docile'' (1987) - Le chauffeur de taxi * '' Noce blanche'' (1989) - Le concierge * ''Projections'' (1990) - Le propriétaire de la salle de cinéma (final film role)

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Additional resources

*Dasté, Jean. ''Voyage d'un comédien''. Paris: Stock, 1977. *Mignon, Paul-Louis. ''Jean Dasté''. Paris: Les Presses Littéraires de France, 1953. *Rousset, Hughues, editor. ''Jean Dasté: un homme de théâtre dans le siècle''. L'Etrat: Actes graphiques, 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Daste, Jean French male stage actors 1904 births 1994 deaths French theatre directors Male actors from Paris French male film actors 20th-century French male actors