Jacques Higelin

Personal Info

Birthday

October 18, 1940

Day of Death

2018-04-06

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France

Also Known As

Jacques Igelin

Jacques Higelin

Biography

Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Higelin was born on 18 October 1940.

His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian descent, introduced his two sons to various forms of music, while his mother, Renée, of Belgian descent, raised them both. Higelin's entertainment career began at age 14, when he left school to work as a stunt double. While playing a number of minor roles in motion pictures, Higelin was taught to play the guitar by Henri Crolla, a French-Italian jazz guitarist and a composer of film scores.

Known For

Jappeloup

Léa in Winter

Raining Cats and Frogs

Erotissimo

Crime on a Summer Morning

Savannah

Colette, une femme libre

The Year 01

Filmography

2014
Ce que le temps a donné à l'homme
as Self
2013
Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité
as Himself
Jappeloup
as Henry Dalio, first owner of Jappeloup
2003
Raining Cats and Frogs
as Le lion (voice)
1993
Un homme à la mer
as Pierre
1991
Against Oblivion
as Self
1988
Savannah
as Colin
1980
La bande du Rex
as Daniel Pautard aka 'Frankie Mégalo'
1973
Salut, voleurs!
as Charlie
The Year 01
as The banjo singer
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
as Bernard Réval
1971
Léa in Winter
as Harold
1969
Seven Days Somewhere Else
as Jacques
Erotissimo
as Bob
We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore
as Simon
1968
The Surrounded
as Jean-Claude Dessay
1965
Crime on a Summer Morning
as Le motard
1963
Bebert and the Train
as Tiennot Martin
Mechanical Concerto for Madness or Mad Mechanomorphosis
as The man
1961
Saint-Tropez Blues
as Jean-Paul Capelier
Le bonheur est pour demain
as Alain
1959
Green Harvest
as Mercadier
Atomic Agent
as Loulou