Jolivet, Marc

(June 17, 1950, Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France - )

   The son of actress Arlette Thomas (b. 1927), he made his stage debut in the Club Méditerranée with his younger brother Pierre. He created with him a com­edy tandem that spent the 1970s on radio and in music halls before entering films in a movie he co-directed with Pierre Jolivet and Claude Barrois. After 1980, he wrote and performed many one-man shows. He ap­peared as an actor only in the following films: 1984 La Voix de son Maître ou deux Jours dans la vie de Monsieur Léon Ton / La Voix de son Maître (short, Patrick Zeyen); 1986 Le Complexe du Kangourou (Pierre Jolivet); 1987 Poule et Frites (Luis Régo); 1989 Force majeure (Pierre Jolivet); 1990 Cinématon (short, as himself, Gérard Courant); 1993 A l'Heure où les grands Fauves vont boire (Pierre Jolivet); 1995 La Poudre aux Yeux (Maurice Du-gowson). He also played in TV movies: 1989 Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (episode "Mort d'Orgue", Gérard Gozlan); 1993 Le Paradis absolument (Patrick Volson); 1995 Sa Dernière Lettre (Serge Meynard).

 Filmography

1980 ◘ Alors, heureux? (co-director with Claude Barrois, Pierre Jolivet; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Coup d'Fil (short; also actor)

1981 ◘ Encore une Histoire d'Amour (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Permis Télé (short; also screenwriter)

1982 ◘ Tic Tac (short; also screenwriter, actor)

1984 ◘ Ôte-moi de mon Soleil / Diogène(also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)

        ◘ Repérage (short; also screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ Toilette No. 1 (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Train du Plaisir (short)

1985 ◘ A suivre (short; also actor)

        ◘ Les Chaises (short; also screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ Et Dieu créa la Prise (short; co-director with Arthur de Ploubinec; also screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ L'Heure du Coup de Feu (short)

        ◘ No Love's Land (short; also actor)

        ◘ La Porte (short)

        ◘ Le Train fatal (short; also screenwriter)

1998 ◘ Meurtre à la Baullywood (short; also producer)

 Television Filmography

2006 ◘ Concours de Danse à Piriac (also screenwriter, actor)