Jean-François Adam
Biography
Jean-François Adam (1935/1936 – 14 October 1980) was a French actor and director.
Adam was an assistant to French filmmakers François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Melville.
He is known for having played the small role of Colette's lover in the Antoine Doinel saga, and for playing the philosophy teacher in the French drama film Graduate First (1978), directed by Maurice Pialat.
Adam directed the French drama film Return to the Beloved (1979), which stars Isabelle Huppert.
He was also a part-time clown.
Adam was married to Brigitte Fossey, and had a daughter, the actress Marie Adam. At the age of 44 Adam shot himself.
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Filmography
Return to the Beloved
1979
as Police Inspector Corbin
Graduate First
1978
as Philosophy teacher
The Secret
1974
as Claude Vandal
Stolen Kisses
1968
as Albert Tazzi (non créditée)
Antoine and Colette
1962
as Albert Tazzi
Love at Twenty
1962
as Albert Tazzi (segment "Antoine et Colette")
The Army Game
1960
as Un troupier