Alex Descas
Known for: Acting
Alex Descas (born January 1, 1958) is a French actor known for his roles in films by Claire Denis and Jim Jarmusch. In France, he is also known for his role as Schneider in the French TV series Un Flic. He is a frequent collaborator of Claire Denis, appearing in more than half of her theatrical feature-length films, including No Fear, No Die, Nénette et Boni, I Can't Sleep, Trouble Every Day, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum and Bastards, as well as Ten Minutes Older: The Cello. He is of Antillean (Guadeloupean) descent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Descas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Series
Nina
Mathias Savignon
2015
Series
Les Cordier, juge et flic
Sayyid
1994
Series
Irma Vep
Gregory Desormeaux
2022
Déjà vu
Kiff
2007
Film
How Good the Whites Are
Le travailleur chez Renault
1988
Film
Coffee and Cigarettes
Alex (segment "No Problem")
2004
Series
Exterminate All the Brutes
2021
Series
Iskander
Oscar
2018
Film
Irma Vep
Desormeaux
1996
Film
The Failing
L'Abbé Gomis
2026
Film
Nèg maron
Siwo
2005
Film
The Syringe
Le chef des 'Blackies'
1984
Series
Un flic
Schneider
2007
Film
Let the Sunshine In
End Man
2017
Film
The Limits of Control
Creole
2009
Film
The House
1997
Film
Chocolat
Victor
2016
Film
Last Harem
Nadir
1999
Film
Boarding Gate
Andrew
2007
Film
The Absence
Soldier
1993
Film
Africa Dreaming
Michael
1997
Film
Taxi Boy
Pascal
1986
Film
Trouble Every Day
Dr. Léo
2001
Film
Bastards
Dr. Béthanie
2013
Film
Vers Nancy
2002
Film
Tiresia
Marignac
2003
The Arrival
Film
Nenette and Boni
Gynecologist
1997
Film
Tag!
Nkruma
2007
Film
Never Twice
Never Twice
1995
Film
Late August, Early September
Jérémie
1999
Film
Duo
Man
1995
Film
35 Shots of Rum
Lionel
2009
Film
Négropolitain
Alain
2008
Film
Clubbed to Death
Mambo
1996
Film
I Can't Sleep
Théo
1994
Film
The Dope
Shaft
2003
Film
The United States of Albert
Nolton Barnett
2005
Film
Rapt
Maître Walser
2009
Metropole
2017
Film
Nord-plage
2004
Film
Volontaire
Albertini
2018
Film
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
(segment "Vers Nancy")
2002
Film
No Fear, No Die
Jocelyn
1990
Film
Adam's Sake
Naïm
2025
Film
Lest We Forget
Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")
1991
Film
In Your Dreams
Mojo
2005
Film
Portrait of the Artist
Scottie
2015
Film
A Perfect Couple
Patrick
2006
Film
The Intruder
Le prêtre
2005
Film
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
Pierre Adélaïde
2004
Film
The Masturbators
Narrator
1995
Film
Gone
Claude Vannier
2017
Film
Which Way Africa?
Narrator
2024
Film
Persecution
Thomas
2009
Film
Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté
Aimé Césaire
2013
An Odd Enchantment
Film
Maya
Frédéric
2018
Film
Murder in Pacot
L'homme
2014
Film
Lumumba
Joseph Mobutu
2000
Film
My Family's Honour
Malcolm
1997
Film
Rouge
Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
2015
Film
The Great White of Lambarene
Koumba
1995
Film
Voilà l'enchaînement
Lui
2014
Film
The Heart's Cry
Ibrahim Sow
1995
Film
The Elf Case
Pascal Lissouba
2007
Film
Sing Me Back Home
Juan
2019
Film
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
(Segment 'Never Twice')
2002
Film
Un enfant en danger
André
2013
Film
We Don't Choose Our Parents
Le juge Mauvoisin
2008
Film
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
2021
Film
Urgence
1985
Film
So Be It
1997
Madeleine d'entre les Morts
The man
2014
Film
Elf, Kings of Oil
Pascal Lissouba
2007
Film
L'île des esclaves
2006
Film
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
(Voix Off)
2021
Film
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
Narrator (Voice)
2024
Film
Un si joli bouquet
Barthélémy
1995
Film
In a Memory of a Film Gone By
himself
1998
Film
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Yves Le Guen
1998
Film
Brûlé neige
Henri
2022
Film
La nuit sera longue
François
2003