José Garcia
Birthday: Born in 1966-03-17 in Paris, France
Deathday: Alive
José Doval Garcia (born 17 March 1966), sometimes credited as José Luis Garcia, is a Spanish-French film and television actor. He was born as José Doval in Paris, France. At age 20, he follows two years of training in free class comedian Cours Florent in Paris with Francis Huster as a teacher. He completed his training through the Annie Fratellini Circus School (where he met his future wife Isabelle Doval) and following the course of the Actors Studio taught in France. He also holds an accounting BEP. Since 1989, Garcia has made acting appearances in over forty-five films. Additionally, he has made appearances, some in acting roles but mostly as himself, in over twenty television productions.
TV Credits
Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self - Guest
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Totems
Character: Virgile Hiriart
Set in 1965 in the midst of the Cold War, Totems follows a French scientist, Francis Mareuil, as he begins working as a spy. While working for the French Secret Service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva, a pianist forced to work for the KGB. A romance blossoms between them but neither can be sure what is an expression of their true feelings, and what is the fruit of political shenanigans…...
Le Meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Character: Personnages accompagnants etc...
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True Story Avec
Character: Self
A six-part series with YouTube stars Natoo, Cyprien, Norman, Ludovik, Mcfly & Carlito, meeting with French celebrity guests such as Jonathan Cohen, Antoine de Caunes and Julie Gayet....
Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
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Dix pour cent
Character: Self
At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis....
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
Character: Self - Guest
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Quotidien
Character: Self - Guest
Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC....
Movie Credits
Asterix at the Olympic Games
Character: Couverdepus
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process....
Meet the Leroys
Character: Christophe Leroy
A man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce....
Would I Lie to You? 2
Character: Serge Benhamou
Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain....
The Ax
Character: Bruno Davert
A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition....
Les Démons de Jésus
Character: Bruno Piacentini
Set in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris....
His Majesty Minor
Character: Minor
In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of speech, elevating his stature among his fellow humans....
The Pimp
Character: Ace / Chapelle
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp....
Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
Character: Claude Lambert
In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves....
Black Box
Character: Arthur Seligman
An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories....
Quatre étoiles
Character: Stéphane
Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him unti...
Trouble Every Day
Character: Dr. Choart
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife....
The 7th Day
Character: José Jimenez
Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a feud involving broken hearts, property disputes and a mysterious fire that destroyed the Fuentes house. Isabel's uncle is murdered by Jeronimo Fuentes, who later tries to stab her father. After Jeronimo dies in jail, Isabel must look outside of her family for the truth, learning from the village idiot that her father may have set fire to the Fuentes home....
Have Mercy on Us All
Character: Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate......
In the Bottle
Character: Self
Thierry Barré is a skeptical and introverted artist who has three passions: art, wine and Don Quixote. One night, he frantically writes a short novel on a wine trip between France and Spain. His story goes unnoticed until a film producer decides to adapt it for cinema. This unexpected turn leads Thierry to pair with actor José Garcia, Joël Dupuch and a small film crew. Together, they will engage in an initiating wine trip to follow the map outlined in Thierry’s novel. With a half-broken vintage ...
Slice of Life
Character: Paul
Pierre has four months left to live if he does not find a new liver. His only hope is a transplant from his brother, Paul. But Pierre hates Paul and has refused to see him for the past ten years. They are different in every aspect : their way of life, their tastes. Nevertheless, Marie, Pierre's fiancee, is determined to reconcile the two men. A love-hate relationship develops, disrupting the trio, recomposing the couples and even going so far as to change their personalities. After a few too man...
Blanche
Character: Louis XIV
In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious....
Everything Must Disappear
Character: Colle, le détective
Robert Millard has based his industrial kingdom - based on all the noise technologies - thanks to his marriage with the wealthy and cantankerous Irene, he blithely cheat for years. However, his last link with his pretty secretary, Eve, is the straw that broke the camel : Irene has indeed hired a detective-photographer, aptly named M.Colle order to have a maximum of incriminating shots. Threatened to divorce and thus to total ruin by his wife, the unfaithful husband should give up and dismiss Eve...
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Character:
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Character: Self
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Whatever
Character: Tisserand
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job....
After You
Character: Louis
Antoine works in a bar in Paris. One evening on his way home from work, he intervenes when a man tries to commit suicide. He feels strangely guilty about having saved the man's life and constantly tries to help him, make things better. No matter what Antoine does, he can't get Louis's mind off Blanche, the woman of his dreams, his sole obsession, the reason why he wanted to die... Antoine decides to look for her, but doesn't let Louis know....
In the Sub for Love
Character: Benazech
She is a tactical submarine officer. He is a steward. Before diving for 90 days she chooses to make it her "four-hour". But here he is clinging. Who follows her. Who sticks it. Where do we go if the flight crew of a 747 prides itself on romance? As if we had time to be in love on board a military ship. Still, the Pacific Ocean is not big enough. Neither does the Arctic Ocean. The world is so small when you love each other so much....
Utopia
Character: Comandante
Adrian (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is a young man who has spent years running away from himself, constantly changing city and work, looking for people to relate to the least possible and all for one reason: he has the ability to see things that have not yet occurred, is a precog. He learned it when he anticipated the death of his parents and could not do anything about it. Adrian tries, unsuccessfully, to flee from his gift...
Dead Weight
Character: Mustapha Amel, aka "The Turk"
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket....
Would I Lie to You?
Character: Serge Benhamou
Jobless loner Eddie Vuibert gets a lucky break when a rich Jewish entrepreneur mistakes him for a Jew and gives him a sweet job in the Parisian fashion district....
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Character: Figaro
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays....
Laughter and Punishment
Character: Vincent Roméro
French director Isabelle Doval directs her husband, popular comedic actor José Garcia, in the comedy Rire et Chatiment (Laughter and Punishment). Vincent (Garcia) is a popular physician whose aggressive need to be funny and get people's attention annoys his girlfriend, Camille (Doval), to the point that she leaves him. He begins to suspect she might have been onto something when his behavior begins causing people to die....
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Character: Self
Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+....
People - Jet set 2
Character: John John
John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and everyone will queue to get on the guest list. The former party prince among the jet setters in Paris, Charles de Poulignac, is therefore in no doubt about where he should go in order to revenge his former clients. He flies to Ibiza, where he hopes to make an alliance with John-John, and put an end to life as persona non grata in Paris, and again t...
Love Bites
Character: Caniveau
Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him $100,000, and promises $900,000 more when led to Jordan. Enticed by the money, Antoine, with the help of his friend Étienne, begins his search. He follows trails through Paris's night scene, gets beaten up and bitten, and meets Jordan's sister...
Waiting for Dali
Character:
Fernando, a talented chef, arrives to the village of Cadaqués during the 70s, residence of the internationally renowned Salvador Dalí. The paths of the chef and the artist will cross and cause the birth of a new culinary genius....
Escape
Character: Marco Aurelio
A young man who has grown up in captivity and surrounded by books goes outside for the first time....
Chez Gino
Character: Gino Roma
Gino Roma holds a pizzeria for thirty years in Brussels, purchased with money from his wife Simone. His quiet life is turned upside down when he learns of the imminent death of his uncle, godfather of the Mafia, Italian billionaire with a promised big inheritance. Gino must prove to his uncle that he is a formidable godfather reigning on Brussels pizzerias, ordering a director, a documentary to present it as a major mobster. Nothing happens quite as planned: Gino family does not quite agree and ...
Now You See Me
Character: Etienne Forcier
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money....
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Character: Various (archive footage)
For seven years, Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia made their mark on French comedy history each evening in prime-time on their show, "Nulle part Ailleurs"....
Elisa
Character: Taxi Passenger
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death....
GAL
Character: Manuel Mallo
Two journalists investigate the criminal activities of the GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación), a secret terrorist organization founded in the eighties and financed by leading figures in the Spanish government and security forces to hunt down and exterminate both members and collaborators of the terrorist gang ETA....
3 Days Max
Character: 'Le Rat'
The Grandmother of Ryane was kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and he has three days max to free her....
Would I Lie to You? 3
Character: Serge
Eddie, Dov, Yvan and the others ... Our warm friends have migrated from the moribund Sentier to the flourishing suburb of Aubervilliers ... Where the old Jewish entrepreneurs left the ground to young courageous and dynamic Chinese wholesalers ... The little band is as close to each other as in previous episodes, and life goes on at the mercy of small family events and business. Dov still seems frivolous, enterprising Eddie, chilled Yvan, casual Karine, resolute Sandra, naive Chochana, irrespon...
Across the Road
Character: Hugo
Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle and, in spite of their ostensible success, the couple are having trouble making ends meet. One day they receive the utterly unexpected news that they are the sole inheritors of a wealthy neighbor, M. Guillemet, whom they have never met. Guillemet has left them his old townhouse along with all of his belongings, but with two con...
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle part ailleurs 2 ... suite et fin !
Character: Various characters
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Le Torrent
Character: Alexandre
Alexandre finds out his wife Juliette is cheating on him. They quarrel with each over, Juliette runs away during the night, and has a fatal fall. The next day, torrential rain have taken her body away. The police force is investigating and Patrick, Juliette's father, shows up to find out what happened. Fearing to be charged, Alexandre convinces his 18 years old daughter Lison to cover him. But his lies make things worse, and Patrick has doubts about him. It's the beginning of a dreadful chain of...
The Dream Team
Character: Patrick Orbéra
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs....
Fonzy
Character: Diego
Set in Paris, a man working in fish delivery becomes involved in a legal battle with his sperm donations....
Vive la France
Character: Muzafar
Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of publicity terrorism. To that end, he recruits our two naive shepherds, their mission: to destroy the Eiffel Tower! But the France that Muzafar and Feruz discover is far from what they had expected......
Le Panache
Character: Mr. Devarseau
Colin, 14, enters a new school and he's freaking out: how do you get by when, like him, you're a stutterer? His meeting with Mr. Devarseau, a charismatic French teacher, will push him to face his fears and break out of his isolation. Now Colin has a group of friends and a project: to go on stage to play Cyrano in front of the whole school....
Let There Be Light!
Character: le journaliste
God comes to Earth in order to make a film....
Out of Control
Character: Thomas
Julien and Marie have enjoyed 15 years of seemingly stable marriage until Anaëlle, Julien’s childhood flame, returns. Her sudden presence awakens old insecurities in Marie, who begins to doubt Julien’s devotion and question her self-worth. Amid this emotional storm, Marie is drawn to Thomas, a charismatic stranger who offers her the validation she craves....
Les petites annonces d'Elie - L'intégrale
Character:
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La Mort du Chinois
Character: Michel Passepont
Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his rival, he starts looking for them....
Into the Wonderwoods
Character: Ultra (voice)
Angelo is a ten-year-old who dreams of becoming an explorer and a zoologist. When he goes to visit his granny, his parents leave him behind at a rest stop, and he decides to cut through the forest in search of them....
Jet Set
Character: Mellor da Silva
In the working-class Paris suburb of Montreuil, Jimmy's restaurant, the Bombay Bar, is on the verge of being closed down by creditors. Jimmy is despondent -- the fact that his wife is about to have a baby isn't helping matters -- when he and his business partner Fifi find unlikely inspiration in the form of "Riches et Sympas," a TV show dedicated to the lives of the rich and famous. Figuring that getting the "right" people to frequent their business will ensure its reputation, Jimmy and Fifi per...
Daniel Prévost : bande de ringards !
Character: Self
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A Man and His Dog
Character: un voyageur du tramway
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means....
Hear Me Love
Character: Klaus
Set between Paris and Rome’s Cinecitta’s Studios in the 1970s, a struggling writer seeks inspiration for his second novel, and falls in love with a famous movie star....
Tout schuss
Character: Max Salinger
Max Salinger, writer divorced, flamboyant and self-absorbed, refuses to welcome her daughter for 15 years under its roof. In revenge, she steals his last manuscript and file class of snow. To retrieve his property, Max has then no choice but to land in the ski resort to improvising "accompanying parent. Only problem: the famous writer, who is not already an exemplary parent, is not really a qualified nor attendant! EPIC descents in infernal hiking, the life of Max in the mid-teens was not all re...
Full Speed
Character: Tom
A family together with their grandpa go on a vacation, when their new car won't stop and it nearly escapes crashing into a hundred cars....
Bastille Day
Character: Victor Gamieux
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy....
Mrs. Hyde
Character: Pierre Géquil
Mrs. Géquil is an eccentric teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she now be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained?...
The Soeur Brothers
Character: Charlie Sœur
The Soeur brothers would like to work in the film making business. They wrote a complex story that doesn't make any sense, and nobody wants to produce it. They're willing to do anything in order to make their film come to life....
Chameleon
Character: Little cop
After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she tells her sad story to hard-drinking Moskowitz, a middle-aged cop who secretly desires her. His unrequited love leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, Lea continues living with Francis, but also shacks up with Luc ...
Lola and Her Brothers
Character: Pierre Esnard
Lola has two brothers: Benoit, who is getting married for the third time, and Pierre, who shows up late for the wedding. Excuses, reproaches, arguments, misunderstandings... beneath it all, they're just doing their best to live their own lives. Benoit is about to become a father, but he's not ready yet. Lola meets Zoher while she's still going through her divorce. Pierre's professional problems take a turn for the worse. Though everything in their lives seems to be pulling them apart, the three ...
Little White Lies 2
Character: Alain
The result of the small handkerchiefs "Petits mouchoirs", 7 years later. The band, which erupted, is found on the occasion of the anniversary surprise organized for Max....
À cause des filles…?
Character: Daniele Lewkowicz
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !...
No Filter
Character: Frédéric Mazuret
Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But this book, hymn-to-life, will turn into a joyful fist because if Beatrice changed the names, each of his friends seeks to find his character. The book awakens secret jealousies, while the group of friends and family pitch....
Like a Fish Out of Water
Character:
A seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just likes to "ice" his victims -- enlist a mild-mannered, unsuspecting man in their mission to steal a rare and valuable fish. They plan to sell it back to its grieving owner at an enormous profit (talk about "sleeping with the fishes!"). Tcheky Karyo, Michel Muller and Dominique Pinon co-star....
Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000
Character:
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30 Days Max
Character: Le Rat
Rayane is a scared and clumsy young cop who is constantly mocked by other cops. The day his doctor wrongly tells him that he has only thirty days to live, he understands that this is his last chance to become a hero within his police station and impress his colleague Stéphanie. The eternal fearful man then turns into a real hothead who will take all the risks to catch a big drug lord......
The Hunting
Character:
The Hunting follows police officers as they engage in a cross-border pursuit to arrest and repatriate criminals that have fled overseas. "Operation Fox Hunt" is a special operation launched by China's Ministry of Public Security to apprehend fugitives suspected of committing financial crime. Based on true events....
Canal+ Replay
Character: Bref
Mr. Replay hosts a TV special where more than 30 French comedians "replay" iconic Canal+ original programmings....
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom
Character: Biopix
Gallic heroes and forever friends Asterix and Obelix journey to China to help Princess Sa See save the Empress and her land from a nefarious prince....
Canailles
Character: Elias
Following a failed hold-up, leg-hurted Antoine is looking to hide at Elias's home. Nothing reserved the anarchist robber to meet this life-disciplined history teacher. Then, a strange balance of power set in, between ascendency and friendship, before the arrival of Lucie, investigator in charge of the case....
40
Character: Self
Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+....