Jean Yonnel is one of the many actors at work in Romanian film and television, though the biographical detail available is minimal. He features in 'Light-Fingered George', playing Mattieu Lachaunaye. Age at the first credit: 27. His credits cluster in comedy. Screen work stretches over 108 years of his life.
Jean Yonnel
77 years (Jul 21, 1891 – Aug 17, 1968)Bucharest, Romania
15 Movies
Jean Yonnel is one of the many actors at work in Romanian film and television, though the biographical detail available is minimal. He features in 'Light-Fingered George', playing Mattieu Lachaunaye. Age at the first credit: 27. His credits cluster in comedy. Screen work stretches over 108 years of his life.
Jean Yonnel (21 July 1891 – 17 August 1968) was a Romanian-born French actor.
Yonnel was born in Bucharest, Romania as Jean-Estève Schachmann and began his film career in France in the 1910s. Some of his notable performance were in Obsession (1933), Amok (1934), Fanatisme (1934), White Nights of St. Petersburg (1937), The Imperial Tragedy (1939) and A Funny Parishioner (1963). Yonnel died in Paris in 1968.