Name Jean Despeaux Role Boxer | Martial art Boxing | |
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Died May 25, 1989, Largentiere, France Movies The Murderer Lives at Number 21 Olympic medals Boxing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's middleweight | ||
Jean Despeaux (October 22, 1915 – May 25, 1989) was a French boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
In 1936 he won the gold medal in the middleweight class after winning the final against Henry Tiller.
He also acted in a handful of films, including Maurice Tourneur's La Main du diable (1943), in which he played a boxer.
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