Effective lead of the late 1960s, memorable as the bourgeois protagonist of Godard's Weekend (1967) and the psychopathic title character of Chabrol's Le Boucher (1969). Since 1972, Yanne has split his time between acting in other people's films and directing, writing and producing his own anarchic satires on subjects ranging from the occupation of France by the Chinese (Les Chinois a Paris, 1973) to a contemporary version of the birth of Christ (Deux heures moins le quart avant Jesus Christ, 1982).

Jean Yanne werkte mee aan de navolgende films:

1930 The Blood of a Poet/Le Sang d'un poete
performer,director,screenwriter, score composer
1965 Life Upside Down/La Vie a l'Envers performer
1965 LoosePleasures performer
1965 Monnaie de Singe performer
1965 Tight Skirts/L'Amour a la Chaine performer
1966 Line of Demarcation/La Ligne de Demarcation performer
1967 The Viscount/Le Vicomte Regle ses Comptes performer
1967 Weekend/Le Week-End performer
1968 Ces Messieurs de la Famille performer
1969 Erotissimo performer
1969 Le Boucher/The Butcher performer
1970 Laisse Aller, c'est une valse performer
1970 This Man Must Die/Que la bete meure performer
1971 Fantasia Chez Les Ploucs performer
1971 Le Saut de l'ange performer
1972 Moi y'en a vouloir des Sous performer, director, screenwriter
1972 Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble performer
1972 Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil:
performer,director,producer,screenwriter
1973 Les Chinois a Paris performer, director, producer, screenwriter
1973 Touche pas a la femme blanche! producer
1974 Andy Warhol' Dracula/Blood For Dracula/Young Dracula producer
1974 Andy Warhol's Frankenstein/Flesh for Frankenstein producer
1974 Lancelot du Lac producer
1975 Chobizenesse performer,director,screenwriter,score composer
1977 Armaguedon performer
1977 L'Imprecateur performer
1977 Moi, Fleur Bleue/Stop Calling Me Baby! performer
1978 La Raison d'etat performer
1978 I've Got You You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs/Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la Barbichette performer, director, executive producer,
1981 Asphalte performer
1982 Deux heures moins le quart avant Jesus Christ
performer,director,screenwriter, score composer
1982 Une Journee en Taxi performer
1983 Hanna K. performer
1983 Papy Fait de la Resistance performer
1984 Le Telephone sonne toujours deux fois!! performer
1986 Bandits/Attention Bandits performer
1986 Le Paltoquet performer
1987 Cayenne-Palace performer
1987 Wolf at the Door performer
1988 Quicker Than the Eye performer
1991 Les Secrets professionnels du Docteur Apfelgluck performer
1991 Madame Bovary performer
1992 Indochine performer
1992 Bal des Casse-Pieds performer