Jean Despeaux
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Competitor for  France
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.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1936 Berlin | 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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