Jean Despeaux

Jean Despeaux

Medal record
Men's boxing
Representing  France
Olympic Games
1936 BerlinMiddleweight

Jean Despeaux (22 October 1915 25 May 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.