Jean Daste (18 September, 1904 – 15 October, 1994) was a French star of stage and screen who made his film debut in Jean Renoir’s Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932), then played the lead in Jean Vigo’s two feature films, Zero de Conduite (1933) and L’Atalante (1934). Towards the end of his career, he appeared in important supporting roles in films directed by Alain Resnais and Francois Truffaut.