Jeff (Mélodie mortelle)

In Mélodie mortelle, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery, Jeff is the keyboardist of the band supporting the popular yéyé singer Nicky. Jeff, whose real name is Jean-François Bouillot, is portrayed by Nicolas Cornille.

After the funeral of the murdered guitarist Mike, Alice Avril saw Jeff trying to hit on his fiancee Nicky at the cemetery. Nicky had slapped Jeff and accused him of killing Mike. Alice reported this to commissaire Laurence who questioned Jeff. Jeff admitted that he had been in love with Nicky for some time but had been too cowardly to admit it. He was not the type who could kill Mike. He told Laurence that Mike was a disagreeable person. He cheated on Nicky and once even made her have an abortion. But whatever he might have done, he did not deserve to be murdered.

Later, when commissaire Laurence showed Marlene and Alice that the seance which predicted the death of Mike had been rigged to set up an alibi, Marlene's suspicion fell on Jeff. He had been at the seance, and he could have asked his friend Marlon who was at the record company premises to kill Mike for him. Alice seemed to agree with this because Marlon and Jeff seemed to have some source of money. She had seen Marlon on an expensive motorbike. However commissaire Laurence disagreed with their suspicions. All that Marlon and Jeff were doing was having a separate gig on the side to earn some extra money.