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Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Birthday: 1933-04-09 | Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Jean-Paul Belmondo (born 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football. Belmondo made his amateur boxing debut on 10 May 1949 in Paris, France, when he knocked out Rene DesMarais in one round. Belmondo's boxing career was undefeated, but brief. He won three straight first round knockout victories from 1949 to 1950. His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave. Later he acted in Jean-Pierre Melville's philosophical movie Leon Morin, Priest (1961) and in Melville's film noir crime film The Fingerman (Le Doulos, 1963) and Godard again with Pierrot le fou (1965). With That Man From Rio (1965) he switched to commercial, mainstream productions, mainly comedies and action films but did appear in the title role of Alain Resnais' masterpiece Stavisky (1974), which some critics regard as Belmondo's finest performance. Until the mid-1980s, when he ceased to be one of France's biggest box-office stars, Belmondo's typical characters were either dashing adventurers or more cynical heroes. As he grew older, Belmondo preferred concentrating on his stage work, where he encountered success. He suffered a stroke in 2001 and had since been absent from the stage and the screen until 2009 when he appeared in Un homme et son chien (A man and his dog) which was his last performance. Belmondo died on 6 September 2021 at his home in Paris, after a period of ill health, at the age of 88. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Paul Belmondo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo

as    Self (archive footage)

2020
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

as    Self (archive footage)

2009
A Man and His Dog

as    Charles

2000
Amazon

as    Edouard

1999
Peut-être

as    Ako

1998
Half a Chance

as    Léo Brassac

1995
Les Miserables

as    Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean

1995
One Hundred and One Nights

as    Professeur Bébel

1992
Stranger in the House

as    Loursat

1988
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

as    Sam Lion

1987
The Loner

as    Stan Jalard

1985
Hold-up

as    Grimm

1984
The Vultures

as    Sgt. Pierre Augagneur

1984
Happy Easter

as    Stephane Margelle

1983
The Outsider

as    Commissaire Philippe Jordan

1982
Ace of Aces

as    Jo Cavalier

1981
The Professional

as    Joss Beaumont

1980
Le Guignolo

as    Alexandre Dupré

1980
Incorrigible

as    Victor Vauthier

1979
Cop or Hood

as    Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti

1977
Animal

as    Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari

1976
The Body of My Enemy

as    François Leclercq

1975
Fear Over the City

as    Commissaire Jean Letellier

1972
The Burglars

as    Azad

1972
Scoundrel in White

as    Docteur Paul Simay

1972
The Pariah

as    Roberto Borgo

1971
The Married Couple of the Year Two

as    Nicolas Philibert

1970
Borsalino

as    François Capella

1970
Mississippi Mermaid

as    Louis Mahé

1969
The Brain

as    Arthur Lespinasse