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Jean-Paul Belmondo
Actor, Producer
Died September 6, 2021 (88 years)
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.
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Filmography
| 2018 | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael · as Michel Poiccard a.k.a. Laszlo Kovacs |
| 2010 | What War May Bring · as Cameo appearance |
| 2009 | Great Directors · as Michele Di Libero |
| 2008 | A Man and His Dog · as Charles |
| 2003 | The Dreamers · as Michel Poiccard a.k.a. Laszlo Kovacs |
| 2001 | L'Aîné des Ferchaux · as Paul Ferchaux |
| 2000 | Amazon · as Edouard |
| 1999 | Maybe · as Ako |
| 1998 | Half a Chance · as Léo Brassac |
| 1995 | Les Misérables · as Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean |
| 1995 | Desired · as Désiré |
| 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 | Happy Easter · as Stephane Margelle |
| 1984 | The Vultures · as Sgt. Pierre Augagneur |
| 1983 | Le Marginal · as Commissaire Philippe Jordan |
| 1982 | Ace of Aces · as Jo Cavalier |
| 1981 | The Professional · as Joss Beaumont |
| 1980 | Le Guignolo · as Alexandre Dupré |
| 1979 | Cop or Hood · as Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti |
| 1977 | Animal · as Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari |
| 1976 | Body of My Enemy · as François Leclercq |
| 1976 | The Hunter Will Get You · as Roger Pilard, aka "l'Alpagueur" |
| 1975 | The Night Caller · as Commissaire Jean Letellier |
| 1975 | Incorrigible · as Victor Vauthier |
| 1975 | Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca · as actor |
| 1974 | Stavisky · as Serge Alexandre Stavisky |
| 1973 | Le Magnifique · as François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar |
| 1973 | The Inheritor · as Bart Cordell |
| 1972 | Docteur Popaul · as Docteur Paul Simay |
| 1972 | Scoumoune · as Roberto Borgo |
| 1971 | Swashbuckler · as Nicolas Philibert |
| 1971 | The Burglars · as Azad |
| 1970 | Borsalino · as François Capella |
| 1969 | The Brain · as Arthur Lespinasse |
| 1969 | Love Is a Funny Thing · as Henri |
| 1969 | Mississippi Mermaid · as Louis Mahé |
| 1968 | Ho! · as François Holin, aka Ho |
| 1967 | Casino Royale · as Un légionnaire |
| 1967 | The Thief of Paris · as Georges Randal |
| 1966 | Tender Scoundrel · as Tony Maréchal |
| 1966 | Is Paris Burning? · as Yvon Morandat |
| 1965 | Up to His Ears · as Arthur Lempereur |
| 1965 | Crime on a Summer Morning · as Francis |
| 1965 | Pierrot le Fou · as Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot' |
| 1964 | Male Hunt · as Fernand |
| 1964 | Backfire · as David Ladislas |
| 1964 | Greed in the Sun · as Rocco |
| 1964 | That Man from Rio · as Adrien Dufourquet |
| 1964 | Weekend at Dunkirk · as Julien Maillat |
| 1963 | Sweet and Sour · as Raymond |
| 1963 | Magnet of Doom · as Michel Maudet |
| 1963 | Mare matto · as le capitaine Il Livornese |
| 1963 | Banana Peel · as Michel Thibault |
| 1963 | The Shortest Day · as Erede Siciliano (uncredited) |
| 1962 | |
| 1962 | A Monkey in Winter · as Gabriel Fouquet |
| 1962 | Beach Casanova · as Cameo |
| 1962 | Cartouche · as Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche |
| 1961 | Man Called Rocca · as Roberto La Rocca |
| 1961 | Léon Morin, Priest · as Leon Morin |
| 1961 | Famous Love Affairs · as Lauzun |
| 1961 | La viaccia · as Amerigo |
| 1961 | Un coeur gros comme ça · as Un spectateur au match de boxe |
| 1961 | A Woman Is a Woman · as Alfred Lubitsch |
| 1960 | Breathless · as Michel Poiccard / László Kovács |
| 1960 | Lettere di una novizia · as Giuliano Verdi |
| 1960 | Seven Days... Seven Nights · as Chauvin |
| 1960 | Love and the Frenchwoman · as Gil ('L'adultère') |
| 1960 | Trapped by Fear · as Paul Frapier |
| 1960 | Classe Tous Risques · as Eric Stark |
| 1960 | |
| 1959 | À double tour · as Laszlo Kovacs |
| 1959 | An Angel on Wheels · as Michel Barrot |
| 1958 | Charlotte and Her Boyfriend · as Jules |
| 1958 | Les tricheurs · as Lou |
| 1958 | Be Beautiful But Shut Up · as Pierrot, un jeune de la bande d'Olga |
| 1958 | Les copains du dimanche · as Trébois |
| 1958 | Un drôle de dimanche · as Patrick |