Patrick Dewaere

Aktor, Muzyka

26 stycznia 1947 — 16 lipca 1982 (35 years)
Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982) was a French film actor. Born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, he was the son of French actress Mado Maurin. An actor from a young age, his career lasted more than 21 years until his suicide in Paris, in 1982.

Patrick Dewaere was the third child of an actor's family. His biological father, Michel Têtard, was a lyricist who had an affair with Dewaere's mother, Mado Maurin, who was married to Pierre-Marie Bourdeaux. Dewaere grew up believing Bourdeaux was his biological father. After Dewaere's parents divorced, his mother remarried Georges Collignon, who sexually abused Dewaere as a child. Under the direction of his mother, Dewaere, his four brothers and his sister performed in movies and television series. The family lived in Paris. Dewaere attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school.

One of his first TV appearances was in 1961, when he was 14 years old. He appeared in a video for the song "Nuits d'Espagne" by Dalida. Later, he was a promising and popular French actor in the late 1960s and 1970s.

At the age of 17, Dewaere learned that he was not the biological child of his mother’s ex-husband, Pierre-Marie Bourdeaux, but that of conductor and singer Michel Têtard. In 1968, he took the name of "Dewaere" which his maternal great-grandmother inspired him. A year earlier, he had met his first wife, Sotha, an actress who co-founded the Café de la Gare, an experimental theatre. They separated in 1970 but remained married for eleven years.

From 1968, he collaborated with the Café de la Gare, where he met Miou-Miou and Gérard Depardieu, with whom he made a breakthrough after many secondary roles in various films, in the scandalous comedy Going Places. Miou-Miou became Dewaere’s companion and the mother of his daughter Angèle (1974). She left Dewaere for singer Julien Clerc, shortly before the shooting of F...like Fairbanks, in which both play a couple in separation.

Patrick Dewaere became one of the most popular actors in French cinema in the 1970s. Between 1977 and 1982, he was nominated five times to the Césars in the "Best Actor" category, the most important award in France. In his work, Dewaere was restless and very conscientious, which may have caused his depressed mood. He also had serious drug problems, and it is known that he had been sexually abused as a child. He consolidated his status as a savage and ruthless actor in Alain Corneau’s cult film Série noire (1979). In his roles, Dewaere was long attached to the kind of young rebel. Only in his later films did his comic and dramatic diversity manifest itself. He often worked with director Bertrand Blier.

In 1980, Dewaere hit a journalist who had announced against his will his union with Elsa Chalier. Subsequently, the actor was ignored by the French press, his name was even abbreviated with his initials (P.D).

For eleven years Dewaere was married to French actress Sotha. In the early 1970s, he became the companion of French actress Miou-Miou, until they separated in 1976. They had one daughter. Shortly before the release of Paradis Pour Tous (1982), a black comedy where his character tries to commit suicide, the actor shot himself in his house in Paris. He was 35 years old. ...

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Komnata biskupa
    Komnata biskupa1977

Known For

  • Ojczym
    Ojczym1981
  • Czarna seria
    Czarna seria1979
  • Jaja
    Jaja1974
  • Hothead
    Hothead1979
  • Przygotujcie chusteczki
    Przygotujcie chusteczki1978
  • The Best Way to Walk
    The Best Way to Walk1976
  • Zły syn
    Zły syn1980
  • Tysiąc miliardów dolarów
    Tysiąc miliardów dolarów1982
  • Powodzenia, stary!
    Powodzenia, stary!1975
  • Sędzia Fayard, zwany Szeryfem
    Sędzia Fayard, zwany Szeryfem1977
  • Hotel Ameryka
    Hotel Ameryka1981
  • Komnata biskupa
    Komnata biskupa1977
  • Raj dla wszystkich
    Raj dla wszystkich1982
  • F jak Fairbanks
    F jak Fairbanks1976
  • Korek
    Korek1979
  • Heat of Desire
    Heat of Desire1981
  • Psychiatra
    Psychiatra1981
  • Catherine & Co.
    Catherine & Co.1975
  • Marsz triumfalny
    Marsz triumfalny1976
  • Lili, kochaj mnie!
    Lili, kochaj mnie!1975

Filmografia

1982
Paradis pour tous · as Alain Durieux
1982
Mille milliards de dollars · as Paul Kerjean
1981
Hotel America · as Gilles Tisserand
1981
Beau-père · as Rémi
1981
Heat of Desire · as Serge Lainé
1981
Psy · as Marc
1980
A Bad Son · as Bruno Calgagni
1979
Paco the Infallible · as Pocapena
1979
Serie Noire · as Franck Poupart
1979
Hothead · as François Perrin
1979
Traffic Jam · as Mara's Lover
1978
The Key Is in the Door · as Philippe
1978
1977
La stanza del vescovo · as Marco MaffeiNa Plex
1977
1976
1976
Victory March · as 2nd Lt. Baio
1976
1975
The French Detective · as Inspector Lefèvre
1975
Catherine & Co. · as François
1975
Pas de problème! · as Bartender
1975
Lily, aime-moi · as Gaston, Dit Johnny Cash
1975
Along the Fango River · as Sébastien
1974
Going Places · as Pierrot
1973
1973
Themroc · as The Mason
1971
The Deadly Trap · as L'homme À L'écharpe Jaune (uncredited)
1971
The Swashbuckler · as Un Volontaire
1968
1968
Les hauts de Hurlevent · as Young Heathcliff
1967
Jean de la Tour Miracle · as Jean De La Tour Miracle
1966
Is Paris Burning? · as Young Resistant (uncredited)
1958
Mimi Pinson · as Mimi's Younger Brother
1957
The Spies · as Le Petit Moynet
1957
The Happy Road · as Child (uncredited)
1956
I'll Get Back to Kandara · as Le Petit Garçon
1956
Plucking the Daisy · as Un Frère D'agnès
1951

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