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person_profile-Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo Died at age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Date of Birth:

Apr 09, 1933

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Sep 06, 2021

Biography of

Jean-Paul Belmondo

    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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Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Filmography of

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Found 16 Movies in total

Stranger in the House

Loursat ( Actor )

Producer

... 1992

... 1990

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Sam Lion ( Actor )

Producer

... 1988

Chocolat

Producer

... 1988

The Loner

Stan Jalard ( Actor )

Producer

... 1987

Hold-up

Grimm ( Actor )

Producer

... 1985

The Outsider

Commissaire Philippe Jordan ( Actor )

Stunts

... 1983

Ace of Aces

Jo Cavalier ( Actor )

Producer

... 1982

Cop or Hood

Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti ( Actor )

Producer

... 1979

Animal

Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari ( Actor )

Producer

... 1977

The Body of My Enemy

François Leclercq ( Actor )

Producer

... 1976

Hunter Will Get You

Roger Pilard, aka "l'Alpagueur" ( Actor )

Producer

... 1976

Incorrigible

Victor Vauthier ( Actor )

Producer

... 1975

The Night Caller

Commissaire Jean Letellier ( Actor )

Producer

... 1975

Stavisky...

Serge Alexandre Stavisky ( Actor )

Producer

... 1974

The Magnificent One

François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar ( Actor )

Stunts

... 1973