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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Paul Belmondo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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ActingBirthday
April 9, 1933Deathday
September 6, 2021Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
124Place of birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], FranceAlso known as
Жан-Поль Бельмондо, Жан Поль Бельмондо, 장 폴 벨몽도, Jean Paul Charles Belmondo, BébelCast credits
Mississippi Mermaid
Louis MahéThe Professional
Joss BeaumontPierrot le Fou
Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'That Man from Rio
Adrien DufourquetThe Married Couple of the Year Two
Nicolas PhilibertIs Paris Burning?
Yvon MorandatMale Hunt
FernandLe Doulos
SilienHunter Will Get You
Roger Pilard, aka l'AlpagueurA Woman Is a Woman
Alfred LubitschTwo Women
Michele Di LiberoPeut-être
AkoAnimal
Mike Gaucher / Bruno FerrariBorsalino
François CapellaCasino Royale
Un légionnaireThe Outsider
Commissaire Philippe JordanLe Guignolo
Alexandre Dupré / Vicomte de ValombreuseThe Brain
Arthur LespinasseCartouche
Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias CartoucheA Monkey in Winter
Gabriel FouquetGreed in the Sun
RoccoCrew credits
The Outsider
ProducerStavisky...
ProducerThe Body of My Enemy
ProducerHunter Will Get You
ProducerAce of Aces
ProducerFear Over the City
ProducerCop or Hood
ProducerThe Magnificent One
Producer, StuntsAnimal
ProducerHold-up
ProducerThe Loner
ProducerStranger in the House
ProducerLet Sleeping Guns Lie
ThanksChocolat
ProducerTom and Lola
ProducerIncorrigible
ProducerItinerary of a Spoiled Child
Producer