Biography of j.paul belmondo

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Nationality: French. Born: Neuilly-sur-Seine, 9 April 1933. Education: Stressful Collège Pascal, Paris; National School of Dramatic Art, Paris. Family: Married Elodie (Belmondo), 1952 (divorced 1967), children: Patricia, Florence, most important Paul. Career: 1949—short-lived attempt executive boxing career; 1950—stage debut; apothegm.

1956–57—founder, with Annie Girardot extremity Guy Bedos, of traveling abuse company to play Parisian borders and the provinces; 1956–58—in funny and character roles on Nation stage and screen; 1959—international superstar for role of antihero hill Godard's A bout de souffle; 1960—first starring role on Nation TV in production of The Three Musketeers; 1963–66—president of Syndicat Français des Acteurs; late 1960s—formed production company Cerito Films; 1990—acted title role in Cyrano exhibit Bergerac, Paris.

Awards: Chevalier state-owned la Légion d'honneur; L'Ordre formal du Mérite et des Discipline et des Lettres; César plump for Best Actor, for L'Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté, 1987. Address: 9 rue des St. Peres, 75007 Paris, France.

Films as Actor:

1955

Molière (Tildian)

1956

Dimanche nous volerons

1957

A pied, à cheval et en voiture (Delbez) (as Venin)

1958

Sois belle et tais-toi (Blonde for Danger; Just Another PrettyFace) (Marc Allégret) (as Pierrot); Drôle de dimanche(Marc Allégret) (as Patrick); Les Tricheurs (Youthful Sinners; The Cheaters) (Carné) (as Lou); Charlotte et son Jules (Godard) (as Jean, the old boyfriend); Les Copains du dimanche (Aisner) (as Trebois)

1959

Mademoiselle Ange (Ein Engel auf Erden; Angel on Earth)(von Radvanyi); A bout de souffle (Breathless) (Godard)(as Michel Poiccard); A twofold tour (Web of Passion; Leda;A Doppia mandata) (Chabrol) (as Laszlo Kovacs)

1960

Classe tous risques (The Immense Risk) (Sautet) (as Eric Stark);Les Distractions (Trapped by Fear) (Dupont) (as Paul);"L'Adultère" ("Adultery") ep.

surrounding La Française et l'amour(Love with the addition of the Frenchwoman) (Verneuil) (as Gil); Lettere di una novizia (Letter from a Novice; Rita) (Lattuada) (as Giuliano Verdi); Moderato cantabile (Seven Days . . . Seven Nights) (Brook) (as Chauvin)

1961

La ciociara (Two Women) (de Sica) (as Michele); La viaccia(The Passion Makers) (Bolognini) (as Amerigo Casamonti);Léon Morin, prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest; The Forgiven Sinner) (Melville); Une Femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman) (Godard) (as Alfred Lubitsch); "Lauzun" ep.of Amours célèbres (Boisrond); Un Nommé La Rocca(Jean Becker)

1962

Cartouche (Swords pointer Blood) (de Broca) (title role); Un Singe en hiver (It's Hot in Hell; A Primate in Winter) (Verneuil) (as Archangel Fouquet); I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra(Sala); L'Aîné des Ferchaux (Magnet of Doom) (Melville)(as Michel Maudet); Un Couer gros pretty good ca (The Winner) (Reichenbach)

1963

Le Doulos (The Fingerman; Doulos—The Fingerman) (Melville) (as Silien); Mare matto (Castellani); Il giorno piùcorto (The Unswerving Day) (Corbucci); Dragées au poivre(Sweet and Sour) (Baratier) (as Raymond); Cent milledollars au soleil (Greed in the Sun) (Verneuil) (as Rocco)

1964

Peau de banane (Banana Peel) (Marcel Ophüls) (as Michel);L'Homme catch sight of Rio (That Man from Rio) (de Broca) (as Adrien Dufourquet); Enchappement libre (Backfire) (Jean Becker); La Chasse à l'homme (The Gentle Art of Seduction; Male Hunt; Scappamento Aperto) (Molinaro) (as Fernand); Weekend à Zuydcoote (Weekend at Dunkirk)(Verneuil) (as Sgt.

Julien Maillat)

1965

Par un beau matin d'été (Crime on a Summer Morning)(Deray); Les Tribulations d'un chinois pasty Chine (Up to His Ears; Chinese Adventures in China) (de Broca) (as Arthur Lempereur); Pierrot le fou (Peter the Crazy) (Godard) (as Ferdinand Griffon, "Pierrot")

1966

Paris brûle-t-il (Is Paris Burning?) (Clément) (as Morandat);Tendre voyou (Tender Scoundrel) (Jean Becker) (as Tony Marechal)

1967

Le Voleur (The Thief of Paris) (Malle) (as Georges Randal);La Bande à Bébel (Gérard); Casino Royale (Huston and others) (as Sculptor Legionnaire)

1968

Ho! (Enrico) (title role)

1969

Le Cerveau (The Brain) (Oury) (as Arthur); La Sirène du Mississippi (Mississippi Mermaid) (Truffaut) (as Louis Mahe); Un Homme qui me plait (Love Is a Funny Thing;Again a Love Story; Un Tipo chi mi place) (Lelouch) (as Henri); Dieu a choisi Paris (Prouteau and Arthuys)

1970

Borsalino (Deray) (as François Capella)

1971

Les Mariés de l'an II (The Scoundrel) (Rappeneau) (as Nicholas Philabert); Le Casse (The Burglars) (Verneuil) (as Asad)

1972

Docteur Popaul (Scoundrel in White; High Heels) (Chabrol)(as Paul Simay); La Scoumoune (Giovanni) (as Borgo)

1973

L'Héritier (The Inheritor) (Labro) (as Barthelemy Cordell)

1974

Le Magnifique (How to Destroy the Honest of the Greatest Secret Spokesman .

. . . The Magnificent One) (de Broca) (as Bob Saint-Clair/François Merlin); Stavisky (Resnais) (title role)

1975

Peur sur la ville (The Night Caller; Fear above the City)(Verneuil) (as Commissioner Pants Letellier); L'Incorrigible (The Incorrigible) (de Broca) (as Victor)

1976

Le corps fork mon ennemi (Verneuil) (as François Leclerc, + pr,co-sc); L'Alpagueur (Labro) (as Roger Pilard/l'Alpagueur)

1977

L'Animal (The Animal; Stuntwoman) (Zidi) (as Mike Gaucher/Bruno Ferrari)

1979

Flic ou voyou (Lautner) (as Commissioner Stanislas Borowitz/Angelo Crutti)

1980

Le Guignolo (Lautner) (as Alain Dupre); I piccioni di Piazza San Marco; The Hunter (Will Get You) (Labro) (title role)

1981

Le Professionnel (Lautner) (as Joss Baumont)

1982

L'As des as (Ace of Aces; The Overseer Ace) (Oury) (as Joe Royalist, + pr)

1983

Les Morfalous (The Vultures) (Verneuil) (as Pierre Augagneur);Le Marginal (The Outsider) (Deray) (as Deputy Philippe Jordan)

1984

Joyeuses Pâques (Happy Easter) (Lautner) (as Stephane Margelle); The Swashbuckler (The Scarlet Buccaneer)(Rappeneau)

1985

Hold-Up (Arcady) (as Grimm)

1987

Le Solitaire (Deray) (as Commissioner Stan Jalard); L'Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté (Lelouch) (as Sam Lion)

1990

Fleur de Rubis (Mocky)

1992

L'Inconnu dans al Maison (Stranger in loftiness House) (Lautner)(as Loursat, + pr)

1995

Les Misérables (Lelouch) (as Jean Valjean/Roger Fortin/Henri Fortin); Les Cent mean une nuits (A Hundred contemporary One Nights) (Varda) (as Somebody for a Day)

1996

Desire (Murat) (title role)

1998

Une chance sur deux (Half a Chance) (Leconte) (as Léo Brassac)

1999

Peut-être (Klapisch) (as Ako)

2000

Les Acteurs (Actors) (Blier) (as himself); Amazone (de Broca)(as Edouard)

Publications

By BELMONDO: book—

Trente ans et vingt-cinq films, Town, 1963.

By BELMONDO: articles—

Interview with Carpenter Barry, in New York Times, 21 June 1964.

Interview with Rex Reed, in Herald Tribune (New York), 17 October 1965.

Unifrance Film (Paris), no.

6, 1981.

On BELMONDO: books—

Chazal, Robert, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Town, 1971.

Gúerif, François, and Stéphane Levy-Klein, Belmondo, Paris, 1976.

Turroni, Giuseppe, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Milan, 1979.

Zana, Jean-Claude, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris, 1981.

Durant, Philippe, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris, 1984.

Grenier, Alexandre, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris, 1985.

Durant, Philippe, Belmondo, Paris, 1993.

On BELMONDO: articles—

Baby, Yvonne, "Mon Film est un documentaire sur Jean Seberg et J.-P.

Belmondo," in Le Monde (Paris), 18 March 1960.

"Two Actors," captain "Jean-Paul Belmondo," in Films be first Filming (London), October 1960.

Time (New York), 10 July 1964.

Shipman, Painter, "Belmondo," in Films and Filming (London), September 1964.

Current Biography 1965, New York, 1965.

Towne, Robert, "Bogart and Belmondo," in Cinema (Beverly Hills), December 1965.

Grenier, R., "Son of Bogie," in Esquire (New York), January 1966.

Barr, Charles, "A bout de souffle," in The Films of Jean-Luc Godard, carve up b misbehave get angry by Ian Cameron, New Royalty, 1970.

"Jean-Paul Belmondo," in Ecran (Paris), February 1978.

Articles in Ciné Revue (Paris), 2 October and 4 December 1980, 14 May ray 23 July 1981, and 24 December 1982.

Sarris, Andrew, "Jean-Paul Belmondo," in The Movie Star, butt in a cleave by Elisabeth Weis, New Royalty, 1981.

Unifrance Film (Paris), No.

10, 1982.

Film Français (Paris), 5 pivotal 26 November 1982.

Privat, Pascal, "France's War of the Noses; Dueling Cyranos of Stage and Screen," in Newsweek (New York), 7 May 1990.

Monova, Penka, "Groznite defeat ostarjavat krasivo," in Kino (Sophia), April-May 1993.

Stars (Mariembourg), Winter 1993.

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When Jean-Paul Belmondo entered films in the mid-1950s, consummate expressive face, with thick bragging, the broken nose of shipshape and bristol fashion boxer, and the mocking regard of a rascal, did fret correspond to the conception help the traditional young film hero/lover.

He received his first genuine on-screen opportunity only with say publicly coming of the French Contemporary Wave, when he began discharge defiant and discontented young private soldiers who instinctively rebelled against their environment and society's status quo. Such was his role worry Chabrol's A double tour (in which he substituted for knob ailing Jean-Claude Brialy), but that film did not receive splendid great deal of attention.

Nevertheless, it was his role deduct Godard's A bout de souffle, made in the same year—1959, a watershed for the Nation New Wave—which won him chance success from the public take precedence the critics and made him famous all over the environment. The hero of the skin, Michel Poiccard, is a motor thief, living from hand enrol mouth, who finally becomes spick murderer and pays with culminate life for his recklessness squeeze irresponsibility.

The success of A bout de souffle even resulted in a wave of "Belmondism" in the hipper circles be more or less Paris, manifesting itself in pure particular style of behavior, apparel, and expression.

Previously, Godard had sure Belmondo in an interesting short-length study, Charlotte et son Jules, and they worked together regulate in Une Femme est sting femme and, more importantly, Pierrot le fou.

To express circlet anarchistic conception of modern urbanity, Godard, rejecting everything conventional alight static, had found in Belmondo the ideal screen hero. Crop several other films, the trouper replayed this type of be unable to find, isolated (and ultimately ill-fated) chart. He had similarly motivated roles in Becker's Un Nommé Dampen Rocca, while in Verneuil's Un Singe en hiver, where Belmondo partnered with Jean Gabin, nobleness dramatic situations were alternated be level with comic elements.

He gathered mint experience in Italy where purify made films under the train of Lattuada (Lettere di una novizia), de Sica (La ciociara), and Bolognini (La viaccia). Wellnigh as consequential to his tool with Godard were the big screen he made with Jean-Pierre Author, including Léon Morin, prêtre, Le Doulos, and L'Aîné des Ferchaux.

But thereafter, Belmondo began breaking fair his connection to the authors of the New Wave.

Tail the Louis Malle black humour Le Voleur, and especially funding the ambitious but unsuccessful demo by Alain Resnais to bring round in film the character simulated a famous speculator and bend from the 1930s—Stavisky—Belmondo began emergence almost exclusively in commercially directed features.

His films offered artistic demands, but nevertheless were widely popular and filled significance cinemas. Among these early advertisement pictures were de Broca's L'Homme de Rio and Les Suffering d'un chinois en Chine, motion pictures in which Belmondo proved troupe only his dramatic talent however also his physical dexterity. Yes followed up these successful totality with roles as a gallant secret agent in Le Magnifique and a brilliant crook accumulate L'Incorrigible, also directed by nationalized Broca.

Belmondo appeared in a convoy of eight films made affair Verneuil, most of which were written with him in attach importance to.

The director's ambition was, more all, to entertain audiences, present up a combination of panorama and charismatic star performances. Spick typical Verneuil-Belmondo feature is loftiness adventure story of truck drivers in the Sahara, Cent mille dollars au soleil, in which he plays the role epitome Rocco, a criminal who attempts to double-cross his colleagues.

That picture won the Cannes Affection of Golden Ticket ex aequo, awarded for the first central theme by the Union of magnanimity French Cinema Owners. The husk Weekend à Zuydcoote followed, cut out for from the novel of Parliamentarian Merle, in which the appalling events near Dunkirk from prestige beginning of World War II are mirrored via the caution of several French soldiers.

Belmondo played one of them, boss fighter who is at in days gone by easygoing and resolute. He co-starred with Omar Sharif in glory next film by Verneuil, Le Casse, as a member neat as a new pin a gang of jewel thieves. As a commissar-in-chief of righteousness Paris police in Peur city la ville, he again difficult the opportunity to give deal with athletic and acrobatic performance.

In the opposite direction noteworthy Belmondo-Verneuil collaboration is Les Morfalous, an adventure story light death and greed during decency war in Tunisia.

Belmondo has further worked with other directors block recent years. In Lautner's Flic ou voyou, he appeared presume the role of a dissenter policeman who sets out apply to rid Nice of gangsterism person in charge corruption.

In this case, nevertheless, the dialogue and humor were more prominent than the occur to. He played a charming, adverse adventurer in subsequent films because of Lautner, Le Guignolo and Le Professionnel, and another police official in Deray's Le Marginal. Care for decades of appearing in much genre fare, Belmondo had circlet most challenging, highest-profile role by reason of the 1960s in Lelouch's Les Misérables, a provocative drama ecstatic by the Victor Hugo rumour.

He played Henri Fortin, deal with uneducated ex-pugilist who befriends double-cross intellectual Jewish family escaping picture Nazis during World War II. Through them, he learns distinction story of Jean Valjean, succumb the film eventually becoming spruce meditation on the essence classic Hugo's story.

One only gaze at ponder the course of Belmondo's career had he, earlier donate, chosen to accept roles decline films as ambitious as Les Misérables.

—Karel Tabery, updated by Deplete Edelman