Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director.[1][2]
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Born | Paris, France | 23 October 1930
Died | 17 December 2000 Paris, France | (aged 70)
Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
Years active | 1944–2000 |
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Biography
editBlain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000.[3][4] In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for his film The Friends.[5] Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont.[4]
Filmography
editActor
editYear | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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1944 | Le bal des passants | Guillaume Radot | ||
Le carrefour des enfants perdus | Léo Joannon | |||
1945 | Les enfants du paradis | Marcel Carné | Uncredited | |
1946 | Fils de France | Pierre Blondy | ||
1954 | Wild Fruit | Hervé Bromberger | ||
Before the Deluge | Un lycéen | André Cayatte | Uncredited | |
Service Entrance | Le photographe - copain de Léo | Carlo Rim | Uncredited | |
1956 | Voici le temps des assassins | Gérard Delacroix | Julien Duvivier | |
Crime and Punishment | Jean Fargeot | Georges Lampin | ||
1957 | Le désir mène les hommes | Olivier Jourdans | Émile Roussel | |
Les Mistons | Gérard | François Truffaut | Short | |
1958 | Young Husbands | Marcello | Mauro Bolognini | |
Le Beau Serge | Serge | Claude Chabrol | ||
1959 | Les Cousins | Charles | Claude Chabrol | |
Match contre la mort | Jacques Lourmel | Claude Bernard-Aubert | ||
1960 | I Delfini | Anselmo Foresi | Francesco Maselli | |
Run with the Devil | Stefano Solera | Mario Camerini | ||
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend | Charlotte's new boyfriend | Jean-Luc Godard | Short | |
The Hunchback of Rome | Alvara aka "Hunchback" | Carlo Lizzani | ||
1961 | La peau et les os | Mazur | Jean-Paul Sassy | |
Gold of Rome | Davide | Carlo Lizzani | ||
1962 | Hatari! | Charles "Chips" Maurey | Howard Hawks | |
Lo sgarro | Paolo | Silvio Siano | ||
1963 | The Eye of the Needle | Toto Cacace | Marcello Andrei | |
Les Vierges | Xavier de Brétevielle | Jean-Pierre Mocky | ||
La soupe aux poulets | Claudio | Philippe Agostini | ||
1964 | La Bonne Soupe | Le peintre | Robert Thomas | |
Via Veneto | Giuseppe Lipartiti | |||
Amori pericolosi | L'attendente | Giulio Questi | (segment "Il generale") | |
1965 | Un amore | Marcello | Gianni Vernuccio | |
1966 | M.M.M. 83 | Robert Gibson | Sergio Bergonzelli | |
1967 | La musica | Marguerite Duras and Paul Seban | ||
Shock Troops | Thomas | Constantin Costa-Gavras | ||
1968 | Negresco | Roger | Klaus Lemke | |
1969 | Joë Caligula - Du suif chez les dabes | Joë Caligula | José Bénazéraf | |
1970 | Caïn de nulle part | Caïn | Daniel Daërt | |
1971 | Paolo e Francesca | Giovanni Malatrasi | Gianni Vernuccio | |
1977 | The American Friend | Raoul Minot | Wim Wenders | |
The Machine Age | Le journaliste | Gilles Carle | ||
1978 | Utopia | Gérard | Iradj Azimi | |
1981 | La Flambeuse | Henri | Rachel Weinberg | |
1983 | Un dimanche de flic | Emilio | Michel Vianey | |
La derelitta | Redza | Jean-Pierre Igoux | ||
1986 | La Presqu'île | Simon | Georges Luneau | |
1987 | Poussière d'ange | Broz | Edouard Niermans | |
1988 | Natalia | Claude Roitman | Bernard Cohn | |
1989 | Jour après jour | Richard Lunet | Alain Attal | |
L'enfant de l'hiver | Stephane's father | Olivier Assayas | ||
1992 | Chasse gardée | Pierre Bufières | Jean-Claude Biette | |
1999 | Cinématon | Himself | Gérard Courant | |
2001 | Bandits d'amour | The priest | Pierre Le Bret |
Director
editYear | Title | Role | Notes |
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1971 | The Friends | Philippe March / Yann Favre | Writer |
1974 | The Pelican | Dominique Ravix / Daniel Sarky | Writer |
1976 | A Child in the Crowd | Jean François Cimino / César Chauveau | Writer |
1978 | Second Wind | Robert Stack / Anicée Alvina | Writer |
1980 | The Rebel | Patrick Norbert | Writer |
1987 | Pierre and Djemila | Abdelkader / Djedjigua Ait-Hamouda | Writer |
1993 | La Fortune de Gaspard | Vincent de Bouard | TV movie Writer |
1995 | Jusqu'au bout de la nuit | François | Director / Writer |
2000 | Ainsi soit-il | Paul Blain | Writer |
References
edit- ^ "Gérad Blain". unifrance.org. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ^ Bergan, Ronald (19 December 2000). "Gérard Blain". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Gérard Blain". newwvefilm.com. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ^ a b "Gérard Blain". telegraph.co.uk. 29 September 2000. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
External links
edit- Gérard Blain at IMDb