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.
Movie | De Gaulle, the Last King of France | Self (archive footage) | 2017-03-27 |
Movie | Belmondo by Belmondo | Self | 2016-05-05 |
Movie | The Emperor's New Clothes | Self (archive footage) | 2015-04-24 |
Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
Movie | D'un film à l'autre | Self (archive footage) | 2011-04-13 |
Movie | Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | (images d'archives) | 2011-10-25 |
Movie | Belmondo, itinéraire... | Self | 2011-05-18 |
Movie | A Man and His Dog | Charles | 2009-01-14 |
Movie | La Traversée du désir | Self | 2009-03-16 |
Movie | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Ferdinand Griffon (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-07-02 |
Movie | L'Aîné des Ferchaux | Paul Ferchaux | 2001-09-17 |
Movie | Actors | Self | 2000-04-05 |
Movie | Amazon | Edouard | 2000-07-19 |
Movie | Peut-être | Ako | 1999-11-10 |
Movie | Half a Chance | Léo Brassac | 1998-03-25 |
Movie | Desire | Désiré | 1996-04-10 |
Movie | La puce à l'oreille | Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise / Poche | 1996-10-12 |
Movie | Les Miserables | Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean | 1995-03-22 |
Movie | One Hundred and One Nights | Professor Bébel | 1995-01-25 |
Movie | Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède | Self | 1993-05-27 |
Movie | Stranger in the House | Loursat | 1992-10-03 |
Movie | Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | Sam Lion | 1988-11-30 |
Movie | The Loner | Stan Jalard | 1987-03-18 |
Movie | Hold-up | Grimm | 1985-10-23 |
Movie | The Vultures | Sgt. Pierre Augagneur | 1984-03-28 |
Movie | Happy Easter | Stephane Margelle | 1984-10-24 |
Movie | The Outsider | Commissaire Philippe Jordan | 1983-10-26 |
Movie | Ace of Aces | Jo Cavalier | 1982-10-27 |
Series | Wetten, dass..? | Self | 1981-02-14 |
Movie | The Professional | Joss Beaumont | 1981-10-21 |
Movie | Le Guignolo | Alexandre Dupré / Vicomte de Valombreuse | 1980-03-26 |
Movie | Cop or Hood | Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti | 1979-03-28 |
Series | Auf los geht's los | Self | 1977-01-22 |
Movie | Animal | Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari | 1977-10-05 |
Movie | The Body of My Enemy | François Leclercq | 1976-10-13 |
Movie | Hunter Will Get You | Roger Pilard, aka l'Alpagueur | 1976-02-01 |
Movie | Fear Over the City | Commissaire Jean Letellier | 1975-04-09 |
Movie | Incorrigible | Victor Vauthier | 1975-10-15 |
Movie | Stavisky... | Serge Alexandre Stavisky | 1974-05-15 |
Movie | The Magnificent One | François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar | 1973-11-23 |
Movie | The Inheritor | Bart Cordell | 1973-03-22 |
Movie | Scoundrel in White | Docteur Paul Simay | 1972-09-29 |
Movie | The Pariah | Roberto Borgo, dit « la Scoumoune » | 1972-12-12 |
Movie | The Married Couple of the Year Two | Nicolas Philibert | 1971-04-07 |
Movie | The Burglars | Azad | 1971-10-27 |
Movie | Borsalino | François Capella | 1970-05-19 |
Movie | The Brain | Arthur Lespinasse | 1969-03-07 |
Movie | Mississippi Mermaid | Louis Mahé | 1969-06-18 |
Movie | God Chose Paris | Récitant / Présentateur | 1969-09-05 |
Movie | Love Is a Funny Thing | Henri | 1969-12-12 |
Movie | The Woman Is a Stranger | 1968-01-17 | |
Movie | Ho! | François Holin, aka Ho | 1968-11-04 |
Movie | The Thief of Paris | Georges Randal | 1967-02-22 |
Movie | Casino Royale | Un légionnaire | 1967-04-13 |
Movie | Tender Scoundrel | Tony Maréchal | 1966-12-12 |
Movie | Up to His Ears | Arthur Lempereur | 1965-12-04 |
Movie | Crime on a Summer Morning | Francis | 1965-02-17 |
Movie | Pierrot le Fou | Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot' | 1965-11-05 |
Movie | That Man from Rio | Adrien Dufourquet | 1964-02-05 |
Movie | Greed in the Sun | Rocco | 1964-04-17 |
Movie | Male Hunt | Fernand | 1964-09-18 |
Movie | Backfire | David Ladislas | 1964-09-04 |
Movie | Weekend at Dunkirk | Julien Maillat | 1964-12-18 |
Movie | Sweet and Sour | Raymond | 1963-09-04 |
Movie | Banana Peel | Michel Thibault | 1963-01-18 |
Movie | The Shortest Day | Erede Siciliano (uncredited) | 1963-02-14 |
Movie | Crazy Sea | le capitaine Il Livornese | 1963-09-13 |
Movie | Magnet of Doom | Michel Maudet | 1963-09-25 |
Movie | Cartouche | Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche | 1962-03-07 |
Movie | A Monkey in Winter | Gabriel Fouquet | 1962-05-11 |
Movie | Le Doulos | Silien | 1962-12-13 |
Movie | A Woman Is a Woman | Alfred Lubitsch | 1961-09-06 |
Movie | The Lovemakers | Amerigo | 1961-06-13 |
Movie | Léon Morin, Priest | Leon Morin | 1961-09-21 |
Movie | A Man Named Rocca | Roberto La Rocca | 1961-11-17 |
Movie | Famous Love Affairs | Lauzun | 1961-11-03 |
Movie | Riviera-Story | Rennfahrer | 1961-12-07 |
Movie | Seven Days… Seven Nights | Chauvin | 1960-05-25 |
Movie | The Big Risk | Eric Stark | 1960-03-23 |
Movie | Love and the Frenchwoman | Gilles, l'amant (L'Adultère) | 1960-09-16 |
Movie | Two Women | Michele Di Libero | 1960-12-22 |
Movie | Trapped by Fear | Paul Frapier | 1960-11-04 |
Movie | Letters of a Novice | Giuliano Verdi | 1960-12-01 |
Movie | An Angel on Wheels | Michel Barrot | 1959-08-28 |
Movie | À double tour | Laszlo Kovacs | 1959-12-04 |
Movie | Be Beautiful But Shut Up | Pierrot, un jeune de la bande d'Olga | 1958-05-07 |
Movie | Charlotte and Her Boyfriend | Jules | 1958-12-31 |
Movie | Sunday Encounter | Patrick | 1958-11-19 |
Movie | Sunday Buddies | Trébois | 1957-07-01 |
Movie | On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels | Venin | 1957-09-11 |
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