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 | Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff | Self (archive footage) | 2020-09-09 |
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 | Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self (archive footage) | 2011-10-25 |
Movie | D'un film à l'autre | Self (archive footage) | 2011-04-13 |
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 | Kean | Kean | 1988-11-12 |
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 | Sergent Pierre Augagneur | 1984-03-28 |
Movie | Happy Easter | Stephane Margelle | 1984-10-24 |
Movie | The Outsider | Commissaire divisionnaire 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 | Divisional commissioner 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 | The Night Caller | Commissioner Jean Letellier | 1975-04-09 |
Movie | Incorrigible | Victor Vauthier | 1975-10-15 |
Movie | Stavisky... | Serge Alexandre Stavisky | 1974-05-15 |
Movie | The Inheritor | Bart Cordell | 1973-03-22 |
Movie | The Magnificent One | François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar | 1973-11-23 |
Movie | The Pariah | Roberto Borgo, dit « la Scoumoune » | 1972-12-12 |
Movie | Scoundrel in White | Doctor Paul Simay | 1972-09-29 |
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 | Love Is a Funny Thing | Henri | 1969-12-12 |
Movie | The Brain | Arthur Lespinasse | 1969-03-07 |
Movie | Mississippi Mermaid | Louis Mahé | 1969-06-18 |
Movie | God Chose Paris | Narrator / Presenter | 1969-09-05 |
Movie | The Woman Is a Stranger | 1968-01-17 | |
Movie | Ho! | François Holin, aka Ho | 1968-11-04 |
Movie | Casino Royale | Un légionnaire | 1967-04-13 |
Movie | The Thief of Paris | Georges Randal | 1967-02-22 |
Movie | Tender Scoundrel | Tony Maréchal | 1966-12-12 |
Movie | Pierrot le Fou | Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot' | 1965-11-05 |
Movie | Crime on a Summer Morning | Francis | 1965-02-17 |
Movie | Up to His Ears | Arthur Lempereur | 1965-12-04 |
Movie | Greed in the Sun | Rocco | 1964-04-17 |
Movie | Backfire | David Ladislas | 1964-09-04 |
Movie | That Man from Rio | Adrien Dufourquet | 1964-02-05 |
Movie | Male Hunt | Fernand | 1964-09-18 |
Movie | Weekend at Dunkirk | Julien Maillat | 1964-12-18 |
Movie | The Shortest Day | Erede Siciliano (uncredited) | 1963-02-14 |
Movie | Banana Peel | Michel Thibault | 1963-01-18 |
Movie | Crazy Sea | le capitaine Il Livornese | 1963-09-13 |
Movie | Sweet and Sour | Raymond | 1963-09-04 |
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 | 1962-07-29 |
Movie | Le Doulos | Silien | 1962-12-13 |
Movie | The Lovemakers | Amerigo | 1961-06-13 |
Movie | The Winner | Unknown | 1961-04-01 |
Movie | Léon Morin, Priest | Léon Morin | 1961-09-22 |
Movie | A Woman Is a Woman | Alfred Lubitsch | 1961-09-06 |
Movie | Famous Love Affairs | Lauzun | 1961-11-03 |
Movie | Riviera-Story | Rennfahrer | 1961-12-07 |
Movie | A Man Named Rocca | Roberto La Rocca | 1961-11-17 |
Movie | Seven Days… Seven Nights | Chauvin | 1960-05-25 |
Movie | Breathless | Michel Poiccard / László Kovács | 1960-03-16 |
Movie | The Big Risk | Éric Stark | 1960-03-23 |
Movie | Love and the Frenchwoman | Gilles, l'amant (segment "L'Adultère") | 1960-09-16 |
Movie | Trapped by Fear | Paul Frapier | 1960-11-04 |
Movie | Two Women | Michele Di Libero | 1960-12-22 |
Movie | Letters of a Novice | Giuliano Verdi | 1960-12-01 |
Movie | À double tour | Laszlo Kovacs | 1959-12-04 |
Movie | An Angel on Wheels | Michel Barrot | 1959-08-28 |
Movie | The Three Musketeers | D'Artagnan | 1959-12-25 |
Movie | Be Beautiful and Shut Up | Pierrot, un jeune de la bande d'Olga | 1958-05-07 |
Movie | The Cheaters | Lou | 1958-10-10 |
Movie | Sunday Encounter | Patrick | 1958-11-19 |
Movie | Charlotte and Her Boyfriend | Jules | 1958-12-31 |
Movie | Sunday Buddies | Trébois | 1957-07-01 |
Movie | On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels | Venin | 1957-09-11 |
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