Eddie Constantine

Acting · Born 1917-10-29 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Eddie Constantine (born Edward Constantinowsky; October 29, 1917, Los Angeles, California – February 25, 1993, Wiesbaden, Germany) was an American-born French actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe. He became well-known for a series of French B movies in which he played secret agent Lemmy Caution and is now best remembered for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's philosophical science fiction film Alphaville. Constantine also appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (as himself in Beware of a Holy Whore 1971), Lars von Trier, and Mika Kaurismäki. He continued reprising the role of Lemmy Caution well into his 70s; his final appearance as the character was in Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (1991). Description above from the Wikipedia article Eddie…

Filmography

• Alphaville as Lemmy Caution
• Europa as Colonel Harris
• The Long Good Friday as Charlie
• Cléo from 5 to 7 as The Sprinkler / Actor in Silent Film
• Haytabo as Professor
• Make Your Bets Ladies as Mike Warner
• Beware of a Holy Whore as Eddie
• It Lives Again as Dr. Forrest
• Attack of the Robots as Al Pereira
• Passport to Shame as Johnny McVey

TV

• Frankenstein's Aunt as Alojz
• Stars in the Ring as Self
• Rivalen der Rennbahn as Mr Belmont
• Le Grand Échiquier as Self
• ZDF-Fernsehgarten as Self
• 3 nach 9 as Self
• World on a Wire as Man in Rolls Royce
• aspekte as Self
• Die Drehscheibe as Self
• Was bin ich? as Self