Jean-Paul Belmondo

Acting · Born 1933-04-09 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Biography

Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward, frequently portraying police officers and criminals in action thriller films. His best known credits include Breathless (1960), That Man from Rio (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Borsalino (1970), and The Professional (1981). An undisputed box-office champion along with Louis de Funès and Alain Delon, Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million viewers over his 50-year career. Between 1969 and 1982, he starred in the four most popular films of the year in France, surpassed only by de Funès: The Brain (1969), Fear Over the City (1975), Animal (1977), Ace of Aces (1982).[2] Belmondo…

Filmography

• Breathless as Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
• Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo as Self (archive footage)
• Mississippi Mermaid as Louis Mahé
• The Professional as Joss Beaumont
• Pierrot le Fou as Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'
• That Man from Rio as Adrien Dufourquet
• The Married Couple of the Year Two as Nicolas Philibert
• Is Paris Burning? as Yvon Morandat
• Male Hunt as Fernand
• Hunter Will Get You as Roger Pilard, aka l'Alpagueur