Jean-Paul Belmondo (born 9 April 1933) is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.
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 inJean-Pierre Melville's philosophical movie Leon Morin, Priest (1960), then in the Film Noir crime film The Fingerman (1963). With That Man From Rio (1965) he switched to commercial, mainstream productions, mainly comedies and action films. Until the mid-1980s, Belmondo's typical characters have been either dashing adventurers or more cynical heroes. He was one of France's biggest box-office stars until the mid-1980s. As he grew older, Belmondo preferred concentrating on his stage work, where he encountered success.
Hi Roy, I was actually thinking of Jean-Paul Belmondo, but wasn't so sure!
ReplyDeleteWell at least I got you on one so far. :)
ReplyDeleteMy girlfriend thinks he was so cool in Breathless & just watched Pierrot le Fou yesterday, which I liked a lot
I tried to watch Pierrot le Fou when I was a teenager, but I guess it was too weird for me at the time!
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