| Gérard Blain | |
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 Blain in I Delfini (1960) | |
| Born | (1930-10-23)23 October 1930 Paris, France |
| Died | 17 December 2000(2000-12-17) (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
| Years active | 1944–2000 |
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Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director.
Biography
Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for his film The Friends. Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont.
Filmography
Actor
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Le bal des passants | Guillaume Radot | ||
| Le carrefour des enfants perdus | Léo Joannon | |||
| 1945 | Les enfants du paradis | Marcel Carné | Uncredited | |
| 1946 | Fils de France | Pierre Blondy | ||
| 1954 | Wild Fruit | Hervé Bromberger | ||
| Before the Deluge | Un lycéen | André Cayatte | Uncredited | |
| Service Entrance | Le photographe - copain de Léo | Carlo Rim | Uncredited | |
| 1956 | Voici le temps des assassins | Gérard Delacroix | Julien Duvivier | |
| Crime and Punishment | Jean Fargeot | Georges Lampin | ||
| 1957 | Le désir mène les hommes | Olivier Jourdans | Émile Roussel | |
| Les Mistons | Gérard | François Truffaut | Short | |
| 1958 | Young Husbands | Marcello | Mauro Bolognini | |
| Le Beau Serge | Serge | Claude Chabrol | ||
| 1959 | Les Cousins | Charles | Claude Chabrol | |
| Match contre la mort | Jacques Lourmel | Claude Bernard-Aubert | ||
| 1960 | I Delfini | Anselmo Foresi | Francesco Maselli | |
| Run with the Devil | Stefano Solera | Mario Camerini | ||
| Charlotte and Her Boyfriend | Charlotte's new boyfriend | Jean-Luc Godard | Short | |
| The Hunchback of Rome | Alvara aka "Hunchback" | Carlo Lizzani | ||
| 1961 | La peau et les os | Mazur | Jean-Paul Sassy | |
| Gold of Rome | Davide | Carlo Lizzani | ||
| 1962 | Hatari! | Charles "Chips" Maurey | Howard Hawks | |
| Lo sgarro | Paolo | Silvio Siano | ||
| 1963 | The Eye of the Needle | Toto Cacace | Marcello Andrei | |
| Les Vierges | Xavier de Brétevielle | Jean-Pierre Mocky | ||
| La soupe aux poulets | Claudio | Philippe Agostini | ||
| 1964 | La Bonne Soupe | Le peintre | Robert Thomas | |
| Via Veneto | Giuseppe Lipartiti | |||
| Amori pericolosi | L'attendente | Giulio Questi | (segment "Il generale") | |
| 1965 | Un amore | Marcello | Gianni Vernuccio | |
| 1966 | M.M.M. 83 | Robert Gibson | Sergio Bergonzelli | |
| 1967 | La musica | Marguerite Duras and Paul Seban | ||
| Shock Troops | Thomas | Constantin Costa-Gavras | ||
| 1968 | Negresco [de] | Roger | Klaus Lemke [de] | |
| 1969 | Joë Caligula - Du suif chez les dabes [fr] | Joë Caligula | José Bénazéraf | |
| 1970 | Caïn de nulle part | Caïn | Daniel Daërt | |
| 1971 | Paolo e Francesca | Giovanni Malatrasi | Gianni Vernuccio | |
| 1977 | The American Friend | Raoul Minot | Wim Wenders | |
| The Machine Age | Le journaliste | Gilles Carle | ||
| 1978 | Utopia | Gérard | Iradj Azimi | |
| 1981 | La Flambeuse | Henri | Rachel Weinberg | |
| 1983 | Un dimanche de flic | Emilio | Michel Vianey | |
| La derelitta | Redza | Jean-Pierre Igoux | ||
| 1986 | La Presqu'île | Simon | Georges Luneau | |
| 1987 | Poussière d'ange | Broz | Edouard Niermans | |
| 1988 | Natalia | Claude Roitman | Bernard Cohn | |
| 1989 | Jour après jour | Richard Lunet | Alain Attal | |
| L'enfant de l'hiver | Stephane's father | Olivier Assayas | ||
| 1992 | Chasse gardée | Pierre Bufières | Jean-Claude Biette | |
| 1999 | Cinématon | Himself | Gérard Courant | |
| 2001 | Bandits d'amour | The priest | Pierre Le Bret |
Director
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Friends | Philippe March / Yann Favre | Writer |
| 1974 | The Pelican | Dominique Ravix / Daniel Sarky | Writer |
| 1976 | A Child in the Crowd | Jean François Cimino / César Chauveau | Writer |
| 1978 | Second Wind | Robert Stack / Anicée Alvina | Writer |
| 1980 | The Rebel | Patrick Norbert | Writer |
| 1987 | Pierre and Djemila | Abdelkader / Djedjigua Ait-Hamouda | Writer |
| 1993 | La Fortune de Gaspard | Vincent de Bouard | TV movie Writer |
| 1995 | Jusqu'au bout de la nuit | François | Director / Writer |
| 2000 | Ainsi soit-il [fr] | Paul Blain | Writer |
References
- "Gérad Blain". unifrance.org. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- Bergan, Ronald (19 December 2000). "Gérard Blain". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- "Gérard Blain". newwvefilm.com. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ^ "Gérard Blain". telegraph.co.uk. 29 September 2000. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
External links
- Gérard Blain at IMDb
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