Jean-Paul Belmondo
Biography
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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-04-09
Place of birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
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Cast
Breathless
1960
7.52
Mississippi Mermaid
1969
6.60
The Professional
1981
7.22
Pierrot le Fou
1965
7.40
That Man from Rio
1964
7.45
Is Paris Burning?
1966
7.17
Male Hunt
1964
6.55
Hunter Will Get You
1976
6.60
Le Doulos
1962
7.41
Tailleur pour Dames
1993
0.00
A Woman Is a Woman
1961
7.30
Two Women
1960
7.80
Peut-être
1999
5.31
Animal
1977
6.20
Borsalino
1970
6.90
Casino Royale
1967
5.30
Le Guignolo
1980
6.10
Greed in the Sun
1964
7.10
The Outsider
1983
6.90
The Big Risk
1960
7.05
The Brain
1969
7.31
The Burglars
1971
6.97
T'es fou Marcel
1974
0.00
Cartouche
1962
6.39
A Monkey in Winter
1962
7.58
Happy Easter
1984
5.94
The Night Caller
1975
7.24
Hold-up
1985
6.18
Cop or Hood
1979
6.32
A Man and His Dog
2009
5.96
Incorrigible
1975
6.20
Stavisky...
1974
6.17
Up to His Ears
1965
7.14
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
1958
6.40
A Man Named Rocca
1961
6.10
Sweet and Sour
1963
4.60
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988
7.35
The Cheaters
1958
6.50
À double tour
1959
5.96
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
7.00
Actors
2000
5.80
Famous Love Affairs
1961
4.20
Les Miserables
1995
6.69
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
1957
5.50
Half a Chance
1998
5.79
Scoundrel in White
1972
5.20
Magnet of Doom
1963
6.30
The Magnificent One
1973
7.00
The Body of My Enemy
1976
6.41
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958
5.30
Ace of Aces
1982
7.06
Stranger in the House
1992
6.40
Amazon
2000
3.90
Sunday Buddies
1957
6.10
An Angel on Wheels
1959
5.50
The Vultures
1984
6.00
The Loner
1987
5.98
Letters of a Novice
1960
6.40
Crime on a Summer Morning
1965
6.50
Love Is a Funny Thing
1969
6.45
Banana Peel
1963
5.78
Seven Days… Seven Nights
1960
6.18
Desire
1996
5.40
The Thief of Paris
1967
6.70
Weekend at Dunkirk
1964
7.00
Sunday Encounter
1958
6.20
The Pariah
1972
6.93
Ho!
1968
6.20
The Three Musketeers
1959
5.50
La Puce à l'oreille
1996
4.50
God Chose Paris
1969
0.00
The Inheritor
1973
6.30
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
6.20
Crazy Sea
1963
4.00
Tender Scoundrel
1966
5.20
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960
4.90
The Emperor's New Clothes
2015
6.30
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
7.50
Senza malizia
2023
0.00
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
1993
4.50
Backfire
1964
6.40
Trapped by Fear
1960
6.70
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011
7.50
The Lovemakers
1961
6.30
Godard by Godard
2023
7.80
The Winner
1961
5.50
J'ai tout donné
1972
8.00
Riviera-Story
1961
2.00
D'un film à l'autre
2011
7.90
The Shortest Day
1963
6.20
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017
7.70
La Traversée du désir
2009
5.70
Kean
1988
4.00
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016
7.80
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017
6.30
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
6.00
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
0.00
Belmondo l'incorrigible
2022
8.20
