Jean-Paul Belmondo
Birthday: 1933-04-09
Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Paul Belmondo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Breathless
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Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
A ceremony celebrated in the courtyard of the Invalides, in the presence of the President of the Rep...
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Mississippi Mermaid
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The Professional
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Pierrot le Fou
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That Man from Rio
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
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Is Paris Burning?
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Male Hunt
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Hunter Will Get You
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Le Doulos
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A Woman Is a Woman
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Two Women
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Peut-être
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Animal
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Borsalino
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Casino Royale
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Le Guignolo
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Greed in the Sun
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The Outsider
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The Big Risk
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The Brain
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The Burglars
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Cartouche
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A Monkey in Winter
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Happy Easter
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The Night Caller
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Hold-up
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Cop or Hood
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A Man and His Dog
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Incorrigible
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Stavisky...
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Up to His Ears
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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
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A Man Named Rocca
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Sweet and Sour
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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
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The Cheaters
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also...
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À double tour
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Léon Morin, Priest
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Actors
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Les Miserables
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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
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Half a Chance
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Scoundrel in White
Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Chris...
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Magnet of Doom
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The Magnificent One
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The Body of My Enemy
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Be Beautiful and Shut Up
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Ace of Aces
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympic...
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Stranger in the House
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Amazon
On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the...
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Sunday Buddies
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An Angel on Wheels
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The Vultures
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The Loner
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Letters of a Novice
The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins......
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Crime on a Summer Morning
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Love Is a Funny Thing
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Banana Peel
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera....
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Seven Days… Seven Nights
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Desire
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The Thief of Paris
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Weekend at Dunkirk
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Sunday Encounter
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
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The Pariah
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Ho !
Race driver who has lost his membership card becomes the chauffeur of a gangsters pack...
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The Three Musketeers
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La Puce à l'oreille
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God Chose Paris
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspect...
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The Inheritor
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One Hundred and One Nights
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Crazy Sea
A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a...
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Tender Scoundrel
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Love and the Frenchwoman
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty w...
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The Emperor's New Clothes
An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur R...
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodi...
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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel ...
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Backfire
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompan...
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Trapped by Fear
Paul, a reporter and photographer, comes to the rescue of Laurent, his old army companion in Algeria...
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The Lovemakers
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys...
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Godard by Godard
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard...
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Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
Fifteen years after his death, this documentary looks back on Jacques Deray's career. Who was really...
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a n...
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The Winner
Documentary-style drama about a young African boxer who comes to Paris to try for a boxing career....
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J'ai tout donné
An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tou...
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Riviera-Story
Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their b...
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Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is interviewed, along with actor Anna Karina and director Jean-Luc Godard, ...
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The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor...
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Belmondo, le magnifique
With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of t...
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La Traversée du désir
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wi...
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Belmondo by Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over ...
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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through ...
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his young cousin, Roxane, but does not dare to confess his love t...
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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and...
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Belmondo l'incorrigible
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles a...
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Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
Film director Agnès Varda reflects on the production of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS, and presents a b...
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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with a...
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