Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 9, 1933
Place of Birth:
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
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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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Senza malizia | |
| 2023 | Godard by Godard | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Belmondo l'incorrigible | |
| 2021 | Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque | Self |
| 2017 | La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo | Self |
| 2017 | Belmondo, le magnifique | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Belmondo ou le goût du risque | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | De Gaulle, the Last King of France | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Belmondo by Belmondo | Self |
| 2015 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Self (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Belmondo, itinéraire... | Self |
| 2011 | D'un film à l'autre | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | A Man and His Dog | Charles |
| 2009 | La Traversée du désir | Self |
| 2004 | Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli | Self |
| 2002 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Ferdinand Griffon (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2000 | Actors | Jean-Paul Belmondo |
| 2000 | Amazon | Edouard |
| 1999 | Peut-être | Ako |
| 1998 | Half a Chance | Léo Brassac |
| 1996 | Desire | Désiré |
| 1996 | La Puce à l'oreille | Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise / Poche |
| 1995 | Les Miserables | Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean |
| 1995 | One Hundred and One Nights | Professor Bébel |
| 1993 | Tailleur pour Dames | Mouineaux |
| 1993 | Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède | Self |
| 1992 | Stranger in the House | Loursat |
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1988 | Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | Sam Lion |
| 1988 | Kean | Kean |
| 1987 | The Loner | Stan Jalard |
| 1985 | Hold-up | Grimm |
| 1984 | Happy Easter | Stephane Margelle |
| 1984 | The Vultures | Sergeant Pierre Augagneur |
| 1983 | The Outsider | Commissaire divisionnaire Philippe Jordan |
| 1982 | Ace of Aces | Jo Cavalier |
| 1981 | The Professional | Joss Beaumont |
| 1980 | Le Guignolo | Alexandre Dupré / Vicomte de Valombreuse |
| 1979 | Cop or Hood | Divisional commissioner Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti |
| 1977 | Animal | Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari |
| 1976 | Hunter Will Get You | Roger Pilard, aka l'Alpagueur |
| 1976 | The Body of My Enemy | François Leclercq |
| 1975 | The Night Caller | Commissioner Jean Letellier |
| 1975 | Incorrigible | Victor Vauthier |
| 1974 | T'es fou Marcel | self |
| 1974 | Stavisky... | Serge Alexandre Stavisky |
| 1973 | The Magnificent One | François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar |
| 1973 | The Inheritor | Bart Cordell |
| 1972 | Scoundrel in White | Doctor Paul Simay |
| 1972 | The Pariah | Roberto Borgo, aka 'La Scoumoune' |
| 1972 | J'ai tout donné | Self |
| 1971 | The Married Couple of the Year Two | Nicolas Philibert |
| 1971 | The Burglars | Azad |
| 1970 | Borsalino | François Capella |
| 1969 | Mississippi Mermaid | Louis Mahé |
| 1969 | The Brain | Arthur Lespinasse |
| 1969 | Love Is a Funny Thing | Henri |
| 1969 | God Chose Paris | Narrator / Presenter |
| 1968 | Ho! | François Holin, aka Ho |
| 1967 | Casino Royale | Un légionnaire |
| 1967 | The Thief of Paris | Georges Randal |
| 1966 | Is Paris Burning? | Yvon Morandat |
| 1966 | Tender Scoundrel | Tony Maréchal |
| 1965 | Pierrot le Fou | Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot' |
| 1965 | Up to His Ears | Arthur Lempereur |
| 1965 | Crime on a Summer Morning | Francis |
| 1965 | Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965 | Self |
| 1964 | That Man from Rio | Adrien Dufourquet |
| 1964 | Male Hunt | Fernand |
| 1964 | Greed in the Sun | Rocco |
| 1964 | Weekend at Dunkirk | Julien Maillat |
| 1964 | Backfire | David Ladislas |
| 1963 | Sweet and Sour | Raymond |
| 1963 | Magnet of Doom | Michel Maudet |
| 1963 | Banana Peel | Michel Thibault |
| 1963 | Crazy Sea | le capitaine Il Livornese |
| 1963 | The Shortest Day | Erede Siciliano (uncredited) |
| 1962 | Le Doulos | Silien |
| 1962 | Cartouche | Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche |
| 1962 | A Monkey in Winter | Gabriel Fouquet |
| 1961 | A Woman Is a Woman | Alfred Lubitsch |
| 1961 | A Man Named Rocca | Roberto La Rocca |
| 1961 | Léon Morin, Priest | Léon Morin |
| 1961 | Famous Love Affairs | Lauzun |
| 1961 | The Lovemakers | Amerigo |
| 1961 | The Winner | |
| 1961 | Riviera-Story | Rennfahrer |
| 1960 | Breathless | Michel Poiccard / László Kovács |
| 1960 | Two Women | Michele Di Libero |
| 1960 | The Big Risk | Éric Stark |
| 1960 | Letters of a Novice | Giuliano Verdi |
| 1960 | Seven Days… Seven Nights | Chauvin |
| 1960 | Love and the Frenchwoman | Gilles, l'amant (segment "L'Adultère") |
| 1960 | Trapped by Fear | Paul Frapier |
| 1959 | À double tour | Laszlo Kovacs |
| 1959 | An Angel on Wheels | Michel Barrot |
| 1959 | The Three Musketeers | D'Artagnan |
| 1958 | Charlotte and Her Boyfriend | Jules |
| 1958 | The Cheaters | Lou |
| 1958 | Be Beautiful and Shut Up | Pierrot, un jeune de la bande d'Olga |
| 1958 | Sunday Encounter | Patrick |
| 1957 | On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels | Venin |
| 1957 | Sunday Buddies | Jacques Trébois |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Samedi Sébastien | Self - Guest |
| 2001 | L'Aîné des Ferchaux | Paul Ferchaux |
| 1998 | Vivement dimanche prochain | Self |
| 1998 | Vivement dimanche | Self |
| 1990 | Star Life | Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Stars 90 | Self |
| 1987 | Na siehste! | Self |
| 1987 | Sacrée soirée | Self |
| 1984 | Goldene Kamera Verleihung | Self |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysées | Self |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self |
| 1977 | Auf los geht's los | Self |
| 1975 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |
| 1974 | Der große Preis | Self |
| 1963 | Der Sport-Spiegel | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1954 | Reflets de Cannes | Self |