Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director.[1][2]
Gérard Blain | |
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 Blain in I Delfini (1960) | |
| Born | 23 October 1930 Paris, France |
| Died | 17 December 2000 (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
| Years active | 1944–2000 |
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Biography edit
Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000.[3][4] In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for his film The Friends.[5] Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont.[4]
Filmography edit
Actor edit
| 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 | Roger | Klaus Lemke | |
| 1969 | Joë Caligula - Du suif chez les dabes | 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 edit
| 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 | Paul Blain | Writer |
References edit
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "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 edit
- Gérard Blain at IMDb