33 Facts About Jacques Dutronc

Jacques Dutronc was born on 28 April 1943 and is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor.

Jacques Dutronc played guitar in the rock group El Toro et les Cyclones.

Jacques Dutronc wrote successful songs for singer Francoise Hardy in the 1960s before moving on to pursue a successful solo career.

Jacques Dutronc's music incorporated traditional French pop and French rock as well as styles such as psychedelic and garage rock.

Jacques Dutronc was very important in the Yeye music movement and has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann.

Jacques Dutronc later branched out into film acting, starting in 1973.

Jacques Dutronc earned a Cesar Award for Best Actor for the leading role in Van Gogh, which was directed by Maurice Pialat.

Jacques Dutronc was born on 28 April 1943 at 67 Rue de Provence in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the home of his parents, Pierre and Madeleine.

Jacques Dutronc's father was a manager for the state-run Office of Coal Distribution.

Jacques Dutronc was educated at Rocroy-Saint-Leon elementary school, the Ecole de la Rue Blanche and then at the Ecole Professionnelle de Dessin Industriel, where he studied graphic design from 1959.

In 1960, Jacques Dutronc formed a band with himself as guitarist, schoolfriend Hadi Kalafate as bassist, Charlot Benaroch as drummer and Daniel Dray as singer.

The group released two singles, "L'Oncle John" and "Le Vagabond", but disbanded when Jacques Dutronc was obliged to undertake military service.

Jacques Dutronc's self-titled debut album, released at the end of 1966, sold over a million copies and was awarded a special Grand Prix du Disque by the Academie Charles Cros, in memoriam of one of its founders.

Jacques Dutronc was one of the most commercially successful French music stars of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Jacques Dutronc wrote three songs with comic-book writer Fred, whose stories he narrated for commercial release in 1970.

Co-writing credits on Jacques Dutronc's self-titled 1975 album are split between Lanzmann, Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Loup Dabadie.

Also in 1973, Jacques Dutronc began a second career as an actor in the film, directed by Jean-Marie Perier.

Jacques Dutronc's second film, That Most Important Thing: Love, directed by Andrzej Zulawski, was a major box-office hit in France.

Steven Spielberg reportedly considered Jacques Dutronc to be the best French actor of his generation, and had the role of Rene Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark written with him in mind.

Jacques Dutronc was not given the role because it transpired that his English was not adequate.

Jacques Dutronc's acting career continued during the 1980s, and he appeared in films such as Malevil and Barbet Schroeder's Tricheurs.

In 1992, Jacques Dutronc was awarded the Cesar for Best Actor for the title role in Maurice Pialat's biopic Van Gogh.

In November 1992, Jacques Dutronc played three comeback concerts at the Casino de Paris, highlights from which were released as a film, directed by Jean-Marie Perier and as a live album, Jacques Dutronc au Casino.

At around this time, Jacques Dutronc began work on a new studio album, Breves rencontres, but work progressed slowly and it was not released until 1995.

Jacques Dutronc starred in Claude Chabrol's 2000 film Merci pour le chocolat.

Jacques Dutronc was awarded the Best Actor prize at the 2001 Marrakech International Film Festival and was nominated for the Cesar Award for best actor for his role in Jean-Pierre Ameris' C'est la vie.

In 2010, Jacques Dutronc toured for the first time in 17 years, and released recordings from the tour as a live album and DVD, Et vous, et vous, et vous.

In November 2014, Jacques Dutronc performed a series of concerts with Eddy Mitchell and Johnny Hallyday at Paris Bercy, under the name "Les vieilles canailles".

Jacques Dutronc's songs have been covered by Matthieu Chedid, Vanessa Paradis, Mungo Jerry, Etienne Daho, Sylvie Vartan, Miles Kane, the Divine Comedy, Serge Gainsbourg, Black Lips, Zine, the Last Shadow Puppets among others.

Jacques Dutronc is mentioned in the lyrics of the Cornershop song "Brimful of Asha".

Jacques Dutronc began a relationship with Vogue label-mate Francoise Hardy in 1967.

In 1998, Jacques Dutronc began a relationship with a stylist whom he had met on the set of the film Place Vendome.

In 2015, Jacques Dutronc revealed he had a brief relationship with Romy Schneider that lasted as long as they were shooting the film That Most Important Thing: Love.