Jean-Paul Belmondo's best known credits include Breathless, That Man from Rio, Pierrot le Fou, Borsalino, and The Professional.
54 Facts About Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was most notable for portraying police officers in action thriller films and became known for his unwillingness to appear in English-language films, despite being heavily courted by Hollywood.
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An undisputed box-office champion like Louis de Funes and Alain Delon of the same period, Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million spectators in his 50-year career.
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In 1989, Jean-Paul Belmondo won the Cesar Award for Best Actor for his performance in Itineraire d'un enfant gate.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was nominated for two BAFTA Awards throughout his career.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, on 9 April 1933.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo's father, Paul Jean-Paul Belmondo, was a Pied-Noir sculptor who was born in Algeria of Italian descent, whose parents were of Sicilian and Piedmontese origin.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo made his amateur boxing debut on 10 May 1949 in Paris when he knocked out Rene Desmarais in one round.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo won three straight first-round knockout victories from 1949 to 1950.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo did his National Service in French North Africa where he hit himself with a rifle butt to end his military service.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo studied under Raymond Giraud and then attended the Conservatoire of Dramatic Arts when he was twenty.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo's acting career properly began in 1953, with two performances at the Theatre de l'Atelier in Paris in Jean Anouilh's Medee and Georges Neveux's Zamore.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo began touring the provinces with friends including Annie Girardot and Guy Bedos.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo's first film role was a scene with Jean-Pierre Cassel in On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels, which was cut from the final film; however he had a bigger part in the follow up A Dog, a Mouse, and a Sputnik.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo had a small role in the comedy Be Beautiful But Shut Up, appearing with Alain Delon, followed by a role as a gangster in Young Sinners, directed by Marcel Carne.
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Jean-Luc Godard directed him in a short, Charlotte and Her Boyfriend, where Jean-Paul Belmondo's voice was dubbed by Godard after Jean-Paul Belmondo was conscripted into the army.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo later had a supporting part in An Angel on Wheels with Romy Schneider then appeared in Web of Passion for Claude Chabrol.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo played D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers for French television.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo starred in Consider All Risks, a gangster story with Lino Ventura.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo then played the lead role in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, which made him a major figure in the French New Wave.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo followed it with Trapped by Fear, then the Italian film Letters By a Novice.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo appeared as a gigolo in the anthology film Love and the Frenchwoman.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was reunited with Godard for A Woman Is a Woman and made another all-star anthology comedy, Famous Love Affairs.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was a retired gangster in A Man Named Rocca, then had a massive hit with the swashbuckler Cartouche, directed by Philippe de Broca.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo co-starred with Gina Lollobrigida in Mad Sea and appeared in another comedy anthology, Sweet and Sour.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo accepts corruption with a cynical smile, not even bothering to struggle.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo is out entirely for himself, to get whatever he can, while he can.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo represents something tough yet vulnerable, laconic but intense, notably lacking in neuroses or the stumbling insecurities of homus Americanus.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo is the man of the moment, completely capable of taking care of himself - and ready to take on the girl of the moment too.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was reunited with Godard for Pierrot le Fou then made a comedy, Tender Scoundrel.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo spent three months of that time off in Hollywood but did not accept any offers.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo did not want to learn English and appear in English-language films:.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo later appeared in Mississippi Mermaid for Francois Truffaut with Catherine Deneuve and the romantic drama Love Is a Funny Thing.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo starred alongside Alain Delon in Borsalino, a successful gangster film.
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The latter produced the film and Jean-Paul Belmondo ended up suing Delon over billing.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo produced as well as starred in Stavisky.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was a secret service agent in The Professional and a pilot in Ace of Aces.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo kept to commercial films: Le Marginal as a policeman, Les Morfalous as a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion, Hold-Up as a bank robber, and Le Solitaire, again playing another policeman in the last one, the latter one was a big box office disappointment and Jean-Paul Belmondo returned to theatre shortly afterwards.
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For Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Belmondo starred in and co-produced Itinerary of a Spoiled Child.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo claimed there were "several reasons" why he made fewer films in the 1980s.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo had a small role in One Hundred and One Nights then the lead in Lelouch's version of Les Miserables.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo appeared in the comedy Desire, Une chance sur deux, and in the science fiction comedy Peut-etre.
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In 2009, Jean-Paul Belmondo starred in A Man and His Dog, his final film role.
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In 1989, Jean-Paul Belmondo won the Cesar Award for Best Actor for his performance in Itineraire d'un enfant gate.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was made a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Merite, promoted to Officier in 1986 and promoted to Commandeur in 1994.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was made a Chevalier of the Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, promoted Officier in 1991, and promoted to Commandeur in 2007.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo filed for divorce in September 1966, and it was finalised on 5 January 1968.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo had relationships with Ursula Andress from 1965 to 1972, Laura Antonelli from 1972 to 1980, Brazilian actress and singer Maria Carlos Sotto Mayor from 1980 to 1987, and Barbara Gandolfi from 2008 to 2012.
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In 1989, Jean-Paul Belmondo was in his mid-50s when he met 24-year-old dancer Natty Tardivel.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo died on 6 September 2021 at his home in Paris, aged 88.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo had been in failing health since he suffered a stroke a decade before.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo's remains were cremated at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery, and his ashes are buried alongside his father, the sculptor Paul Belmondo, at the Montparnasse Cemetery.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was described as the "figurehead" of the French New Wave, with his acting techniques often seen as capturing the style and imagination of France in the 1960s.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo was described as an icon of French cinema and being influential in shaping modern European cinema.