Jean-Claude Pascal

Jean-Claude Pascal , of his true name Jean-Claude Villeminot, born with Paris the October 24th 1927 and deceased the May 5th 1992, is a Acteur and Chanteur French.

Beginning of career

Resulting from a family of textile manufacturers, Jean-Claude Villeminot begins his professional path, just after the Second world war, like Styliste initially at Hermes, then for the dressmaker Christian Dior, in whom it becomes also model, because of his physique of young first. He puts then his talents of Styliste at the service of the theater, by drawing costumes, in particular for the part Dom Juan of Molière put in scene by Louis Jouvet. Very quickly, feeling to belong to the theater world, it decides to become actor and, after having followed the course of dramatic art of Rene Simon, it makes his beginnings on the boards in 1949, at the sides of Pierre Renoir then of Edwige Feuillère in the Lady with the camellias . At this point in time it takes the name of Jean-Claude Pascal.

Career with the cinema

Large, slim, the dark glance, a traditional diction inherited its training of actor of theater, Jean-Claude Pascal is the type even of the romantic seducer whom the French cinema of the Années 1950 affectionnait.

It turns in particular in many popular films, often in costumes, such the Big game (1953) of Robert Siodmak, the Knight of the night (1954) of Robert Darène, the Bad meetings (1955) of Alexandre Astruc, the Wages of the sin (1956) of Denys of Patellière, the Beautiful one and the Emperor (1959) of Axel Von Ambesser, near Romy Schneider. Parallel to the advent of the New wave of the French cinema, which is not interested in him, its appearances with the screen are done increasingly rare, and it makes its beginnings in the song in 1961, but one will see it still thereafter in the Appointment (1961) of Jean Delannoy, in Angélique and the Sultan (1967) of Bernard Borderie and in Unter den Dächern von St Pauli (1969) of Alfred Weidenmann.

Career in the song

After very noticed musical beginnings, in 1958, around songs such as Evenings of prince of Pierre Delanoë, Jean-Claude Pascal has a resounding success in the song in 1961, by gaining the Grand Prix of Eurovision, on behalf of the Luxembourg, with the title Us them in love . He will represent again the Luxembourg with the contest of Eurovision twenty years later, in 1981, with the song It is perhaps not America .

Polyglot crooner , it will record during his career more than 50 albums, and will be success in many countries. Its voice suave and major enables him to serve a significant interpretation of young authors of then, such Guy Béart, Serge Gainsbourg, Guy Bontempelli, Jean Ferrat, or Bernard Dimey of which he is the “most relevant” interpreter ( Forty years, Chanson to finish, the King the moon, I am fifty years old this evening ). In 1962, it obtains the price of the Académie Charles-Cross-country race. In 1967, it successfully begins again in Germany - and German - the international tube of Pascal Danel Kilimandjaro . It slows down its career of singer starting from the Années 1970, to take again service as an actor, mainly in televised productions and with the theater - in particular " Prudence" good-bye; of Barrel and Grédy, at the sides of Alain Feydeau and Francoise Christophe. He records a last album of songs in 1983, of which the majority of the texts were written by Gilbert Sinoué, become writer since. To leave this time, it will not be devoted any more but to the writing.

Jean-Claude Pascal writer

Jean-Claude Pascal publishes in 1986 his Autobiographie, the Beautiful masks , before launching out in the writing of detective novels and historical portraits, of which the Lover of the king and Marie Stuart .

Jean-Claude Pascal dies in Paris on May 5th, 1992, in a relative media indifference, in spite of his immense popularity near the public in the Années 1960 and 1970. He is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse.

External bonds

Jean-Claude Pascal on the site of Ghislain Debailleul (biography, complete discography, songs)
Jean-Claude Pascal on the Internet Movie Database
Luxembourg with the Eurovision Contest of the Song database

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