Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Jean-Paul Belmondo (born the April 9th 1933 with Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a Acteur French of Cinéma and Théâtre.

His/her father, Paul Belmondo, of Piedmontese origin by his father and Sicilian by his mother, is a considered Sculpteur and his mother artist-painter. His/her brother, Alain, are theater director and Producteur of cinema and his sister, Muriel, dancer.

As for his/her son, Paul, it is runner Automobile and has a stable of racing racing cars.

Biography

Undisciplined and not very inclined being studied, Jean-Paul Belmondo impassions himself very young person for boxing, football. At the sixteen years age, it is reached of a primary infection of tuberculosis, his parents then dispatch it in Auvergne. It is at that time, in the calm one and the vivifying air, that the young man decides to become actor.

Of return of Auvergne, it follows the courses of Raymond Girard. It begins with the theater in 1950 by interpreting Sleeping Beauty in the hospitals from the town of Paris. For six months, Raymond Girard will help it to prepare the contest of the Conservatoire of dramatic art, where, received in 1951, Jean-Paul Belmondo become the pupil of Pierre Dux. There remain there four years and where he meets Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Pierre Vernier and Michel Beaune.

In 1953, it makes its truths beginnings on the boards in two parts with the Théâtre of the Workshop, Médée of Jean Anouilh and Zamore of Georges Neveux in settings in scene of André Barsacq.

December 4th 1953, it marries a dancer, Elodie Constantin, with which it will have three children: Patricia (1958 deceased in a fire in 1994), Florence (1960) and Paul (1963).

In 1957, Jean Paul Belmondo begins his cinematographic career in a small role: Would be beautiful and keep silent .

In 1959, it knows its first great role in Breathless of Jean Luc Godard.

1960 is one year outstanding for its career. He plays sides of Lino Ventura in Classe all risks of Claude Sautet.

In 1964, it is a great popular success with the man of Rio , at the sides of Francoise Dorléac (sister of Catherine Deneuve and deceased on June 26th 1967).

In 1965 it plays sides of Anna Karina in Pierrot insane the, work mythical of Jean-Luc Godard

1966, Divorce of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Elodie.

In 1987, nearly 30 years after having left the boards, it goes up on a scene of theater for the greatest happiness of the public in " Kean ".

1989 Jean Paul Belmondo meets Natty, old a Coconut-girl of Stephan Collaro.

1999, at the end of November, Jean-Paul Belmondo is hospitalized with Brest at the hospital of the white Mare, after having made a faintness during a stage performance of " Frederick or the Boulevard of Crime".

2001, Jean-Paul Belmondo, 68 years old, is héliporté urgently at the Falconaja hospital of Bastia to 16:00 Corsica Wednesday, August 8 in following a Cerebral vascular accident. It was there on vacation, in his friend Guy Bedos with Lumio, close to Calvi. Although its state is considered to be serious, it is transferred in the evening towards a Parisian hospital, Saint-Joseph.

The December 29th 2002 Jean-Paul Belmondo marries in Paris his partner Natty, who has shared her life for 13 years, with the town hall of the 6th district. Michel Drucker is one of the witnesses of this marriage. Among the guests, one can quote: Claude Lelouch, Francis Huster, Bernard-Henri Levy, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Claude Brialy and Jean-Pierre Marielle.

Wednesday August 13rd 2003, at 70 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo is father for the fourth time of a little girl, Stella.

In April 2007, it is promoted Commandeur of the Legion of honor.

It would have in January 2008, after seven years of absence, to find the plates of cinema under the direction of Francis Huster for a new version of Umberto D. of Vittorio de Sica: A man and his dog.

Additional details

Rewards

  • 1989 César of the best actor in the film Route of a child spoiled .

Anecdotes

  • Jean-Paul Belmondo entered to the academy from where it was returned because of his behavior.

  • With the Man of Rio (1965) it passes to more commercial films, mainly of the comedies and action films.

  • It always turned its clean cascades.

  • He is member of the Académie of the Sports.

  • It always said to want to cross the English Channel to the stroke

Synthesis of the artistic career

Catalog of films

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Belmondo Super-cop

Among all the kinds that Jean Paul Belmondo touched closely or by far, there be black film, the thriller, and obviously the whodunnit in the purest style Super cop . This last was used to him as ECRIN to incarnate the cops without fear and reproach, at the same time elegant, cools, effective and invincible. This receipt, with its tops and its bottoms, gave the opportunity with five recoveries to him to deteriorate the character of it progressively.

Fear on the city (1975 - Henri Verneuil): First and better muscular whodunnit turned by Belmondo, this superb action film carried out by Henri Verneuil largely started again the kind in the years 1970. At the same time gloss paint of Paris magnificiently photographed and police film stuffed of adventures and counterpart worships, Peur on the city remains a great classic. Surfant on the American fashion of the beginning of the seventies, and in particular compared to the Dirty Harry (with Clint Eastwood) which it equalizes without problem, this year tastes itself without moderation. Very great public success, the film proposes also certain anthological cascades: the 20 central minutes of film, of the roofs of Paris to the elevated railway, are from this point of view a particularly daring feat of ingenuity, and where Belmondo carries out all its cascades itself, as with its practice. The Verneuil style shines by its knowledge to make, the man signing a total success here, one of its best films, to arrange at the sides of I like Icare and the body of my enemy .

the alpaguor (1976 - Philippe Labro): If Labro did not carry out many films, it would be nevertheless judicious to pay homage to him and to re-examine its cinema with the rise. the heir remains his best measuring (effective and square, having an assembly of an absolute control) and the chance and violence always impresses. the alpaguor suffers, according to some, of an obvious lack of rate/rhythm and enthusiasm. On the contrary, this semi-rural semi-urban cold whodunnit draws its main force from these weaknesses: miss rate/rhythm concentrating the tension, sometimes drawing towards the marvellous formalism from Melville (certain plans point out the immense masterpiece which is the red circle ). Belmondo with the signal of its form and dialogs reduced to their simpler utility, purification of the style, percussion assembly… This film is a true success to be redécouvrir, with in no-claims bonus an excellent Bruno Cremer vis-a-vis perfect Bébèl of sobriety.

Cop or hooligan (1979 - Georges Lautner): The first Belmondo-Lautner meeting, and best, incontestably! Police of an excellent control, very funny and very rythmée joke, carried out by Belmondo to the top of its glory and which started with this film an incredible series of successes (with especially the professional , the ace of the aces and marginal the which all the three will come very close to or exceed 5 million entries). Burlesque but not too, profiting from some well assembled adventures and dialogs of Michel Audiard always so formidable, Cop or hooligan is a top-of-the-range, ultra-popular entertainment and whose times and repeat broadcasts at all faded undeniable qualities of them. To the frightening effectiveness of Fear on the city and cold icy in his setting in scene of the alpaguor , this super whodunnit opposes the frank fun and the good general being. Cool attitude and words as percussion as its 357 Magnum (6 inches) are of rigor for Belmondo and its troop of good comrades whom one finds still and always with great pleasure.

marginal the (1983 - Jacques Deray): Often decried by the critic, discredited by her tens of televisual diffusions, victim of its own popularity in the final analysis… marginal the should be re-examined today with rested head. Admittedly, there is hardly originality, the product seems gauged beginning with the end, nothing does not astonish. But left these some defects, this whodunnit keeps an intact sincerity. Humor (slightly softened however), action and Belmondo: all is said, all is there. The intrigue is pretext, but what imports, since it is well unrolled by a Jacques Deray imposing a very effective realization, filming magnificiently Belmondo in the action. This last, for its 50 years, offers the great luxury: track race with foot on a highway roundly carried out, jump of a helicopter on an outboard motor boat at high speed, guns fights, and an immense continuation conveys some among most beautiful of the history of the cinema (not having to redden in front of those of the American whodunnits, quite to the contrary). marginal the is very a good film which does not revolutionize anything, but which diverts as little can still do it at present, and it is already much.

the recluse (1987 - Jacques Deray): Sober Belmondo, Deray also in its setting in scene… Very little action, intrigues pleasant boat but. The whodunnit of too for that which French calls affectionately Bébèl. The principal defect of film is to be dull and without much ambition. Neither really bad, nor really good, the recluse is correct and clean, without more. The results in rooms will be without call, painfully hoisting film right in lower part of the bar of the million entry. Fortunately, Claude Lelouch will offer the last great success to Jean Paul the following year with very moving Itinéraire by a child spoiled . For the time being, this whodunnit functions (in minor mode of course) and makes it possible the actor to play last once the Super-cops with class and liveliness (even if there still the effect is rather dull). Remain a precursor of the series TV like Navarro , Julie Lescaut or Commissaire Mill , for the style " téléfilmique" image, its very neutral photography and its more or less transparent supporting roles. A relative success, in half-tone, although neat.

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Telefilmography

  • 1959 : the Three Musketeers , realized by Claude Barma is a telefilm (dramatic according to the terms of the time). This adaptation for the TV was

conceived according to the play of Alexandre Dumas and not according to the novel.
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  • 2001 : the Elder one of Ferchaux , telefilm of Bernard Stora, in which Belmondo endorses, 38 years after the film adaptation of 1963, the role formerly reserved for Charles Vanel, that of the young development being this time held by Samy Naceri.

Documentary

  • 1996 : Belmondo, splendid the " documentaire" of Patrick Chammings: appearance

Theatrography

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • NonOfficial Site devoted to Jean-Paul Belmondo

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