Jean-Pierre Cassel

See also: Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel , of his true name Jean-Pierre Crochon , born the October 27th 1932 with Paris and deceased the April 19th 2007 with Paris, is a Acteur and a Danseur French, famous thanks to its clappers and with its statute of young first “ leaping ” in the cinematographic comedies of the the Fifties - 60 like the Lover at five days , the Joker , the Plays of the love . In the Years 1970, it is the high-speed motorboat, inter alia, of the Bateau on the grass of Gerard Brach and of the discrete Charme of the middle-class of Luis Buñuel.

Biography

Wire of a doctor and a singer of opera, Jean-Pierre Cassel enters to the Cours Simon after having failed the baccalaureat, and starts with some figurations.

Dancer, actor and singer, Jean-Pierre Cassel côtoyé very large realizers during his fifty years of career, of Gene Kelly - which made him take its first steps in the merry Road in 1954 - with Robert Altman while passing by Claude Chabrol, Sidney Lumet, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Pierre Melville, Joseph Losey, Abel Gance, Rene Clément or Jean Renoir. He also was very appreciated new generation of French realizers: he indeed turned under the direction of Roschdy Zem, Mathieu Kassovitz, Gilles Lellouche or Mabrouk El Mechri. He also had as partners with the screen of great names of the French and international cinema and some one of the actresses most endowed with his generation, Catherine Deneuve, Stephan Audran, Claude Jade, Jean Seberg, Marie Dubois, Jacqueline Bisset…

Its multiple talents also carry out it on the boards. With the theater, it begins in the Idiot from Marcel Achard, Miserly the under the direction of Jean Vilar, Bleu, white, red or the libertines of Roger Planchon, Romeo and Juliette by Michael Cacoyannis… Passionné by the Music-hall, to 74 years, it devotes 2005 to 2006, with Serge Gainsbourg which it knew beginning in the Années 1950, a titled show Jean-Pierre Cassel sings and dances Gainsbourg Suite . It takes again the songs arranged in the style Jazz pure and hard to which the Auteur-compositeur-interprète was tested in 1963 with its album Gainsbourg Confidentiel . He interprets in particular three new titles that Gainsbourg wrote to him for a television program entitled Top in Cassel : Cliquediclac , Ouh! There there there there and Viva the pizza pie (a production of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier diffused the March 14th 1964 on the 1st chain rtf).

He is the father of Vincent Cassel, Cécile Cassel and Matthias Cassel (alias Rockin Squat, leader of Assassin). He dies in the evening of April 19th, 2007 of the continuations of a cancer which he had hidden with the public.

Catalog of films

Catalog of films 1950 - 1959

Catalog of films 1960 - 1969

Catalog of films 1970 - 1979

Catalog of films 1980 - 1989

Catalog of films 1990 - 1999

Catalog of films 2000 - 2007

Rewards/nominations

Television (selective list)

Theater

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