Jean-Paul Belmondo
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-04-09
Day of Death
2021-09-06 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Biography
Jean-Paul Belmondo (born 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football. Belmondo made his amateur boxing debut on 10 May 1949 in Paris, France, when he knocked out Rene DesMarais in one round. Belmondo's boxing career was undefeated, but brief. He won three straight first round knockout victories from 1949 to 1950.
His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave. Later he acted in Jean-Pierre Melville's philosophical movie Leon Morin, Priest (1961) and in Melville's film noir crime film The Fingerman (Le Doulos, 1963) and Godard again with Pierrot le fou (1965). With That Man From Rio (1965) he switched to commercial, mainstream productions, mainly comedies and action films but did appear in the title role of Alain Resnais' masterpiece Stavisky (1974), which some critics regard as Belmondo's finest performance.
Until the mid-1980s, when he ceased to be one of France's biggest box-office stars, Belmondo's typical characters were either dashing adventurers or more cynical heroes. As he grew older, Belmondo preferred concentrating on his stage work, where he encountered success. He suffered a stroke in 2001 and had since been absent from the stage and the screen until 2009 when he appeared in Un homme et son chien (A man and his dog) which was his last performance.
Belmondo died on 6 September 2021 at his home in Paris, after a period of ill health, at the age of 88.
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Acting
(2023)
Godard by Godard
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
(2022)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
(2021)
Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
(2017)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
(2016)
Belmondo by Belmondo
as Self
(2015)
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Self (archive footage)
(2011)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
as Self
(2011)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
as Self (archive footage)
(2011)
D'un film à l'autre
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
La Traversée du désir
as Self
(2009)
A Man and His Dog
as Charles
(2004)
(2002)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Ferdinand Griffon (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2000)
Actors
as Jean-Paul Belmondo
(2000)
Amazon
as Edouard
(1999)
Peut-être
as Ako
(1998)
Half a Chance
as Léo Brassac
(1996)
Desire
as Désiré
(1996)
La Puce à l'oreille
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise / Poche
(1995)
One Hundred and One Nights
as Professor Bébel
(1995)
Les Miserables
as Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean
(1993)
Tailleur pour Dames
as Mouineaux
(1993)
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
as Self
(1992)
Stranger in the House
as Loursat
(1990)
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Cyrano de Bergerac
(1988)
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
as Sam Lion
(1988)
Kean
as Kean
(1987)
The Loner
as Stan Jalard
(1985)
Hold-up
as Grimm
(1984)
The Vultures
as Sergeant Pierre Augagneur
(1984)
Happy Easter
as Stephane Margelle
(1983)
The Outsider
as Commissaire divisionnaire Philippe Jordan
(1982)
Ace of Aces
as Jo Cavalier
(1981)
The Professional
as Joss Beaumont
(1980)
Le Guignolo
as Alexandre Dupré / Vicomte de Valombreuse
(1979)
Cop or Hood
as Divisional commissioner Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti
(1977)
Animal
as Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari
(1976)
Hunter Will Get You
as Roger Pilard, aka l'Alpagueur
(1976)
The Body of My Enemy
as François Leclercq
(1975)
The Night Caller
as Commissioner Jean Letellier
(1975)
Incorrigible
as Victor Vauthier
(1974)
Stavisky...
as Serge Alexandre Stavisky
(1974)
T'es fou Marcel
as self
(1973)
The Magnificent One
as François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar
(1973)
The Inheritor
as Bart Cordell
(1972)
The Pariah
as Roberto Borgo, aka 'La Scoumoune'
(1972)
Scoundrel in White
as Doctor Paul Simay
(1972)
J'ai tout donné
as Self
(1971)
The Burglars
as Azad
(1971)
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as Nicolas Philibert
(1970)
Borsalino
as François Capella
(1969)
The Brain
as Arthur Lespinasse
(1969)
Mississippi Mermaid
as Louis Mahé
(1969)
Love Is a Funny Thing
as Henri
(1969)
God Chose Paris
as Narrator / Presenter
(1968)
Ho!
as François Holin, aka Ho
(1967)
Casino Royale
as Un légionnaire
(1967)
The Thief of Paris
as Georges Randal
(1966)
Is Paris Burning?
as Yvon Morandat
(1966)
Tender Scoundrel
as Tony Maréchal
(1965)
Pierrot le Fou
as Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'
(1965)
Up to His Ears
as Arthur Lempereur
(1965)
Crime on a Summer Morning
as Francis
(1965)
(1964)
That Man from Rio
as Adrien Dufourquet
(1964)
Weekend at Dunkirk
as Julien Maillat
(1964)
Greed in the Sun
as Rocco
(1964)
Backfire
as David Ladislas
(1964)
Male Hunt
as Fernand
(1963)
Sweet and Sour
as Raymond
(1963)
The Shortest Day
as Erede Siciliano (uncredited)
(1963)
Magnet of Doom
as Michel Maudet
(1963)
Crazy Sea
as le capitaine Il Livornese
(1963)
Banana Peel
as Michel Thibault
(1962)
Cartouche
as Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche
(1962)
Le Doulos
as Silien
(1962)
A Monkey in Winter
as Gabriel Fouquet
(1961)
Léon Morin, Priest
as Léon Morin
(1961)
A Woman Is a Woman
as Alfred Lubitsch
(1961)
A Man Named Rocca
as Roberto La Rocca
(1961)
Famous Love Affairs
as Lauzun
(1961)
The Lovemakers
as Amerigo
(1961)
Riviera-Story
as Rennfahrer
(1961)
(1960)
Love and the Frenchwoman
as Gilles, l'amant (segment "L'Adultère")
(1960)
Breathless
as Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
(1960)
Two Women
as Michele Di Libero
(1960)
The Big Risk
as Éric Stark
(1960)
Seven Days… Seven Nights
as Chauvin
(1960)
Trapped by Fear
as Paul Frapier
(1960)
Letters of a Novice
as Giuliano Verdi
(1959)
À double tour
as Laszlo Kovacs
(1959)
An Angel on Wheels
as Michel Barrot
(1959)
The Three Musketeers
as D'Artagnan
(1958)
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
as Pierrot, un jeune de la bande d'Olga
(1958)
The Cheaters
as Lou
(1958)
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
as Jules
(1958)
Sunday Encounter
as Patrick
(1957)
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
as Venin
(1957)
Sunday Buddies
as Jacques Trébois
Crew
(2005)
Let Sleeping Guns Lie
Thanks
(1992)
Stranger in the House
Producer
(1990)
Tom and Lola
Producer
(1988)
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Producer
(1988)
Chocolat
Producer
(1987)
The Loner
Producer
(1985)
Hold-up
Producer
(1983)
The Outsider
Producer, Stunts
(1982)
Ace of Aces
Producer
(1979)
Cop or Hood
Producer
(1977)
Animal
Producer
(1976)
The Body of My Enemy
Producer
(1976)
Hunter Will Get You
Producer
(1975)
Incorrigible
Producer
(1975)
The Night Caller
Producer
(1974)
Stavisky...
Producer
(1973)
The Magnificent One
Producer, Stunts