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 (106 movies)
Breathless
1960
Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
2021
Mississippi Mermaid
1969
The Professional
1981
Pierrot le Fou
1965
That Man from Rio
1964
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Male Hunt
1964
Hunter Will Get You
1976
Le Doulos
1962
Tailleur pour Dames
1993
A Woman Is a Woman
1961
Two Women
1960
Peut-être
1999
Animal
1977
Borsalino
1970
Casino Royale
1967
Le Guignolo
1980
Greed in the Sun
1964
The Outsider
1983
The Big Risk
1960
The Brain
1969
The Burglars
1971
Cartouche
1962
A Monkey in Winter
1962
Happy Easter
1984
The Night Caller
1975
Hold-up
1985
Cop or Hood
1979
A Man and His Dog
2009
Incorrigible
1975
Stavisky...
1974
Up to His Ears
1965
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
1958
A Man Named Rocca
1961
Sweet and Sour
1963
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988
The Cheaters
1958
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
À double tour
1959
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
Actors
2000
Famous Love Affairs
1961
Les Miserables
1995
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
1957
Half a Chance
1998
Scoundrel in White
1972
Magnet of Doom
1963
The Magnificent One
1973
The Body of My Enemy
1976
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958
Ace of Aces
1982
Stranger in the House
1992
Amazon
2000
Sunday Buddies
1957
An Angel on Wheels
1959
The Vultures
1984
The Loner
1987
Letters of a Novice
1960
Crime on a Summer Morning
1965
Love Is a Funny Thing
1969
Banana Peel
1963
Seven Days… Seven Nights
1960
Desire
1996
The Thief of Paris
1967
Weekend at Dunkirk
1964
Sunday Encounter
1958
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
The Pariah
1972
Ho !
1968
The Three Musketeers
1959
La Puce à l'oreille
1996
God Chose Paris
1969
The Inheritor
1973
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
Crazy Sea
1963
Tender Scoundrel
1966
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960
The Emperor's New Clothes
2015
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
Senza malizia
2023
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
1993
Backfire
1964
Trapped by Fear
1960
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011
The Lovemakers
1961
Godard by Godard
2023
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
2017
Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
2018
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
The Winner
1961
J'ai tout donné
1972
Riviera-Story
1961
The Shortest Day
1963
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017
La Traversée du désir
2009
Kean
1988
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Magnificent One | 1973 | Producer |
| Stavisky... | 1974 | Producer |
| The Night Caller | 1975 | Producer |
| Incorrigible | 1975 | Producer |
| Hunter Will Get You | 1976 | Producer |
| The Body of My Enemy | 1976 | Producer |
| Animal | 1977 | Producer |
| Cop or Hood | 1979 | Producer |
| Ace of Aces | 1982 | Producer |
| The Outsider | 1983 | Producer |
| Hold-up | 1985 | Producer |
| The Loner | 1987 | Producer |
| Chocolat | 1988 | Producer |
| Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | 1988 | Producer |
| Tom and Lola | 1990 | Producer |
| Stranger in the House | 1992 | Producer |