Patrick Dewaere

Patrick Dewaere 26 January 1947 16 July 1982 was a French film actor Born in SaintBrieuc CôtesdArmor he was the son of French actress Mado Maurin An actor from a young age his career lasted more than 21 years until his suicide in Paris in 1982 Patrick Dewaere was the third child of an actors family His biological father Michel Têtard was a lyricist who had an affair with Dewaeres mother Mado Maurin who was married to PierreMarie Bourdeaux Dewaere grew up believing Bourdeaux was his biological father After Dewaeres parents divorced his mother remarried Georges Collignon who sexually abused Dewaere as a child Under the direction of his mother Dewaere his four brothers and his sister performed in movies and television series The family lived in Paris Dewaere attended the Cours Hattemer a private school One of his first TV appearances was in 1961 when he was 14 years old He appeared in a video for the song Nuits dEspagne by Dalida Later he was a promising and popular French actor in the late 1960s and 1970s At the age of 17 Dewaere learned that he was not the biological child of his mothers exhusband PierreMarie Bourdeaux but that of conductor and singer Michel Têtard In 1968 he took the name of Dewaere which his maternal greatgrandmother inspired him A year earlier he had met his first wife Sotha an actress who cofounded the Café de la Gare an experimental theatre They separated in 1970 but remained married for eleven years From 1968 he collaborated with the Café de la Gare where he met MiouMiou and Gérard Depardieu with whom he made a breakthrough after many secondary roles in various films in the scandalous comedy Going Places MiouMiou became Dewaeres companion and the mother of his daughter Angèle 1974 She left Dewaere for singer Julien Clerc shortly before the shooting of Flike Fairbanks in which both play a couple in separation Patrick Dewaere became one of the most popular actors in French cinema in the 1970s Between 1977 and 1982 he was nominated five times to the Césars in the Best Actor category the most important award in France In his work Dewaere was restless and very conscientious which may have caused his depressed mood He also had serious drug problems and it is known that he had been sexually abused as a child He consolidated his status as a savage and ruthless actor in Alain Corneaus cult film Série noire 1979 In his roles Dewaere was long attached to the kind of young rebel Only in his later films did his comic and dramatic diversity manifest itself He often worked with director Bertrand Blier In 1980 Dewaere hit a journalist who had announced against his will his union with Elsa Chalier Subsequently the actor was ignored by the French press his name was even abbreviated with his initials PD For eleven years Dewaere was married to French actress Sotha In the early 1970s he became the companion of French actress MiouMiou until they separated in 1976 They had one daughter Shortly before the release of Paradis Pour Tous 1982 a black comedy where his character tries to commit suicide the actor shot himself in his house in Paris He was 35 years old Source Article Patrick Dewaere from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA