Jean-Paul Belmondo

JeanPaul Charles Belmondo 9 April 1933 6 September 2021 was a French actor Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward frequently portraying police officers and criminals in action thriller films His best known credits include Breathless 1960 That Man from Rio 1964 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Borsalino 1970 and The Professional 1981 An undisputed boxoffice champion along with Louis de Funès and Alain Delon Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million viewers over his 50year career Between 1969 and 1982 he starred in the four most popular films of the year in France surpassed only by de Funès The Brain 1969 Fear Over the City 1975 Animal 1977 Ace of Aces 19822 Belmondo frequently played heroic brave and virile characters which made him popular with a wide audience both in France and abroad Despite being heavily courted by Hollywood Belmondo refused to appear in Englishlanguage films During his career he was called the French counterpart of actors such as James Dean Marlon Brando and Humphrey Bogart Described as an icon and national treasure of France Belmondo was seen as an influential actor in French cinema and an important figure in shaping European cinema In 1989 Belmondo won the César Award for Best Actor for his performance in Itinéraire dun enfant gâté He was nominated for two BAFTA Awards throughout his career In 2011 Belmondo received the Palme dhonneur at the Cannes Film Festival and in 2017 he received the César dhonneur at the 42nd César Awards Description above from the Wikipedia article JeanPaul Belmondo licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia