Jean-Paul Belmondo
Born
April 9, 1933
Died
September 6, 2021 (88 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
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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Senza malizia
2023
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
2023
Belmondo l'incorrigible
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
2022
Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
Self (archive footage)
2021
Samedi Sébastien
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2021
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Self (archive footage)
2020
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
2020
Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
Self
2018
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Self (archive footage)
2017
Belmondo, le magnifique
Self (archive footage)
2017
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Self (archive footage)
2017
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Self
2017
Belmondo by Belmondo
Self
2016
The Emperor's New Clothes
Self (archive footage)
2015
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self (archive footage)
2011
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Self
2011
D'un film à l'autre
Self (archive footage)
2011
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Self (archive footage)
2010
La Traversée du désir
Self
2009
A Man and His Dog
Charles
2009
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
Self
2004
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Ferdinand Griffon (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
Paul Ferchaux · (2 episodes)
2001
Amazon
Edouard
2000
Actors
Jean-Paul Belmondo
2000
Peut-être
Ako
1999
Vivement dimanche
Self · (5 episodes)
1998
Vivement dimanche prochain
Self · (1 episode)
1998
Half a Chance
Léo Brassac
1998
La Puce à l'oreille
Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise / Poche
1996
Desire
Désiré
1996
Les Miserables
Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
Professor Bébel
1995
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Self
1993
Tailleur pour Dames
Mouineaux
1993
Stranger in the House
Loursat
1992
Stars 90
Self · (2 episodes)
1990
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Sam Lion
1988
Kean
Kean
1988
Na siehste!
Self · (1 episode)
1987
Sacrée soirée
Self · (2 episodes)
1987
The Loner
Stan Jalard
1987
Hold-up
Grimm
1985
Happy Easter
Stephane Margelle
1984
The Vultures
Sergeant Pierre Augagneur
1984
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Self · (1 episode)
1984
The Outsider
Commissaire divisionnaire Philippe Jordan
1983
Ace of Aces
Jo Cavalier
1982
Champs-Elysées
Self · (2 episodes)
1982
The Professional
Joss Beaumont
1981
Wetten, dass..?
Self · (1 episode)
1981
Le Guignolo
Alexandre Dupré / Vicomte de Valombreuse
1980
Cop or Hood
Divisional commissioner Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti
1979
Animal
Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari
1977
Auf los geht's los
Self · (1 episode)
1977
The Body of My Enemy
François Leclercq
1976
Hunter Will Get You
Roger Pilard, aka l'Alpagueur
1976
Incorrigible
Victor Vauthier
1975
The Night Caller
Commissioner Jean Letellier
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Spécial cinéma
Self · (4 episodes)
1974
Der große Preis
Self · (1 episode)
1974
Stavisky...
Serge Alexandre Stavisky
1974
T'es fou Marcel
self
1974
The Magnificent One
François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar
1973
The Inheritor
Bart Cordell
1973
The Pariah
Roberto Borgo, aka 'La Scoumoune'
1972
Scoundrel in White
Doctor Paul Simay
1972
J'ai tout donné
Self
1972
The Burglars
Azad
1971
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Nicolas Philibert
1971
Borsalino
François Capella
1970
Love Is a Funny Thing
Henri
1969
God Chose Paris
Narrator / Presenter
1969
Mississippi Mermaid
Louis Mahé
1969
The Brain
Arthur Lespinasse
1969
Ho!
François Holin, aka Ho
1968
Casino Royale
Un légionnaire
1967
The Thief of Paris
Georges Randal
1967
Tender Scoundrel
Tony Maréchal
1966
Is Paris Burning?
Yvon Morandat
1966
Up to His Ears
Arthur Lempereur
1965
Pierrot le Fou
Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'
1965
Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
Self
1965
Crime on a Summer Morning
Francis
1965
Weekend at Dunkirk
Julien Maillat
1964
Male Hunt
Fernand
1964
Backfire
David Ladislas
1964
Greed in the Sun
Rocco
1964
That Man from Rio
Adrien Dufourquet
1964
Magnet of Doom
Michel Maudet
1963
Crazy Sea
le capitaine Il Livornese
1963
Sweet and Sour
Raymond
1963
Der Sport-Spiegel
Self · (1 episode)
1963
The Shortest Day
Erede Siciliano (uncredited)
1963
Banana Peel
Michel Thibault
1963
Le Doulos
Silien
1962
A Monkey in Winter
Gabriel Fouquet
1962
Cartouche
Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche
1962
Riviera-Story
Rennfahrer
1961
A Man Named Rocca
Roberto La Rocca
1961
Famous Love Affairs
Lauzun
1961
Léon Morin, Priest
Léon Morin
1961
A Woman Is a Woman
Alfred Lubitsch
1961
The Lovemakers
Amerigo
1961
The Winner
1961
Two Women
Michele Di Libero
1960
Letters of a Novice
Giuliano Verdi
1960
Trapped by Fear
Paul Frapier
1960
Love and the Frenchwoman
Gilles, l'amant (segment "L'Adultère")
1960
Seven Days… Seven Nights
Chauvin
1960
The Big Risk
Éric Stark
1960
Breathless
Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
1960
The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan
1959
À double tour
Laszlo Kovacs
1959
An Angel on Wheels
Michel Barrot
1959
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Jules
1958
Sunday Encounter
Patrick
1958
The Cheaters
Lou
1958
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Pierrot, un jeune de la bande d'Olga
1958
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Venin
1957
Sunday Buddies
Jacques Trébois
1957
Cinépanorama
Self · (2 episodes)
1956
Reflets de Cannes
Self · (1 episode)
1954