1933-04-09 ( 91 years old ) in 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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Movies
Senza malizia
2023-07-05
Godard by Godard
2023-05-17
Belmondo l'incorrigible
2022-09-05
Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
2021-09-09
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020-11-30
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020-09-09
Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
2018-12-02
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017-12-05
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017-09-03
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017-03-27
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
2017-01-01
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016-05-05
The Emperor's New Clothes
2015-04-24
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011-10-25
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011-05-18
D'un film à l'autre
2011-04-13
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010-04-11
La Traversée du désir
2009-03-16
A Man and His Dog
2009-01-14
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
2004-01-01
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002-07-02
Amazon
2000-07-19
Actors
2000-04-05
Peut-être
1999-11-10
Half a Chance
1998-03-25
La Puce à l'oreille
1996-10-12
Desire
1996-04-10
Les Miserables
1995-03-22
One Hundred and One Nights
1995-01-25
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
1993-05-27
Tailleur pour Dames
1993-01-01
Stranger in the House
1992-10-03
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990-01-01
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988-11-30
Kean
1988-11-12
The Loner
1987-03-18
Hold-up
1985-10-23
Happy Easter
1984-10-24
The Vultures
1984-03-28
The Outsider
1983-10-26
Ace of Aces
1982-10-27
The Professional
1981-10-21
Le Guignolo
1980-03-26
Cop or Hood
1979-03-28
Animal
1977-10-05
The Body of My Enemy
1976-10-13
Hunter Will Get You
1976-02-01
Incorrigible
1975-10-15
The Night Caller
1975-04-09
Stavisky...
1974-05-15
T'es fou Marcel
1974-01-01
The Magnificent One
1973-11-23
The Inheritor
1973-03-22
The Pariah
1972-12-12
Scoundrel in White
1972-09-29
J'ai tout donné
1972-06-21
The Burglars
1971-10-27
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971-04-07
Borsalino
1970-05-19
Love Is a Funny Thing
1969-12-12
God Chose Paris
1969-09-05
Mississippi Mermaid
1969-06-18
The Brain
1969-03-07
Ho!
1968-11-04
Casino Royale
1967-04-13
The Thief of Paris
1967-02-22
Tender Scoundrel
1966-12-12
Is Paris Burning?
1966-10-26
Up to His Ears
1965-12-04
Pierrot le Fou
1965-11-05
Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
1965-06-18
Crime on a Summer Morning
1965-02-17
Weekend at Dunkirk
1964-12-18
Male Hunt
1964-09-18
Backfire
1964-09-04
Greed in the Sun
1964-04-17
That Man from Rio
1964-02-05
Magnet of Doom
1963-09-25
Crazy Sea
1963-09-13
Sweet and Sour
1963-09-04
The Shortest Day
1963-02-14
Banana Peel
1963-01-18
Le Doulos
1962-12-13
A Monkey in Winter
1962-07-29
Cartouche
1962-03-07
Riviera-Story
1961-12-07
A Man Named Rocca
1961-11-17
Famous Love Affairs
1961-11-03
Léon Morin, Priest
1961-09-22
A Woman Is a Woman
1961-09-06
The Lovemakers
1961-06-13
The Winner
1961-04-01
Two Women
1960-12-22
Letters of a Novice
1960-12-01
Trapped by Fear
1960-11-04
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960-09-16
Seven Days… Seven Nights
1960-05-25
The Big Risk
1960-03-23
Breathless
1960-03-16
The Three Musketeers
1959-12-25
À double tour
1959-12-04
An Angel on Wheels
1959-08-28
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
1958-12-31
Sunday Encounter
1958-11-19
The Cheaters
1958-10-10
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958-05-07
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
1957-09-11
Sunday Buddies
1957-07-01
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