Gérard Blain
French actor (1930–2000)
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Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Serge in Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge (1959) and Raoul Minot in Wim Wender's The American Friend. (1977)[1][2]
Born23 October 1930
Paris, France
Died17 December 2000 (aged 70)
Paris, France
OccupationsActor, film director
Yearsactive1944–2000
Gérard Blain | |
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Blain in Silver Spoon Set (1960) | |
| Born | 23 October 1930 Paris, France |
| Died | 17 December 2000 (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Occupations | Actor, film director |
| Years active | 1944–2000 |
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Biography
Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000.[3][4] In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for his film The Friends.[5] Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont.[4]
Filmography
Actor
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Le bal des passants | Guillaume Radot | ||
| Le carrefour des enfants perdus | Léo Joannon | |||
| 1945 | Les enfants du paradis | Marcel Carné | Uncredited | |
| 1946 | Fils de France | Pierre Blondy | ||
| 1954 | Wild Fruit | Hervé Bromberger | ||
| Before the Deluge | Un lycéen | André Cayatte | Uncredited | |
| Service Entrance | Le photographe - copain de Léo | Carlo Rim | Uncredited | |
| 1956 | Voici le temps des assassins | Gérard Delacroix | Julien Duvivier | |
| Crime and Punishment | Jean Fargeot | Georges Lampin | ||
| 1957 | Le désir mène les hommes | Olivier Jourdans | Émile Roussel | |
| Les Mistons | Gérard | François Truffaut | Short | |
| 1958 | Young Husbands | Marcello | Mauro Bolognini | |
| Le Beau Serge | Serge | Claude Chabrol | ||
| 1959 | Les Cousins | Charles | Claude Chabrol | |
| Match contre la mort | Jacques Lourmel | Claude Bernard-Aubert | ||
| 1960 | Silver Spoon Set | Anselmo Foresi | Francesco Maselli | |
| Run with the Devil | Stefano Solera | Mario Camerini | ||
| Charlotte and Her Boyfriend | Charlotte's new boyfriend | Jean-Luc Godard | Short | |
| The Hunchback of Rome | Alvara aka "Hunchback" | Carlo Lizzani | ||
| 1961 | La peau et les os | Mazur | Jean-Paul Sassy | |
| Gold of Rome | Davide | Carlo Lizzani | ||
| 1962 | Hatari! | Charles "Chips" Maurey | Howard Hawks | |
| Lo sgarro | Paolo | Silvio Siano | ||
| 1963 | The Eye of the Needle | Toto Cacace | Marcello Andrei | |
| Les Vierges | Xavier de Brétevielle | Jean-Pierre Mocky | ||
| La soupe aux poulets | Claudio | Philippe Agostini | ||
| 1964 | La Bonne Soupe | Le peintre | Robert Thomas | |
| Via Veneto | Giuseppe Lipartiti | |||
| Amori pericolosi | L'attendente | Giulio Questi | (segment "Il generale") | |
| 1965 | Un amore | Marcello | Gianni Vernuccio | |
| 1966 | M.M.M. 83 | Robert Gibson | Sergio Bergonzelli | |
| 1967 | La musica | Marguerite Duras and Paul Seban | ||
| Shock Troops | Thomas | Constantin Costa-Gavras | ||
| 1968 | Negresco | Roger | Klaus Lemke | |
| 1969 | Joë Caligula - Du suif chez les dabes | Joë Caligula | José Bénazéraf | |
| 1970 | Caïn de nulle part | Caïn | Daniel Daërt | |
| 1971 | Paolo e Francesca | Giovanni Malatrasi | Gianni Vernuccio | |
| 1974 | The Pelican | Paul Boyer | Himself | |
| 1976 | A Child in the Crowd | Cameo | Himself | |
| 1977 | The American Friend | Raoul Minot | Wim Wenders | |
| The Machine | Le journaliste | Paul Vecchiali | ||
| 1978 | Utopia | Gérard | Iradj Azimi | |
| 1981 | La Flambeuse | Henri | Rachel Weinberg | |
| 1983 | Un dimanche de flic | Emilio | Michel Vianey | |
| La derelitta | Redza | Jean-Pierre Igoux | ||
| 1986 | La Presqu'île | Simon | Georges Luneau | |
| 1987 | Killing Time | Broz | Edouard Niermans | |
| 1988 | Natalia | Claude Roitman | Bernard Cohn | |
| 1989 | Jour après jour | Richard Lunet | Alain Attal | |
| L'enfant de l'hiver | Stephane's father | Olivier Assayas | ||
| 1992 | Chasse gardée | Pierre Bufières | Jean-Claude Biette | |
| 1995 | Jusqu'au bout de la nuit | François | Himself | |
| 1999 | Cinématon | Himself | Gérard Courant | |
| 2001 | Bandits d'amour | The priest | Pierre Le Bret |
Director
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Friends | Also writer |
| 1974 | The Pelican | Also writer and lead actor |
| 1976 | A Child in the Crowd | Also writer |
| 1978 | Second Wind | Also writer |
| 1980 | The Rebel | Also writer |
| 1987 | Pierre and Djemila | Also writer |
| 1993 | La Fortune de Gaspard | TV movie; also writer |
| 1995 | Jusqu'au bout de la nuit | Also writer and lead actor |
| 2000 | Ainsi soit-il | Also writer |