Jean-Paul Belmondo died at the age of eighty-eight. The superstar of French cinema died on Monday at his home in Paris, Michel Godest, the lawyer of the world-famous French actor, told the French news agency AFP.
"He's been very tired lately. He left quietly,” Godest said.
Belmondo played in around a hundred films and appeared in more than 40 theater roles . He played one of his best-known roles in the film Until Suffocation (1960), considered the basic film of the French new wave, the nouvelle vague, which was based on the idea of François Truffaut and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
The cult figure of French cinema played on the screen with actresses such as Claudia Cardinale, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, and worked with directors such as François Truffaut, Louis Malle and Claude Sautet. Moviegoers could see his last performance in the movie A Man and His Dog, released in 2008.
It is difficult to list his films, through which he became one of the most popular actors in France, but in addition to filming, he was also unfaithful to his old "love", the stage: in 1987, he won the title role in Kean, the actor, and in 1990, in the title role of Cyrano de Bergerac success. In 1991, he bought the Théatre des Variétés, where he once acted, and owned the theater until 2004.
He received the Order of Merit for his art, and in 1989 the César Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film Journey of a Spoiled Child. In 2011, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cannes Film Festival, in 2016 he received the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award of the Venice International Film Festival, and in 2018 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Lumiere Academy.
Source: MTI
Featured Image: Jean-Paul Belmondo at the 42nd César Awards on February 24, 2017. MTI/EPA/Ian Langsdon
