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Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide variety of roles and worked with many acclaimed directors, being awarded with a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Silver Bear for Best ...
He then signed with MGM for The Man from the Folies Bergère, his own favourite of his films. After a disagreement over his star-billing, he returned to France in 1935 to resume his music-hall career. Even when he was the highest-paid star in Hollywood, Chevalier had a reputation as a penny-pincher.
The show asked the French viewers who they thought was the Greatest Frenchman or Frenchwoman. It was presented by Michel Drucker and Thierry Ardisson, and the final episode was broadcast at the French Senate. The winner was the former president and leader of the Free French movement, Charles de Gaulle. [1]
Hollywood’s major studios have stepped up by providing fresh digital restorations for a major retrospective of Fred Zinnemann’s work at the Lumière Film Festival in France’s Lyon. Every ...
French actor, film director and screenwriter [64] Danielle Darrieux: 1917–2017: 100: French actress [65] Jimmie Davis: 1899–2000: 101: American singer and songwriter [66] Gloria Dea: 1922–2023: 100: American actress, dancer and magician [67] Margia Dean: 1922–2023: 101: American beauty queen and stage and screen actress [68] Olivia de ...
François Roland Truffaut (UK: / ˈ t r uː f oʊ, ˈ t r ʊ-/ TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: / t r uː ˈ f oʊ / troo-FOH; [1] [2] French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor and critic, widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. [3] As a young man, he came under the ...
A studio head once told me that CAA’s top three leaders – Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett – had claws beneath their velvet gloves. It was a backhanded compliment, as the CEO was ...
Second French actress to win Best Actress. 1963: Leslie Caron: The L-Shaped Room: Nominated: Second French actress to receive more than one nomination – 2 nominations for Best Actress. 1965: Simone Signoret: Ship of Fools: Nominated: Third French actress to receive more than one nomination. 1966: Anouk Aimée: A Man and a Woman: Nominated