Gérard Blain

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-10-23 (70 years old)

Deathday

2000-12-17

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Gérard Blain

Biography

Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director. Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for his film The Friends. Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont. Source: Article "Gérard Blain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting

1959

The Cousins

as Charles

1958

1977

The American Friend

as Raoul Minot

1962

Hatari!

as Charles 'Chips' Maurey

1979

Utopia

as Gérard

1957

1963

The Virgins

as Xavier de Brétevielle

1944

Le bal des passants

as (uncredited)

1944

Children of Chaos

as (uncredited)

1956

Deadlier Than the Male

as Gérard Delacroix

1961

Gold of Rome

as Davide

1989

Jour après jour

as Richard Lunet

1960

The Hunchback

as Alvaro Cosenza

1993

Open Season

as Pierre Bufières

1963

The Eye of the Needle

as Toto Cacace

1968

Negresco

as Roger

1960

The Dolphins

as Anselmo Foresi

1989

Winter's Child

as Stephane's father

1960

1971

Paolo e Francesca

as Giovanni Malatrasi

2001

Bandits d'amour

as The priest

1964

Amori pericolosi

as The orderly (segment "Il generale")

1989

Natalia

as Claude Roitman

1963

Chicken Soup

as Claudio

1981

La Flambeuse

as Henri

1966

M.M.M. 83

as Robert Gibson

1959

Match contre la mort

as Jacques Lourmel

1961

1945

Children of Paradise

as (uncredited)

1967

Shock Troops

as Thomas

1987

1956

Crime and Punishment

as Jean Fargeot

1958

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend

as The New Boyfriend (uncredited)

1958

Young Husbands

as Marcello

1965

Un amore

as Il cugino

1957

Sexpot

as Olivier Jourdans

1964

1977

La Machine

as Le journaliste

1954

Wild Fruit

as (uncredited)

2008

Il falso bugiardo

as Self (archive footage)

1974

The Pelican

as Paul Boyer

1963

Lo sgarro

as Paolo

1986

2019

Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais

as Self (archives) - director, subject

Production

1983

Michel Tournier

as Director

1993

1976

1987

1971

The Friends

as Director

1974

The Pelican

as Director

1980

The Rebel

as Writer

1980

The Rebel

as Director

1978

Second Wind

as Director

2000

Ainsi soit-il

as Director

1974

The Pelican

as Writer

1976

2000

Ainsi soit-il

as Writer

1971

The Friends

as Writer

1978

Second Wind

as Writer

1987

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