Jean-Paul Belmondo

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-04-09 (88 years old)

Deathday

2021-09-06

Place of Birth

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Biography

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...

Acting

1960

Breathless

as Michel Poiccard / László Kovács

2021

1969

Mississippi Mermaid

as Louis Mahé

1981

The Professional

as Joss Beaumont

1965

Pierrot le Fou

as Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'

1964

That Man from Rio

as Adrien Dufourquet

1971

1966

Is Paris Burning?

as Yvon Morandat

1964

Male Hunt

as Fernand

1976

Hunter Will Get You

as Roger Pilard, aka l'Alpagueur

1962

Le Doulos

as Silien

1993

1961

A Woman Is a Woman

as Alfred Lubitsch

1960

Two Women

as Michele Di Libero

1999

1977

Animal

as Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari

1970

Borsalino

as François Capella

1967

Casino Royale

as Un légionnaire

1980

Le Guignolo

as Alexandre Dupré / Vicomte de Valombreuse

1964

1983

The Outsider

as Commissaire divisionnaire Philippe Jordan

1960

The Big Risk

as Éric Stark

1969

The Brain

as Arthur Lespinasse

1971

1974

1962

Cartouche

as Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche

1962

A Monkey in Winter

as Gabriel Fouquet

1984

Happy Easter

as Stephane Margelle

1975

The Night Caller

as Commissioner Jean Letellier

1985

Hold-up

as Grimm

1979

Cop or Hood

as Divisional commissioner Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti

2009

1975

Incorrigible

as Victor Vauthier

1974

Stavisky...

as Serge Alexandre Stavisky

1965

Up to His Ears

as Arthur Lempereur

1961

A Man Named Rocca

as Roberto La Rocca

1963

Sweet and Sour

as Raymond

1958

2011

1959

À double tour

as Laszlo Kovacs

1961

Léon Morin, Priest

as Léon Morin

2000

Actors

as Jean-Paul Belmondo

1961

1995

Les Miserables

as Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean

1998

Half a Chance

as Léo Brassac

1972

Scoundrel in White

as Doctor Paul Simay

1963

Magnet of Doom

as Michel Maudet

1973

The Magnificent One

as François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar

1976

The Body of My Enemy

as François Leclercq

1958

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

as Pierrot, un jeune de la bande d'Olga

1982

Ace of Aces

as Jo Cavalier

2000

Amazon

as Edouard

1992

1957

Sunday Buddies

as Jacques Trébois

1959

An Angel on Wheels

as Michel Barrot

1987

The Loner

as Stan Jalard

1984

The Vultures

as Sergeant Pierre Augagneur

1960

Letters of a Novice

as Giuliano Verdi

1963

Banana Peel

as Michel Thibault

1996

Desire

as Désiré

1967

The Thief of Paris

as Georges Randal

1964

Weekend at Dunkirk

as Julien Maillat

1958

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Ferdinand Griffon (archive footage) (uncredited)

1972

The Pariah

as Roberto Borgo, aka 'La Scoumoune'

1968

Ho!

as François Holin, aka Ho

1959

1969

God Chose Paris

as Narrator / Presenter

1996

La Puce à l'oreille

as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise / Poche

1973

The Inheritor

as Bart Cordell

1995

One Hundred and One Nights

as Professor Bébel

1963

Crazy Sea

as le capitaine Il Livornese

1966

Tender Scoundrel

as Tony Maréchal

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as Gilles, l'amant (segment "L'Adultère")

2015

The Emperor's New Clothes

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

as Self (archive footage)

1964

Backfire

as David Ladislas

1960

Trapped by Fear

as Paul Frapier

1961

The Lovemakers

as Amerigo

2023

Godard by Godard

as Self (archive footage)

1972

1961

Riviera-Story

as Rennfahrer

2011

D'un film à l'autre

as Self (archive footage)

1963

The Shortest Day

as Erede Siciliano (uncredited)

2017

Belmondo, le magnifique

as Self (archive footage)

1988

Kean

as Kean

2017

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

as Self (archive footage)

2017

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

as Self (archive footage)

1990

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Cyrano de Bergerac

2010

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1992

1979

Cop or Hood

as Producer

1990

Tom and Lola

as Producer

1973

1973

1977

Animal

as Producer

1985

Hold-up

as Producer

1983

The Outsider

as Producer

1975

Incorrigible

as Producer

1987

The Loner

as Producer

1974

Stavisky...

as Producer

1988

Chocolat

as Producer

1976

1976

1982

Ace of Aces

as Producer

1975

The Night Caller

as Producer

1983

The Outsider

as Stunts

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