Gilles Ségal

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Gilles Segal also Gilles Ségal (born January 13, 1932 in Fălticeni , Romania , † June 11, 2014 ) was a French actor .

biography

His parents came from Romania and settled in France in 1934, his father was a showman . He began to study philosophy at the Sorbonne, but gave it up because he was fascinated by the world of acting. He gained his first experience as a pantomime with Marcel Marceau , in whose troupe he appeared from 1952 to 1960.

Segal became known in 1964 as the spectacular burglar Giulio in Jules Dassin's Topkapi . He served as a role model for Tom Cruise's part in Mission: Impossible with the legendary scene in which he silently rappeled down to the diamond-studded dagger . Two years later he played a leading role in the Soviet-French co-production Tretya molodost . In the 1970s he worked with Costa-Gavras (The Confession) , Marc Monnet (Léa in Winter) , Philippe Labro (Nine in the Crosshairs) and Édouard Molinaro (Escape in a Circle) .

A great success was his role as husband at the side of Brigitte Fossey in Claude Faraldo's Honey Blossoms . He had an important television role in 1975 as Julius Rosenberg alongside Marie-José Nat in Die Rosenbergs must not die . In the 1980s, Gilles Segal played mainly in television films, such as Bernard and Claude Jade in Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée (1980), as Commissioner Sarrasin in L 'Afrique, c'est loin (1982) and as Herbert John alongside Farrah Fawcett in Persecuted and Chased (Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story) (1986). In the 90s and 2000s Segal mainly appeared in television roles (including in 2003 alongside Marie-José Nat in When I Was Seven ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gilles Segal: mort d'un juste. Le Figaro (obituary)
personal data
SURNAME Ségal, Gilles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Segal, Gilles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Fălticeni , Romania
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2014