Françoise Blanchard

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Françoise Denise Aline Blanchard (born June 6, 1954 in Saint-Mandé , † May 24, 2013 in Caen ) was a French actress .

life and career

Blanchard was born in Saint-Mandé in 1954. Blanchard's film career spanned from the late 1970s to 2007, with roles in a wide variety of genres. The tragic circumstances of her brother's untimely death in the late 1970s made her mature quickly in her mid-twenties. She decided to take acting lessons and devoted all her strength to the challenge of an acting career. Because of her talent, coupled with her attractiveness, the director Michel Gérard hired her in 1979 for his film Les joyeuses colonies de vacances in a small supporting role. One year later, Jacques Peroni gave her the leading role in his comedy Une si jolie petite fille . José Jara cast it in 1981 in his cinema production The Oasis of the Captive Women . She played two other leading roles in the comedies of Jean-Claude Strömme and Pierre Chevalier before the director Bruno Mattei hired her for his film Caligula and Messalina in the same year . Freedom, but above all versatility, were not an obstacle for Françoise Blanchard and so she soon became the star of Franco-Italian B-movie films, from exotic thrillers to epic erotic films to horror film genres and intelligent comedy.

In the 1980s she shot more mach with the two horror film directors Jess Franco and Jean Rollin . But also comedies with the directors Richard Balducci and Bernard Menez . Her best-known films at the time were: The Living Dead Girl , An Old Dickkopf and The Revenge of the House of Usher . In 1997 she played a small guest role in Jean-Pierre Mocky's film comedy Alliance cherche doigt .

Her friendship and fruitful collaboration with the actor and director Bernard Menez in the early 1980s brought her an engagement in the theater in 1998. On stage in Paris, she starred in a comedy by Eric Assous, alongside Bernard Menez.

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1979: Les joyeuses colonies de vacances
  • 1981: The Oasis of the Captive Women (L'oasis des filles perdues)
  • 1981: Caligula and Messalina (Caligula et Messaline)
  • 1982: The Living Dead Girl (La morte vivante)
  • 1982: Nero and the whores of the Roman Empire (Nerone e Poppea)
  • 1982: Les p'tites têtes
  • 1985: An old stubborn man (Le facteur de Saint-Tropez)
  • 1986: The golden temple of the Amazons (Les amazones du temple d'or)
  • 1988: Revenge in the House of Usher
  • 1991: À la poursuite de Barbara
  • 1997: Alliance cherche doigt
  • 2007: La nuit des horloges

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Françoise Blanchard in: Animeland
  2. ^ Biographical data from Françoise Blanchard in: Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture , by Ian Olney, Indiana University Press, 2013, p. 228
personal data
SURNAME Blanchard, Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanchard, Françoise Denise Aline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Mandé , France
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2013
Place of death Caen , Calvados