Gérard Barray
Gérard Barray ; actually Gérard Marcel Louis Baraillé (born November 2, 1931 in Toulouse , Midi-Pyrénées ) is a French actor .
Life
Gérard Barray's parents, a factory owner and his mother, who studied three languages, separated shortly after he was born. He moved with his mother to Montauban, where she ran a maternity hospital . Gérard Barray completed his schooling in Toulouse and played jazz on the side. He began studying medicine, but soon moved to Paris with a letter of recommendation from the actress Camille Ricard , who had discovered his acting talent in Toulouse, where he was employed by Noël Roquevert's drama troupe . He took lessons at the “Cours Simon” and after four years received the jury's prize.
Barray became known in Germany in the 1960s as a coat and sword hero, for example as D'Artagnan in the two-parter The Three Musketeers and in the leading role in the two films about the adventurer Robert Surcouf ( Under the flag of the tiger , Thunder over the Indian Ocean ). As a movie serial hero, he was also subscribed to as Chevalier de Pardaillan and Commissioner San Antonio . When Barray showed himself from his dark side in 1969 (and the German audience in 1973) in the thriller Der Zeuge (murder witness Claude Jade falls for him), the fans stuck to him, but it remained his last major leading role. The man who was allowed to beguile icons such as Mylène Demongeot , Claude Jade , Anna Karina , Hildegard Knef , Bernadette Lafont and Sylva Koscina , was less busy in the 1970s, but had Abre los ojos , the original for the Tom Cruise remake Vanilla Sky , a comeback.
Private life
When he played Don Alfonso in the Karl May two-parter The Treasure of the Aztecs and The Pyramid of the Sun God , he met his future wife, the Spanish flamenco dancer Teresa Lorca . She acted as Karja in the two films. He married Lorca in July 1965 in Montauban. She became the mother of his children Julien and Marie. Barray spends his retirement in Andalusia .
In January 2010 Barray was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .
Filmography (selection)
- 1960: The cat does not let the mousing (L'eau à la bouche)
- 1961: Fracass, the cheeky cavalier (La capitaine Fracasse)
- 1961: The Three Musketeers ( Les Trois Mousquetaires )
- 1961: The Corsican Brothers (I fratelli Corsi)
- 1962: The Scarlet Musketeer (Le chevalier de Pardaillan)
- 1963: Sheherazade (Shéhérazade)
- 1963: The Secret of Scaramouche (La máscara de Scaramouche)
- 1964: secret agent in Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
- 1964: The Triumph of the Musketeer (Hardi Pardaillan!)
- 1965: The Aztec Treasure
- 1965: The pyramid of the sun god
- 1966: Baraka, Agent X 13 (Baraka sur X 13)
- 1966: Under the flag of the tiger (Surcouf, l'eroe dei sette mari)
- 1966: Thunder over the Indian Ocean (Il grande colpo die Surcouf)
- 1966: Commissioner, you are risking too much (Commissioner San Antonio: Sale temps pour les mouches)
- 1967: Tender Sharks (Tendres requins)
- 1968: Flames on the Adriatic (Flammes sur l'Adriatique)
- 1968: Béru and those ladies (Béru et ces dames)
- 1969: The Witness (Le témoin)
- 1972: Killer Driver (Un verano para matar)
- 1982: Black Platoon - The Black Command (Othello, el comando negro)
- 1997: Virtual Nightmare - Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos)
- 2000: Sexy Beast (Sexy Beast)
Web links
- Website of the artist
- Gérard Barray in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Barray at encinematheque.net
- Barray at toutlecine
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barray, Gerard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baraillé, Gérard Marcel Louis (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse , Midi-Pyrenees, France |