Jacques Charrier

Jacques Charrier (born November 6, 1936 in Metz , Moselle department , France ) is a French actor and film producer .

Life

Raised up with six siblings, he would pursue a military career like his father. However, at the age of 17, Jacques began an apprenticeship as a ceramist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Strasbourg . In 1956 he was discovered for the film and played the role of Frédéric in a film adaptation of Alphonse Daudets L'Arlésienne . Jacques Charrier then went to Paris and became a student at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre . A little later, Marcel Carné discovered him for the film The Deceiving Themselves (1958) and Jean-Pierre Mocky subsequently gave him a leading role in The Hunger for Love . In 1959 Jacques Charrier married the actress Brigitte Bardot , with whom he played in Babette Goes to War . Their son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier was born on January 11, 1960. The birth became a world media event. The couple divorced in 1963, and Charrier married three more times.

Jacques Charrier had a great success with André Cayattes My Days with Pierre - My Nights with Jacqueline (1964), but his career came to an end in the late 1960s. He played his last film roles in 1969 with Marina Vlady in Miklós Jancsós Schirokko , in 1972 in Pierre Kast's Les soleils de l'Ile de Pâques and in 1973 in Jean-Claude Brialy's Les volets clos . His acting career ended in 1981 with the lead role in the television series Salut champion .

Jacques Charrier now became a visual artist. In 1997 he sued his ex-wife Brigitte Bardot for violating his privacy in her memoir Initials BB , and published My Answer to Brigitte Bardot .

Filmography

• 1958: Those who deceive themselves (Les Tricheurs)
• 1958: Police judiciaire
• 1959: Babette goes to war (Babette s'en va-t-en guerre)
• 1959: Those who hunger for love (Les Dragueurs)
• 1960: Affair One Night (L'Affaire d'une nuit)
• 1960: La main chaude
• 1961: The Great American (La Belle Américaine)
• 1961: Tiro al piccione
• 1962: The Eye of Evil (L'Œil du Malin)
• 1962: Carmen di Trastevere
• 1962: The seven main sins (Les Sept péchés capitaux)
• 1963: Everything because of these women (À cause, à cause d'une femme)
• 1964: My days with Pierre - my nights with Jacqueline (Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale)
• 1964: Françoise ou la vie conjugale
• 1965: La bonne occase
• 1966: The Creatures (Les créatures)
• 1966: Career (A belles dents)
• 1966: Marie Soleil
• 1967: The oldest trade in the world (Le plus vieux métier du monde)
• 1967: An Evening in Paris
• 1967: L'affaire Lourdes
• 1969: Money-Money
• 1969 sirocco (Sirokko) (also producer)
• 1972: Églantine (producer)
• 1972: Les soleils de l'Ile de Pâques
• 1972: Quelque part quelqu'un
• 1973: Les volets clos
• 1975: Dreyfus ou L'intolérable vérité
• 1976: Ozraceni
• 1981: Salut champion (TV series, 13 episodes)
• 1992: Van Loc: un grand flic de Marseille (TV series, screenplay)
• 2000: Les jeunes premiers d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (TV series)

Web links

• Jacques Charrier in the Internet Movie Database (English)