Jean-François Poron

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Jean-François Poron (born May 6, 1936 ) is a French actor .

Life

Jean-François Poron received his acting training at the Cours Simon .

He made his film debut in 1954 in a small role in Marcel Carné's L'air de Paris . His first leading role was Alain in Hervé Bromberger's Les Loups dans la bergerie (1960). Poron played leading roles as Duke of Nemours alongside Marina Vlady in The Princess of Cleve in the early 1960s , as Daniel alongside Annie Girardot in Behind Stranger Windows and the double role of the twin brothers Henri and Louis XIV. In the Dumas film adaptation The Iron Mask (1962) . He played Andrei Bulba, son of Taras Bulba , in The Cossacks Come (1963) and in the sequel Le fils de Taras Bulba (1964). His best-known later films include Raphaël ou le Débauché (1971) by Michel Deville , in which he plays - this time in a supporting role - the hero's friend ( Maurice Ronet ), and Strafkommando Charlie Bravo (1980) with Bruno Pradal . In Pierre Schoendoerffer's court drama L'honneur d'un capitaine , Poron played the title character's widow's new friend ( Nicole Garcia ) in 1982 .

Jean-François Poron also starred in many television films, including the leading role in the series Le Renard à l'anneau d'or (1971) and Comte Gérard de Villefort in Denys de La Patellière's four-part series The Count of Monte Christo (1980). In the French television series Catherine (1986 TV series) he played the Duke Philip of Burgundy.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1956: The Wolves (Pardonnez nos offenses)
  • 1958: The rats of Paris (Les jeux dangereux)
  • 1958: The day and the night (Le miroir à deux faces)
  • 1958: Those who deceive themselves (Les tricheurs)
  • 1959: I desire you (Asphalt)
  • 1960: you hate and love you (Les loups dans la bergerie)
  • 1961: Behind Strangers' Windows (Le rendez-vous)
  • 1961: The Princess of Cleve (La princesse de Clèves)
  • 1962: The iron mask (Le masque de fer)
  • 1962: The Cossacks arrive (Tarass Boulba, il cosacco)
  • 1971: Raphael the libertine (Raphaël ou le débauché)
  • 1977: Raid at dawn (Quand la ville s'éveillé)
  • 1978: The brassiere company (Les filles du régiment)
  • 1979: The Count of Monte Christo (Le comte de Monte Christo)
  • 1980: Charlie Bravo Criminal Unit (Charlie Bravo)
  • 1982: L'honneur d'un capitaine
  • 1985: Christopher Columbus

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