Jean-Pierre Cassel

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Jean-Pierre Cassel, 2006

Jean-Pierre Cassel (born October 27, 1932 as Jean-Pierre Crochon in Paris , † April 19, 2007 ibid) was a French actor .

life and career

As the son of a doctor, he first attended the Cours Simon drama school in Paris and performed at the Théâtre National Populaire and in cabaret . Gene Kelly discovered him as a good dancer in a nightclub and gave him a role in Street of Happiness in 1956 . In comedies of the Nouvelle Vague , Cassel was convincing as a humorous sex symbol from the early 1960s. He was the preferred hero of director Philippe de Broca . From 1966 to 1974 Cassel was chairman of the French actors' union .

His film partners in the 1960s and 1970s were actresses such as Françoise Dorléac ( The Great Mesh , Also Stealing Has To Be Learned ), Catherine Deneuve ( I was a male sex bomb ), Jean Seberg ( lover for five days ), Cornelia Froboess ( The corporal in the snare ), Simone Signoret ( Army in the Shadow ), Brigitte Bardot ( The Bear and the Doll ), Stéphane Audran ( The Rift ), Claude Jade ( Le bateau sur l'herbe ) and Jacqueline Bisset ( The Gourmet Orgy ).

In English-language cinema he represented the archetype of the French, for example as a sleeper-car conductor in Murder on the Orient Express , as the daredevil Pierre Dubois in The Daredevil Men in Their Flying Chests , as King Ludwig XIII. in The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers - The Revenge of Milady as well as a fashion designer in Prêt-à-Porter . In 1973 he also appeared as a guest star in the second episode of the German series Klimbim .

Cassel died on April 19, 2007 after a long illness in Paris. His last film Asterix at the Olympic Games , in which he played Miraculix , was released in German cinemas in early 2008.

Cassel was married to Sabine Cassel-Lanfranchi. Their marriage had three children: the actor Vincent Cassel (* 1966) and the rapper Mathias Crochon; the daughter Olivia (born December 10, 1967, † January 28, 1968) died of sudden infant death syndrome . Sabine Cassel-Lanfranchi left Cassel because of the choreographer Michael Bennet . Cassel was later married to Anne Célérier and together with her he had the daughter Cécile Cassel (* 1982), who is an actress and singer.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Table of contents Klimbim , part 2 on fernsehserien.de
  2. ^ Obituary for Jean-Pierre Cassel in: The Guardian .
personal data
SURNAME Cassel, Jean-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jean-Pierre Crochon (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2007
Place of death Paris