Marc Porel

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Marc Porel (born January 3, 1949 in Lausanne , † August 15, 1983 in Casablanca ) was a French actor .

Life

The son of the actor couple Jacqueline Porel (1918–2012) and Gérard Landry (1912–1999) was best known in the 1970s for the roles of beautiful and sometimes brutal lovers and seducers. Born in Switzerland, he first worked as a lighting technician , film editor , cable carrier and sound engineer . In a café he meets the homosexual actor Jean-Claude Brialy . This worried him, fascinated "by his wild beauty", his first film role in Costa-Gavras ' A Man Too Many . The supporting role of the young Resistance fighter Octave in Costa-Gavras' film brings him roles as a beautiful lover: as Pierre in Étienne Périer's Six Boys and Four Girls (1967) and alongside Jacqueline Bisset in The Promise (1969). In 1969 he played alongside Jean Gabin and Alain Delon Gabin's son Sergio Manalese in The Sicilian Clan . Sergio was still a secondary role, one year later he played the second leading role alongside Gabin as his grandson Henri in Pierre Granier-Deferre's The Merciless . He is now subscribed to lover roles: his half-brother Jean-Marie Périer cast him as a star in Tumuc Humac (1970), in the key role of Rocky in The Road to Salina he has an incestuous love life with his sister ( Mimsy Farmer ) and in Jacques Derays Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971), as a depressed person , he has a tragic romance with Claudine Auger . In the lead role of Édouard Molinaro's crime drama Tender Desires , he falls victim to the intrigues of two police officers.

After these star roles in French cinema, Porel received his first counter-cast from Lucio Fulci : In 1972, he played the young pastor Albert Avallone in Quäle never a child for a joke , who kills three cruel little boys in order to purify them from sin. Luci Fuclio later cast Porel for his Giallo Seven Black Notes . In Italy, the beautiful Frenchman caught the attention of the Italian master director Luchino Visconti , who cast Marc Porel for his film Ludwig II . Marc Porel plays Richard Hornig, the beautiful lover of King Ludwig II ( Helmut Berger ). In Germany, after the premiere, some scenes with Berger and Porel were cut out by the film distributor Gloria because of scenes that were described by Bavarian homeland associations as "perverse places" - and reconstructed in the early 1990s. The Bavarian King's lover was later followed by the role of young writer and lover Filippo d'Arborio in Visconti's last film, The Innocence (1976).

Between these, his artistically most outstanding films, Porel now starred in numerous crime novels with a harder pace: again alongside Alain Delon in Duccio Tessari's Deadly Hatred (1973), as the desperate hostage-taker Camille in Un officier de police sans importance (1973) and as the tragic criminal Alain in Jochen Richter's German crime drama The ants are coming . The group sex of three brothers (Marc Porel, Mattia Sbragia and Antonio Falsi ) with their aunt ( Adriana Asti ) in Franco Rossetti's anti-war drama Nipoti miei diletti (1974) causes a stir . You seldom see Porel in comedies like Bud Spencer's clothes Hector, the Knight Without Fear and Blame (1975) or sex-and-crime films like I'll shine your bald head with Ursula Andress . Porel is now committed to thrillers: Gianni Martucci's heroin , ice-cold guys on hot stoves and Pierre Grasset's attack at dawn .

One of his most important later works was Eriprando Visconti's Una spirale di nebbia in 1977 , in which he was suspected of murdering his wife as Fabrizio and was able to reopen the case with the support of his cousin ( Claude Jade ). Luchino Visconti's nephew used Porel's presence in his uncle's films for a central leading role. The male leading actors Porel and Duilio del Prete (as Claude Jade's husband) act completely naked in some scenes; the presentation of the penises of established movie stars was a freedom of French-Italian cinema of the 1970s. In the late 1970s, he played leading roles in the critically-slated mafia film The Ice Cold Killer and in the sexploitation trash La sorella di Ursula . Due to his heavy drug use, Porel turned less and less. In the early 80s only rarely in the cinema, u. a. in Aldo Lado 's Disobedience , François Leterriers Je vais craquer! and in the pornographic Giallo Delitto carnale , Porel fell ill with meningitis in 1983. He dies of meningitis in Morocco at the age of 34.

He was the father of two daughters. The daughter Bérengère de Lagatinerie (1968–1991) comes from the marriage with the French actress Bénédicte Lacoste . His second daughter, Camille, came from his marriage to the Italian actress Barbara Magnolfi (* 1955) in 1977.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Une rose pour Marc Porel , Fine Stagione, November 15, 2010 (French)
  2. ↑ Marc Porel , Claude Jade, January 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Porel, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1983
Place of death Casablanca