Michèle Girardon
Michèle Girardon (born August 9, 1938 in Lyon , † March 25, 1975 there ; full name: Michèle Henriette Léone Girardon ) was a French actress.
biography
Michèle Girardon attended the conservatory in her hometown after graduating from high school. As a teenager, she was hired by Luis Buñuel in 1956 for a role in the adventure film Plague the Jungle . At the age of 20 she won the title “The most photogenic girl in France” in a competition and then also worked as a photo model.
In 1958 Michèle Girardon played supporting roles in the light summer comedy Vive les vacances and in Louis Male's heavy-blooded drama The Lovers , with Jeanne Moreau . In 1959, Éric Rohmer gave her the female lead in his parabolic film In the Sign of the Lion, about a young man who is unfit for life and who does not know how to learn from the warnings of fate.
In 1962 it seemed to the young actress to play a role in the Hollywood adventure Hatari!, Filmed on location in Africa by Howard Hawks . the breakthrough came. But alongside partners such as John Wayne , Hardy Krüger , Elsa Martinelli and the actual main characters from the animal kingdom, Michèle Girardon was unable to attract constant attention.
In the next ten years she still had numerous appearances in works of declining quality, including in 1964 in the sandal film Soraya - Slave of the Orient and in 1965 in two German Karl May film adaptations by Robert Siodmak . The German television series Graf Yoster also had the honor of having Michèle Girardon guest star in 1968.
After breaking up a relationship with fellow actor José Luis de Vilallonga , she committed suicide at the age of 36 with an overdose of sleeping pills.
Filmography (selection)
- 1956: Breath of the jungle (La muerte en el jardín)
- 1958: Vive les vacances
- 1958: The Lovers (Les amants)
- 1959: Under the sign of the lion (Le signe du lion)
- 1961: The prey of the shadow (La proie pour l'ombre)
- 1962: Hatari!
- 1963: The baker of Monceau (La boulangère de Monceau)
- 1963: The Secret of Scaramouche (La máscara de Scaramouche)
- 1964: Soraya - Slave of the Orient (Anthar l'invincible)
- 1964: The great cuckold (Il magnifico cornuto)
- 1965: The Aztec Treasure
- 1965: The pyramid of the sun god
- 1968: A death shirt as a farewell (Vendo cara la pelle)
- 1971: The precocious girls (Les petites filles modèles)
Web links
- Michèle Girardon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ José Luis de Vilallonga. In: telegraph.co.uk. October 8, 2007, accessed April 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Girardon, Michèle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Girardon, Michèle Henriette Léone (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1975 |
| Place of death | Lyon |