Michael Sarrazin

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Michael Sarrazin (actually Jacques Michel André Sarrazin ; born May 22, 1940 in Québec , † April 17, 2011 in Montreal ) was a Canadian actor .

Life

Sarrazin was born in the Canadian city of Québec. He studied acting at the Actors Studio in New York City . In 1957, at the age of 17, he made his first appearance in a Canadian television production. Universal signed him in 1965 , and he moved to Hollywood in 1967 . In his professional career, he worked in major roles in award-winning films, especially in the 1970s.

Sarrazin was nominated for a Golden Laurel in the 1968 Laurel Awards in the Male New Face category. In 1969, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor in the film drama The Wild Years . In this film he worked with Jacqueline Bisset , who was also nominated for a Globe Award.

The final breakthrough came with Sarrazin in the male lead in the film drama Only Horses Are Given the Gunshot (1969) by Sydney Pollack . In what is probably his most famous role, Sarrazin played Jane Fonda's partner in a dance marathon. The film was nominated for an Oscar in eight categories in 1970 . Gig Young won the Best Supporting Actor award . Sarrazin was the following year, at the presentation of the British Academy Film Awards as Best Newcomer nomination. Michael Ande dubbed Sarrazin on this film.

In the two-time Oscar-nominated drama They Want To Be Giants (1971), Sarrazin starred alongside Paul Newman , who also directed, and with Henry Fonda and Lee Remick . This was followed by a role in the also Oscar-nominated western comedy That Was Roy Bean (1972) by John Huston , this time with Newman as the leading actor. In Peter Yates' film comedy With Me You're Right (1974) , Sarrazin was seen at Barbra Streisand's side as a film husband driving her taxi. He played the title role in The Re-Incarnation of Peter Proud (1975) by J. Lee Thompson . The other cast included Jennifer O'Neill and Margot Kidder . Sarrazin also played the title role in the comedy film The Loves and Times of Scaramouche or Scaramouche (1976) by Enzo G. Castellari with Ursula Andress .

In the 1990s, Sarrazin appeared more frequently as a guest star in television series. In 1999 he was nominated for a Gemini Award for his supporting role in the dramatic television series The City . Sarrazin died in 2011 of complications from cancer.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1964: Selkirk of Red River (anonymous)
  • 1965: The People at Shiloh Ranch (The Virginian) (episode Blaze of Glory )
  • 1966: The Doomsday Flight
  • 1967: The Sheriff shoots back (Gunfight in Abilene)
  • 1967: The great Mr. Flim-Flam (The Flim-Flam Man)
  • 1968: His name was Gannon (A Man Called Gannon)
  • 1968: The Sweet Ride
  • 1969: Green Eyes in the Night (Eye of the Cat)
  • 1969: Only horses are given the coup de grace (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)
  • 1970: They Want To Be Giants (Sometimes a Great Notion)
  • 1971: Five fingers make a fist (The Pursuit of Happiness)
  • 1972: The Agent Who Saw His Body (The Groundstar Conspiracy)
  • 1972: That was Roy Bean (The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean)
  • 1973: Harry with the long fingers (Harry in Your Pocket)
  • 1973: Frankenstein as he really was (Frankenstein: The True Story)
  • 1974: You're Right With Me (For Pete's Sake)
  • 1975: The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
  • 1976: Scaramouche, the devil guy (Le Avventure e gli amori di Scaramouche)
  • 1976: The craziest rally in the world (The Gumball Rally)
  • 1976–1978: Saturday Night Live (Follows Louise Lasser / Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Michael Sarrazin / Keith Jarrett, Gravity )
  • 1978: The Lord of the Caravan (Caravans)
  • 1980: Killer from the Dark (Double Negative)
  • 1980: Beloved Land ( Beulah Land ) (Miniseries)
  • 1982: Tele-Terror (The Seduction)
  • 1982: Fighting Back
  • 1983: The Fall of Sylvester Matuska (Viaduct)
  • 1985: Keeping Track - Im Fadhreuz (Keeping Track)
  • 1985: Pauline and Joshua - To hell with ... (Joshua Then and Now)
  • 1987: Captive Hearts
  • 1989: Murder in Paradise (Passion and Paradise)
  • 1990: The Guns of the Law ( Street Legal ) (episode Softsell )
  • 1985–1991: Murder is Her Hobby ( Murder, She Wrote ) (Follow Joshua Peabody Died Here - Possibly and Murder, Plain & Simple )
  • 1991: On Your Own ( Counterstrike ) (episode It's All in the Game )
  • 1994: Kung Fu - The Legend Continues ( Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ) (episode The Gang of Three )
  • 1995: Jack Higgins - The Warriors (Midnight Man)
  • 1995: The Palmer Files: The Red Death (Bullet to Beijing)
  • 1996: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (episode The Quickening )
  • 1996: The Palmer Files: Lords of the Apocalypse (Midnight in Saint Petersburg)
  • 1997: Poltergeist - The Legacy ( Poltergeist: The Legacy ) (episode Fear )
  • 1997: Red Zone (The Peacekeeper)
  • 1998: Earthquake in New York (Earthquake in New York)
  • 1998: The Second Arrival - The Return (The Second Arrival)
  • 1996–1999: Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension ( The Outer Limits , TV series, episodes: I Hear You Calling , The Other Side )
  • 1999: The City (TV series)
  • 2000: Nikita ( La Femme Nikita ) (episode 4.19 Off or Time Out of Mind )
  • 2001: Mission Earth - You Are Among Us ( Earth: Final Conflict ) (Follow Guilty Conscience )
  • 2002: FearDotCom
  • 2005: Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery (TV movie)
  • 2008: The Christmas Choir (TV movie)
  • 2012: On the Road - Unterwegs (On the Road)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/movies/canadian-actor-michael-sarrazin-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer--120106509.html
personal data
SURNAME Sarrazin, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarrazin, Jacques Michel André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Québec , Québec, Canada
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 2011
Place of death Montreal , Quebec, Canada