The former boxer was a standout in New Wave classics and then an action star and box-office draw in the 1980s.
Belmondo died Monday, the office of his lawyer Michel Godest told the Associated Press.as a professional car thief, amoral killer and lover of an American expat played by Hollywood star Jean Seberg, Belmondo was hailed as the French Humphrey Bogart. Many saw him as a cross between Bogie and James Dean.
During the course of six decades and more than 80 films, Belmondo starred in art house movies by Godard, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Claude Sautet and Jean-Pierre Melville in addition to scores of action flicks in which he did his own stunts.Itineraire d’un enfant gate Jean-Paul Belmondo was born on April, 9, 1933, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, an affluent neighborhood just outside of Paris. His father’s works can be found in the Tuileries Garden near the Louvre and on the facade of the Paris Opera.
When he was 16, Belmondo decided to become an actor and was eventually admitted to the prestigious Paris Conservatoire of Drama, where he would befriend fellow thespians Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Bruno Cremer. He graduated in 1956 but was denied entry to the Comedie-Francaise after the Conservatoire jury refused to award him with honors, for which Belmondo apparently responded by giving them the finger.
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