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Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of 'Breathless,' dead at 88

Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of ‘Breathless,’ dead at 88

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September 6, 2021
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PARIS (AP) — Jean-Paul Belmondo was the star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless.” His crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men. Jean-Paul Belmondo died at 88.

The actor’s death was confirmed Monday by the office of his lawyer, Michel Godest. The reason for his death was not published.

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Belmondo’s career spanned half a century. In the 1960s, he embodied a new type of male movie star, characterized by pure virility rather than classic good looks. He appeared in more than 80 films and worked with a variety of major French directors, from Francois Truffaut to Claude Lelouch and Jean-Luc Godard. Their 1960 movie “Breathless” (“Au Bout de Souffle” in its original French title) brought both men lasting acclaim.
Belmondo’s career choices were equally varied, from acclaimed art house films to critically lukewarm action and comedy films later in his career.

His unconventional looks — flattened nose, full lips, and muscular frame — allowed him to play roles from thug to police officer, a thief to priest, Cyrano de Bergerac to an unshakable secret agent. Belmondo was also a gifted athlete who often did his stunts.

French President Emmanuel Macron called the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo a “national treasure” in an homage on Twitter and Instagram, recalling the actor’s panache, laugh, and versatility. Belmondo was at once a “sublime hero” and “a familiar figure,” Macron wrote. “In him, we all recognize ourselves.”
France bounded into Belmondo mode at the news of his death, with praise from politicians of all stripes pouring in. The media played old movie clips that caught the athletic Belmondo in the heart-stopping acrobatics he was known to love, from sliding down a rooftop to climbing up a rope ladder from a moving convertible.

“I’m devastated,” an emotional Alain Delon, another top cinema star, said of the death of his longtime friend on CNews.

Even Paris police headquarters offered condolences for Belmondo, who played a police officer in numerous films, tweeting that “a great movie cop has left us.”

Belmondo, affectionately known as Bebel, was born on April 9, 1933, in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine into an artistic family. His father was renowned sculptor Paul Belmondo and his mother, Sarah Rainaud-Richard, was a painter.

Jean-Paul Belmondo played soccer and trained as a boxer before quitting school at 16. He took up acting in the 1950s at the Paris Conservatory, where one of his teachers, Pierre Dux, famously told him that his career as a leading man was doomed because of his looks. People would burst into laughter if they saw an actress in Belmondo’s arms, Dux said, according to biographer Bertrand Tessier.

French theater critic Jean-Jacques Gautier wasn’t impressed either, once saying: “Mr. Belmondo will never enjoy success with his ruffian’s mug.”
At his final conservatory competition, the jury failed to give him the recognition he thought he deserved — so he gave the judges an obscene parting gesture.

The star began acting in small provincial theaters and caught the eye of aspiring filmmaker Godard in Paris in 1958, who asked him to appear in a short film. At first, Belmondo didn’t take Godard seriously.
“I spoke to my wife about it, and she said, ‘Go ahead. If (Godard) hassles you, punch him,'” Belmondo told the Liberation newspaper in 1999.

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Belmondo was given his first important role by director Claude Sautet in “Classe Tous risques” (Consider All Risks), in which he starred alongside Lino Ventura in 1960. The same year, Godard called Belmondo back to appear in “Breathless” — which became one of the breakthrough films of the French New Wave. The movement, which included Truffaut, grouped filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s who abandoned traditional narrative techniques and were known for their mood of youthful iconoclasm.

Belmondo played opposite American actress Jean Seberg, who appeared as the street-smart aspiring reporter who sold the International Herald Tribune on the Champs-Elysees in Paris in the film’s key moment.

Belmondo sometimes said he acted in Godard’s first film and would act in his last. But he didn’t link his name exclusively with one director and worked with most of France’s top filmmakers — and many of Europe’s most well-known actresses, including Jeanne Moreau and Sophia Loren.
Following the huge success of “Breathless,” Belmondo showed the vast array of his talent and his versatility in dramas (“Leon Morin, pretre”), arthouse movies (“Moderato Cantabile”), and blockbusters (“Cartouche”).
In “Un Singe en hiver,” a French classic directed by Henri Verneuil in 1962, Belmondo impressed Jean Gabin’s legend.

“You won’t tell me anymore: ‘If only I had a young Gabin.’ You have him!” Gabin told the director about Belmondo.

Belmondo and Danish-born Anna Karina played a couple on the run in Godard’s 1965 “Pierrot le Fou.” In Truffaut’s 1969 “Mississippi Mermaid,” Belmondo played a tobacco farmer and starred opposite Catherine Deneuve. Belmondo also won a Cesar — the French equivalent of an Oscar — for his role in Lelouch’s 1988 film “Itinerary of a Spoiled Child,” his final big success.

During the second half of his career, Jean-Paul Belmondo opted for high-paying roles in commercially successful action films. He played a tough detective in “Cop or Hooligan” and a World War II ace in “Champion of Champions.”
In the 1980s, Belmondo returned to the stage, his first love, and won back the doubting critics. His comeback role was in a 1987 Paris production of “Kean,” about an actor famous for his uncontrollable temper and genius.
Belmondo, who had recovered from a stroke in 2001, is survived by three children, Florence, Paul, and Stella Eva Angelina. Another daughter, Patricia, died in 1994.

Funeral arrangements weren’t immediately known. Jean-Paul Belmondo Bio


Elaine Ganley contributed to this report.
Thomas Adamson And Samuel Petrequin, The Associated Press

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