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- Actor
Henri Verneuil was born on 15 October 1920 in Rodosto, Ottoman Empire [now Tekirdag, Turkey]. He was a director and writer, known for I... For Icarus (1979), The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) and Mother (1991). He was married to Véronique Sedro and Françoise Bonnot. He died on 11 January 2002 in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- April Kent was born on 2 April 1935 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) and Rock, Pretty Baby! (1956). She died on 28 December 1998 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
One of the most popular singers of French songs. After a childhood full of boredom and normality, Brel started to work in his father's cardboard factory. But he wanted a different kind of life. He had been writing songs all his life and in the early 1950s he went to Paris. After a few years he became hugely successful. His songs include 'Amsterdam', 'La Valse a Mille Temps', 'Vesoul' and 'Au Suivant'. He was covered by, among many others, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and David Bowie.
His songs have been translated in many different languages. In 1966, when he was more successful than ever, he quit performing on stage. Instead, he became an actor in musicals and films. He also directed two films. In the 1970s, he became a sailor and tried to sail around the world. He ended up at the Marquesas Islands in 1976. In 1973 Brel discovered that he had lung cancer. The illness took his life in 1978.
He was married to Thérèse 'Miche' Michielsen and had three daughters: Chantal, France and Isabelle. His last mistress was called Maddly Bamy, sister of Erick Bamy aka Erick Stevens.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Gaston Modot was born on 31 December 1887 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Grand Illusion (1937), The Rules of the Game (1939) and Children of Paradise (1945). He died on 19 February 1970 in Le Raincy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Roger Carel was born on 14 August 1927 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976), Les 1001 nuits (1990) and Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (1975). He died on 11 September 2020 in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Born in Guadaloupe in 1939, Serge Nubret moved to Paris in the 1950s and discovered bodybuilding. Nubret has won the titles Mr. Europe (1966), Mr. Universe (1976), and Mr. World (1977). He also came in third place in the 1973 Mr. Olympia competition and came in second in 1975, bested only by Arnold Schwarzenegger. In addition, Nubret was once the Europe Director of the International Federation of Body Building. In addition to his athletic accomplishments, Serge Nubret also acted in several films in the 1960s.
- Actress
- Director
Anna Gaylor was born on 13 May 1932 in Paris, France. She was an actress and director, known for The Visitors (1993), A Room in Town (1982) and Les lionceaux (1960). She was married to Alain Jessua. She died on 21 September 2021 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Tommy Lefort was born on 30 January 1990 in Ancenis-Saint-Géréon, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was an actor and director, known for Nocturnes (2015), Venise sous la neige (2016) and Nathalie (2014). He died on 16 September 2023 in Le Bourget, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Special Effects
- Stunts
Gil Delamare was born on 14 October 1924 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for That Man from Rio (1964), Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966) and Fantomas (1964). He died on 30 May 1966 in Bobigny, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sarah Maldoror is the author of some forty films making up a multiple and rebellious work, made of fiction, documentary and poetry, and interpreted by a war song: the short film Monangambée, shot in 1969 in Algiers where she was then living, which evokes the torture by the Portuguese colonial army of a sympathizer of the struggle for the liberation of Angola, visited in prison by his company.
Before becoming a pioneer of pan-African cinema, Sarah Maldoror lived part of her youth in Paris where, passionate about theater and received at the school in rue Blanche (according to her friend, the future Ivorian filmmaker Timité Bassori, they are among the first black students to enter), she co-founded in 1956 with the same Bassori, Toto Bissainthe, Ababacar Samb Makharam and Robert Liensol the company Les Griots, which became the first black theater company in France. The Tragedy of King Christophe by Aimé Césaire and Les Nègres by Jean Genet (directed by Roger Blin) are among the plays created by the troupe, which Maldoror presides for a time, with the material help and intellectual support of Alioune Diop, founder in 1947 of the important Parisian anti-colonialist review Présence africaine.
In 1961, Sarah Maldoror left France and went to study at the VGIK, the Moscow film school, before joining the African decolonization movements (in Algeria, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau) with her companion Mario Pinto de Andrade, whom he met in Paris and co-founder of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola, in exile during the war of independence (1961-1975) against the Portuguese metropolis.
It was in Algiers, where she settled in 1966, that she made her debut on the cinematographic front of the anti-colonial struggles: assistant on the Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966) and Pan-African Festival of Algiers 1969, documentary by William Klein, she quickly made her first film, followed by a lost film shot in Guinea-Bissau and a first "fiction" feature film, Sambizanga (1972). Filmed in the Republic of Congo, based on an Angolan novel by José Luandino Vieira, adapted by his companion Pinto de Andrade with the French writer Maurice Pons, Sambizanga takes place in 1961 and describes the repression of the Angolan Liberation Movement from point of view of Maria, wife of a revolutionary activist imprisoned and tortured by the Portuguese army, who sets out to find him across the country. Shot with real actors from the struggle then in progress, and one of the first African films directed by a woman in the history of cinema, Sambizanga remains seen and visible today - it is easily found on the Internet.
Leaving Algeria following a disagreement with the hierarchy of the FLN in power (some sources mention that she was imprisoned and then expelled from the country), Sarah Maldoror settled in France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis ), and continues to make films. His work includes documentaries (shot in Seine-Saint-Denis, Martinique, Guyana or Cape Verde for Fogo, the island of fire in 1978) and numerous portraits of artists and writers (the poets Léon Gontran-Damas, Aimé Césaire, Assia Djebar, René Depestre or Louis Aragon, singer Toto Bissainthe, musician Archie Shepp). Visible on the site of the CNRS video library, a 1974 short film, And the Dogs Are Silenced, shot in the reserves of the Musée de l'homme dedicated to objects from black Africa, adapted from extracts from the play of the same name by Aimé Césaire, with the actor Gabriel Glissant (seen in Soleil O du grand Med Hondo) and the filmmaker herself in the role of the revolutionary's mother, dressed in an ironic white scientific coat. But if there is a science of revolt, Sarah Madoror will have written, shot, played and some of the greatest pages. We hear more than twice, everywhere behind the scenes of the Musée de l'Homme, the sound of fire.
She died in April 2020 as a result of Covid-19. In November 2021, "Sarah Maldoror, Cinéma Tricontinental" presented by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, is a retrospective of her work, her life and her political commitment. The exhibition extends to the Musée de l'Homme, the Museum of the History of Immigration and the Museum of Art and History Paul Éluard in Saint-Denis.- Actor
- Soundtrack
François Perrot was born on 26 February 1924 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Clean Slate (1981), The Avignon Prophecy (2007) and What Every Frenchwoman Wants (1986). He died on 20 January 2019 in Livry-Gargan, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Philippe Volter was born on 23 March 1959 in Uccle, Belgium. He was an actor, known for The Double Life of Véronique (1991), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Three Colors: Blue (1993). He died on 13 April 2005 in Neuilly-sur-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Paul Grimault was born on 23 March 1905 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (1952), The King and the Mockingbird (1980) and The Little Soldier (1948). He died on 29 March 1994 in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, Yvelines, France.- François-Xavier Phan was born on 19 September 1984 in Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for OVNI(s) (2021), Naked (2018) and Terrible Jungle (2020). He died on 8 December 2022 in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Rudy Lenoir was born on 20 April 1913 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]. He was an actor, known for Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), Fantomas (1964) and À rebrousse-poil (1961). He died on 23 November 1995 in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Jean Bretonnière was born on 22 October 1924 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was an actor, known for Naughty Girl (1956), Under the Paris Sky (1951) and Ma petite folie (1954). He was married to Geneviève Kervine. He died on 13 March 2001 in Romainville, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Jean-Daniel Simon was born on 30 November 1942 in Salons-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a director and writer, known for Adelaide (1968), Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé (1974) and Ils (1970). He was married to Sylvie Fennec. He died on 3 February 2021 in Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- François Maistre was born on 14 May 1925 in Demigny, Saône-et-Loire, France. He was an actor, known for The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Belle de Jour (1967) and Les brigades du Tigre (1974). He was married to Aurore Chabrol and Anne-Marie Coffinet. He died on 16 May 2016 in Sevran, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Director
Raymond Gérôme was born on 17 May 1920 in Koekelberg, Belgium. He was an actor and director, known for The Day of the Jackal (1973), Le Magnifique (1973) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). He died on 3 February 2002 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Mohamed Zinet was born on 16 January 1932 in Algiers, Algeria. He was an actor and director, known for Tahia ya didou! (1971), Madame Rosa (1977) and Le Bougnoul (1975). He was married to Anne Papillault. He died on 10 April 1995 in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Writer
- Costume Designer
- Actress
Christine Laurent was born on 29 March 1944 in Paris, France. She was a writer and costume designer, known for A. Constant (1977), Vertiges (1985) and Demain? (2011). She was married to René Allio. She died on 5 January 2023 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Rachid Taha was born on 18 September 1958 in Sig, Oran, Algeria. He was a composer and actor, known for Lionheart (1990), The Hunting Party (2007) and Black Hawk Down (2001). He died on 12 September 2018 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, île-de-France, France.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Pierre Degeyter was born on 8 October 1848 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium. He is known for Air Force One (1997), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He died on 27 September 1932 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Maurice Baquet is a multi-talented man: gifted cellist (1st prize at the Conservatoire de Paris), Skier (member of the 1936 French Olympic Team), mountain climber(this talent used in several movies, including 'Premier de Cordée'). He attracted poet 'Jacques Prevet''s attention when riding on his bicycle, holding his cello, and soon joigned Prevert's famed theather Octobre group. Movies followed rapidly, and he became a favorite of the French public.
He has been active in several fields, outside of movies: a one-man show, music-hall, operettas (most of them with Luis Mariano; one of them was filmed - Andalousie (1951). He appeared on Broadway ('My aunt's feather', with Liliane Montevecchi), and on the London stage. A great friend of famed photographer Robert Doineau, he wrote "Ballade pour violoncelle et chambre noire" adorned with magnificent photos of himself by Doisneau.- Sylvain Chamarande was born on 20 February 1954 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Au théâtre ce soir (1966), Embraye bidasse... ça fume (1978) and Les bidasses au pensionnat (1978). He died on 10 November 2021 in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.