Jean-Pierre Cassel
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Jean-Pierre Cassel at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
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| Born |
Jean-Pierre Crochon 27 October 1932 Paris, France |
| Died | 19 April 2007 (aged 74) Paris, France |
| Spouse(s) | Sabine Litique (1966–1980) (divorced) |
| Children |
Vincent Cassel Mathias Cassel Cécile Cassel |
| Parent(s) | Georges Crochon Louise-Marguerite Fabrègue |
Jean-Pierre Cassel (27 October 1932 – 19 April 2007) was a French actor.
Cassel was born Jean-Pierre Crochon in Paris, the son of Louise-Marguerite (née Fabrègue), an opera singer, and Georges Crochon, a doctor. Cassel was discovered by Gene Kelly as he tap danced on stage, and later cast in the 1957 film The Happy Road. Then Cassel gained prominence in the late 1950s as a hero in comedies by Philippe de Broca such as Male Companion and through his role as 'Jean François Jardie' in the famous French resistance piece L' Armée des ombres .
During the 1960s and 1970s he worked with Claude Chabrol (The Breach), Luis Buñuel (as Stéphane Audran's husband in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972), Ken Annakin (as Frenchman in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines 1965), Gérard Brach (as Claude Jade's lover in The Boat on the Grass), Richard Lester (as Louis XIII of France in The Three Musketeers) and its sequel The Four Musketeers, Sidney Lumet (as Pierre in Murder on the Orient Express), Joseph Losey (with Isabelle Huppert in The Trout). He also made a memorable appearance in Oh! What a Lovely War as a French military officer singing 'Belgium put the Kibosh on the Kaiser'. In later years he appeared in Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and also as Dr. Paul Gachet for Vincent & Theo (1990).
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