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Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)

Life at a glance

Died
2021 · September 6

Their story

Who they were

Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo was a French actor, producer and distributor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s thanks to the success of the film Breathless (1960), he also acted in other films that modernized cinema such as Two Women (1960), Le Doulos (1962), That Man from Rio (1964), Greed in the Sun (1964), and Weekend at Dunkirk (1964). With the film That Man from Rio, he also became a stuntman.

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Jean-Paul Belmondo appears on our September 6 calendar for 2021 as a death entry.

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September 6 2021.

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