Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and
film director.
Biography
Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000.
In 1971, he won the
Golden Leopard
The Golden Leopard () is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be ...
at the
Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, ...
for his film ''
The Friends''.
Blain married three times, including briefly to
Bernadette Lafont.
Filmography
Actor
Director
References
External links
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* Obituary, ''The Guardian'' https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/19/guardianobituaries.filmnews
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1930 births
2000 deaths
French male film actors
French film directors
French male screenwriters
Male actors from Paris
20th-century French screenwriters
20th-century French male actors
20th-century French male writers