Jean-Pierre Cassel
Gender: Male
Born: 27th October 1932
Died: 19th April 2007
Nationality: France
Movies: La Cérémonie, Army of Shadows, Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, Le Bateau sur l'herbe, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, The Three Musketeers, Murder on the Orient Express, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Congorama, Nunca pasa nada, Malpertuis, The Bear and the Doll, Love at the Top, The Breach, Male Companion, The Elusive Corporal, Astérix at the Olympic Games, The Killing Game, Les Jeux de l'amour, The Ice Rink, The Crimson Rivers, The Trout, Mister Frost, The Wooden Camera, Les rendez-vous d'Anna, Is Paris Burning?, The Fatal Image, Cafe au Lait, Sade, Contre-enquête, The Return of the Musketeers, The Phantom of the Opera, From Hell to Victory, Anyone Can Play, Bad Faith, Prêt-à-Porter, The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish, Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle, Oh! What a Lovely War, Alice, Baxter!, Candide, Narco, Michel Vaillant
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'.
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