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Jacques Perrin (1941)
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Jacques Perrin (born Jacques André Simonet; 13 July 1941) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.
Biography
life and career
Perrin was born in Paris. His father, Alexandre Simonet, was a theatre director. Perrin was trained as an actor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique.He was given his first juvenile film roles by Italian director Valerio Zurlini. He also gave over 400 performances of L'Année du bac on the Paris stage.
He played opposite Claudia Cardinale in the romantic comedy La Ragazza con la valigia and played the younger brother in Family Diary with Marcello Mastroianni, both under the direction of Zurlini. He was also the adult Salvatore in the international hit Cinema Paradiso.
He won two Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1966 for the Italian film Almost a Man and the Spanish film The Search.
At 27, he created a studio and produced and acted in Z, directed by Costa Gavras and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, and Irene Papas. Z received an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1969.
He collaborated with Costa Gavras again in État de Siège in 1973 and Section spéciale in 1975. Both films had political themes, and Perrin continued this trend with a documentary on the Algerian uprising (La guerre d'Algérie) and a film on the Chilean presidency of Salvador Allende .
Perrin produced another Oscar-winning film in 1976: La Victoire en chantant by director Jean-Jacques Annaud. In 1977, he embarked on Le Désert des Tartares, again starring Trintignant. The cast included such big-name actors as Max von Sydow, but was not very successful and left Perrin with debts (although it did win the Grand Prix du Cinéma Français).
His recent successes have been the animal films Microcosmos and Le Peuple Migrateur , which were both filmed by his studio Galatée Films.
He also played the role of the old Pierre Morhange, narrator of the very internationally successful film The Chorus, that he also produced. The young Pépinot was played by his younger son Maxence.
He was made Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1985, promoted Officer in 1997 and promoted Commander in 2003. He was made Knight of the Légion d'honneur in 1990 and promoted Officer in 2007.
He has three sons, Mathieu, born 1975, Maxence, born 1995, and Lancelot, born 2000. The two eldest are actors.
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Océans
Director
2010Le Peuple migrateur
Director
2001- Writing
Océans
Screenplay
2010Le Peuple migrateur
Screenplay
2001- Production
Océans
Producer
2010Le Bel Âge
Producer
2009Tabarly
Producer
2008Faubourg 36
Producer
2008Les choristes
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200411'09"01 - September 11
Producer
2002Le Peuple migrateur
Producer
2001Himalaya
Producer
1999Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe
Producer
1996Guelwaar
Producer
1993Out of Life
Producer
1991Il deserto dei Tartari
Producer
1976La Victoire en chantant
Producer
1976Section spéciale
Producer
1975Home Sweet Home
Producer
1973État de siège
Producer
1972Z
Producer
1969Le Bel Âge
Executive producer
2009L'Adoption
Executive producer
1979
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