Gérard Philipe
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Birth Place
France
Born
December 04, 1922
Died
November 27, 1959
Cause of Death
Heart Attack
Biography
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First gained attention as the young student smitten by an older woman (Micheline Presle) in Claude Autant-Lara's "Devil in the Flesh" (1947) and went on to become one of France's most charming and popular romantic leads of the late 1940s and 50s. Philipe's career was foreshortened by a heart attack at the age of 36....
Biography
First gained attention as the young student smitten by an older woman (Micheline Presle) in Claude Autant-Lara's "Devil in the Flesh" (1947) and went on to become one of France's most charming and popular romantic leads of the late 1940s and 50s. Philipe's career was foreshortened by a heart attack at the age of 36.
Filmography
Director (Feature Film)
Aventures de Till l'Espiegel, Les
(1956)
Director
Cast (Feature Film)
Montparnasse 19
(1993)
Modigliani
Republic of Sin
(1988)
Ramon Vasquez
Modigliani of Montparnasse
(1961)
Amedeo Modigliani
Les liaisons dangereuses
(1961)
Valmont de Merteuil
The Gambler
(1958)
House of Lovers
(1957)
Octave Mouret
If Paris Were Told To Us
(1956)
The Grand Maneuver
(1955)
Lt Armand De La Verne
Lovers, Happy Lovers!
(1954)
Andre Ripois
Royal Affairs in Versailles
(1954)
D'Artagnan
Rouge et Noir
(1954)
Julien Sorel
The Proud Ones
(1953)
Georges
Beauties of the Night
(1952)
Claude
Fan-Fan the Tulip
(1952)
Les Sept peches capitaux
(1952)
The Barker ("The Eighth Sin")
La Ronde
(1950)
Beauty and the Devil
(1949)
Le Diable au corps
(1947)
Francois
Life Events
1944
Feature acting debut, "Les Petites du Quai aux Fleurs"
1947
Film which brought him stardom, "Le Diable au Corps/Devil in the Flesh"
1959
Became ill during production of what would be his last film, Luis Bunuel's "La Fievre monte a El Pao/Republic of Sin"
1961
Appeared on French postage stamp commemorating theater
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