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Gérard Barray
Gérard Barray (2 November 1931 – 15 February 2024) was a French actor. Early life and education Gérard Barray was born in Toulouse on 2 November 1931. His parents split up quickly and his mother, who came from Montauban, decided to return to her hometown with her little boy. Around the age of 15, he discovered a passion for jazz; he participated in a few shows in nightclubs while pursuing his studies and obtained a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Toulouse. Camille Ricard, an actress and teacher at the Conservatory of Toulouse, who advised him to go to Paris with a letter of recommendation for a friend, Noël Roquevert. Barray enrolled at the Cours Simon, a drama school in Paris. Four years later, Gérard Barray won the Jury Prize. Career It will then excel in the roles of knights with a big heart. He starred as D'Artagnan, Pardaillan, Surcouf and Scaramouche. In total he appeared in a dozen feature films of that genre, most of which were box-office successes, widel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Témoin
''The Witness'' (, ) is a French-Italian crime-thriller film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky and starring Alberto Sordi and Philippe Noiret. It is loosely based on the novel ''Shadow of a Doubt'' by Harrison Judd. Plot Italian artist Antonio Berti is invited by his French friend Robert Maurisson to restore the paintings in the Reims Cathedral. He needs a model and selects Cathy, a teenage girl from the local church choir. Despite her angelic demeanor, the girl makes sexually explicit comments while posing for Antonio. One day, Cathy goes missing, and her dead body is later found in a canal, not far from an empty house owned by Maurisson. Antonio remembers seeing his friend Robert near the house on the night of the crime, but the latter denies it and has an alibi. Instead, the police turn their attention to Berti who is an outsider and can't provide an alibi. Later, Robert privately confesses to Antonio, and suggests they both would escape to a country that doesn't have cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi Lasa (22 March 1927 – 28 September 2017) was a Spanish film director and producer. Isasi-Isasmendi began working in the production firm Emisora Films as an assistant manager, film editor, scriptwriter, lead producer, and finally director. In 1955 he founded his own production company, Producciones Isasi in Barcelona. He founded a second firm, Moon Films, in Madrid. In the mid-1960s he directed a series of action films designed for the wider European market including ''Scaramouche'' (''The Adventures of Scaramouche'') in 1963 ''and Estambul 65'' (''That Man in Istanbul'') in 1965. He made some English-language films, most notably ''They Came to Rob Las Vegas''. He abandoned directing for a decade after making ''El Perro'' (''The Dog'') in 1977 in favour of producing and distributing films before returning to the director's chair with ''El Aire de un Crimen'' (''The Hint of a Crime'') in 1987. He directed 13 feature films, wrote eleven and produced eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shéhérazade (1963 Film)
''Shéhérazade'' or ''Scorching Sands'' is a 1963 adventure film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Anna Karina as the title character. The cast also featured Gérard Barray, António Vilar and Giuliano Gemma The film is loosely based on the ''One Thousand and One Nights''. The film's sets and costumes were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. Plot Baghdad in the year 809. The city is ruled by the Caliph, Haroun-al-Rashid, to whom the beautiful and spiritual Scheherazade has been promised. Ambassadors of Charlemagne arrive in Baghdad to ask the Caliph for free access to the Christian holy sites. Among these envoys from the west is the knight Renaud Villecroix, who falls in love with her. The grand vizier, enemy of the Caliph, ambushes a traveling party and takes Scheherazade prisoner, threatening to cut off her head. Renaud saves her and flees into the desert with her. Cast * Anna Karina as Shéhérazade * Gérard Barray as Renaud de Villecroix * An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Giulio Majano
Anton Giulio Majano (5 July 1909 – 12 August 1994) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. His career spanned from 1937 to 1986. Selected filmography Director and screenwriter * ''The Eternal Chain'' (1952) * ''Good Folk's Sunday'' (1953) * ''The Rival (film), The Rival'' (1956) * ''Il padrone delle ferriere'' (1959) * ''Atom Age Vampire'' (1960) * ''The Corsican Brothers (1961 film), The Corsican Brothers'' (1961) * ''La Cittadella (1964 miniseries), La Cittadella'' (TV, 1964) * ''E le stelle stanno a guardare'' (TV, 1971) * ''Marco Visconti (TV series), Marco Visconti'' (1975, TV series) Screenwriter * ''Hurricane in the Tropics'' (1939) * ''Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) * ''Biraghin'' (1946) * ''The White Primrose'' (1947) * ''The Other (1947 film), The Other'' (1947) * ''Un giorno nella vita'' (1948) * ''City of Pain'' (1948) * ''Flying Squadron (film), Flying Squadron'' (1949) * ''The Beggar's Daughter'' (1950) * ''Cavalcade of Heroes'' (1950) * ''Strano appunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Corsican Brothers (1961 Film)
''The Corsican Brothers'' () is a 1961 French-Italian historical action film directed by Anton Giulio Majano and starring Geoffrey Horne, Valérie Lagrange and Gérard Barray. It is also known as ''Lions of Corsica''. The film is an adaptation of the 1844 story '' The Corsican Brothers'' by Alexandre Dumas. The film was shot in Eastmancolor. Synopsis The Franchi twins, when baptized, were separated when their family was murdered by his enemies, the Sagona. While one brother went "into the maquis" for revenge, the other, unaware of the family drama, became a doctor and struck up a friendship with a descendant of the Sagona. But blood ties and their love for the same woman will bring them together... Cast * Geoffrey Horne as Paolo Franchi / Leone Franchi * Valérie Lagrange as Edith * Gérard Barray as Giovanni Sagona * Mario Feliciani as Dr. Dupont * Emma Danieli as Gabrielle De Roux * Jean Servais as Gerolamo Sagona * Amedeo Nazzari as Orlandi * Nerio Bernardi as Prof. Perrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Borderie
Bernard Borderie (10 June 1924 in Paris – 28 May 1978 in Paris) was a French film director and screenwriter. His father, Raymond Borderie, was one of the producers of ''Children of Paradise, Les Enfants du Paradis'' (''Children of Paradise'', 1945). Selected filmography * ''Wolves Hunt at Night'' (1952, based on the novel ''Le Lieutenant de Gibraltar'' by Pierre Frondaie) * ''La môme vert-de-gris'' (1953, based on the ''Lemmy Caution'' novel ''Poison Ivy'' by Peter Cheyney) * ''The Women Couldn't Care Less'' (1954, based on the ''Lemmy Caution'' novel ''Dames Don't Care'' by Peter Cheyney) * ' (1955, based on the novel ''Fortune carrée'' by Joseph Kessel) * ' (1957) * ''Ces dames préfèrent le mambo'' (1958) * ''The Mask of the Gorilla'' (1958, based on the novel ''Le Gorille vous salue bien'' by Dominique Ponchardier, Antoine Dominique) * ' (1959, based on the novel ''Hit And Run'' by James Hadley Chase) * ''Sergeant X (1960 film), Sergeant X'' (1960) * ''Women Are Like That ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Batz De Castelmore D'Artagnan
Charles de Batz de Castelmore (), also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan ( 1611 – 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalised account of his life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of Alexandre Dumas ''père'', most famously including ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844). The heavily fictionalised version of d'Artagnan featured in Dumas' works and their subsequent screen adaptations is now far more widely known than the real historical figure. Early life D'Artagnan was born at the Château de Castelmore near Lupiac in south-western France. His father, Bertrand de Batz lord of Castelmore, was the son of a newly ennobled merchant, Arnaud de Batz, who purchased the Château de Castelmore. Charles de Batz went to Paris in the 1630s, using the name of his mother Françoise de Montesquiou d'Artag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Musketeers (1961 Film)
''The Three Musketeers'' is a 1961 film adaptation of The Three Musketeers, the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was released in two parts within the same year. Plot summary Cast * Gérard Barray as d'Artagnan * Mylène Demongeot as Milady de Winter * Perrette Pradier as Constance Bonacieux * Georges Descrières as Athos (fictional character), Athos * :fr:Bernard Woringer, Bernard Woringer as Porthos * :fr:Jacques Toja, Jacques Toja as Aramis * Jean Carmet as Planchet * Guy Delorme as the Comte de Rochefort, Count De Rochefort * :fr:Daniel Sorano, Daniel Sorano as Cardinal Richelieu * :fr:Françoise Christoph, Françoise Christoph as (''Queen consort, Queen'') Anne of Austria * Robert Berri as M. Bonacieux * :fr:Henri Nassiet, Henri Nassiet as Comte de Troisville, M. de Tréville * Guy Tréjan as (''King'') Louis XIII of France, Louis XIII * :fr:Jacques Berthier (acteur), Jacques Berthier as the George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Duke of Buckingham Production F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Pierre Gaspard-Huit (29 November 1917 – 1 May 2017) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1963 film '' Shéhérazade'', which starred Anna Karina. He was once married to actress Claudine Auger when she was 18, and he was 41 years old.Tom Lisanti and Louis Paul, ''Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers (2002), p. 46 She acted in several of his films. Filmography * '' La Vie tragique d'Utrillo'' (1949) * '' L'Herbe à la Reyne'' (1951) * '' La Fugue de Monsieur Perle'' (1952) (co-directed with Roger Richebé) * ''The Little Czar'' (1954) * '' Sophie and the Crime'' (1955) * '' Maid in Paris'' (1956) * '' The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful'' (1956) * (1957) * '' Christine'' (1958) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1961) * '' Shéhérazade'' (1963) * ''Gibraltar'' (1964) * '' Living It Up'' (1966) * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1968) (co-directed with Jean Dréville and Sergiu Nicolaescu Sergiu Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Fracasse (1961 Film)
''Captain Fracasse'' (French: ''Le Capitaine Fracasse'', Italian: ''Capitan Fracassa'') is a 1961 French-Italian historical adventure film written and directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Jean Marais, Geneviève Grad and Gérard Barray. The scenario was based on the 1863 novel '' Captain Fracasse'' by Théophile Gautier.Klossner p.55 It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location in the Forest of Rambouillet and the Château de Maintenon. Plot In 17th-century France, Baron Philippe de Sigognac lives a modest life in his crumbling castle, the last scion of a noble lineage fallen into disrepair. One winter day, while out riding, he encounters a group of traveling actors whose wagon has broken down. Offering them hospitality, Sigognac is drawn to their world, especially to Isabelle, the ingénue of the troupe. Despite the challenges of the road and the dangers they face, including skirmishes with highwaymen and the loss of one of their actors, Sigognac d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres
The Order of Arts and Letters () is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the propagation of these fields. Its origin is attributed to the Order of Saint Michael (established 1 August 1469), as acknowledged by French government sources. Background To be considered for the award, French government guidelines stipulate that citizens of France must be at least thirty years old, respect French civil law, and must have "significantly contributed to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance". Membership is not, however, limited to French nationals; recipients include numerous foreign luminaries. Foreign recipients are admitted into the Order "without condition of age". The Order has three grades: * (Commander) — medallion worn on a necklet; up to 20 recipients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
