Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and

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Biography

Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the

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at the

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for his film '' The Friends''. Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont.

Filmography

Actor

Director

References

External links

* * Obituary, ''The Guardian'' https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/19/guardianobituaries.filmnews {{DEFAULTSORT:Blain, Gerard 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