Gérard Blain

Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Serge in Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge (1959) and Raoul Minot in Wim Wender's The American Friend. (1977)^[1][2]

Gérard Blain
Blain in Silver Spoon Set (1960)
Born	(1930-10-23)23 October 1930 Paris, France
Died	17 December 2000(2000-12-17) (aged 70) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director
Years active	1944–2000
Spouses	Estella Blain (1953–1956) (divorced) Bernadette Lafont (1957–1959) (divorced) Monique Sobieski (1960–2000) (his death)

Biography

Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000.^[3][4] In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for his film The Friends.^[5] Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont.^[4]

Filmography

Actor

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1944	Le bal des passants		Guillaume Radot
	Le carrefour des enfants perdus		Léo Joannon
1945	Les enfants du paradis		Marcel Carné	Uncredited
1946	Fils de France		Pierre Blondy
1954	Wild Fruit		Hervé Bromberger
	Before the Deluge	Un lycéen	André Cayatte	Uncredited
	Service Entrance	Le photographe - copain de Léo	Carlo Rim	Uncredited
1956	Voici le temps des assassins	Gérard Delacroix	Julien Duvivier
	Crime and Punishment	Jean Fargeot	Georges Lampin
1957	Le désir mène les hommes	Olivier Jourdans	Émile Roussel
	Les Mistons	Gérard	François Truffaut	Short
1958	Young Husbands	Marcello	Mauro Bolognini
	Le Beau Serge	Serge	Claude Chabrol
1959	Les Cousins	Charles	Claude Chabrol
	Match contre la mort	Jacques Lourmel	Claude Bernard-Aubert
1960	Silver Spoon Set	Anselmo Foresi	Francesco Maselli
	Run with the Devil	Stefano Solera	Mario Camerini
	Charlotte and Her Boyfriend	Charlotte's new boyfriend	Jean-Luc Godard	Short
	The Hunchback of Rome	Alvara aka "Hunchback"	Carlo Lizzani
1961	La peau et les os	Mazur	Jean-Paul Sassy
	Gold of Rome	Davide	Carlo Lizzani
1962	Hatari!	Charles "Chips" Maurey	Howard Hawks
	Lo sgarro	Paolo	Silvio Siano
1963	The Eye of the Needle	Toto Cacace	Marcello Andrei
	Les Vierges	Xavier de Brétevielle	Jean-Pierre Mocky
	La soupe aux poulets	Claudio	Philippe Agostini
1964	La Bonne Soupe	Le peintre	Robert Thomas
	Via Veneto		Giuseppe Lipartiti
	Amori pericolosi	L'attendente	Giulio Questi	(segment "Il generale")
1965	Un amore	Marcello	Gianni Vernuccio
1966	M.M.M. 83	Robert Gibson	Sergio Bergonzelli
1967	La musica		Marguerite Duras and Paul Seban
	Shock Troops	Thomas	Constantin Costa-Gavras
1968	Negresco [de]	Roger	Klaus Lemke [de]
1969	Joë Caligula - Du suif chez les dabes [fr]	Joë Caligula	José Bénazéraf
1970	Caïn de nulle part	Caïn	Daniel Daërt
1971	Paolo e Francesca	Giovanni Malatrasi	Gianni Vernuccio
1974	The Pelican	Paul Boyer	Himself
1976	A Child in the Crowd	Cameo	Himself
1977	The American Friend	Raoul Minot	Wim Wenders
	The Machine	Le journaliste	Paul Vecchiali
1978	Utopia	Gérard	Iradj Azimi
1981	La Flambeuse	Henri	Rachel Weinberg
1983	Un dimanche de flic	Emilio	Michel Vianey
	La derelitta	Redza	Jean-Pierre Igoux
1986	La Presqu'île	Simon	Georges Luneau
1987	Killing Time	Broz	Edouard Niermans
1988	Natalia	Claude Roitman	Bernard Cohn
1989	Jour après jour	Richard Lunet	Alain Attal
	L'enfant de l'hiver	Stephane's father	Olivier Assayas
1992	Chasse gardée	Pierre Bufières	Jean-Claude Biette
1995	Jusqu'au bout de la nuit	François	Himself
1999	Cinématon	Himself	Gérard Courant
2001	Bandits d'amour	The priest	Pierre Le Bret

Director

Year	Title	Notes
1971	The Friends	Also writer
1974	The Pelican	Also writer and lead actor
1976	A Child in the Crowd	Also writer
1978	Second Wind	Also writer
1980	The Rebel	Also writer
1987	Pierre and Djemila	Also writer
1993	La Fortune de Gaspard	TV movie; also writer
1995	Jusqu'au bout de la nuit	Also writer and lead actor
2000	Ainsi soit-il [fr]	Also writer