Françoise Arnoul

Françoise Arnoul ( born June 3, 1931 in Constantine, Algeria; actually Francoise Annette Marie Mathilde Gautsch ) is a French actress.

Life

Françoise Arnoul is the daughter of General Charles Gautsch and an actress. She has two brothers. 1945 the family moved to Paris, while the father continued his service provides in Morocco.

It is one of the stars of the French post-war film in, for this time, typical frivolous roles. With the rise of Brigitte Bardot, it was quiet around them. As a character actress she is but represented up to now mainly on French television.

Arnoul is known worldwide as the first film actress of rank, who has been involved in an underwater film. She starred in the film " L' Épave " by Willy Rozier in 1949, the female lead.

The German public, she was known in the Simenon adaptation Forbidden Fruit (1952, original title: Le Fruit défendu ) under Henri Verneuil with remote Andel, French Can Can (1954, French Cancan ) or spy under Jean Renoir with Jean Gabin or in the two. resistive films and La Chat La Chat sort ses griffes ( The cat and the cat shows her claws ) (1958 and 1960 ) Director Henri Decoin. With German actors such as Bernhard Wicki, Kurt Meisel and Horst Frank.

At the filming of French Can Can she met the journalist Georges Cravenne know, 1956, she married, in 1960, the marriage ended in divorce. In 1964 she met the Régisseur Bernard Paul, with whom she lived until his death in 1980.

Filmography (selection)

Cinema

TV

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