Gérard Barray
Gérard Barray; actually Gérard Marcel Louis Baraillé ( born November 2, 1931 in Toulouse, Midi- Pyrénées) is a French actor.
Life
Gérard Barrays parents, a factory owner and his mother, who had studied three languages , separated shortly after his birth. With his mother, he moved to Montauban, where she led a maternity home. Gérard Barray completed his schooling from Toulouse and played alongside jazz. He took up the study of medicine, but soon moved with a letter of actress Camille Ricard, who had discovered his acting talent in Toulouse to Paris, where he was employed by Noël Roqueverts acting troupe. He participated in the " Cours Simon " instruction and, after four years, the Jury Prize.
Barray became famous in the 1960s in Germany, especially as a swashbuckling hero, as D' Artagnan in the two-parter The Three Musketeers and in the lead role in the two films to the adventurer Robert Surcouf ( Under the flag of the Tiger, thunder over the Indian Ocean). A villain role he took over in the Karl May movies Treasure of the Aztecs and the Pyramid of the Sun God as noble Don Alfonso.
During the filming, he met his future wife, the Spanish flamenco dancer Teresa Lorca know. They participated in the two films as an Indian Karja. As cinema series hero he was subscribed as Hardi Pardaillan. As Barray 1969 ( and the German public in 1973 ) in the thriller The witness showed his dark side (murder of honor Claude Jade expires him) kept the fans to him, but it was his last major starring role. The man, the screen icons such as Mylène Demongeot, Claude Jade, Anna Karina, Hildegard Knef, Bernadette Lafont and Sylva Koscina could beguile, was less busy in the 1970s, but had with Abre los ojos, the original to the Tom Cruise remake Vanilla Sky, a comeback.
In January 2010 Barray was honored et des Lettres by the Ordre des Arts.