Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean -Claude Brialy ( born March 30, 1933, Aumale, Algeria, † 30 May, 2007 Monthyon, Seine- et- Marne) was a French actor and director.
Life and work
After his debut as an actor in Jacques Rivette's Le Coup du berger short film, Jean -Claude Brialy became one of the leading performers of the Nouvelle Vague. Pierre Kast cast him in 1957 poche next Jean Marais in Un amour de. Claude Chabrol made Jean -Claude Brialy the protagonist of his films cry when you can and the disappointed ones. Mauro Bolognini We cast him in from the street. Denys de La Patellière made him - contrary to the views of the Nouvelle Vague - the romantic hero in the drama through the eyes of love, as a blind man with an older lover ( Danielle Darrieux ).
François Truffaut gave him for a short film ( A history of water ) and a cameo appearance in They kissed and they beat him a starring role in The Bride Wore Black. Truffaut and Brialy were also private close friends. So he had been called as a witness for the planned June 1968 wedding Truffaut with Claude Jade, who then does not take place. Truffaut wanted Brialy also occupy the role of gay Jean- Loup Cottins in The Last Metro, decided in the last instance, however, for Jean Poiret, as he was " too close" saw the role of Brialy. In later years, played the concealing his homosexuality never Brialy roles of gay men, as that of Max Jacob in the television biopic Monsieur Max ( 2007).
One of his most important roles he played in A Woman Is a Woman by Jean -Luc Godard, followed by Rivette's Paris belongs to us. It was followed by numerous romantic comedies ( also stealing has to be learned and hunting men, both with Françoise Dorléac ) and politically charged films like Costa -Gavras ' A man too much. In connection with the auteur cinema of the 1970s, he remained above all as Jérôme Éric Rohmer film in Claire's Knee in memory - but also through his work with Chabrol and Luis Buñuel ( The Phantom of Liberty ). In the following decades Brialy belonged still to the first guard of the French character actor.
The actor was active in several films as a director. In this role he worked with Romy Schneider together in the summer of flirtation, with whom he had played as early as 1958 in the film Christine.
According to his relatives Brialy died on 30 May 2007 after a long illness in his estate in Monthyon in Paris, where he had long been a castle from the 18th century. He is, like François Truffaut, buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. Due to the (attempted) theft of flowers and wreaths from his grave this was cordoned off a large area after the funeral for several days.