Jean Lefebvre
Jean Lefebvre ( born October 3, 1919 in Valenciennes, France, † 9 July 2004 in Marrakech, Morocco) was a French actor.
Life and work
Lefebvre was born the son of a blacksmith Georges Marcel Lefebvre and his wife Louise Mathilde Zélia Masquelier, where there is disagreement at his birthplace and date of birth. Lefebvre has since 1934 interpreted numerous roles, both in films and in theater. In his nearly 150 films, he was mostly used as a supporting actor. He was in The gendarme of Saint Tropez, one of the most successful animated series of the 1960s and 1970s, where he gave the naive idiot from the service, as well as the movie clothes to the Septième compagnie on the side of Louis de Funès and Michel Galabru known. In 1954, he was seen on the side of Simone Signoret in Henri -Georges Clouzot's Diabolique. In 1958 he turned to Daniel Gélin and Hildegard Knef The girl from Hamburg. From 1990 he joined mostly to just on TV. His career in the theater began in Paris. Some pieces in which Lefebvre participated were L' Amour, toujours l' amour, Jupon vole and La Plume de ma tante.
Contrary to the frequent erroneous assumption he was not member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 2000, but a colleague from Canada.
Lefebvre was married five times in total, while twice with the same woman. From his marriage five children were born: Bernard, Catherine, Marie- Christine, Carole and Pascal. His wives were Micheline Pure Grasser (1950-1962), Catherine Chassin (1967-1973), Yori Bertin (1974-1977) and Brigitte Jacqueline Françoise Lerebours (1994-2004), with whom he was married until his death.
Jean Lefebvre bought in 1999 by winning several million francs in the lottery a restaurant in Marrakech, where he died at the age of 84 at his home of heart failure.