Jean-Paul Belmondo is dead to me (2024)

French actor who was adored in France and in the French-speaking world and a box-office attraction of the 70s.

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He was coolness personified in À bout de souffle (1960)

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I am going to be That Guy, I guess, and say that I was sure he was already dead. I thought he died when his youngest kid was 15 or so (he's apparently 21 now).

I was so in love with him in high school (yes, I'm old). I still remember the scene where they roll the carriage into the lake.

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Il avait un visage à grosse bite (BDF).

He was sex on a stick, probably turned me gay at age 3.

So hot in Breathless.

Si jeune.

Je t’aime R8

Those unfiltered Gauloises will do that to ya.

So young!

butterface

He was one of the first stars to show his bare ass in full shot (Claude Chabrol's A DOUBLE TOUR, 1959). And it was magnificently rock hard.

Rumor had it, he was an incredible lover. Don't know if that implied big dick or not. He was fucking Farah Fawcett at some point.

I’d love to have been double teamed by Belmondo and Manuel Ferreira.

I have seen a lot of people refer to him as "ugly-hot" or even outright "ugly," which I find surprising. I guess some people didn't care for the nose? I don't know. I think he was a gorgeous man—maybe even sexier than Brando. He was a great actor, too. He gets all the accolades for "Breathless", but I think his greatest performance was in "Leon Morin, Priest". That film is a masterpiece and doesn't get enough credit.

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TCM recently aired an interview he gave at one of their film festivals. A lot of French stars, when they get old, become very nasty pieces of work (ie, Jean-Pierre Leaud and BB), but Belmondo was very sweet, funny, humble, and didn't take himself too seriously. RIP. When asked why he didn't make many American films, he said he had several offers (mostly Mafia roles), and Sam Spiegel offered him a contract. But he just loved France and didn't want to leave. But he stressed that he "loved American films", just didn't want to make any.

Loved his beautiful, lean, tanned body in "Breathless".

One of my idols. R.I.P. Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was an amazing actor who worked with so many top directors. And not a right-wing douche like Alain Delon.

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God bless my college intro to film class for introducing me to Jean-Paul way back when. Hot, hot, hot. Amazing actor and will be missed dearly.

R18 The difference with the American stars who are real piece of shit from beginning to end I guess. France will do without the value judgments of an America that has no lesson to give to anyone!

He had a nice ass.

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And a nice physique.

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R20 Americans practice vulgarity without equal in the world. Even in death you are unable to be respectful, dignified and humble. You absolutely must bring politics into this. If you knew that in France, the Democrat party would be on the right-wing, you would shut your big anus mouth, you, police of the world!

R20 For your information Delon and Belmondo were very close in real life. They respected each other a lot, because in France, people don't spend their lives judging others according to their political views. Three hours ago, Alain Delon was in tears while talking about Belmondo which is very rare coming from him. His pain could be heard very clearly. These big stars are from another generation. The one who knew the Nazi occupier on their soil. To judge others with your American look on the world as if you were exempt of faults is worthy of the biggest intellectual mediocrity but the world knows it can count on you all on this. The French never judge your Hollywood actors who vote for Republican, like Clint Eastwood for example. They are above that. What matters to them is what they have given to the cinema. and Delon gave a lot. More than some of your so-called "talented" democrat actors.

Merci, Marine Le Pen

R29 Lol Unlike your orange buffoon Marine Le Pen was never elected, you angel of humanity, as everyone knows...

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He has/had weird, rubbery lips!

R29 Funny to think that this comes from a people who spent 30 years bombing Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria... And they dare to call the others Marine Le Pen.

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Girls, girls, pleeeease refocus the discussion on JPs beautiful ass!

Jeez, he had MONKEY LIPS!!!!

R34 Excuse me? It's these assholes Americans who take the liberty of judging French actors and we shouldn't say anything ??? I just want to remind them that you all are the last ones in the world to judge others. Especially when it comes to racism. If you attack I answer! Simple.

Loved him and Anna Karina in “Pierrot le fou” and their song

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R37, et al: psshh -- whatever, Polanski-harborer!

R39 Say what?

Leon Morin Priest is when I fell in love with him.

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You heard me, r40. Either hand him over or stfu with the "France is superior to everyone!" attitude.

He made so many great films and it seems to be the end of an era as those stars die out. My favourite is “Mississippi mermaid” with Catherine deneuve, later remade as “original sun” with banderas and jolie. I prefer “mermaid” filmed on the beautiful island of reunion

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Belmondo is the object of Charles Vanel's "dirty old man" lust in Jean-Pierre Melville's fake "American Road Movie" L'AINE DES FERCHAUX (63). (also known as MAGNET OF DOOM). JPB plays the old man's bodyguard and "secretary" and they go down to the swamps of Louisiana on a road trip that defies belief.

R43 France is indeed superior, in that French would never allow such behavior when one of your icons dies. Never. No, I don't hear you well

"Leon Morin" was the original "Hot Priest."

R45 will check that out

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R27, people are “sensuous,” not “sensual.”

R42 Anna Karina and Marie laforêt, former co-stars, died more or less the same age just a month apart from one another, I always thought that was a strange coincidence.

R49 Really? To have the nerve to criticize Delon on Belmondo's thread on the day of his death, when they were friends, what is that ??? It is well said above that "unlike Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon" Belmondo was really a nice person. Who do you think you are ? You never stop judging the whole world when you can't afford it and you never have any decency or respect. So you have the right to smear others and in exchange they should just shut the fuck up? In what world does that exist? If you are able to find the equivalent of your unacceptable behavior throughout the world in France, I am all ears.

And I LOVED his lips.

That nose!

R56 Okay, I get that, then tell it to R18 and R20, not me. They are the ones looking for troubles here with that total lack of respect behavior.

Adieu, mon cher. Je suis desolee.

Much of the french new wave has ages rather well in comparison to the American films of the 50s and 60s. The icons too still look rather current with their often replicated styles.

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He dated Ursula Andress for years.

Here they are

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Any reports of the homosex?

Belmondo's films available to stream:

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Degolas!

An icon of France before it became overrun with Muslims.

R54 Mississippi Mernaid was released several years ago by Twilight Time.

Oh, drear. I meant MERMAID***

R66 See? you are not able to respect others. Know that what you said, Belmondo would have hated it. When someone dies you have the decency not to write things like, "booo hooo Belmondo was a decent and nice person, not like that person". Your lack of education is obvious. You need to have answers to your despicable attitude that thinks it is above others when it only brings hatred and resentment. The French don't behave like that with your stars when they just die even if they are pure assholes. That's what I'm talking about here. The worst thing is that you didn't even know that Belmondo and Delon were real friends for more than 50 years. You don't even bother to wait for him to be buried to pour out your ideology and what you pretentiously think is a view of purity. The French don't like your thought police because you generally do the exact opposite of what you advocate. Next time you'll shut your big inquisitive mouth.

Give it a rest. The French cinema world gossips brutally about each other.

R72 No comparison with Hollyweird. The French film world respects the dead. The French in general respect the dead.

I agree. So don't die and back out of the room at dinner parties.

Even in the Marais, the gay district of Paris, Belmondo's posters can be seen in cafés and private clubs.

...while Aline plays in the background.

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And for the information of the inquisitors Delon has never been homophobic. His best friend Jean Claude Brialy, a Gay French actor, testified that Delon protected several gay actors during his career. And I add that for a so-called racist he had a passionate affair with a black woman. That gorgeous woman dumped him for Jacques Brel. Delon admired Brel and felt humiliated. Her name was Maddly. You can see her in the movie La Piscine with Delon and Romy Shneider. It was Delon who imposed Maddly in this movie.

Over-rated. RIP, anyway.

^Romy schneider

That casse-pieds Romy Schneider!

Another of my favorite films with Belmondo is Les Tricheurs. Very casual about homosexuality among the late 50s existentialists.

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R82 Yeah... but for her defense, Romy Schneider hated herself because her mother had been a close friend of Hitler. She was haunted by this. All her life. She destroyed herself because her mother had taken her to the Eagle's Nest when she was still a baby.

R84 I think her destruction had more to do with the gruesome death of her young son. Is the hitler connection true or simply gossip?

R83 oh another handsome favourite jacques charrier.

R85 The connection with Hitler is unfortunately not a rumor. There are pictures of her mother with Hitler at the eagle's nest. Before the death of her son David, she already hated herself when she knew about her mother. Delon could not bring her back to life and get her out of her guilt.

Romy S was also a pill head and boozer. Depression

In his youth, he was a true beauty, and had the best cocksucking lips I've ever seen. Unfortunately, he aged poorly—way too much sun and way too much smoking. His face looked waxen and orange in his later years.

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Here's Magda Schneider (Romy's mom) with Hitler

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Belmondo was the French Humphrey Bogart. Not traditionally handsome, but sexy and he had an interesting face Saw him in Breathless(Godard) and Mississippi Mermaid(Truffaut) both interesting films. He was a genuine icon.

I am heartsick. Belmondo was a fantasy slap bank figure of mine for many years!

R91 fascinating

R95 Delon's son Anthony also dated Stephanie of Monaco

R94 Her mom is in the Sissi movies as...her mom. But Romy didn't know yet about her mother connexion to hitler at the time, she was still a teenager.

You can say whatever you want but Romy Schneider was one of the most brilliant actress of her times. She had a style of acting never seen before. About the suppposed homophobia of the french, you have to know that the Gays lived better in France than in America. Oscar Wilde found refuge in France when he was imprisoned for homosexuality in England. Only fundamentalist Catholics were against homosexual marriage. As far as I know, it is exactly the same everywhere in the world. Marlon Brando lived for years with a French actor in Paris openly, and nobody took offense.

Threads like this are why I still come to DL.

R99 What reinforced Romy's trauma was that paparazzi took pictures of her dead son impaled on the gate. This finished her off. Delon stayed with her throughout the nightmare even though they had not been together for years. She will remain the only love of his life in Delon's own words

Romy Schneider's son also dated Stephanie of Monaco.

I can't believe the DM put Michael K. Williams as their headline and just have a small blurb halfway down the page for Belmondo.

R104 you're a real piece of shit

R103 Yeah sure... So obvious troll

R103 When was the last time you set foot on French soil? Just out of curiosity. I would say NEVER. As I would say that you're NOT a European.

What joy he gave. Delon as well. BB. fabulous in the day, who was more gorgeous?? And now an animal advocate. Some people have such small lives...all about the politics. Get out a bit more. Make some new friends. Learn something new.Find some way to grow inside.

I am a Spaniard, Sir. The husbear is Swiss. What do you want to know?

Liza Minelli's son also dated Stephanie of Monaco.

You have said everything I needed to know: Your country is better than others. Except that the news says otherwise.

JP had a busted face from his pre cinema boxingb days. The nose could have been fixed easily It didn't age well

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French actors do not like the Hollywood way of using plastic surgery. For them, a face should be as expressive as possible, with its flaws. They rarely do their teeth and noses. They don't care. And when you look carefully European actors in general don't use botox or plastic surgery as much as Hollywood actors do.

R113 / R114 I think the "busted" nose looks fine. That tends to look hot on most men, and gives them a rugged look. Nothing about his face warranted plastic surgery. He was very handsome. He did age badly though from baking in the sun too much, plus the cigarettes. When you look at photos of him in the later portion of his life, his skin looks absolutely wrecked. I tend to think the disregard for that though could be cultural as well(?) Belmondo strikes me as a bon vivant who thought very little about how his skin was going to age.

R115 Totally agree with you. His nose added more charisma and charm in my gay book

Standing ovation at the Cesars 2017.

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Clooney was there??? R117

Jean Marais' son, Serge, dated Stéphanie of Monaco.

Jean Marais had a son?!!!

R114 Sure there are French actors who have had terrible plastic surgery. Emmanuelle Beart comes to mind.

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When I was in Paris years ago there were posters up for a play Belmondo was going to be in shortly after I left. I was very sad about that.

You tasteless bitches saying he should have fixed his nose should be SHOT, his nose was a huge part of his attractiveness

Bravo R 123!! So sick of every damn thing on here has to be politically correct according to a certain point of view. If you don't agree..name calling Childish petulant idiots. Really takes the heart & interest out of things. All politics all the time..Boring..Get a life & then live it.

He and Delon were so handsome and beautifully costumed in Borsolino 1970. EYE CANDY!!

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1970 - Borsalino / full film / eng subtitles

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"The Lovemakers" (1961) Jean Paul Belmondo & Claudia Cardinale / full film / eng subtitles

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I love the way this thread became about Romy Schneider, one of my favorites. Tragic eyes. She's lucky her mother didn't do a Magda Goebbels and kill herself and her child. I think Romy was a fragile person for many reasons, probably a mix of nature/nurture. I always liked to see her in films.

JPB was no Vittorio Gassman. THAT'S a beautiful guy.

Gassman was a fully formed man. Belmondo was a sexy pipsqueak.

R130 You would be extremely fragile if your mother had been friend with Hitler and they had dinners together and according to Romy, even slept together. And as if that wasn't enough, your son dies before he's even a teenager and the picture of his bloody body ends up in the tabloid pages. I feel like I'm in another dimension when I read such cold heart insensitive and inhuman people like you on this site. DL must be what hell looks like.

Looking at this pics and gifs all I can think is, holy hell, he must have reeked of stale cigarettes. Very different times.

[Quote]You would be extremely fragile if your mother had been friend with Hitler Not necesarily. Far worse was experienced by most Europeans during the war.

R135 Yeah because of course most European mothers were friends with Hitler and even slept with him. Seriously, go read historical books you moron ignorant. Jesus.

Wow…

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^^ idiot. Seeing family members cut dow, blown to bits, hauled off to camps trumps sleeping with Shitstain

I never would have guessed that a thread about Jean-Paul Belmondo would lead to absolute hysteria from some DLers.

R138 Go see a psychiatrist. People like you with no emotions become psychopaths. Romy has also seen bodies dismembered, blown to bits. Those who have been in camps and survived are the strongest people of the last century, but to compare their pain to Romy's is profoundly immature. Go get treatment. Also in America you didn't see any of this, you asshole

He was so fucking hot. And a great actor with great comic chops too. Never saw him in person though. I saw Delon in Geneva several times. He aged badly like many pretty men do. Belmondo the original joli laid aged beautifully.

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Blocking this psycho R135, enough.

He was 1 in a million. How wonderful he still exists on film. May need to get a few more of the films mentioned here to add to my collection.

Has anyone mentioned "Classe Tous Risques?" He was really great in that and crime films. Whoever said he was the French Bogart was right on the money.

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Watched That Man From Rio (1964) tonight, a very broad adventure comedy that prefigures the Indiana Jones series. Belmondo does a lot of crazy stunts and fascinating to Brasilia under construction.

I love "That Man from Rio". Nine years later Belmondo and the same director (Philippe de Broca) made "Le Magnifique", which was also called "The Man from Acapulco". Belmondo has a dual role and is pretty funny, but it's not nearly as good as "Rio".

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JPB had wonderful lips. That was a mouth to kiss for hours.

R133 and whoever liked that stupid comment: learn to read.

My hero is dead tonight. I'm feeling blue.

With Sophia Loren in "Two Women", for which she won the Oscar. Belmondo was dubbed in Italian, but it's still an excellent performance.

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He played the bad boy roles well...RIP.

He looked like he had a belle grosse bite

Did he have “an” OnlyFans?

Don’t understand all the fuss. Not a looker.

No, r157, Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. It was his father who was born in Algeria to Italian parents.

R159 Look has everything to do with stardom. Don’t kid yourself.

He was a looker. But many many people have no eye for such things. Mostly those provincial types living under rocks who run in horror at anyone who doesn't look like a bland local fella.

He’s certainly no Alain Delon

On American college campuses he was the Troy Donahue alternative. You had to live through a double feature in the 1950s to understand.

His mother was French: Sarah Rainaud-Richard, born in Paris.

Jesus H. Christ her name is Gisele. GISELE: She is BRAZILIAN. By your retarded theories, the only BRAZILIAN model must be a Yamamoto from the Amazon Rain Forest!!!! Do fuck off.

Wow again…

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Wow xxxx infinity…

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R157 Arabs really are so dumb! Belmondo was born in Paris, from Frenc-Italian parents you idiot

R166 In France, the culture is fortunately not the same as in USA. When you are born in France you are French. You don't call someone like Belmondo an Italian-French. Never. The French constitution is not American. France does not recognize any community. Also, you should have mentioned that his father was born in Algeria when it was still a French colony. He was neither Arab nor Berber but Italian. FYI Belmondo considered himself French. Not italian.

He had abs before they were cool. I could watch his bathtub scene in Pierrot Le For for hours.

Belmondo's father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter. He was born in Neuillly-sur-Seine which is the richest suburb of Paris. He played working-class heroes but he was from the artistic haute bourgeoisie.

Delon married first a woman who looked just like him, a sort of journalist who tried to become an actress as Nathalie Delon. Their kid Anthony is odd-looking though. Like too much of a good thing.

The idea that Delon is Bi is even more attractive.

Remembering the films of that time...My God cinema really was an art form at one point. How was that possible? What about diversity? Can't have been good, it wasn't diverse. These films caused so many death of Trans WOC. Those film need to be cancelled Right Now!

Was Belmondo bisexual?

Belmondo was sex itself.

Delon played gay in “Swann in love” I’ve been meaning to watch this.

An excellent piece by The New Yorker's Richard Brody on Belmondo.

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