French actor, director and producer Jacques Perrin has been a fixture in French and Italian cinema for decades – best known for his role in the Oscar-winning Giuseppe Tornatore. “Cinema Paradiso” – is dead. He was 80 years old.
“The family is deeply saddened to inform you of the death of director Jacques Perrin, who died on Thursday, April 21 in Paris. The Perrin family announced in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse, his son Mathieu Simone, that he passed away peacefully.
Born in Paris on July 13, 1941, Perrin, beginning in the 1950s, starred in more than 70 films and co-directed others, including the Academy Award-nominated Winged Migration (2001), along with Philippe Labroe, about the flight. It is a migratory bird that used onboard cameras and was a huge box office hit.
This soft style landed his first starring role opposite Italian Claudia Cardinale in Valerio Zorlini’s Girl with a Bag, which went to Cannes in competition in 1961.
In 1966 he won the Coppa Volpi Award at the Venice Film Festival for his role in Vittorio De Seta’s existential drama “Un uomo a metà”.
Perrin later starred opposite Catherine Deneuve in the musicals directed by Jacques Demme ‘Little Girls from Rochefort’ (1967) and ‘Ass Skin’ (1970).
He often throws As a military officer, and especially to the French director Pierre Schweindofer who directed Perrin in “The 317th Platoon” in 1965, “Drummer-Crab” in 1977, and “Captain’s Honor” in 1982.
His most famous later role is that of adult filmmaker Salvatore who reflects on his childhood in Turnator’s 1988 Academy Award-winning film “Cinema Paradiso”.
Perrin has also co-produced dozens of films, including Costa Gavras’ “Z” (1969), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Best Film Editing in 1969, and The Chorus (2004), directed by his nephew Christophe Baratier, It was a huge hit at the box office in France.
“Jack was a pure magician. He succeeded in everything he touched,” tweeted former Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob.
“He is one of the most intelligent and interesting French producers,” Costa-Gavras said on franceinfo, also paying tribute to the memory of “a man of great curiosity and also very kind.”
Reflecting Perrin’s commitment to conservation and the environment, his last film role was in the environmental thriller “Goliath”, directed by Frédéric Teller and released in France in March.
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