Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo was a French actor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward. His best known credits include Breathless (1960), That Man from Rio (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Borsalino (1970), and The Professional (1981). He was most notable for portraying police officers in action thriller films and became known for his unwillingness to appear in English-language films despite being heavily courted by Hollywood. An undisputed box-office champion like Louis de Funès and Alain Delon of the same period, Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million spectators in his 50-year career. Between 1969 and 1982 he played four times in the most popular films of the year in France: The Brain (1969), Fear Over the City (1975), Animal (1977), Ace of Aces (1982), being surpassed on this point only by Louis de Funès. The popularity of Jean-Paul Belmondo as actor is mainly due to the characters he interpreted in his movies, loving to highlight the virile man, fighter, but also brave and heroic, which appealed to a wide audience in France and also abroad.

9 April 1933

Born on the same birth date (9 April 1933): Fern Michaels • Gian Maria Volonté • René Burri • Richard Rose (political scientist)

Born on the same birth day (9 April): Bernard Jenkin • Bill Birch • Brandon deWilde • Gian Maria Volonté • Ihor Podolchak • Jarrod Mullen • Jeff Reed (American football) • John Davenport (minister) • Marina Zoueva • Michael Learned • Nate Colbert • Nathaniel Branden • Ryan Kelly (basketball) • Samuel Fritz • Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore • Tony Sibson • Victor Gollancz • Ward Bond

Born in the same month (April 1933): Annie Easley • Arkady and Boris Strugatsky • Bob Dornan • Carol Burnett • Edelmiro Amante • Eduardo Malapit • Elizabeth Montgomery • James Lockhart (historian) • Marquitos (footballer, born 1933) • Paddy Hopkirk • Rod Funseth • Yuri Oganessian