Jean Yanne was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, director and composer. In 1972, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film We Won't Grow Old Together.
André Pousse was a noted French actor and, in his youth, also a notable cyclist.
Jean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor and dancer. A popular star of French cinema, he was initially known for his comedy film appearances, though he also proved a gifted dramatic actor, and accrued over 200 film and television credits in a career spanning over 50 years.
The Professional is a 1981 French action thriller film directed by Georges Lautner. The film stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as the title role. The film is based on award-winning 1976 novel Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal by Patrick Alexander.
Georges Lautner was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard.
Denys de La Patellière was a French film director and scriptwriter. He also directed Television series.
Paul Michel Audiard was a French screenwriter and film director, known for his witty, irreverent and slang-laden dialogues which made him a prominent figure on the French cultural scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He was the father of French film director Jacques Audiard.
Renée Faure was a French stage and film actress.
Alain Poiré was a French film producer and screenwriter. He was born in Paris, and died in Neuilly-Sur-Seine.
Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles du Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel, is a French actress. She was born in Tourane, today Đà Nẵng to French father Marie Yves Aimé du Chaxel, a local Customs general manager, and his Vietnamese mistress, Kam.
Henri Cogan was a French actor and stuntman.
People of No Importance is a 1956 French drama film directed by Henri Verneuil. Set entirely among ordinary working people, it tells the story of an unhappily married long-distance lorry driver who starts an affair with a young waitress at a restaurant where he stops frequently, but tragedy intervenes.
The Old Guard is a 1960 French comedy film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Pierre Fresnay and Jean Gabin.
Mirror is a 1947 French crime drama film directed by Raymond Lamy and starring Jean Gabin, Daniel Gélin and Martine Carol. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It was Gabin's second film following his return to his homeland after serving in the Free French forces after the poorly-received Martin Roumagnac (1946) alongside Marlene Dietrich. The film marks a shift from the doomed men of the pre-war poetic realism that established Gabin as a star to the powerful figures he played from the 1950s onwards.
"Requiem pour un fou" is a song by French singer Johnny Hallyday. It was released in February 1976 as the lead single off of his twenty-first studio album, "Derrière l'amour", released later that year in June. Hallyday has also re-recorded the song in Italian, Spanish, and English and has also released duet versions with Bolton and Belgian-Italian singer Lara Fabian in 1996 and 1999 respectively, the ladder duet being a live performance at the Stade de France in September 1998.
Xavier Depraz, néXavier Marcel Delaruelle was a French opera singer and actor.
An Idiot in Paris is a 1967 French comedy film directed by Serge Korber and starring Dany Carrel, Jean Lefebvre and Bernard Blier.
A Little Virtuous is a 1968 French comedy crime film directed by Serge Korber and starring Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin and Robert Hossein. It is based on the 1951 novel But a Short Time to Live by British writer James Hadley Chase, originally published under his pen name Raymond Marshall.
Jean Laborde was a French journalist and writer.
