Well, DR Casson left so let's talk about Cassel Jean-Pierre:
The actor Jean-Pierre Cassel was born as Jean-Pierre Crochon in Paris. Before he came to the film he was active as a nightclub dancer, an ability he put into action time and again in his early film roles.
He made his film debut in 1953 with "Saluti e baci". When he was spotted by Gene Kelly for the movie "The Happy Road - Strasse des Glücks" this marked the beginning of a great career which found its height in the 70's.
Jean-Pierre Cassel took acting lessons after his film debut and acted at the Theatre National Populaire. In the next years he took part in other movies in which he normally impersonated smaller roles, so in "A pied, à cheval et en voiture" (57), "En cas de malheur" (58), "Les surmenés" (58) and "La nuit de Tom Brown" (59).
His parts became gradually bigger from the 60's till he grew up to a leading actor.
To his well-known movies of the 60's belong "Les jeux de l'amour - Liebesspiele" (60), "L'amant de cinq jours - Liebhaber für fünf Tage" (61), "Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin" (62), "Cyrano et d'Artagnan" (63), "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines - Die tollkühnen Männer in ihren fliegenden Kisten" (65), "Un monsieur de compagnie - Ich war eine männliche Sexbombe" (65), "Paris brûle-t-il?" (66) and "Oh! What a Lovely War" (69).
His film career became more international from the 70's, besides productions in France and Italy he also appeared in movies in the USA.
Jean-Pierre Cassel rallied a crowd of fans round him with movies like "Malpertuis" (71), "Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie" (72), "The Three Musketeers" (73), "Murder on the Orient Express" (74), "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? - Die Schlemmerorgie" (78) and "Grandison" (79).
In the next decades he acted in countless cinema and TV productions where he impersonated bigger and smaller roles.
He took aprt in popular movies like "La vie continue" (81), "La truite" (82), "Alicja" (82), "Liberty" (86), "Casanova" (87), "A Matter of Convenience" (87), "Il giovane Toscnini" (88), "The Phantom of the Opera" (89), "Mister Frost" (89), "Vincent & Theo" (90), "The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish" (91), "L'enfer - Die Hölle" (94), "Casque bleu" (94), "Les montagnes bleues" (98), "Les rivières pourpres - Die purpurnen Flüsse" (00) and "Michel Vaillant" (03).
Jean-Pierre Cassel was nominated for a César in 1996.
