The former boxer was a standout in New Wave classics and then an action star and box office draw in the 1980s. By Jordan Mintzer, Duane Byrge Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged French actor who swept to ...

Belmondo wanted to do American features, but didn't necessarily want to play a Frenchman or a heavy, instead seeing himself more as a dashing leading man. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose performance ...

The art of movies started for me with Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature, “Breathless,” from 1960, and therefore with its star, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who died on Monday, at the age of eighty-eight. I first ...

If Jean-Paul Belmondo had gotten his way, he would have been a stage actor. He applied to the Conservatoire de Paris three times before the illustrious drama school accepted him and spent the 1950s ...

PARIS — Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, has ...

Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of the most iconic French actors of the 20th Century and a leading face of the French New Wave, has died at the age of 88. The actor’s agent confirmed the news to the AFP news ...

Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic made Belmondo a major star and his craggy looks led to a stellar career in France and around the world Jean-Paul Belmondo, the French actor who shot to international ...

Fortunately, the younger Belmondo is a good sport about family-specific questions: “I never mind talking about my grandfather,” he says, smiling. Belmondo bears an uncanny resemblance to that ...

It's been a long time since we heard Stephane Belmondo play like this. It might even be the first time. Of course, there was the wonderful Wonderland in 2004, his first album as a leader, but that ...

He was compared to Marlon Brando and James Dean for his acclaimed portrayals of tough, alienated characters, most memorably in Godard’s “Breathless.” By Rick Lyman Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged actor ...