Claude Brasseur
Actor
- Born
- June 15, 1936 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- Died
- December 22, 2020 (age 84)
Claude Brasseur (15 June 1936 – 22 December 2020) was a French actor.
Claude Brasseur was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine as Claude Pierre Espinasse, the son of actor Pierre Brasseur and actress Odette Joyeux. He was the godson of Ernest Hemingway and the father of Alexandre Brasseur.
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He was a member of the French bobsleigh team in the 1960s and a winning Paris-Dakar rally competitor as co-pilot of Jacky Ickx.
From the late 1950s until two years before his death, Brasseur appeared in overall 150 film and television productions. One of his film roles was as Arthur in Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part (1964). Brasseur played the title role in the early 1970s historical crime television series The New Adventures of Vidocq. A big commercial success were the comedies La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), in which he played the father of Sophie Marceau's teenage character.
Brasseur died on 22 December 2020 at the age of 84. He is buried alongside his father at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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Known for
The Party
December 17, 1980
Camping
April 26, 2006
Eyes Without a Face
January 11, 1960
Rolling to You
March 14, 2018
The Party 2
December 8, 1982
Camping 2
April 21, 2010
Band of Outsiders
August 5, 1964
Camping 3
June 29, 2016
Chouchou
March 19, 2003
The Student and Mister Henri
October 7, 2015
Pardon Mon Affaire
September 22, 1976
We Will All Meet in Paradise
November 9, 1977
Acting140
- 2023L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
- 2023Godard by Godard as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Belmondo: The Incorrigible
- 2021Camping : Histoire d'un succès as Self - Actor
- 2018Rolling to You as Jocelyn and Lucien's father
- 2016On refait le boulevard
- 2016Camping 3 as Jacky Pic
- 2016Belmondo by Belmondo as Self
- 2016Jacques Daniel as Jacques
- 2015The Student and Mister Henri as Henri Voizot