Paris, Dec 22 (EFE) .- French actor Claude Brasseur, winner of the César Award on two occasions and known for films such as “Banda Apart” or “La Boum”, has died at the age of 84, according to his agent. to the French newspaper Le Monde.
His agent did not evoke the cause of death although he specified that the actor has not been a victim of covid-19, and pointed out that he will be buried in the Parisian Père Lachaise cemetery, along with his father, also actor Pierre Brasseur, with whom had a gruesome relationship in life.
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (outskirts of Paris) in 1936, he began his career in the theater but soon made the leap to the big screen where he worked with actors such as Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and directors such as Édouard Molinaro, Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut, among others.
In 1977 he won the César for his performance in Yves Robert’s “An Elephant Is Wrong”, the story of four childhood friends about to turn forty, and again in 1980 for his role as a policeman in “The War of the policemen “by Robin Davis.
The variety of his interpretations made him one of the best-known faces of French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, and although his career lasted until 2016, in recent years it was limited to appearances in comedies that were little valued by critics.
A great lover of car racing, he participated up to six times in the Paris-Dakar with the Belgian driver Jacky Ickx, a friend of his. EFE
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