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Fe male lead

Prominent international leading man and sex symbol beginning in the 1960s, he was known for his look and style

Roles included the films Send a Woman When the Devil Fails, Christine (1958), Women Are Weak, Purple Noon (1960), Rocco and His Brothers, The Joy of Living, Famous Love Affairs, L’Eclisse, The Devil and the Ten Commandments, The Leopard (1963), The Black Tulip, Once a Thief, Le Samouraï (1967), Spirits of the Dead, The Girl on a Motorcycle, La Piscine, Borsalino, Le Cercle Rouge, The Love Mates, Un flic, Monsieur Klein, Boomerang (1976), which he co-wrote; The Concorde… Airport ’79, Three Men to Kill, Le choc, both of which he also co-wrote; Swann in Love, Notre histoire, Parole de flic, The Passage (1986), Let Sleeping Cops Lie, Dancing Machine, the latter four of which he co-wrote; One Hundred and One Nights, Day and Night (1997), and Asterix at the Olympic Games

Also directed the films Pour la peau d’un flic and Le Battant, both of which he also starred in and co-wrote. He was known for his duet, “Paroles, paroles,” with Dalida