by Redazione Spettacoli
In 1966, Perrin won two Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festival
French actor, director and producer Jacques Perrin died yesterday in Paris at the age of 80: his family members announced this, quoted by the France Presse agency. Born in Paris on July 13, 1941, Perrin maintained close ties to Italy over the course of a career spanning over 70 films. In fact, he was assigned his first teenage roles by director Valerio Zurlini, who flanked him with Claudia Cardinale in the romantic comedy The Girl With a Suitcase (1961) and Marcello Mastroianni in the film Family Chronicle (1962), in which Perrin played the role of young Lorenzo. In the same years he interpreted L’Anne du bac more than 400 times on the Paris theater stages. In 1966, Perrin won two Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festival for the Italian film Un uomo a half and for the Spanish film La busca; while in 1977 he produced, among others, The Desert of the Tartars by Valerio Zurlini, in which he also played the role of the young protagonist Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo.
The role that perhaps made him better known and loved was that of Salvatore as an adult in Giuseppe Tornatore’s internationally successful Nuovo Paradiso, which won the 1990 Oscar for Best Foreign Film. His performance in In the Name of the Sovereign People (1990) by Luigi Magni, an Italian-made historical Risorgimento film, in which he played the role of the Barnabite monk Ugo Bassi. He then achieved great success with films about animals, such as Microcosmos – Il popolo dell’erba (1996) and Il popolo migratore (2001), both produced by his studio Galate Films. Perrin had two sons who both became actors, Mathieu Simonet, born in 1975, and Maxence Perrin, born twenty years later, appeared alongside him in The Boys of the Choir in the role of young Ppinot.
April 21, 2022 (change April 21, 2022 | 21:08)
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