(ANSA) - PARIS, JANUARY 18 - The French actor Jean-PierreBacri, very popular, starring among other things in "Aria difamiglia", died on January 18 in Paris at the age of 69 of cancer. "The taste of others".
His agent announced it.
Actor of theater, then of cinema, he embodied in the collective imagination of the French the often grumpy and bored anti-character, but basically of great humanity.
He was also an author and writer, his many texts for the theater as well as for the cinema, often brought to success together with Agnès Jaoui, who had been his partner.
In his career, Bacri has won a Cesar 5 times (the French Oscars), among other things receiving awards for the best screenplay with Agnès Jaoui for "Smoking / No Smoking", "Aria difamiglia", "Parole, parole, parole ... "and" The taste of others ".
(HANDLE).