The French actor, director and producer Jacques Perrin died today at the age of 80 in Paris: this is what his family had announced, quoted by the France Presse agency.
"The family has the immense sadness to inform you of the death of the filmmaker Jacques Perrin, today April 21 in Paris. He died in peace at the age of 80", reads the communication sent by his son, Mathieu Simonet.
Perrin was born in Paris on July 13, 1941. Since the 1950s, he has made over 70 films, including great successes such as "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort" in 1967 and "Peau d'âne" in 1970. Italy is an important artistic partnership with Costantin Costa-Gavras who in 1969 helped to produce Z- the orgy of power, which won the
In 1966 he won two awards as best actor at the Venice Film Festival for the Italian film "Un uomo a mezzo" and for the Spanish film "La busca".
In 1977 he produced, among other things, "The Desert of the Tartars" by Valerio Zurlini, in which he also played the role of the young protagonist, Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo.
In 1988 he played the role of Salvatore as an adult in Giuseppe Tornatore's "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso".
Also memorable was his interpretation of him in "In the name of the sovereign people" (1990) by Luigi Magni, a historical-Risorgimento film in which he starred in the guise of the friar Ugo Bassi.