Laurent Malet
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Laurent Marie Guespin-Malet (born 3 September 1955 in Saint-Tropez
, Var) is a French actor, and the twin brother of actor Pierre Malet
.
as Troilus alongside Claude Jade
in 1975, in 1978 he was made famous by his Andrew alongside Donald Sutherland
and Stéphane Audran
in Les Liens de sang by Claude Chabrol
. That same year, Gilles Béhat gave him the lead role in Haro. En 1979, he starred alongside Yves Montand
in Les Routes du sud by Joseph Losey
and played Lino Ventura
's son in L'Homme en colère. He also played Roger Bataille in Rainer Werner Fassbinder
's Querelle
(after Jean Genet
), and starred alongside Sandrine Bonnaire
in 1984's Tir à vue, réalisé by Marc Angelo. In 1995 he played Arthur Rimbaud
in Marc Rivière
's L'Homme aux semelles de vent.
Highly attached to his brother and mother, he feels asked by the latter (in the terminal stages of a brain tumour) to put an end to her sufferings. He writes of this in his 2006 book En attendant la suite, in which he calls on the candidates in the presidential election to bring the state to legislate on euthanasia.
Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez is a town, 104 km to the east of Marseille, in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. It is also the principal town in the canton of Saint-Tropez....
, Var) is a French actor, and the twin brother of actor Pierre Malet
Pierre Malet
Pierre Malet is a French actor. He is the brother of Laurent Malet.- Filmography :* 1976 : Le Siècle des lumières : A page* 1976 : Comme un boomerang : Other Feldman's son...
.
Life
After his stage debut in La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieuThe Trojan war will not take place
The Trojan War Will Not Take Place is a play written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. In 1955 it was translated into English by Christopher Fry...
as Troilus alongside Claude Jade
Claude Jade
Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade , was a French actress, known for starring as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses , Bed and Board and Love on the Run . Jade acted in theatre, film and television...
in 1975, in 1978 he was made famous by his Andrew alongside Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...
and Stéphane Audran
Stéphane Audran
Stéphane Audran is a French film and television actress, known for her performances in Oscar winning movies such as Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie and Babette's Feast and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One and Violette Nozière .She married...
in Les Liens de sang by Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
. That same year, Gilles Béhat gave him the lead role in Haro. En 1979, he starred alongside Yves Montand
Yves Montand
-Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...
in Les Routes du sud by Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey
Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...
and played Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura , was an Italian actor who starred in French movies.-Biography:Born as Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura in Parma, Italy to Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini, "Lino" dropped out of school at the age of eight and later took on a variety of jobs...
's son in L'Homme en colère. He also played Roger Bataille in Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making...
's Querelle
Querelle
Querelle, a 1982 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.-Plot:The plot...
(after Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
), and starred alongside Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies.Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in...
in 1984's Tir à vue, réalisé by Marc Angelo. In 1995 he played Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
in Marc Rivière
Marc Rivière
Marc Rivière is a French director, actor and screenwriter. He has worked extensively in French television. He directed the 2009 historic television drama La reine et le cardinal set during the early years of the reign of Louis XIV of France.-References:...
's L'Homme aux semelles de vent.
Highly attached to his brother and mother, he feels asked by the latter (in the terminal stages of a brain tumour) to put an end to her sufferings. He writes of this in his 2006 book En attendant la suite, in which he calls on the candidates in the presidential election to bring the state to legislate on euthanasia.
Filmography
- Ce jour-làThat Day (film)That Day is a 2003 French comedy film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It was entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bernard Giraudeau - Pointpoirot* Elsa Zylberstein - Livia* Jean-Luc Bideau - Raufer* Jean-François Balmer - Treffle...
(2003), by Raoul RuizRaoul RuizRaúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was a Chilean filmmaker.Ruiz spent some years at the Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina's cinema school. Back in Chile, he directed his first feature film Tres tristes tigres in the late 1960s, winning the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival... - Le Plus beau pays du monde (1999), by Marcel BluwalMarcel BluwalMarcel Bluwal is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 40 films since 1955.-External links:...
- Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent (1995), by Marc RivièreMarc RivièreMarc Rivière is a French director, actor and screenwriter. He has worked extensively in French television. He directed the 2009 historic television drama La reine et le cardinal set during the early years of the reign of Louis XIV of France.-References:...
- Les Possédés (1988), by Andrzej WajdaAndrzej WajdaAndrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...
- Charlie Dingo (1987), by Gilles Béhat
- La Puritaine (1986), by Jacques DoillonJacques DoillonJacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women...
- ParkingParking (1985 film)Parking is a French fantasy film from 1985. It was directed and written by Jacques Demy, starring Francis Huster, Laurent Malet, and Jean Marais...
(1985), by Jacques DemyJacques DemyJacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of François... - Tir à vue (1984), by Marc Angelo
- Viva la vieViva la vie-Cast and roles:* Charlotte Rampling - Catherine Perrin* Michel Piccoli - Michel Perrin* Jean-Louis Trintignant - François Gaucher* Évelyne Bouix - Sarah Gaucher* Charles Aznavour - Edouard Takvorian* Laurent Malet - Laurent Perrin* Tanya Lopert - Julia...
(1984), by Claude Lelouch - A mort l'arbitre ! (1983), by Jean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...
- QuerelleQuerelleQuerelle, a 1982 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.-Plot:The plot...
(1982), by Rainer Werner FassbinderRainer Werner FassbinderRainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making... - L'Invitation au voyage (1982), by Peter Del MontePeter Del MontePeter Del Monte is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1969. His 1982 film Invitation au voyage won the prize for the Best Artistic Contribution at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
- Le Cœur à l'envers (1980), by Franck Apprédéris
- La Légion saute sur Kolwezi (1980), by Raoul Coutard
- Bobo Jacco (1979), by Walter Bal
- Haro (1978), by Gilles Béhat
- Les Liens de sang (1978), by Claude ChabrolClaude ChabrolClaude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
- Les Routes du Sud (1978), by Joseph LoseyJoseph LoseyJoseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...
- Comme un boomerang (1976), by José GiovanniJosé GiovanniJosé Giovanni , was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French-Swiss writer and film-maker of Corsican origin....
TV
- 2005 : Galilée ou l'amour de Dieu by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
- 2004 : Les amants du bagne by Thierry Binisti
- 2001 : Des croix sur la mer by Luc Béraud
- 2001 : Le Prix de la vérité by Joël SantoniJoël SantoniJoël Santoni is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1976 film Scrambled Eggs, which starred Jean Carmet and Anna Karina.-External links:...
- 1997 : Marion du Faouët by Michel Favart
- 1995 : L'homme aux semelles de vent by Marc RivièreMarc RivièreMarc Rivière is a French director, actor and screenwriter. He has worked extensively in French television. He directed the 2009 historic television drama La reine et le cardinal set during the early years of the reign of Louis XIV of France.-References:...
- 1994 : Le feu follet by Gérard Vergez
- 1993 : Monsieur Ripois by Luc Béraud
- 1991 : The First Circle by Sheldon Larry
- 1986 : Sword of Gideon by Michael AndersonMichael Anderson (director)Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters , Around the World in 80 Days and Logan's Run .-Early life:...
- 1985 : La part de l'autre by Jeanne LabruneJeanne LabruneJeanne Labrune is a French screenwriter and film director. She has directed 13 films since 1978. Her film Blood and Sand was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
- 1984 : Cuore by Luigi ComenciniLuigi ComenciniLuigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre....
- 1982 : Pleine lune by Jean-Pierre RichardJean-Pierre RichardJean-Pierre Richard, is a French writer and literary critic.- Biography :Jean-Pierre Richard began his advanced studies at the École normale supérieure in the rue d'Ulm in 1941, passed the "agrégation" in literature in 1945, and got his doctoral degree in 1962...
- 1981 : Les avocats du diable d'André CayatteAndré CayatteAndré Cayatte was a French New Wave filmmaker and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility, themes which Cayatte persisted in affirming regardless of changing contemporary attitudes.Some of Cayatte's earlier films that covered these...
- 1977 : La foire by Roland Vincent
- 1976 : Le siècle des lumières by Claude Brulé
Réalisateur/Scénariste
- 19931993 in filmThe year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...
: Au nom d'un chien (shortShort subjectA short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
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