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- Born
- 1921-06-19
- Died
- 2015-02-14
- Works
- 4
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- Étude sur Marsile de Padoue
- Contes Industriels
- Des suretés réelles sur les navires
- Tonight in Samarkand
- Louis Jourdan, 1872-1948
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Acting · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television…
Known for
- Roger Moore: A Matter of Class — Self (archive footage)1995
- That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage)1994
- Year of the Comet — Philippe1992
- The Return of Swamp Thing — Dr. Anton Arcane1989
- Counterforce — Kassar1988
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Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production Count Dracula.
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1921 births2015 deaths20th-century French male actorsBurials at Westwood Village Memorial Park CemeteryCaedmon Records artistsFrench expatriate male actors in the United StatesFrench expatriates in the United KingdomFrench expatriates in TurkeyFrench male film actorsFrench male musical theatre actorsFrench male stage actorsFrench male television actors