The actor Claude Brasseur, who marked generations by playing François Vidocq on television and several great roles in the cinema, including "An elephant that trumps enormously", died, Tuesday, December 22, at the age of 84 years, announced his agent at AFP.
"Claude Brasseur died that day in peace and serenity surrounded by his family. He was not a victim of the Covid. He will be buried in Paris in accordance with sanitary rules and will rest alongside his father, in the Father's cemetery. -Lachaise in Paris ", announced Elisabeth Tanner, head of the Time Art agency.
Coming from a long line of actors, son of Pierre Brasseur and Odette Joyeux, and father of Alexandre, this actor with the lively gaze and the smile that made him immediately sympathetic, was popular and versatile, also at ease in the detective film than in the comedy.
He enjoyed cinema and television as much as the theater.
In 1977, he received the César for best actor in a supporting role for the comedy "An elephant that deceives enormously", then the consecration three years later, with the César for best actor for "The war of the police".
Claude Brasseur, César 1980 for Best Actor in LA GUERRE DES POLICES from Académie des César on Vimeo.
In total, in more than 60 years of career he will have turned in more than 110 films, and will remain notably associated with the father of Sophie Marceau in "La Boum".
He continued to appear regularly on the screen, until the three parts of the comedy "Camping" in the 2000s.
With AFP
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