France: death of popular comedian Claude Brasseur at the age of 84

Claude Brasseur poses for the film "The student and Mr. Henri", in 2015, in Angoulême.

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Comedian Claude Brasseur died at the age of 84 on December 22.

This immensely popular actor has appeared in the greatest successes of French cinema.

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In ninety films and two Césars, Claude Brasseur had done honor to the line of acrobats from which he came.

His parents Pierre Brasseur and Odette Joyeux had been two sacred monsters of cinema and theater.

In the absence of a warm home, they had given him a taste for the show.

It was television that gave it its first legitimacy in the 1960s, notably with the very popular “Vidocq” series, the story of this former convict and policeman adventurer.

Actor in cinema and theater

The cinema very quickly makes her eyes soft.

Georges Lautner turns him in "Ice Breasts" alongside Alain Delon and Mireille Darc and director Yves Robert in great successes such as "An elephant, that deceives enormously".

The story of four friends in their forties in the midst of an existential crisis, interpreted by

Jean Rochefort

, Victor Lanoux and

Guy Bedos

.

The film will have a sequel with "We will all go to Heaven".

In the 1980s, he played the dentist father of Sophie Marceau in Claude Pinoteau's “La boum”, a film about adolescence acclaimed by the public.

With fifteen million admissions in Europe, feature films are a real social phenomenon.

Claude Brasseur was also a man of the theater.

He relentlessly played the classics and the contemporaries.

Among his last roles in the cinema, that of a grieving retiree with a tender heart in the comedy "Camping" declined in series to success for the French cinema.

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