Efe Malaga
Malaga
Updated Friday, February 16, 2024-20:37
The famous French actor
Gérard Barray
has died at the age of 92 in the Malaga town of Marbella, where he lived since the late 1970s with his wife, the also Sevillian actress and dancer
Teresa Lorca,
the son of both, Julian Barray.
Barray's death occurred this Thursday at the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella, and he will be given his final farewell this Sunday at twelve noon in the San Bernabé cemetery in this town in Malaga.
Gérard Barray and Teresa Lorca met during the filming of a film in what was then Czechoslovakia and moved to Marbella in 1979, where they acquired premises in the Puente Romano hotel, explained Julian Barray.
In those places, his father opened
a piano-bar where he played this instrument
, since before his acting career he was a pianist in Paris, where he became friends with the trumpeter Louis Armstrong and received other great jazz musicians of the time, he has added his son.
That piano-bar in Marbella run by Barray was frequented by
regular figures from the high society of the Costa del Sol
in those years and by great international stars such as Alain Delon or Sean Connery, among others. He also visited the establishment, Lola Flores, a friend especially of her mother, who had worked assiduously in the tablaos of the area with Rocío Jurado, according to Julian Barray.
Gérard Barray initially achieved fame in his country thanks to his performance in the play
'The Two-Headed Eagle', by Jean Cocteau
, and later participated as a swordsman in several action films of the swashbuckling genre.
Another of the most notable roles of his career was that of Inspector San Antonio, a crime genre title from 1966. He also participated in Alejandro Amenábar's film 'Abre los ojos' (1997).