"The family has the immense sadness to inform you of the disappearance of filmmaker Jacques Perrin, who died on Thursday April 21 in Paris. He passed away peacefully at the age of 80," his family announced in a statement sent. to AFP by his son, Mathieu Simonet.
As an actor, Jacques Perrin, born in Paris on July 13, 1941, appeared in more than 70 films from the 1950s.
His soft voice and his gray hair turned white were familiar to the general public, who saw him in particular with Pierre Schoendoerffer ("Le Crabe-tambour" in 1977, "L'Honneur d'un captain" in 1982) and Jacques Demy ( "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort" in 1967, "Peau d'âne" in 1970).
Jacques Perrin has also been the co-producer of some fifteen films since the end of the 1960s, including "Z" by Costa-Gavras (1968) or "Les Choristes" (2004) by his nephew Christophe Barratier, in which he played also (8.6 million admissions).
A committed defender of nature, he has co-produced several documentaries on this theme, including "The Monkey People" (1989), "Microcosmos: the grass people" (1996) or "Himalaya: the childhood of a chief". (1999).
Subsequently, he himself co-directed notable documentaries, including "Le Peuple migrateur", devoted to birds (2001, 2.8 million viewers in France), then "Oceans" (2010, 2.9 million viewers ), awarded the César for best documentary in 2011).
His last role in the cinema, in "Goliath", released in March, echoes his environmental fights: in this thriller around pesticides, he teams up with a formidable lobbyist from the phytosanitary industry, camped by Pierre Niney.
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