Louis Robert Gendre Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre, 19 June 1921) is a retired French film and television actor. He is known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including 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). His final film was The Year of the Comet in 1992.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Movies
Gigi, Octopussy, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Paradine Case, Swamp Thing, Three Coins in the Fountain, Can-Can, The Swan, The V.I.P.s, The Return of Swamp Thing, Year of the Comet, Decameron Nights, Anne of the Indies, Julie, The Happy Time, Madame Bovary, The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful, Rue d...
TV Shows
Paris Precinct, The First Olympics: Athens 1896
Star Sign
Gemini
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Often played dashing and charming characters
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Any actor who comes here with an accent is automatically put in roles as a lover. I didn't want to be perpetually cooing in a lady's ear.
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I'm proud to be a Frenchman, but I resent the image people have of the stupid, continental charmer. Against that type of role I fight pitilessly.
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When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.
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I would rather be called a character actor than a star.
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I never see my movies. When they're on television I click them away. Hollywood created an image and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliché.
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There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
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I didn't want to be perpetually cooing in a lady's ear. There's not much satisfaction in it.
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[Speaking of Gregory Peck] He can be funny, which is fortunate; otherwise such perfection would be unbearable.
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Was good friends with his Julie (1956) co-star, Doris Day. They lived across the street (Crescent Drive) from each other in Beverly Hills, California.
In 2010, Jourdon received the 'French Legion of Honor.' The French Ambassador to the U.S presented the medal in Los Angeles, California.
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His father was the manager of the Cannes Grand Hôtel during WW2.
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At the beginning of the 40's, he was engaged to Micheline Presle, whom he fist met during a holiday in St.Tropez in 1938. They were close to getting married at one point, but eventually broke up in a hard way. Jourdan took this so badly that, when he was reunited with Micheline in Twilight (1944), he refused to speak any word to her except for when they were in front of the camera. Micheline was initially irritated by this, but eventually ended up laughing at the whole thing.
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He is retired and living in Los Angeles, CA. [2012]
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Played Edmond Dantes in "The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo" (1961) and later played De Villefort in "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1975).
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He was nominated for a 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Guest Artist for his performance in the play, "13 Rue De L'Amour", at the Arlington Park Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Only son, Louis Henry George Jourdan, was born October 6, 1951.
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According to an 1985 news article, he reads Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
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Doesn't watch his own films.
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He grew up in the south of France with 2 brothers. Parents Yvonne Jourdan and Henry Gendre managed a string of hotels in Cannes, Nice, and Marseilles. He perfected his English by speaking to tourists.
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His wife is called 'Quique'. They were childhood sweethearts.
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It was he who found the body of his only child, Louis Henry, 29, in his Beverly Hills home. His son had suffered from depression and had apparently taken an overdose of drugs. The police labeled it a suicide, even though it may have been an accidental overdose.
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Played the Maurice Chevalier role in "Gigi" on stage at the age of 63. Chevalier was 70 and frail when he did the movie Gigi (1958).
$17 Million
