"Belmondo" boasts a wealth of film clips and testimonials from fellow thesps, helmers and family members attesting to Jean-Paul Belmondo's special qualities (virility!) and influence on a subsequent ...

If Jean-Paul Belmondo had gotten his way, he would have been a stage actor. He applied to the Conservatoire de Paris three times before the illustrious drama school accepted him and spent the 1950s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jean-Paul Belmondo, the French film actor who made his name in Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave of cinema and went on ...

PARIS — Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, has ...

French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose breakout role in the New Wave classic Breathless won him international fame, has died at age 88. French President Emmanuel Macron mourned the passing of a ...

Belmondo's breakout role in Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" launched him into international superstardom and a career spanning six decades. French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose breakout role in ...

French actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, right, and Catherine Deneuve, in 1969. They starred together in François Truffaut's film Mississippi Mermaid. French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose breakout role ...