On April 21, local time, the famous director, actor and producer Jacques Perrin passed away peacefully at his home in Paris at the age of 80. His son, Mathieu Simonet, who also works in film, confirmed his father's death to the media.
Jacques Behan has been in film for more than half a century and has participated in hundreds of film and television works. The most well-known role he has played is the middle-aged Toto in "Paradise Cinema". At the age of 60, he suddenly changed his orbit and became a documentary director. He continuously filmed many nature documentaries such as "Migrating Birds", "Ocean" and "Four Seasons on the Earth", so that audiences all over the world can learn about the planet we live in. With a refreshing understanding and understanding.

Jacques Behan on the set of "The Migrating Bird."

Jacques Behan was born on July 13, 1941 in Paris as Jacques-André Behan-Simonet. Because both his parents worked in the theatre, Behan was on the stage at the age of fourteen, and then studied at the French high theatre with his older sister Eva Simonet, who was three years older than him. However, after a while, he voluntarily chose to drop out of school because he was too busy with acting.

young jacques behan

Less than twenty years old, the handsome and handsome Behan has become a regular on the French big screen. In the film "Suitcase Girl" released in 1962, he played the male lead for the first time, and he was three years older than him. The Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (Claudia Cardinale), performed together in a young and hazy romance.

"Suitcase Girl"

The great success of the film also made Behan's play more or less solid for a long time after that. The director always likes to ask him to play the ignorant young man, whether it is playing with Marcello Mastroianni as a brother. The "Family Diary", or "The Son of a Venetian Baker" about his accidental involvement in a murder case, or "The Devil's Ball" with Catherine Deneuve as a young couple, are generally such works. Even in the 1965 war film "Squad 317", the commander of the French squad played by Behan is still just a young man who lacks actual combat experience.
In 1966, Jacques Behan played the protagonist Michel, who was caught in a nervous breakdown and an existential crisis in Italian director Vittorio Desetta's experimental stream-of-consciousness work "Half a Man." The film participated in the competition for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival that year, and Jacques Behan's wonderful performance won him the Best Actor Award.
It is not easy to receive this honor at such a young age, but Behan is not satisfied with himself. Just two years later, he set up a film production company under his own name and transformed into a film producer, specializing in investing in subjects he was interested in, including the Greek director Costa Gavras. The handed down masterpiece "Focus News" (Z). The film is based on the background of the Greek political shady, boldly exposed the various injustices of the military government, created a new wave of political films, and was nominated for the best film and the best foreign language film at the Academy Awards that year (and finally won the best foreign language film. Film Award), and Behan, who was nominated for an Oscar as a producer, was not yet thirty at the time.

"hot news"

Since then, Jacques Behan has successively invested in the shooting of Costa-Gavras' "Siege", "Special Court" and many other works, and his acting career has continued to blossom. She has played important roles in works of different genres, such as "Liu Mei Hua Jiao" and "Donkey Skin Princess", as well as the police and gangster film "The Promise of a Police Officer" starring Alain Delon.

"The Donkeyskin Princess"

In "Cinema Paradiso", which was released in 1989 and directed by Italian director Giuseppe Tonadore, Behan played the role of a successful director who returned after 30 years due to the death of his childhood friend Alfredo. Hometown town, relive the film enlightenment process of childhood.

"Paradise Cinema"

In 2004, he also made a cameo appearance as an elderly conductor in "Spring in the Cattle Class" directed by his nephew Christopher Ballardier.

"Spring in the Cattle Class"

Compared with his status as an actor, Jacques Behan, as a documentary director, has actually won more honors. In the late 1990s, he successively served as the producer of the two documentaries "The Himalayas" and "Microcosm", and he was inspired and encouraged by them. In 2001, he completed the filming of the documentary "Migrating Birds". It made up the trilogy commonly known as "Heaven, Earth and Man" by fans.

"Himalaya"

"Microscopic World"

Twenty years before the birth of aerial photography drones, "Migrating Birds" overcame various difficulties and used a lot of human and material resources to record the endless life of various birds on the earth with an almost impossible picture from zero distance. Nominated for that year's Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

"Migrating Birds"

Behan once said that when he was a child, he would go to the farmer's grandfather's house in the Isère province in southern France every year during the holidays: "There, I have a lot of time to observe the relationship between people and animals up close. Later, when I was shooting "Team 317" in the jungle of Vietnam, I felt that I was a step closer to nature. In 1970, there was a French documentary "The Other Field", which had a great influence on me. The photographer went into the jungle , recording the tiniest sound, let me know how capable the film is in this regard. In my opinion, from being interested in nature to taking up arms to defend it, this is a logical thing to do And film is precisely such a powerful weapon, it can evoke strong emotions in the audience, and the effect is much stronger than words.”

Jacques Behan (first from right) in "Team 317".

French cultural circles also fell into mourning following news of Jacques Behan's death. The former chairman of the Cannes Film Festival, the famous film critic Jill Jacob remembered: "Jacques is a very magical person. No matter what he does, he can achieve great success."