He is one of the most popular French actors of all time. Belmondo has shot close to a hundred films in his fifty-year career. We have selected eight for you for this 100% Bebel quiz!
On September 6, 2021, France mourned the disappearance of one of its favorite actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo. An actor who in fifty years of career, and not far from a hundred films shot, had conquered the heart of a transgenerational public, in the same way as a Louis de Funès or an Alain Delon.
But when Louis de Funès was mainly confined to comedy, while Alain Delon, he remains best known for his police films, Jean-Paul Belmondo will have had the opportunity to approach these two genres at the same time and well still others, beginning his career with the current of the New Wave before moving towards so-called mainstream films.
Indeed, Bebel, as the French call him, for example collaborated three times with Jean-Luc Godard during the 1960s and also with Claude Chabrol for À double tour. He also acted in an adaptation of a novel by Marguerite Duras, Moderato Cantabile.
During this period, we could also see him in several historical films such as Cartouche by Philippe de Broca or Les Mariés de l’an II by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. It was from the mid-1970s that Jean-Paul Belmondo therefore turned to popular detective cinema with films such as Le Marginal, Flic ou voyou, Peur sur la ville or Le Solitaire.
Back on this “magnificent” career with this quiz where you will have to recognize eight of the actor’s films. So knock knock badaboum, it’s up to you!