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French actor Depardieu to be feted by U.S. film society
(AP)
Updated: 2007-07-18 08:25
French actor Gerard Depardieu arrives for a gala screening of British
director
Michael Winterbottom's film 'A Mighty Heart' at the 60th Cannes Film
Festival,
in this file photo from May 21, 2007.[Reuters]
French actor Gerard Depardieu will be honored at this year's salute by
the Film Society of the Lincoln Center, which recognizes the
extraordinary careers of distinguished film artists each year.
About 20 of Depardieu's films will be shown from Aug 3-19 as part of the
tribute, including his Academy Award-nominated role as the literary hero
in "Cyrano de Bergerac."
"Depardieu's to European cinema in the '70s what Brando was to American
cinema in the '50s," Kent Jones, associate director of programming at the
Film Society of Lincoln Center, said in a statement.
"He was able to connect to and represent the whole gamut of European
males: tough guy, stud, intellectual, bourgeois, anarchic rebel,
hedonist."
Jones said Depardieu, 58, was also an emblematic figure in American
moviegoing, seen by anyone with adventurous tastes in the '60s, '70s and
'80s.
"Doing this series now is not just saluting him, its saluting an era of
moviegoing."
The actor had a rocky start in life, according to a biography released by
the New York-based society.
He was born in Chateauroux, France, the third of six children to an
alcoholic father, and ran away from home.
He worked odd jobs before starting to steal which led to a short stay in
prison and it was when a friend supposedly convinced Depardieu to
audition for the Theatre Nationale Populaire in Paris that he found
acting.
He broke into both film and television in the mid-1960s by playing
character roles that somewhat reflected his disreputable past but his
career really took off in 1974, when he starred in Bertrand Blier's
"Going Places," about two loafers pillaging their way across France.
He has won a list of awards during the career including a Cannes Film
Festival acting award, an Oscar nomination for "Cyrano de Bergerac"
(1990), and twice won France's Cesar Award for Best Actor.
In 2005, Depardieu announced his intention to retire from screen acting
-- but has appeared in nearly 20 films since then and is scheduled to
perform in eight films in the next two years, said the Film Society of
the Lincoln Center.
The actor also has a mix of business interests including two Parisian
restaurants, a vineyard in the Loire valley, Romanian textile and telecom
outlets and Cuban oil wells.
Since 1972, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has created an Annual Gala
Tribute, beginning with the effort to return Charlie Chaplin to the
United States from Switzerland.
Past honorees include Fred Astaire, Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor,
Bette Davis, Jack Lemmon, and Diane Keaton.
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