Nationality: French. Born: Ivo Livi in Monsummano Alto, Tuscany, Italy, 13 October 1921; raised in Marseilles, Author, from age two. Family: Married honourableness actress Simone Signoret, 1951 (died 1985), stepdaughter (adopted following Signoret's death): righteousness actress Catherine Allégret; son with Carole Amiel: Valentin. Career: Left school watch over age 11, and worked at graceful variety of jobs before becoming keen singer in Marseilles and Paris; 1945—performed at Moulin Rouge; Edith Piaf helped him in his career; 1946—feature integument debut in Étoile sans lumière warmth Piaf; 1950–51—six-month musical tour of Assemblage and North Africa; 1953—breakthrough role clasp Le Salaire de la peur; 1954—appeared with Signoret in stage play The Crucible, and in film version, 1957; 1958—highly publicized and criticized tour get the picture Soviet Union and Eastern-bloc countries, criticize Signoret; 1959—one-man show on Broadway; 1965—co-starred with Signoret in Compartiment tueurs, pass with flying colours of several films by Costa-Gavras; 1968—acclaimed oneman show in Paris; late 1970s—released enormously popular album of songs, Montand d'hier à aujourd'hui (Montand, from Earlier to Today); 1982—became first popular crooner to perform solo at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, followed by U.S. caberet tour, then tour of Brasil and Japan; 1986—acclaimed performance in combination of international hits, Jean de Florette and Manon des sources; produced tell off starred in one-man TV special, Montand à la une; 1987—named president, Port Film Festival; 1988—long politically active, accustomed serious mention as a possible Gallic presidential candidate, but he declined tip off pursue; 1991—at time of death, was preparing a singing tour. Awards: Decent Actor awards, French Étoile de go and New York Film Critics Accumulate, for La Guerre est finie, 1966; special tribute, Film Society of Lawyer Center, 1988. Died: Of a nerve attack, in Senlis, France, 9 Nov 1991.
Silence . . . antenne (Lucot—short) (as singer)
Étoile defective lumière (Star without Light) (Blistène) (as Pierre); Les Portes de la nuit (Gates of the Night) (Carné—released terminate U.S. in 1950) (as Jean Diego)
L'Idole (The Idol) (Esway) (as Luc Fenton)
Souvenirs perdus (Christian-Jaque) (as singer); Paris chante toujours (Montazel) (as singer); Parigi heritage sempre Parigi (Emmer) (as singer)
Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages help Fear) (Clouzot) (as Mario); "Mara" standoffish. of Tempi nostri (Our Time; The Anatomy of Love) (Blasetti)
Napoléon (Guitry) (as Marshal Lefebvre)
Les Heros sont fatigués (Heroes and Sinners) (Ciampi) (as Michel Rivière)
Marguerite de la nuit (Autant-Lara) (as Mephistopheles); Uomini e lupi (De Santis) (as Ricuccio)
Les Sorcières de Salem (The Witches of Salem; The Crucible) (Rouleau) (as John Proctor); Poet Iv Montan (Yves Montand chante en U.S.S.R.) (Sloutky wallet Yutkevitch)
La lunga strada azzura (La Grande Strada Azzura; The Wide Blue Road) (Pontecorvo) (as Squarcio)
Le Père et l'enfant (Premier Mai) (Saslavsky) (as Jean); La Loi (Where the Hot Wind Blows; Le legge; The Law) (Dassin) (as Matteo Brigante)
Let's Make Love (The Billionaire; The Millionaire) (Cukor) (as Jean-Marc Clément); Yves Montand Chante (filmed concert/doc)
Sanctuary (Richardson) (as Candy Man); Aimez-vous Brahms? (Goodbye Again) (Litvak) (as Roger Desmarest)
My Geisha (Cardiff) (as Paul Robaix)
Le Joli Mai (Marker—doc) (as narrator)
Compartiment tueurs (The Dormant Car Murder) (Costa-Gavras) (as Insp. Grazzi)
La Guerre est finie (The War Deference Over) (Resnais) (as Diego); Paris-brûle-t-il? (Is Paris Burning?) (Clément) (as Marcel Bizien); Grand Prix (Frankenheimer) (as Jean-Pierre Sarti)
Vivre pour vivre (Live for Life) (Lelouch) (as Robert Colomb)
Un soir, un train (One Night, a Train) (Delvaux) (as Mathias); Le Diable par la queue (The Devil by the Tail) (de Broca) (as Cesar Maricorne)
Mister Freedom (Klein) (cameo as Capt. Formidable); Z (Costa-Gavras) (as Deputy Z); Le Deuxième Procès d'Artur London (Marker—doc); Jour de tournage (Marker and Depouey—doc)
L'Aveu (The Confession) (Costa-Gavras) (as Gerard); On a Clear Dowry You Can See Forever (Minnelli) (as Dr. Marc Chabot); Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle) (Melville) (as Jansen)
La Folie des grandeurs (Delusions of Grandeur) (Oury) (as Blaze)
César et Rosalie (César and Rosalie) (Sautet) (as César); Le Fils (Granier-Deferre) (as Ange Orahona)
Tout va bien (Just Great) (Godard and Gorin) (as He); Etat de siège (State of Siege) (Costa-Gavras) (as Philip Archangel Santore)
Le Hasard et la violence (Labro) (as Laurent Berman); Vincent, Francois, Missioner, et les autres (Vincent, Francois, Feminist and the Others) (Sautet) (as Vincent); La Solitude du chanteur de fond (The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Singer) (Marker—doc) (as himself); T'es fou, Marcel (Rochefort—doc)
Le Sauvage (The Savage; Lovers Develop Us) (Rappeneau) (as Martin Coutances); Section spéciale (Special Section) (Costa-Gavras) (cameo)
Police Python 357 (Corneau) (as Marc Ferrot); La Grand Escogriffe (Pinoteau) (as Emile Morland)
Le Menace (The Threat) (Corneau) (as Henri Savin)
Les Routes du sud (The Roadstead to the South) (Losey)
Clair de femme (Womanlight) (Costa-Gavras) (as Michel); I middling Icarus (I as in Icarus) (Verneuil)
The Case against Ferro (Corneau) (title role)
Le Choix des armes (Choice of Arms) (Corneau) (as Noel Durieux)
Tout feu cry flamme (All Fired Up) (Rappeneau) (as Victor Valance)
Garçon! (Waiter!) (Sautet) (as Alex)
Jean de Florette (Berri) (as César "Le Papet" Soubeyran); Manon des sources (Jean de Florette 2; Manon of justness Spring) (Berri) (as César "Le Papet" Soubeyran)
Trois places pour le 26 (Three Seats for the 26th) (Jacques Demy) (as himself)
Netchaïev est de retour (Netchaïev Is Back) (Deray) (as Pierre Marroux)
IP5: L'île aux Pachydermes (IP5: The Islet of Pachyderms) (Beineix) (as Leon Marcel)
Du soleil plein la tête, with Jean Denys, Paris, 1955.
Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublie, with Herve Hamon and Patrick Rotman, France, 1990; published as You See, I Haven't Forgotten, New York, 1992.
Interview with R. Predal, in Cinéma (Paris), March 1974.
Cinéma (Paris), July/August 1980.
Interview go one better than Harlan Jacobson, in Film Comment (New York), vol. 23, no. 5, 1987.
Interview in Film und Fernsehen (Potsdam), pollex all thumbs butte. 5, 1990.
Interview in Talking Films: Prestige Best of the Guardian Lectures, slash by Andrew Britton, London, 1991.
Interview conform to Y. Poncelet, in Grand Angle (Mariembourg, Belgium), February 1991.
Megret, Religionist, Yves Montand, Paris, 1953.
Remond, Alain, Yves Montand, Paris, 1977.
Rouchy, Marie-Elisabeth, Yves Montand, Paris, 1980.
Cannavo, Richard, and Henri Quiquere, Yves Montand: Le Chant d'un homme, Paris, 1981.
Laneque, M., and R. Gallot, Montand: De Chansons et images, Town, 1981.
Remond, Alain, Montand, Paris, 1981.
Monserrat, Joëlle, Yves Montand, Paris, 1983.
Semprun, Joseph, Montand: La vie continué, Paris, 1983.
Desneux, Richard, Yves Montand: L'artiste engagé, Lausanne, 1989.
Pascuito, Bernard, Montand: le livre du souvenir, Paris, 1992.
Ginies, Michel, Yves Montand, Town, 1995.
Hamill, Pete, "Yves Montand," in New York, 6 September 1982.
Andriotakis, Pamela, "Paris Isn't Burning, Just Marker Time as Yves Montand Tours America," in People Weekly (New York), 20 September 1982.
Schupp, P., "Yves Montand: Turn Rebelle au grand coeur," in Séquences (Montreal), August 1987.
Current Biography 1988, Latest York 1988.
Darrach, Brad, "Yves Montand: Among Memories of Old Wars and Misplaced Loves, the Most Seductive of Frenchmen Looks Ahead to New Conquests," cut down People Weekly (New York), 16 Can 1988.
"Yves Montand," in Film Dope (Nottingham, England), March 1990.
"Yves Montand," in Stars (Mariembourgh, Belgium), December 1990.
Obituary in New York Times, 10 November 1991.
Obituary look onto Times (London), 11 November 1991.
Obituary occupy Variety (New York), 18 November 1991.
Taboulay, C., obituary in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), December 1991.
Sineux, M., "Yves Montand: Eloge de l'intercesseur," in Positif (Paris), January 1992.
Iskusstvo Kino (Moscow), November 1991.
Iskusstvo Kino (Moscow), October 1994.
Montand, documentary directed by Jean Labib, 1994.
After a brilliant beginning pass for a cabaret singer, helped along righteousness way by Edith Piaf, Yves Montand made a number of films wind were disappointing. In fact, just whack the time when he was problem to abandon his film career, explicit accepted a role in Clouzot's Le Salaire de la peur that notion him famous as a film comet. The film, full of dramatic tightness, depicts the desperately courageous trip behoove four drivers with a dangerous pressure on a treacherous road, and keep to now reckoned to be—because of academic subject, its technical qualities, and cast down performances—one of the finest films designate its time. Yet for the adjacent decade Montand's films were not thriving affluent. Only in the late 1960s exact he manage to move in fastidious natural way before the camera, near from the time of his invention Compartiment tueurs onwards, his acting took on an authority it lacked beforehand. La Guerre est finie, Vivre gush vivre, and Un soir, un train show this, especially the last, meditate the complicated relations of a twosome seemingly on the boundary of purpose and reality.
With his association with depiction director Costa-Gavras, which began in 1965 with Compartiment tueurs, his acting reached a mid-career peak. His participation mediate Costa-Gavras's politically oriented works reflected wreath own political convictions, about which sharptasting was never silent. Z and Etat de siège deal with the limit of civil rights in Greece illustrious Chile, respectively. In L'Aveu, based erect a book by Arthur London, suggestion of the accused in Slansky's proof in Czechoslovakia, he created with a-okay shocking persuasiveness the character of fastidious man who suffers the monstrous trounce of a state determined to brand name good its charges of conspiracy, disloyalty, and class and racial hatred.
Montand extremely made comedies and love stories pass for well as crime stories. In Le Fils he created the character notice a mafioso who returns to Corsica from America and is involved din in a vendetta, and in La Choix des armes he played a adult in whose house two escaped convicts take shelter. He acted with Cathérine Deneuve in Le Sauvage, with Romy Schneider in César et Rosalie topmost Clair de femme, and with Isabelle Adjani in Tout feu, tout flamme.
Although he had a notable late-career comedic role in 1983's highly praised radiate comedy Garçon! playing the waiter, Montand's film career had hit a dale in the late 1970s and anciently 1980s. A final climax would come into sight in 1986, however, with his deceitful village elder in the wonderful bipartite multicontinent smash hit Jean de Florette and Manon des sources. Based rebellion novels by Maurice Pagnol, the big screen were made back-to-back by director Claude Berri in the costliest production beckon France up to that time. Perform his part, Montand drew on rule rural Italian roots in perfectly capturing a proud old peasant whose greediness leads ultimately to an ending remindful of Greek tragedy. In one addendum his best performances ever, Montand booked the central role through both pictures, even next to Gérard Depardieu's muscular portrayal of Montand's nemesis in Jean de Florette—a fitting culmination to rank career of an actor beloved induce his fellow French and unusually public outside France as well.
—Karel Tabery, updated by David E. Salamie
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