JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL

'Jean-Pierre Cassel' (October 27 1932 - April 19 2007) was a French actor, born in Paris.
The son of a doctor father and opera singer mother, Cassel was discovered by Gene Kelly as he tap danced on stage, and later cast in the 1957 film "The Happy Road". Then Cassel gained fame in the late 1950s as a hero in comedies by Philippe de Broca.
During the 1960s and 1970s he worked with Claude Chabrol (''La Rupture''), Luis Buñuel (as Stéphane Audran's husband in ''Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie''), Ken Annakin (as Frenchman in ''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines''), Gérard Brach (as Claude Jade's lover in ''The Boat on the Grass''), Richard Lester (as Louis XIII - married to Geraldine Chaplin - in ''The Three Musketeers''), Sidney Lumet (as Pierre in ''Murder on the Orient Express''), Joseph Losey (with Isabelle Huppert in ''The Trout''). In later years he appeared in Robert Altman's ''Prêt-à-Porter'' (1994) and also as Dr. Paul Gachet for ''Vincent & Theo'' (1990).
In 2006, at age 74, he climbed back on stage for a retrospective of Serge Gainsbourg entitled ''Jean-Pierre Cassel chante et danse Gainsbourg Suite''. This homage to an old friend (he knew Gainsbourg in the 1950s) featured various songs of the famous French composer among which three unpublished songs named Top à Cassel : Cliquediclac, Ouh ! Là là là là et Viva la pizza (all of these songs where intended for a television show aired in 1964).
He was the father of Vincent Cassel, Mathias Cassel (also known as Rockin' Squat, leader of the french rap crew Assassin) and Cécile Cassel.

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