Gérard Philipe
French actor (1922-1959)
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French cinema's golden boy of the late 1940s who made 32 films in 15 years before his early death. Philipe became the face of poetic realism through delicate roles in Fan Fan the Tulip and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, while loudly championing communist politics off-screen.
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Gérard Philipe was a prominent French actor who appeared in 32 films between 1944 and 1959 known for his outspoken communist views. He came to prominence during the later period of the poetic realism movement of French Cinema in the late 1940s. His best known credits include Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949), Beauty and the Devil (1950), Fan Fan the Tulip (1953), Montparnasse 19 (1958) and Les liaisons dangereuses (1959).
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