Tag: Légion d’honneur

Jules Verne

(1828–1905) Jules-Gabriel Verne Works: • Abandoned (English) • All Around the Moon (English) • Around the World in Eighty Days (English) • Autour de la lune (French) • In Search of the Castaways (English) • Les enfants du capitaine Grant (French)…

Louis Jourdan

(1921–2015) Louis Robert Gendre Filmography as Actor: Madame Bovary 1949 Director: Vincente Minnelli Starring: Jennifer Jones, James Mason     Three Coins in the Fountain 1954 Director: Jean Negulesco Starring: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire     The Swan 1956 Director:…

Geneviève Page

(1927–2025) Geneviève Anne Marguerite Bonjean Filmography as Actress: El Cid 1961 Director: Anthony Mann Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren     Belle de Jour 1967 Director: Luis Buñuel Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel   Born December 13 1927 Paris (France)…

Ennio Morricone

(1928–2020) Works: • Greatest Hits Filmography as Composer: Addio fratello crudele 1971 Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Oliver Tobias     La donna della domenica 1975 Director: Luigi Comencini Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset     L’eredità Ferramonti 1976 Director: Mauro Bolognini…

Gérard Depardieu

(1948) Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu Filmography as Actor: Novecento 1976 Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Starring: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu     Le Dernier Métro 1980 Director: François Truffaut Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu     Danton 1983 Director: Andrzej Wajda Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak  …

Anna Karina

(1940–2019) Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer Filmography as Actress: Lo straniero 1967 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina     Pane e cioccolata 1974 Director: Franco Brusati Starring: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina   Born September 22 1940 Copenhagen (Denmark) Died December 14…

Self-Portrait (1906)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Self-Portrait 1906 Oil on canvas, 69.8 × 53 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The famous collection of artists’ self-portraits housed in the Vasari Corridor in Florence, which links the Uffizi Gallery with the Palazzo Pitti, goes…

Dominique Sanda

(1951) Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne Filmography as Actress: Il giardino dei Finzi Contini 1970 Director: Vittorio de Sica Starring: Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda     Gruppo di famiglia in un interno 1974 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger    …

Robert De Niro

(1943) Robert Anthony De Niro Filmography as Actor: The Godfather: Part II 1974 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall     Novecento 1976 Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Starring: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu     Taxi Driver 1976 Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Robert…

Francis Ford Coppola

(1939) Filmography as Director: The Godfather 1972 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino     The Godfather: Part II 1974 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall     Apocalypse Now 1979 Director: Francis Ford…