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Jacques Charrier, French Actor-Turned-Artist, Dies at 88

His life spanned a breakout in postwar French cinema to a late embrace of painting marked by a recent retrospective in Saint-Briac.

Avec BB, la relation fut aussi intense que tumultueuse.
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La rencontre entre l’acteur et Brigitte Bardot se fait sur le tournage de Babette s’en va-t’en guerre. Ils se marient le 18 juin 1959, deux ans après le divorce de l’actrice d’avec Roger Vadim.
L'acteur Jacques Charrier (centre), lors d'une conférence de presse à Paris, le 11 janvier 1960

Overview

  • Charrier died Wednesday evening in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer at 88, with the circumstances of his death not yet disclosed.
  • He rose to fame in the late 1950s with Les Tricheurs and Babette s'en va-t-en guerre, later working with filmmakers including Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard.
  • Married to Brigitte Bardot in 1959, he was the father of her son Nicolas-Jacques and obtained custody after their 1963 divorce.
  • In 1997, Charrier and his son won a privacy case against Bardot following the publication of her memoirs, and he published a rebuttal the same year.
  • From around 1980 he devoted himself to painting, culminating in a July retrospective in Saint-Briac as local acquaintances posted tributes after his death.