Jean-Louis Trintignant

French film legend Jean-Louis Trintignant, who earned acclaim for his starring role in the Oscar-winning film “A Man and a Woman” passes away at 91.

He starred in Italian films and several films by legendary French director Claude Lelouch, most famously “A Man and a Woman” in 1966, which won the Oscar for best foreign film. In a career that started when he was 19, Trintignant appeared in more than 100 films. Trintignant died in his home in southwest France, according to Bertrand Cortellini, who operated a vineyard with the actor and visited him Thursday before his death.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of France's greatest actors, died on Friday aged 91 and was hailed by President Emmanuel Macron as “a wonderful artistic talent ...

What a face.” It’s a page that turns on a wonderful artistic talent and voice,” said Macron after being informed of the death during a visit to a tech conference in Paris. He died surrounded by his family in the Gard region of southern France, his wife said in a statement.

French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, who became world-renowned in the 1960s with films like "And God Created Woman" and "A Man and a Woman", died on Friday ...

What a face." He was a remarkable man... What a face.— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) pic.twitter.com/dK7OXq39gR June 17, 2022 "He made us a gift of his scars. No cause of death was given. "Trintignant was one of my all-time favourite actors: sexy, pensive, mischievous, capable of deep and searching sadness," tweeted Variety film critic Guy Lodge. "What a body of work.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, the French actor who starred in 'A Man and a Woman' and 'The Conformist,' has died at 91.

Perhaps in response to this brooding reserve, in 1980 the Bronx-born Jewish director Stanley Kubrick was preparing the international release of his horror film “The Shining.” Kubrick asked Trintignant to dub the voice of Jack Nicholson for the French language version. Trintignant’s voice was duly heard in France and French-speaking territories worldwide on the soundtrack of “The Shining.” Trintignant attained superstardom in the romantic melodrama “A Man and a Woman” (1966) directed by Claude Lelouch, of Algerian Jewish origin. Meanwhile, Trintignant’s mother, from a prosperous family in the Vaucluse department of southeast France, reacted to domestic solitude at this challenging time by having a love affair with a Nazi soldier. Other prototypical Trintignant roles were as a general in “Austerlitz” (1960) a vast historical fresco about a Napoleonic battle. Like Aimée, Trintignant was powerfully impacted by the German occupation of his homeland.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, the French cinema icon known for 2012's Amour, And God Created Woman and A Man and a Woman, has died at 91.

Trintignant is survived by his wife Mariane, who he married in 2000. These are parts he and Aimée returned to twice over the years in A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986) and The Best Years of a Life (2019), Trintignant’s final film. He worked again with Haneke for 2017’s Happy End, announcing his retirement the following year only to return for The Best Years of a Life. After a quiet period in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Trintignant’s career surged again when he took on the part of Georges in Michael Haneke’s Amour, who struggles after his wife Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) has a stroke. Trintignant’s big return to cinema was 1966’s A Man and a Woman, where he channelled his love of racing into the role of a young, widowed racing driver embarking on a new relationship with a widow (Anouk Aimée). However, mandatory military service interrupted his star’s ascendancy, and he was sent to Algeria during the war of independence.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, an icon of French cinema for some 60 years, died Friday at his home in France, THR reports. He was 91.

The film won two Oscars and spawned a sequel, "A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later" (1986). In 2019, a third film in the series became his swan song. He was preceded in death by his daughter Pauline, whose crib death inspired the film "It Only Happens to Others" (1971) starring Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni, and his daughter Marie, who was murdered in 2003 by her boyfriend, French rock singer Bertrand Cantat. Following military service, he went on to appear in such films as "Dangerous Liaisons" (1959) before becoming a star with the critical and commercial success of "A Man and a Woman" in 1966.

As per Deadline, the legendary actor, also known for 'Three Colors: Red' and 'A Man and a Woman,' died at his home in southern France on Friday. Trintignant ...

In 2019, he played his final role as a reprisal of the character. He also won the ‘Best Actor’ at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for the political thriller ‘Z.’ You know, it’s amusing the first time around, then not at all.