Jack Palance and Mick Jagger, with fleshy lips and a broken nose (the legacy of a playground punch-up in youth). But, like many men with irregular features, he generated an atmosphere of danger and excitement that wove its spell on women from a variety of different backgrounds – Jean Seberg’s American student abroad in A Bout de Souffle; shy, repressed Jeanne Moreau in Moderato Cantabile (1960); earthy Claudia Cardinale in La Viaccia in 1961; and the cool, elegant ice maiden played by Catherine Deneuve in La Sirène du Mississippi (1969).
His rise to fame was rapid. “One minute”, he said, “I was reading Cinéma Monde and drooling over pictures of Gina, Sophia and Brigitte Bardot.
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