The famous actor of the sixties and seventies, who married Brigitte Bardot in 1959, with whom he had a son, Nicolas-Jacques, died this Wednesday night, in the commune of Saint-Briac-Sur-Mer (Ille-Et-Vilaine), at the age of 88, BFMTV learned from concordant sources. The circumstances of his death are unknown at the moment.
Born in Metz in 1936, Jacques Charrier began learning Ceramist’s profession in Strasbourg before embarking on the cinema at twenty thanks to a master of the Montpellier conservatory who offers him a role in the film Arlesian, Adapted from Alphense Daudet’s novel.
After a small success of the local media, the young man climbs to Paris, joined the Desatt (National School of Arts and Techniques of the Theater), continues the small works and wins the main male role in the adaptation to the theater of Anne Frank Journalthe only time in the boards.
Then he was noticed by the filmmaker Marcel Carné, who offers him the first role in CheatingTogether with Laurent Terzieff, Pascale Petit or Jean-Paul Belmondo. Released in 1958, the film enjoys great popularity in cinemas. It is the beginning of the popularity for the actor.
Honeymoon with BB
Then he turned, in 1959, in Babette goes to war From Christian-Jacque after Brigitte Bardot, with whom he shares the poster, imposed his name. The two actors fell in love and immediately married, at the end of the shooting, on June 18, 1959, in front of an audience of journalists.
Shortly after, René Clément offered him a role in the famous Full sunBut Jacques Charrier declines, the heroine of And God … created the woman Be pregnant. The birth of his son, Nicolas-Jacques, on January 11, 1960, reached the headlines. However, the couple divorced three years later. And Jacques Charrier obtains the custody of his son, whom he raises with his new wife, France Louis-Dreyfus.
The actor turned at that time in about twenty films made by the best contemporary filmmakers, such as Agnès Varda (Creatures), Claude Chabrol (The seven sins of the capital), Gérard Oury (The hot hand), Jean-Pierre Mocky (Dredgers)Jean-Luc Godard (The oldest work in the world) or Michel Deville (For a woman). But successes are more shy.
In 1969, he founded the producer Les Films Marquise with the actor and director Jean-Claude Bialy to finance budget works. But he is forced to lower the curtain in 1975 after the bitter failure ofIt rains Santiago Helvio Soto.
Discretion and painting
In the 1980s, Jacques Charrier returned to his first love and resumed artistic studies at the Paris School of Fine Arts. Far from the cameras, he dedicated himself to painting, regularly exhibits in several important international cities, but returns (despite himself) under the focus when Brigitte Bardot published, in 1996, his memoirs, his memoirs, BB initials, in which the actress tells her unwanted pregnancy.
Your answer is not long to come. Jacques Charrier successfully brought him a trial for “privacy violation” and publishes in return My answer to Brigitte Bardot in 1997.
After his wedding with Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier married three more times and had five other children.
Source: BFM TV
