
Pierre Clémenti
Born September 28, 1942 · Paris, France
Pierre Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 27 December 1999) was a French actor. Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour, the 1967 classic by Luis Buñuel, in whose film La voie lactée he played the Devil. He appeared in several highly regarded films of the period, working with many of Europe's best known directors, including Luchino Visconti (The Leopard), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist and Partner). Other directors he has worked with are Liliana Cavani, Glauber Rocha, Miklós Jancsó and Philippe Garrel. In 1972, his career was derailed after he was sentenced to prison for allegedly possessing or using drugs. Due to insufficient evidence, Clémenti was released after 17 months; later he penned a book about his time in prison. After his release he played the role of ever-optimistic sailor of the Potemkin in Dusan Makavejev's scandalous movie Sweet movie, and the role of the seductive saxophone player Pablo in Fred Haines's film adaptation of Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. Throughout his career, he continued to be active on-stage. He was also involved with the French underground film movement, directing several of his own films, which often featured fellow underground filmmakers and actors. Visa de censure no X was an experimental work made up of two of films. New Old was a feature length work released in 1978 in which Viva appeared. La Revolution ce ne'est qu'un debut, continuons le combat, followed by In the shadow of the blue rascal and Sun. He died of liver cancer in 1999 Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Clémenti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hideous Kinky

The Milky Way

The Man Who Laughs

Le Pont du Nord

Exposed

Shock Troops

Hard to Be a God

La deuxième femme

Dog Day

How Not to Rob a Department Store

Crush Proof

The Austrian

Listen, Let's Make Love

Pigsty

The Idols

The Year of the Cannibals

Quartet

The Diary of an Innocent Boy

Edith's Diary

The Song of Roland

Pop' game

The Hips of J.W.

Lamiel

Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move

The Pacifist

Visa de censure n° X

The Irony of Chance

Partner

L'amour des femmes

11 testaments

In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal

The Designated Victim

Steppenwolf

The Brunette and Me

Jack of Spades

La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur

Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'

Madame Sourdis

The Fall of the House of Usher

Necropolis

New Old

The Inner Scar

Zoo zéro

The Virgin's Bed

Brigade Anti Gangs

Les Jours et les Nuits

Book of Saints of Eternal Rome

Rapt ou la Séparation des races

Manon Roland

Cutting Heads

Attendre le navire

His Day of Glory

Chassé-croisé

Paris s'en va

Wheel of Ashes

Adorable Liar

Clash

Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories

Positano

Nightmare

Antenna

Enchanted Isles

The Red Poster

Flore et Blancheflore

Les Frangines

Un film porno

The Son of Amir Is Dead

The Infernal Machine

Autoportrait d’un schizophrène

Souvenirs souvenirs

The Sun

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