Jean Sorel

Jean Sorel
File:Portrait de Jean Sorel.jpg Jean Sorel in 1966
Born	(1934-09-25) 25 September 1934 Marseille, France
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959–present
Spouse(s)	Anna Maria Ferrero (m. 1962; d. 2018) Patricia Balme (m. 2018)

File:Anna-Maria Ferrero et Jean Sorel.jpg

Jean Sorel with Anna Maria Ferrero in 1966

Jean Sorel (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ sɔʁɛl]; born 25 September 1934) is a French actor.

Born Jean Bernard de Chieusses de Combaud de Roquebrune, he worked extensively in European cinema during the 1960s and 1970s with directors such as Luis Buñuel and Luchino Visconti. However, since 1980 he has worked mostly in television. He was married to Italian actress Anna Maria Ferrero from 1962 until her death in 2018. In 2018 he married Patricia Balme.

Filmography

• 1959: J'irai cracher sur vos tombes as Elmer
• 1960: Les Lionceaux as Patrice
• 1960: I Dolci inganni as Renato
• 1960: Ça s'est passé à Rome (La Giornata balorda) as David
• 1961: Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour! as Le prince de Condé
• 1961: Amélie ou le temps d'aimer as Alain
• 1961: Gold of Rome (L'Oro di Roma) as Massimo
• 1962: Vu du pont as Rodolpho
• 1962: Disorder (Il Disordine) as Andrea
• 1962: Adorable Julia (Julia, Du bist zauberhaft) as Tom Fennel
• 1962: Le Quattro giornate di Napoli (The Four Days of Naples) as Livornese (uncredited)
• 1963: Nur tote Zeugen schweigen as Erik Stein
• 1963: Germinal as Étienne Lantier
• 1963: Chair de poule as Paul Genest
• 1963: Un Marito in condominio as Renato Carcaterra
• 1964: Amori pericolosi as Il legionario (segment "La ronda")
• 1964: La Ronde as Le comte
• 1964: De l'amour as Antoine
• 1965: Le bambole (The Dolls) as Vincenzo (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
• 1965: Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Sandra) as Gianni Wald-Luzzati
• 1965: Made in Italy (À l'Italienne) as Orlando (segment 3 'La Donna', episode 3)
• 1965: Weekend, Italian Style (L'Ombrellone) as Sergio
• 1966: The Man Who Laughs (L'Uomo che ride) as Angelo / Astorre Manfredi
• 1966: Sex Quartet (Le Fate) as Luigi (segment "Fata Elena")
• 1967: Belle de jour as Pierre Serizy
• 1967: Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold (Fai in fretta ad uccidermi... ho freddo!) as Franco
• 1968: The Sweet Body of Deborah (Il Dolce corpo di Deborah) as Marcel
• 1968: Adélaïde as Frédéric Cornault
• 1968: Love Problems as Giorgio
• 1968: I Protagonisti as Roberto
• 1969: Una ragazza piuttosto complicata as Alberto
• 1969: Una sull'altra as Dr. George Dumurrier
• 1969: L'Amica as Franco Raimondi
• 1969: Model Shop as Secretary
• 1970: Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo as Cesare Merlo
• 1970: Paranoia as Maurice Sauvage
• 1970: No desearás al vecino del quinto as Pedro Andreu
• 1971: Carole (Una lucertola con la pelle di donna) as Frank Hammond
• 1971: El Ojo del huracán as Paul
• 1971: La Controfigura as Giovanni
• 1971: Je suis vivant! (Malastrana) as Gregory Moore
• 1972: Mil millones para una rubia as Teniente Barney Holmes
• 1973: The Day of the Jackal as Bastien-Thiry
• 1973: Trader Horn as Emil DuMond
• 1973: Murder in a Blue World (Una gota de sangre para morir amando) as Dr. Victor Sender
• 1973: The Great Kidnapping (La polizia sta a guardare) as Aloisi
• 1974: La Profanazione
• 1975: Une vieille maîtresse (TV) as Ryno de Marigny
• 1976: La Muerte ronda a Mónica as Federico
• 1977: Les Enfants du placard as Berlu
• 1978: L'Affaire Suisse as Paul Suter
• 1978: The Man in the Rushes as Robert
• 1979: Les Sœurs Brontë as Leyland
• 1980: La Naissance du jour (TV) as Vial
• 1981: Quatre femmes, quatre vies: La belle alliance (TV) as Michel
• 1981: Les Ailes de la colombe as Lukirsh
• 1981: Aimée as Pierre Ménard
• 1981: Une mère russe (TV) as Le fils de 20 à 55 ans
• 1982: Aspern as Jean Decaux
• 1982: Le Cercle fermé (TV) as Jérôme Baron / Fabien Moreau
• 1982: La Démobilisation générale (TV) as Serge Boncourt
• 1982: Les Aventures de Miss Catastrophe (Bonnie e Clyde all'italiana) as The Captain
• 1983: Par ordre du Roy (TV) as Le marquis de Ganges (segment "La marquise des Anges")
• 1985: L'Herbe rouge (TV) as Wolf
• 1986: Affari di famiglia (TV) as Enrico
• 1986: Rosa la rose, fille publique as Gilbert
• 1987: Il Burbero as Giulio Machiavelli
• 1988: Le Crépuscule des loups (TV) as Werner
• 1988: Le Clan (feuilleton TV) as Giorgio Stivale
• 1989: Casablanca Express as Major Valmore
• 1990: Un piede in paradiso as Holy father
• 1990: Come una mamma (TV)
• 1990: Prigioniera di una vendetta (TV series) as Marc (1990)
• 1991: Millions as Leo Ferretti
• 1992: Les Cœurs brûlés (TV series)
• 1993: La Scalata (feuilleton TV) as Alain Morrà
• 1993: Una Madre come tu (feuilleton TV)
• 1995: Butterfly (tv) (TV series)
• 1995: Il Prezzo della vita (TV)
• 1995: Fils unique
• 1995: Laura (TV)
• 1997: Le désert de feu ("Deserto di fuoco") (feuilleton TV) as Miller
• 1997: Mamma per caso (TV series) as Giorgio
• 1997: Dove comincia il sole (TV series) as Antonio Amati
• 1998: À nous deux la vie (TV) as David
• 2004: Tout va bien c'est Noël! (TV) as Maxime
• 2005: I Colori della vita (TV)
• 2008: L'ultimo Pulcinella
• 2016: Drôles d'oiseaux as Georges
• 2016: The Origin of Violence as Charles Wagner (2014) (final film role)

External links

• Jean Sorel at the Internet Movie Database
• Jean Sorel on Hollywood.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 12 October 2007)