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Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director. Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for his film The Friends. Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont. Source: Article "Gérard Blain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
A French actor and filmmaker who rose to prominence as a leading face of the French New Wave cinema in the late 1950s.
He is recognized for his lead roles in Claude Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge and The Cousins, as well as his performance in Howard Hawks' Hatari!.
As a director, he focused on intimate, often melancholic dramas including The Friends and A Child in the Crowd.