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- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Hervé Villechaize was born in Montauban, France on April 23, 1943. He stopped growing very early and his father (who was a surgeon) tried to find a cure by visiting several doctors and hospitals. But there was none, so Hervé had to live with his small height and also with undersized lungs. He studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and made an exhibition of his own paintings, which were well received. At 21, he left France for the USA where he continued to paint and to make photographs. He also started to participate in some movies and was quickly offered several roles for plays and then for cinema. His first big success was The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) where he was a killer associated to the villain Scaramanga (played by Christopher Lee). He inspired the TV-series Fantasy Island (1977) where he took the role of "Tattoo", the faithful servant of "Mr. Roarke" (Ricardo Montalban). This series was a great success and, thanks to it, Villechaize became famous and rich, mostly because of his enigmatic and charming smile.
In 1983, he argued with the producers of the show in order to earn as much money as Montalban but, instead, he was fired; he also lost his model-actress wife. The series continued without him but stopped one year later, when the media response meter decreased because of the lack of Tattoo's character!
Villechaize became alcoholic and depressed, so he missed several roles that he was offered. His health problems also increased (mostly suffering from ulcers and a spastic colon), and he nearly died of pneumonia in 1992. On the afternoon of Saturday September 4th, 1993, after having watched a movie, he wrote a note and made a tape recording before shooting himself in his backyard. His common-law wife, Kathy Self, discovered his body and called the ambulance which took him to the Medical Center of North Hollywood where he died at 3:40 pm. Villechaize was cremated and his ashes were scattered off Point Fermin, in Los Angeles.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Philippe Labro was born on 27 August 1936 in Montauban, France. He is a writer and director, known for Tout peut arriver (1969), The Inheritor (1973) and The Hunter Will Get You (1976). He has been married to Françoise Labro since 12 August 1978. They have two children.- She was one of the younger daughters of the couple Anne-Olympe and Pierre Gouze from a lower middle class background - her mother was the laundress Anne-Olympe Mouisset, who had been married to the butcher Pierre Gouze since 1756. Marie Gouze's biological father was probably Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan, a Catholic minor aristocrat who moved to Paris, became known there as a man of letters, was accepted into the Académie Française and never acknowledged his daughter. Marie Gouze spent her childhood and youth in her Occitan hometown of Montauban. According to the practices of the time, girls received little or no education. Therefore, the young girl will only have had elementary knowledge of reading and writing. At the age of 17, she was married against her will - to Louis-Yves Aubry, an innkeeper from Paris. He opened an inn there, thanks to her trousseau for this marriage. In 1766 she gave birth to her son Pierre. A short time later her husband is said to have died in the flooding of the River Tarn.
In 1768 the widow and her son moved to Paris, where her sister and brother-in-law were already living. For the rest of her life, Marie Aubry, who adopted the stage name Olympe de Gouges during her time in Paris, a combination of her mother's middle name and a spelling of her maiden name Gouze, remained unmarried. She entered into a free relationship that lasted over 15 years with Jacques Biétrix de Rozières, a noble transport operator in the service of the royal army. The period in her life between her settlement in Paris and her first appearance as a playwright is not known with certainty. During this period from 1768 to 1784 she will have further developed her language, cultural and political knowledge. It was also the time of her first literary attempts, in which she wrote dramas, comedies and other small socio-political pieces, including the socially critical title "Remarques patriotiques", in which she formulated a comprehensive social program.
In 1784, her first publication was the epistolary novel "Mémoire de Mme. de Valmont", which used a biographical background to address the contemporary problem of illegitimate children and the forced marriage of girls. She had previously written a drama that condemned the suffering situation of slaves in the French colonies, designed as a play entitled "Zamore et Mirza ou l'heureux naufrage". The femme de lettres was the first woman to publicly stand up against these grievances in her country. Economic interests in particular prevented a performance in the Paris National Theater "Comédie Française". The author ended up in the Bastille for some time at the behest of the Duke of Duras as the person in charge of the royal theater. It was not until 1789, the year of the French Revolution, that the public production took place, which was considered a scandal and quickly led to the piece being canceled. During this time she wrote and published a number of political brochures, leaflets and posters - despite numerous hostilities because of her Enlightenment ideals. Her play "Le Couvent" was performed at the Théâtre Français Comique & Lyrique in 1790.
In 1791, the pioneer wrote her most contemporary work, the "Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens", in which she outlined equal - including political - rights and duties for women as well as their existential independence. The letter she sent to the National Assembly should be understood as a note of protest and an explicit counter-proposal to the first written French constitution following the revolution, which began with the motto "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité". Not only were its authors exclusively men, but the content of the Égalité excluded women because it was based on the "Declaration of Human and Civil Rights" (Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen). The following year, de Gouges' great utopian novel "The Philosophical Prince" was published, in which she radically addressed the equality of women in all rights. Olymp de Gouges' last play, the drama "L'entrée de Dumourier à Bruxelles ou les vivandiers" from 1793, was full of political explosiveness at the time, because Dumouriez, the protagonist of the piece, switched to the camp of the political opponent shortly after the premiere.
In addition, the critical author publicly warned against revolutionary radicalization or smear campaigns, and spoke out against the terror of revolutionary rule or the death penalty - including for the former royal couple. In her wall newspaper "Les trois urnes ou le salut de la patrie" she campaigned for a direct popular election and was arrested on July 20, 1793 when she tried to put up a poster. Olympe de Gouges was initially incorporated into the Commune de Paris for a short time locked and then housed in the Abbey de Saint-Germain des Pres and other revolutionary prisons. Lengthy interrogations and a house search followed. Even while under arrest, she remained active and wrote stubborn letters, including to the Revolutionary Tribunal. The catastrophic conditions in detention wear them down, exhaust them and make them sick. From October 28th she was imprisoned in the "Conciergerie" in Paris's Palais de la Cité, a prison with 1,200 inmates. On November 1st, she was tried before the special court as the highest judicial authority. Her verdict: death by guillotine. The court did not allow an appeal and the sentence was carried out in the Place de la Concorde that afternoon.
Olympe de Gouges died by beheading in Paris on November 3, 1793. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Pierre Mirat was born on 12 February 1924 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He was an actor, known for Foncouverte (1965), À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) and Bastoche et Charles-Auguste (1960). He died on 16 July 2008 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, France.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Daniel Cohn-Bendit was born on 4 April 1945 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. He is an actor and writer, known for C'est la vie (1991), Un amour à Paris (1987) and Wind from the East (1970). He has been married to Ingrid Apel since 1987. They have one child.- Jacques Amalric was born on 26 October 1938 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He was an actor, known for Jardins en automne (2006), Le tour du Monde (1982) and La journée d'un journaliste (1967). He was married to Isaline de Comarmond and Nicole Zand. He died on 4 June 2021 in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
- René Bousquet was born on 11 May 1909 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. He died on 8 June 1993 in Paris, France.
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Robert Lapoujade had made an impression with his art exhibitions for two decades, between 1939 and 1959, before he decided to move into filmmaking.He had a modest upbringing in a family of bakers and pastry makers, was mostly self taught, and showed his ability at all sorts of odd jobs including the food business.During World War II he helped Jewish children find escape at a refuge in the Alps and avoided his compulsory national service by hiding in the woods.He left the provinces afterwards for Paris, where he became known for his portraits of celebrities and for showing that social issues could be addressed through abstraction rather than the then trendy socialist realism favored on the Left.When he did get into filmmaking, his work The Vertical Smile caused a scandal at Cannes for its use of sexual violence,including castration, and cuts had to be made for the censorship before it could get a theatrical release.- Additional Crew
Janine Garrisson was born on 24 June 1932 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. She is known for The Days That Made History (2009), Ex Libris (1988) and Apostrophes (1975). She died on 22 January 2019 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France.- Composer
- Music Department
- Writer
Étienne Roda-Gil was born on 1 August 1941 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He was a composer and writer, known for Same Old Song (1997), Mad Love (1985) and The White Gown (1975). He died on 31 May 2004 in Paris, France.- Alexis Palisson was born on 9 September 1987 in Montauban, France.
- Colette Maire was born on 8 April 1953 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. She was an actress, known for Voyance et manigance (2001), Deuxième quinzaine de juillet (2000) and Grégoire Moulin contre l'humanité (2001). She died on 11 February 2008 in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
Guy Delooz was born on 27 April 1944 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He was a producer and production manager, known for Les cavaliers de l'orage (1984), Marc et Sophie (1987) and Un film sur quelqu'un (1972). He died on 27 February 2021 in Les Grandes-Ventes, Seine-Maritime, France.- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born on 29 August 1780 in Montauban, France. Jean-Auguste-Dominique died on 17 January 1867 in Paris, France.
- Kevyn Diana was born on 5 September 1984 in Montauban, France. He is an actor, known for Carmen (2011), The Age of Man (2007) and Freedom (2009).