Biography of Gerard Philip

Born: Philip graduated from theatrical courses in Nice and debut on the stage. The audience and colleagues accepted the novice artist favorably, and after the play “Caligula” all Paris admired them. The father of Gerard, Marseille Philip, who was engaged in business and previously not very welcoming Bohemia, during the occupation of Paris opened the boarding house for actors, where Simon Signor, Yves Allegra and other future celebrities lived.

For Gerard, who had already played on stage with might and main, it was a suitable company. When the capital of France was released, Marseille Philip was arrested, accusing of collaboration, and sentenced to death. However, he managed to flee, he disappeared in Spain, which even his wife did not know about. By the way, she was carried away by spiritualism all her life, after the war, she became a fashionable fortuneteller, and the entire Parisian creative public went to her to get information about her future.

And the future of her son was clear and without predictions. Because an actor with such eyes, a smile, plastic, irony, charm, charisma, as is now customary, is born once every hundred years. At the end of X, the number of fans of Philip did not grow by the day, but by the hour, because one after another, paintings with his participation were released-the “idiot” of Georges Lampen, the “devil in the flesh” of Claude Otan Lara, the “Paramian abode” of Christian-Jacques.

The actor turned into a national treasure, the main romantic hero of world cinema and the first lover of generation. The press did not skimp on such enthusiastic epithets either in those years or in the subsequent ones. The actor’s colleagues were jointly in joints. For example, Jeanne Moro later recalled: “It was a very beautiful person, tall, dry. With a matte color of the face, which happens in men who are in excellent physical shape.

He was the personification of power and faith.

And he always dreamed of perfection, he wanted to become a real actor and a real person. ” True, not everyone shared such a pathos. Daniel Daria said that acting with Gerard is the same as playing in front of a stone wall: all his feelings are sterile, and he himself is completely cold. Of course, it is possible that this was the reaction of the rejected angry woman: personal and professional actors do not always share - this is the specificity of the work.

Having married Ann Nicole Fourcade by the year, Philip destroyed her first prosperous marriage, he was a faithful husband, a good father in M ​​was born Ann-Marie’s daughter, in M-the son of Olivier, a very restrained person in his relationship with numerous handsome partners, a model of dignity and virtue. So he, in particular, appeared in the books of his wife, written by her after the death of the actor.

However, there is a version that family idyll was seriously violated by the actress Dani Carrel, who was disferinging her novel with Philip. Moreover, there were rumors that the actor led a rather stormy intimate life, preferring to the ladies of easy behavior, and was almost a sadist. What is true and that artistic fiction - after half a century it makes no sense to understand.

But the films with Gerard Philip were left without any reservation: “Fanfan-tulpan”, “Red and Black”, “Big Maneuvers”, “Montparnas, 19” remained because in modern cinema the acute shortage of “his” heroes are romantic, daring, proud, independent, charming, even if they are cynics like octav Mure in “alien wives”, so that in “alien wives”. They appeared, in our era of a shortage of fresh ideas there is nothing left to remove the pins, which was made by producer Luke Besson and director Gerard Kravchik in the year, almost poisically restoring Fanfan-Tulipa of fifty years ago.

And Vincent Perez, who played the main role, once again recalled the magical power of art: “I dreamed about this role almost from the boy when I watched the picture with Gerard Philip. This story itself seems to me absolutely modern. She is about the need for freedom and a romantic ideal that confront the absurd of war. Fanfan is the embodiment of freedom. He wants to live a full life.

He turns everything into the game and laughs in the face of the authorities. He is a man of honor and knows what love for a woman is. I like this character - I myself am the same. " Roger Vadim Luis Bunuel Claude Otan - Lara Jacques Beker Julien Duvivier Gerard Philip, Yeris Ivens.