The sorrow in France provoked by the death at 88 of Jean-Paul Belmondo a few days ago can be explained readily enough by his broad fan base, even if in the past decade or more he stopped making films.

The former boxer was a standout in New Wave classics and then an action star and box office draw in the 1980s. By Jordan Mintzer, Duane Byrge Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged French actor who swept to ...

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(CNN) — The legendary French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo has died aged 88, his lawyer, Michel Godest, said on Monday. The cause of his death was not disclosed. The son of French sculptor Paul Belmondo ...

Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, has died.