Yves Montand

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October 13, 1921

9 November 1991 (aged 70) in Senlis, Oise, France of a heart attack. He is buried next to Simone Signoret in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.

Ivo Livi

Carole Amiel (1987 - 9 November 1991) (his death) 1 child

Simone Signoret (22 December 1951 - 30 September 1985) (her death)

Had an affair with Marilyn Monroe in 1960

Dated famous French singer Édith Piaf from 1944 to 1946.

Actor

1992 IP5: L'île aux pachydermes

1991 Netchaïev est de retour

1988 Trois places pour le 26

1986 Manon des sources

1986 Jean de Florette

1983 Garçon!

1982 All Fired Up

1981 Le choix des armes

1979 I as in Icarus

1979 Clair de femme

1978 Les routes du sud

1977 La menace

1976 The Big Operator

1976 Police Python 357

1975 Le sauvage

1975 Section spéciale (uncredited)

1974 Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres

1974 Chance and Violence

1973 Le fils

1972 State of Siege

1972 César et Rosalie

1972 Tout va bien

1971 Delusions of Grandeur

1971 On vous parle de Prague: Le deuxième procès d'Artur London (short)

1970 Le Cercle Rouge

1970 Kelly's Heroes (uncredited)

1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

1970 L'aveu

1969 Le diable par la queue

1969 Z

1969 Mr. Freedom (uncredited)

1968 Un soir, un train

1967 Vivre pour vivre

1966 Grand Prix

1966 Is Paris Burning?

1966 La guerre est finie

1965 Compartiment tueurs

1962 My Geisha

1961 Goodbye Again

1961 Sanctuary

1960 Let's Make Love

1959 La legge

1958 Premier mai

1957 La grande strada azzurra

1957 Les sorcières de Salem

1957 Die Windrose

1957 Uomini e lupi

1957 Django Reinhardt (short)

1956 Un matin comme les autres (short)

1955 Marguerite de la nuit

1955 Les héros sont fatigués

1955 Napoléon

1954 Tempi nostri

1953 The Wages of Fear

1951 Paris Is Always Paris

1951 L'auberge rouge (uncredited)

1950 Lost Souvenirs (segment "Le violon")

1948 L'idole

1946 Les portes de la nuit

1946 Star Without Light

Appearances

2002 Les 13 vies du chat Lelouch (TV documentary)

1994 Montand (documentary)

1989 CBS This Morning (TV series)

1989 The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening (TV documentary)

1989 Mahler's Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' at Masada (TV special documentary)

1988 Cinéma cinémas (TV series documentary)

1987 Europa, Europa (TV series)

1985 Carné, l'homme à la caméra (documentary)

1980-1985 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)

1985 Drôle de festival (TV documentary short) (uncredited)

1985 La guerre d'en face (TV movie)

1984 In Concert at the Met (TV special)

1983 Une minute pour une image (TV series documentary) (Narrator)

1982 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV special)

1982 Rasgos (TV series)

1981 Charles Vanel, les sillons de la vie (TV documentary)

1981 Ciné regards (TV series documentary)

1980 Montand d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (TV movie)

1977 The Base of the Air Is Red (documentary)
(voice)

1977 Una mariposa en la noche (voice)

1977 À perte de vie... Jacques Prévert (TV documentary)
(voice)

1977 Jacques Prévert

1974 La solitude du chanteur de fond (documentary)

1974 Les deux mémoires (documentary)

1974 Are You Crazy, Marcel? (documentary short)

1974 Tid til at leve (TV series documentary)

1972 Monsieur Cinéma (TV series)

1969-1970 The David Frost Show (TV series)

1970 Barbra: Yesterday, Today and Forever! (documentary short)

1969 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)

1968 Paris aktuell (TV series documentary)

1961-1967 What's My Line? (TV series)

1966 Rotterdam-Europoort (documentary short)
(French version) (voice)

1966 Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions (documentary short) (uncredited)

1964 Les Raisins verts (TV series)

1963 Le joli mai (documentary) (voice)

1956-1962 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)

1961 Yves Montand on Broadway (TV movie)

1960 The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1959 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV series)

1959 Discorama (TV series)

1953 Saluti e baci (uncredited)

1951 Paris Still Sings!

Olympia 81

BAFTA Awards

1988 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actor
for: Jean de Florette (1986).

1961 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Foreign Actor
for: Let's Make Love (1960).

César Awards, France

1984 Nominated César Best Actor (Meilleur acteur)
for: Garçon! (1983).

1980 Nominated César Best Actor (Meilleur acteur)
for: I as in Icarus (1979).

David di Donatello Awards

1973 Won David Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero) for: César et Rosalie (1972).

Film Society of Lincoln Center

1988 Won Gala Tribute

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

1957 Won Best Actor for: Les sorcières de Salem (1957). Collective acting prize together with Simone Signoret and Mylène Demongeot.

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"A handsome electrician sent out by the management to apologize for the absence of the star" was how English theater critic Kenneth Tynan described Yves Montand. This is quite apt considering Montand's breakthrough role was a disillusioned driver of a nitroglycerine truck in the French thriller Le Salaire de la peur (1953) (Wages of Fear). His career later led to a variety of roles, yet his character tended to side with the common man, often taking a political stance. This is evident in such movies as Z (1969) and I...comme Icare (1979) (I as in Icarus), in which he played respectively an assassinated politician and a rogue investigator from a Warren Commission-like entity.

Montand was born in Italy. His peasant family immigrated to France soon after his birth, and he was raised in Marseilles. He started out in showbiz as a music hall singer and, in 1944, was discovered by Edith Piaf in Paris. The chanteuse made him part of her act and the pair became lovers.

An early role in the film Les Sorcieres de Salem (1957) (The Crucible), based on Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play comparing McCarthyism to the Salem witch trials, led to Montand's being cast opposite Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love (1960). Relationships with both Monroe and Hollywood were short lived, however. Back in France, Montand declined from Jean-Pierre Melville's Le cercle rouge (1970) (The Red Circle) to more common crime thrillers before being internationally rediscovered in one of his last roles, as the embittered wine farmer in Claude Berri's twin movies, Jean de Florette (1986) and Manon des sources (1986) (Manon of the Spring). He was married twice, first to the French actress Simone Signoret, until her death in 1985, and second to his then-assistant, Carole Amiel.

"I think a man can have two, maybe three affairs...But three is the absolute maximum."