| 1 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/louis_jourdan.jpg]] |
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| 3 | ->''"I would rather be called a character actor than a star."'' |
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| 5 | Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. |
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| 7 | Jourdan made his film debut alongside Creator/CharlesBoyer in the 1939 French film ''La Corsaire'', the production of which was interrupted by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and then never resumed. His first English-speaking role was in Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/TheParadineCase'' in 1947. |
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| 9 | For the rest of his career, Jourdan worked as often in Hollywood as in Europe. In the majority of his English-language roles, he was typecast as a suave, romantic European. Later in his career, he also demonstrated a flair for playing equally suave villains, including [[{{Dracula}} Count Dracula]] in the BBC television film [[Film/CountDracula1977 of the same name]], Kamal Khan in the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', and Dr. Anton Arcane in ''Film/SwampThing'' and ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing''. |
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| 11 | Jourdan was married to his childhood sweetheart, Berthe Frédérique (née Takar), from 1946 until her death in 2014. They had one son. He died himself one year later, at the age of 93. |
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| 13 | Not to be confused with '40s American singer and bandleader Louis Jordan. |
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| 16 | !!Films with pages on TV Tropes: |
| 17 | * ''Film/TheParadineCase'' (1947) |
| 18 | * ''Film/LetterFromAnUnknownWoman'' (1948) |
| 19 | * ''Literature/MadameBovary'' (1949) |
| 20 | * ''Film/AnneOfTheIndies'' (1951) |
| 21 | * ''Film/ThreeCoinsInTheFountain'' (1954) |
| 22 | * ''Film/HerBridalNight'' (1956) |
| 23 | * ''Film/TheSwan'' (1956) |
| 24 | * ''Film/LoveInTheAfternoon'' (1957) (uncredited) |
| 25 | * ''Film/{{Gigi}}'' (1958) |
| 26 | * ''Theatre/CanCan'' (1960) |
| 27 | * ''DerivativeWorks/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' (1961 and 1975 adaptations) |
| 28 | * ''Film/TheVIPs'' (1963) |
| 29 | * ''Film/{{Count Dracula|1977}}'' (1977) |
| 30 | * ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', episode "[[Recap/ColumboS07E02 Murder Under Glass]]" (1978) |
| 31 | * ''Film/SwampThing'' (1982) |
| 32 | * ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' (1983) |
| 33 | * ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing'' (1989) |
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