Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor.
Jourdan made his film debut alongside Charles Boyer in the 1939 French film La Corsaire, the production of which was interrupted by World War II and then never resumed. His first English-speaking role was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case in 1947.
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 Count Dracula in the BBC television film of the same name, Kamal Khan in the James Bond film Octopussy, and Dr. Anton Arcane in Swamp Thing and The Return of Swamp Thing.
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.
Not to be confused with '40s American singer and bandleader Louis Jordan.
Films with pages on TV Tropes:
- The Paradine Case (1947)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Madame Bovary (1949)
- Anne of the Indies (1951)
- Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
- Her Bridal Night (1956)
- The Swan (1956)
- Love in the Afternoon (1957) (uncredited)
- Gigi (1958)
- Can-Can (1960)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1961 and 1975 adaptations)
- The V.I.P.s (1963)
- Count Dracula (1977)
- Columbo, episode "Murder Under Glass" (1978)
- Swamp Thing (1982)
- Octopussy (1983)
- The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
