Yves Montand

In 2004, his stepdaughter Catherine (Simone Signoret's daughter from her first marriage) published a book titled "World Upside Down" where she revealed that Montand had abused her sexually since she was five years old. One day before the ninth anniversary of his death, his widow, Berry Berenson, died on American Airlines Flight 11, the flight that was hijacked and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. His son, Osgood Perkins, credited as Oz Perkins, is also an actor. In his later years, he maintained a home in Provence until his death. Perkins died in 1992 of complications from AIDS. His only child, Valentin Montand, the son of his assistant Carole Amiel, was born in 1988. Dale married actress Anita Morris only 10 days before the Perkins-Berenson nuptials (Dale and Morris's son is television actor James Badge Dale).

He was nominated for a Cesar Award for "Best Actor" in 1980 for the film "I comme Icare" and again in 1984 for "Garçon !". Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 60s film star Tab Hunter, writer-model-actor Alan Helms, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale, with whom Perkins had a six-year relationship prior to his marriage to Berry Berenson. During his career he acted in a number of American motion pictures as well as on Broadway. He went on to star in (and even direct) the sequels and prequel to Psycho and also played a few memorable characters, such as the chaplain in Catch-22 (1970), but most of his later work was made-for-TV movies or films made outside the USA. The following year, a 65-year-old Montand gave one of his most memorable performances as the scheming uncle in the two-part film: Jean de Florette co-starring Gerard Depardieu and Manon des Sources co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. After other acclaimed performances both in film and on Broadway, he starred in the 1960 film Psycho, which led to his being typecast as the crazy killer (Lovin' Molly notwithstanding). In 1951 Montand married the actress Simone Signoret, co-starring several times with her until her death in 1985. Perkins's first movie was The Actress (1953); he received an Academy Award nomination for his role in his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956).

He would go on to international recognition, starring in numerous films. He was the son of American stage and film actor Osgood Perkins (James Ripley Osgood Perkins, 1891-1937) and his wife, Janet. In 1944 he was discovered by Edith Piaf in Paris and she made him part of her act, becoming his mentor and lover. Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 - September 12, 1992) was an American actor best known for his role as the maniacal murderer, Norman Bates, in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. (Later, when they applied for French citizenship, his father pretended that they did so in order to escape Mussolini's regime, in fact they emigrated in 1921, whereas Mussolini didn't came to power before 1922.) Montand came to grow up in Marseille, where as a young man he worked in his sister's barber shop, and later on the docks.

Shortly after his birth, Montand's family left Italy for France. Yves Montand (October 13, 1921 - November 9, 1991) was a French/Italian actor, born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Alto, Italy. Les Portes de la Nuit (1946). Le Salaire de la Peur (1953).

La Grande Strada Azzurra (1957). Compartiment tueurs (1965). La Guerre est finie (1966). Grand Prix (1966).

Vivre pour Vivre (1967). Z (1968). L'Aveu (1969). Le Cercle Rouge (1970).

L'Aveu (1970). Tout va Bien (1972). César et Rosalie (1972). État de Siège (1973).

Vincent, François, Paul...Et les Autres (1974). Le Fond de L'air Est Rouge (1977). I comme Icare (1979). Garçon ! (1983).

Manon des Sources (1986). Jean de Florette (1986). IP5 (1991).