Louis Jourdan

. Lithgow resides in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Partial filmography:. He is currently starring on Broadway with Eileen Atkins in the new play, Retreat from Moscow.. He is retired and living in the south of France. Hunsecker in the musical Sweet Smell of Success, based on the film. Louis Jourdan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6153 and 6445 Hollywood Blvd. He received a Tony award for his performance as J.J.

Louis Henry Jourdan was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. John Lithgow (born October 19, 1945 in Rochester, New York) is an actor best known for starring in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, about aliens who assume human form and examine humans in small-town Ohio. Tragedy struck when his son died of a drug overdose in 1981. 1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues. In later years, Jourdan appeared in a number of films, playing the part of the villain, including 1977's Count Dracula and in the 1983 James Bond film, Octopussy, he was cast as "Kamal Khan," a Bond villain. 1976 Obsession. The film earned nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. 1977 Secret Service.

However, he is best remembered as the romantic lead opposite Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier in the 1958 film version of the Colette novel, Gigi. 1978 The Big Fix. During the 1950s, Louis Jourdan made several international films including playing the male lead in La Mariée est trop belle opposite Brigitte Bardot. 1979 All That Jazz | Rich Kids. television debut as Inspector Beaumont in the series "Paris Precinct". 1980 Big Blonde | Mom, the Wolfman and Me | The Oldest Living Graduate. He returned to Broadway for a short run in 1955 and that year made his U.S. 1981 Blow Out.

After a number of American films, his most notable work was in the 1954 light-hearted comedy-romance, Three Coins in the Fountain following which he made his Broadway debut in the lead role in the Billy Rose drama, The Immoralist. 1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can. There, he became friends with several stars who shared his love of the game of croquet. 1982 Not in Front of the Children | The World According to Garp. In 1947, Jourdan accepted an offer from a Hollywood studio to appear in The Paradine Case, an Alfred Hitchcock drama starring Gregory Peck. 1983 Terms of Endearment | The Day After | Twilight Zone: The Movie. After the 1944 liberation of France by the Allies, Louis Jourdan married Berthe Frederique with whom he had a son. 1984 Footloose.

Following the German occupation of France during World War II, he continued to make films but after refusing to participate in Nazi propaganda films, he joined the French Resistance. 1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. He made his film debut in 1939. 1984 2010: Odyssey Two | The Glitter Dome. Born Louis Gendre in Marseille, France, he was educated in France, Turkey and England and trained as an actor at the Ecole Dramatique. 1985 Santa Claus. Louis Jourdan (born June 19, 1919) is a French actor, known chiefly for his suave manner and good looks. 1986 Mesmerized | The Manhattan Project | Resting Place.

Le Corsaire (1939). 1987 Harry and the Hendersons | Baby Girl Scott. La Comédie du bonheur (1940). 1988 Distant Thunder. Premier rendez-vous (Her First Affair) (1941). 1989 Traveling Man | Out Cold. Parade en sept nuits (1941). 1990 Memphis Belle | Ivory Hunters.

La Belle aventure (Twilight) (1942). Story. Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944). 1991 The Boys | L.A. La Vie de bohème (1945). 1991 At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Ricochet. The Paradine Case (1947). 1992 Raising Cain.