Louis Jourdan

. Internet Movie Database Entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516001/. Partial filmography:. Talent is not yet signed, but the producers are Jennifer Dana and Mark Gordon. He is retired and living in the south of France. Sony Pictures plans a remake of "Safety Last!" for release in 2006. Louis Jourdan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6153 and 6445 Hollywood Blvd. Lloyd was notorious for using his access to get young actresses to pose for him, and in 2004, his granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd produced a book of selections from his photographs, "Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D!" (ISBN 1579123945).

Louis Henry Jourdan was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Harold Lloyd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. Tragedy struck when his son died of a drug overdose in 1981. Lloyd was usually about 20 feet above the ground, but the camera was positioned so that the top of the tunnel was out of shot, and in perspective Lloyd appeared to be hanging above the lower road about a hundred feet below. 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. The documentary revealed that many of Lloyd's high-altitude stunts were performed on dummy buildings above the entrance to a road tunnel. The film earned nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Lloyd was the subject of a television documentary series, Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, which followed similar documentaries about the other two geniuses of the silent movies, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

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. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. During the 1950s, Louis Jourdan made several international films including playing the male lead in La Mariée est trop belle opposite Brigitte Bardot. Lloyd died at the age of 77 from prostate cancer on March 8, 1971, in Beverly Hills, California, USA. television debut as Inspector Beaumont in the series "Paris Precinct". In 1952, Lloyd received a special Academy Award for being a "master comedian and good citizen.". He returned to Broadway for a short run in 1955 and that year made his U.S. The films ignited a renewed interest in Lloyd's work.

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. In 1952 Lloyd produced two compilation films, featuring scenes from his old comedies, Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy and The Funny Side of Life (1953). There, he became friends with several stars who shared his love of the game of croquet. The film was a failure. In 1947, Jourdan accepted an offer from a Hollywood studio to appear in The Paradine Case, an Alfred Hitchcock drama starring Gregory Peck. In 1947, director Preston Sturges brought him out of retirement for one more film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. After the 1944 liberation of France by the Allies, Louis Jourdan married Berthe Frederique with whom he had a son. By the 1940s, Lloyd was no longer active in the film industry.

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. Lloyd's autobiography, An American Comedy, was published in 1928. He made his film debut in 1939. Some of the earliest 2-color Technicolor tests were shot at his Beverly Hills home. Born Louis Gendre in Marseille, France, he was educated in France, Turkey and England and trained as an actor at the Ecole Dramatique. Lloyd was involved with early color film experiments. Louis Jourdan (born June 19, 1919) is a French actor, known chiefly for his suave manner and good looks. Lloyd's home, "GreenAcres" has 44 rooms, 26 bathrooms, 12 fountains, 12 gardens and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Le Corsaire (1939). They also adopted Peggy in 1930. La Comédie du bonheur (1940). Lloyd married his leading lady, Mildred Davis, in February of 1923, with whom he had two children; Gloria, born in 1923, and Harold, born in 1931. Premier rendez-vous (Her First Affair) (1941). Lloyd was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Parade en sept nuits (1941). Lloyd soon began working with Thomas Edison's motion picture company, Universal, and eventually ended up with Hal Roach.

La Belle aventure (Twilight) (1942). Lloyd, born in Burchard, Nebraska, started acting in one-reel film comedies in 1912 in San Diego, California. Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944). Lloyd did his own stunts and worked without safety nets, even after severely injuring his right hand in a 1919 accident with a prop bomb. La Vie de bohème (1945). Lloyd is best known for his extended chase sequences that included daredevil physical feats like climbing the sides of tall buildings, hanging precariously from clocks, flagpoles and ledges. The Paradine Case (1947). Lloyd made nearly 500 comedy films, both silent and sound.

Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948). Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20, 1893 - March 8, 1971) was an American actor. Madame Bovary (1949). Bird of Paradise (1951). Decameron Nights (1953).

Paris Precinct (1953) TV Series. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). The Swan (1956). Julie (1956).

La Mariée est trop belle (Her Bridal Night) (1956). Escapade (1957). Dangerous Exile (1957). Gigi (1958).

The Best of Everything (1959). Can-Can (1960). Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) (1961). Le Vergini di Roma (1961) (Amazons of Rome) (1963).

Leviathan (1962). The V.I.P.s (1963). Made in Paris (1966). Les Sultans (1966).

Cervantes (1967). To Die in Paris (1968) (TV). Fear No Evil (1969) (TV). Ritual of Evil (1970) (TV).

The Great American Beauty Contest (1973) (TV). The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) (TV). Count Dracula (1977) (TV). Silver Bears (1978).

The French Atlantic Affair (1979) TV Mini-series. Double Deal (1981). Swamp Thing (1982). Escape to Love (1982).

Octopussy (1983). Cover Up (1984) (TV). Beverly Hills Madam (1986) (TV). Grand Larceny (1987).

Escuadrón (1987) (Counterforce) (1987). The Return of Swamp Thing (1989). Year of the Comet (1992).