French actor
Hes perfectly bilingual (French/English)
He studied painting before turning to acting.
He nicknamed Delphine Seyrig "The Actress with the Cello Voice".
He described the shooting of India Song as the happiest experience of his career.
He appeared in 6 movies starring Delphine Seyrig : Comdie , Baisers vols , The Day of the Jackal , Alose , India Song and Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta dsert . The two actors also worked together in several stage productions, including La chevauche sur le lac de Constance , which was filmed.
In the documentary Delphine Seyrig, portrait dune comte , he tells a very poignant anecdote related to Delphine Seyrig : the actress had once made him a gift of a succulent plant that grew flowers about every two years. He claims that it kept flourishing for about 15 years, but never again after Delphines death.
Considered for Fallanda and Bukovsky in Lifeforce .
He dubbed himself in the French version of Moonraker .
As of 2015, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Chariots of Fire , The Remains of the Day and Munich . Of those, Chariots of Fire is a winner in the category.
His father was English and his mother Irish; the family moved to Morocco in 1939 and to Paris in 1947.
