Death of Jacques Boudet, Robert Guediguian’s actor in Plus belle la vie

Jacques Boudet died on the night of July 14-15 at the age of 89, his agent confirmed to AFP. Western France). Robert Guediguian’s favorite actress, with whom he had made more than a dozen feature films, was a famous face of cinema.

Actor Arian Askarid, who shot a number of films with him in front of Robert Guediguian’s camera, said on Facebook:

It was elegant, no-nonsense, it swam in a special style, it was too cultured. He was a great actor who was loved by everyone. He took advantage of the 14th of July fireworks to go dancing on the stars… he was my friend, so attentive and gentle, we did so much together!

• Shannen Doherty, Anouk Aimee, Carl Weathers also left us this year

Bude: success in the theater

Theater actor Jacques Boudet had particularly great success in the 1980s with exercises directed by Jacques Seiler. But he appeared on the big screen in 1971 in the comedy La Coqueluche, and then went on to play smaller roles.

It can be found in some outstanding works of French cinema, such as Zulawski’s L’Important C’est d’aimer and Granier-Deferre’s Strange Affair. In 1984, he played the Duke of Germantes in Un amour de Swann, German Schlöndorff’s adaptation of Proust’s work.

Robert Guediguian’s favorite actor

Jacques Boudet works with such prestigious filmmakers as Blier, Tavernier, Lelouch and Besson, but it is thanks to the narrator of de l’Estaque, Robert Guediguian, that he achieved fame. Actress Marcel joined the director’s “family” from his second feature film Rouge Midi in 1983, and her cheerful and good nature can be found in almost every film since then.

Thus, with Pascal Roberts, he forms a tender and charming couple in Marius et Jeannette and La Ville est Tranquille. With the false air of an old sea wolf Philippe Noiret – whose brother he plays in Michel Bougainville’s Father and Son, he reunited with his beloved director in 2004 for My Father Is an Engineer, in which his daughter is the filmmaker’s muse. Ariane Askarid.

Popular comedy and political drama

In 2006, he was a mafia senator who faced off against Isabelle Hooper in Claude Chabrol’s Drunkenness of Power. For Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, he played Jean-Paul Ruve’s monopolistic father in Our Happy Days and three years later (still with Ruves) he would play a similar role in Le Coach.

Sophie Marceau called him for his second feature film as a director: La Disparue de Deauville (2007), then he played the father of the “white woman in black”, Agath Claire. He starred in Lady Jane, nominated for the Berlin Golden Bear, before reprising his father’s role: Jacques Gamblin in Michel Leclerc’s In the Name of the People.

He continued his career with famous filmmakers, shooting for Jean-Pierre Amery (Les Emotifs anonymous) and Pierre Scholer (L’Exercice de l’Etat). He also appears on television in several TV movies or series, including Plus Belle la vie, in which he plays the so-called homeless Gaston Dommert – actually a wealthy mobster.

Above all, loyal

After Benoît Jacquot’s Les Adieux à la Reine, he shot twice for his friend-turned-director Jean-Paul Rouve in Les Souvenirs, then Lola et ses Frères, reuniting with Michel Leclerc in La Lutte des classes and Robert Guediguian For La Villa and Et la party. continues!

In 2024, he signed his last two films Little Girl Blue, about French writer and photographer Carole Achache, and Paternal, the story of a priest who discovers he is the father of a child.