Just after the Second World War, he was a bit like the French James Dean, the embodiment of the aspirations of young people of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Forty-five years after his death, the ...

Gérard Philipe (4 December 1922 – 25 November 1959) was a prominent French actor who appeared in 34 films between 1944 and 1959. Active in both theater and cinema, he was, until his untimely death, ...