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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1932-11-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Dacheville) was a French film and television actress, known for her performances in award-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987) and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978).
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Born 1947-09-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
In 1972, Roger Knobelspiess was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a robbery which he denied having committed. During his detention, he met Jacques Mesrine, the No. 1 public enemy of the time. Cultivated, expressing himself well, he explains the existence of delinquency by "the inequalities of bourgeois society", and obtains the support of many intellectuals and artists, such as Léo Ferré, Jacques Higelin who composed a song for him album Fallen from the sky.
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Born 1911-12-25. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Age
She was a French-born American artist and sculptor. Her most famous works are possibly the spider structures, titled Maman, from the last dozen years.
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Born 1902-08-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French stage, film, and television actor. He also directed stage plays such as the premier presentation of Jean Giraudoux's Sodom and Gomorrah at the Théâtre Hébertot in 1943. He is perhaps best known for his role in the surreal 1972 comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. He was one of the favorite actors of the French filmmaker Pierre Chenal.
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Born 1897-04-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. Sirk started his career in Germany as a stage and screen director, but he left for Hollywood in 1937 after his Jewish wife was persecuted by the Nazis. In the 1950s, he achieved his greatest commercial success with film melodramas like Imitation of Life, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, Magnificent Obsession and A Time to Love and a Time to Die. While those films were initially panned by critics as sentimental women's pictures, they are today widely regarded by film directors, critics and scholars as masterpieces. His work is seen as "critique of the bourgeoisie in general and of 1950s America in particular", while painting a "compassionate portrait of characters trapped by social conditions". Beyond the surface of the film, Sirk worked with complex mises-en-scène and lush Technicolor colors to subtly underline his statements.
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Born 1875-04-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1893-01-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
At the liberation of Paris in 1944, Drieu had to go into hiding. Despite the protection of André Malraux, and after a failed first attempt in July 1944, he committed suicide by poisoning himself with medicaments. He recounted that he first tried to commit suicide at 7. Suicide had been a constant temptation throughout his adult life. Like Robert Brasillach, his death caused him to be revered as a martyr by neo-fascists and others who shared his deep dissatisfaction with bourgeois society.