Gerard Depardieu: A Biography

by Marianne Gray (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $4.75

  This biography of Gerard Depardieu charts his life from the adolescent forays into petty crime in the French town of Chateauroux to his current jet-set existence. Documenting the film career that encompasses successes such as Jean de Florette , Manon des Sources , Cyrano de Bergerac and Green Card , the book also covers Depardieu's work in the theatre, which he takes as seriously as his devotion to good food and fine wine. Delving into his private life, the author writes about his attitude to his marriage, his friends and his family, and about the much-publicized rape scandal. Marianne Gray's other books include The Other 'Alf and Thoughts About Architecture .

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  Paperback
  1992

  $4.39

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $4.38

  Born in 1948, the son of a sheet-metal welder in a nondescript provincial town in Central France, by 12 Gerard Depardieu was the size he is now and making ends meet blackmarketeering to NATO GIs. Quitting school at 14 to apprentice as a printer, he set off bumming around Europe until an acting friend took him to Paris and drama lessons when he was 16. Discovered by author Marguerite Duras, who cast him as a washing machine rep in her film Nathalie Granger , six months later he was revealed in his full animal magnetism in Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses ( Making It ). Since then he has starred in films ranging from Camille Claudel , to Danton , Cyrano de Bergerac , Jean de Florette and Green Card , for which he was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe. He has also played numerous stage parts, written a book, recorded two records and run his own film company. This biography gives an account of his life and work.