- French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant died at the age of 91.
- He was best known for his role in A Man and a Woman 50 years ago.
- The actor has appeared in over 100 films over his career.
Jean-Louis Trintignant, a French film legend and amateur racing car driver who gained renown for his starring part in the Oscar-winning film A Man And A Woman half a century ago and then went on to show the cruelty of aging, has died at the age of 91.
According to Bertrand Cortellini, who owned a vineyard with the actor and saw him on Thursday before his death, he died at his property in southwest France.
According to French news reports, Trintignant was diagnosed with cancer.
Trintignant has appeared in over 100 films over his career, which began when he was 19 years old.
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He was one of France’s most renowned actors in the postwar era, as well as one of the last of his generation’s performers.
After his death was revealed on Friday, tributes poured in.
Trintignant, who was born on December 11, 1930 in Piolenc, southern France, began his acting career on the stage but rose to prominence in cinema, most notably in the 1956 film And God Created Woman, in which he co-starred with Brigitte Bardot.
He appeared in Italian films as well as several films directed by iconic French director Claude Lelouch, the most notable of which being A Man And A Woman, which received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1966.
