- Jacques Bergerac
Infobox Actor
name = Jacques Bergerac
birthdate = birth date and age|df=yes|1927|5|26
location =Biarritz ,Pyrénées-Atlantiques ,France
spouse =Ginger Rogers (1953-1957)
Dorothy Malone (1959-1964)
goldenglobeawards = Foreign Newcomer Award - Male (1957)Jacques Bergerac (born 26 May 1927 in
Biarritz ,France ) was a French actor with a brief Hollywood film career.Originally a lawyer, Bergerac met and married
Ginger Rogers with whom he appeared in "Twist of Fate " (1954). He then went on to appear as Armand Duval in a television production of "Camille" for "Kraft Television Theatre ", oppositeSigne Hasso . He played the Comte de Provence inJean Delannoy 's film "Marie-Antoinette reine de France" ("Marie Antoinette Queen of France)" (1956) withMichèle Morgan . In "Strange Intruder " (1956), he shared the screen withEdmund Purdom andIda Lupino , and in "Les Girls " (1957), he played the second male lead. He also appeared in "Gigi" (1958), "Thunder in the Sun " (1959) and the cult horror film "The Hypnotic Eye " (1960).In 1957, he received the
Golden Globe Award for Foreign Newcomer.He divorced Rogers in 1957 and, in 1959, married
Dorothy Malone , with whom he had two children. The marriage ended in divorce in 1964. He appeared in a few more films and on television, including "77 Sunset Strip ", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents ", and "The Lucy Show " and also "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the episode "The Square Triangle". His last appearance was on "The Doris Day Show " in 1969, after which he left show-business and became the head ofRevlon 'sParis office.
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