Gérard Barray

Born: 1931-11-02

Gérard Barray (born 2 November 1931 in Toulouse) is a French actor. Barray's parents split up quickly and his mother, who came from Montauban decided to return to her hometown with her little boy. Around the age of 15, he discovered a passion for jazz; he participated in a few shows in nightclubs while pursuing his studies and obtained a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Toulouse. Camille Ricard, an actress and teacher at the Conservatory of Toulouse, who advised him to go to Paris with a letter of recommendation for a friend, Noel Roquevert. Barray enrolled at the Cours Simon, a drama school in Paris. Four years later, Gérard Barray won the Jury It will then excel in the roles of knights with a big heart. He starred as D'Artagnan, Pardaillan, Surcouf and Scaramouche. In total there practice gender in a dozen feature films, most of which are box-office success, widely known abroad. Besides films swashbuckling as Pardaillan and Scaramouche and adventure films like Surcouf, Barray turned police commissioner in two San Antonio movies. In 1969, he starred beside young actress Claude Jade in "The Witness". He played Van Britten, a mysterious museum curator who seduces a young English teacher. It was his last major role. For Claude Berri he played in Le Cinéma de papa (1970) as Richard, a super star and rather temperamental actor. His comeback in 1997 was in Alejandro Amenabar's "Abre los ojos" as Devernois, a TV man. Gérard Barray was appointed an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010. Source: Article "Gérard Barray" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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as Spanish Official
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Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish...

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Open Your Eyes

as Duvernois
Released: 1997-12-19

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his...

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Scheherazade

as Renaud de Villecroix
Released: 1963-05-10

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy...

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The Fighting Musketeers

as D'Artagnan
Released: 1961-10-04

D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he...

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Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

as D'Artagnan
Released: 1961-10-25

To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous...

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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

as Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla
Released: 1965-03-04

Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in...

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Captain Fracasse

as Duc de Vallombreuse
Released: 1961-04-21

A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod....

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Pyramid of the Sun God

as Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla
Released: 1965-04-17

Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor...

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The Sea Pirate

as Captain Robert Surcouf
Released: 1966-01-09

A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights...

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The Corsican Brothers

as Giovanni Sagona
Released: 1961-12-22

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

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A Game for Six Lovers

as Miguel
Released: 1960-01-20

Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer...

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The Adventures of Scaramouche

as Robert Lafleur alias Scaramouche
Released: 1963-09-23

Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time,...

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The Galíndez File

as Jorge Uria
Released: 2003-09-26

On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in...

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Sale temps pour les mouches

as Commissioner San-Antonio
Released: 1966-12-23

Renowned atomic scientists are kidnapped on French soil. Inspector San-Antonio and his loyal...

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Série noire

as Un homme du 'Corse'
Released: 1955-03-04

Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell...

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The Gallant Musketeer

as Knight Jean de Pardaillan
Released: 1964-02-21

Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three...

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Agent X-77 Orders to Kill

as Serge Vadile, agent X 13
Released: 1966-01-01

A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a...

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No te fallaré

as Leo Barthel
Released: 2001-03-02

"FRIENDS...THREE YEARS LATER" School is finally out. Valle and Quimi, a couple since childhood,...

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The Big Hit of Surcouf

as Captain Robert Surcouf
Released: 1966-12-01

The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.

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Clash of Steel

as Knight Jean de Pardaillan
Released: 1962-10-18

In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in...

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Tender Sharks

as Gregory
Released: 1967-03-10

While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.

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The Little Triangle

as Sabino Pérez
Released: 1972-06-05

Lázaro and Sabino, employees of a large furniture store, fall in love with Laura, a new young...

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El paraíso ya no es lo que era

as Raúl
Released: 2001-05-11

Mercedes (Neus Asensi) Mariángeles (Ana Risueño) and Carmen (Miriam Diaz Aroca) need to escape...

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Summertime Killer

as Tania's teacher
Released: 1972-07-01

During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it...

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Beru and These Women

as Commissaire San Antonio
Released: 1968-10-23

Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from...

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Le Cinema de Papa

as Richard
Released: 1971-02-10

Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His...

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The Spy

as Frank Jackson
Released: 1964-02-27

The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped...

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Adriatic Sea of Fire

as Michel Masic
Released: 1968-10-08

The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941,...

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Black Commando

as Ludovic Stafford
Released: 1982-11-15

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been...

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Neurosis

as Carlos Ferrer
Released: 1970-04-02

Inspired by the French classic Les diaboliques (1955), this psycho-thriller copies that film...

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Madame Sans-Gêne

as Neiperg
Released: 1974-12-24

Catherine Hubscher, laundress, saves the life of an Austrian nobleman with the complicity of her...

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The Witness

as Van Britten
Released: 1969-01-01

Cécile teaches English at the Collegium in Bruges. She has a boyfriend, Thomas, a student at the...

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Discorama

as Self
First aired: 1959-02-04

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Goya

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-05-13

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