Jean Seberg

Born: 1938-11-13

Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress who lived half her life in France. She appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples. She was also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death where he publicly blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.


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Breathless

as Patricia Franchini
Released: 1960-03-16

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the...

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Airport

as Tanya Livingston
Released: 1970-03-25

Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various...

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Paint Your Wagon

as Elizabeth Woodling
Released: 1969-10-15

A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their...

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Bonjour Tristesse

as Cecile
Released: 1958-01-15

Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne,...

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Lilith

as Lilith Arthur
Released: 1964-10-01

Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a...

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Mousey

as Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
Released: 1974-05-24

A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.

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Saint Joan

as St. Joan of Arc
Released: 1957-05-08

Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is...

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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

as Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Released: 1964-08-14

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five...

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The Mouse That Roared

as Helen Kokintz
Released: 1959-07-17

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to...

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Macho Callahan

as Alexandra Mountford
Released: 1971-02-28

A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on...

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The Corruption of Chris Miller

as Ruth Miller
Released: 1973-05-17

Chris Miller, living with her stepmother in a large secluded mansion, finds her isolation...

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1991-10-28

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie...

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Kill!

as Emily Hamilton
Released: 1971-12-10

Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

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Pendulum

as Adele Matthews
Released: 1969-02-14

On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police...

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Let No Man Write My Epitaph

as Barbara Holloway
Released: 1960-11-10

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning...

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Camorra

as Luisa
Released: 1972-08-30

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He...

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Line of Demarcation

as Mary de Damville
Released: 1966-05-25

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de...

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Five Day Lover

as Claire
Released: 1961-02-24

Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor...

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Dead of Summer

as Joyce Grasse
Released: 1970-04-01

A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.

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In the French Style

as Christina James
Released: 1963-09-18

A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back...

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De Gaulle, the Last King of France

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-03-27

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system...

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Moment to Moment

as Kay Stanton
Released: 1966-01-27

When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink...

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Les Hautes solitudes

as uncredited
Released: 1974-12-15

Garrel convinced Jean Seberg, in the midst of a long struggle with mental illness, alcohol and...

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Backfire

as Olga Celan
Released: 1964-09-04

A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout...

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Mike Wallace Is Here

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-07-26

For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the...

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The Assassination

as Edith Lemoine
Released: 1972-10-04

Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris,...

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This Kind of Love

as Giovanna
Released: 1972-02-10

Hoping to avoid the fate of his anti-Fascist father, an Italian leaves his community to marry a...

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A Fine Madness

as Lydia West
Released: 1966-06-29

A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.

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Godard by Godard

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-05-17

Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and...

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The Big Delirium

as Emily
Released: 1975-04-30

A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie,...

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Birds in Peru

as Adriana
Released: 1968-10-20

A nymphomaniac young woman, unsatisfied by her husband, searches for sex in the brothels of a...

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Time Out for Love

as Ann
Released: 1961-02-03

Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself....

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The Looters

as Colleen O'Hara
Released: 1967-08-08

Morgan, a lapsed burglar, is drugged and shanghaied on board a yacht by beautiful Colleen. When...

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Who's Got the Black Box?

as Shanny
Released: 1967-10-27

The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. ...

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Playtime

as Kate Hoover
Released: 1961-02-23

A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor...

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The Blue of the Origins

as uncredited
Released: 1979-02-21

A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel's...

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From the Journals of Jean Seberg

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1995-09-08

Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person,...

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The Wild Duck

as Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
Released: 1976-09-01

Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the ...

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Le Grand Escroc

as Patricia
Released: 1964-08-14

Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a...

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White Horses of Summer

as Lea Kingsburg
Released: 1975-04-17

The marital problems of an American couple come to a head while visiting southern Italy with...

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Diamonds Are Brittle

as Bettina Ralton
Released: 1965-09-17

Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a...

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Eruption

as Annette
Released: 1962-03-29

In Congo during the revolution, an Italian journalist is in love with the wife of a Belgian...

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No Name City

as Self
Released: 1969-01-01

Behind the scenes during the filming of 1969's 'Paint Your Wagon'

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (uncredited)
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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