French actor/ heartthrob Louis Jourdan, who starred in “Gigi” and James Bond’s “Octopussy” among other films, has of natural causes at his Beverly Hills home on Saturday. His biographer, Olivier Minne said:
“He embodied French elegance and Hollywood offered him the parts to go with that.”
Jourdan was born Louis Gendre on June 19, 1921 in Marseilles. He studied acting at the Ecole Dramatique before getting his first role in 1939. During WWII he stopped acting, when the SS arrested his father, he and two brothers joined the French Resistance. He came to America in the late 1940s and appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case” and later Max Ophuls’ “Letter From An Unknown Woman“. He continued working until 1992 but retired after appearing in “Year Of The Comet“. In 2010, he was awarded France’s Legion D’Honneur. He was 93.
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