Word: bandera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly 100 films and one of France's top box office stars for four decades; following a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. A factory laborer before becoming an actor, Gabin was best known for his low-key portrayals of handsome, earthy loners: the Spanish legionnaire in La Bandera (1935), the jewel thief in Pépé le Moko (1937), the soldier-mechanic in Jean Renoir's classic, Grand Illusion (1937). His memorable later roles included the lawyer who falls in love with a prostitute (Brigitte Bardot) in Love Is My Profession (1959). As bourgeois in his private...
...against Russians living in exile and working for the overthrow of the Moscow regime. The last known case was the 1959 murder, with a special cyanide pellet fired from a pistol, of Ukrainian Exile Leader Stefan Bandera in Munich...