Word: bebel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never Doubled. All France calls him Bebel (pronounced Ray-bell), and the French press has recorded that his nose was broken in the prize ring. "I let this story go through because it has added to my legend," he confesses. His nose was actually disassembled in a fight in high school. But if such embellishments exist here and there, the private Belmondo still rides point to the legend. He does box, but only as an amateur. He is indeed a fearless, reckless fellow...
Much Experience. Bebel was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a fairly expensive Paris suburb, but he grew up on the Left Bank, and his colloquial language could have been swept up off the cobblestones of St.-Germain-des-Pres and Montparnasse. His father was a sculptor who taught at the Academic des Beaux-Arts...
...that he appears to be the sort of actor who was discovered rather than trained, he had ten years of experience behind him by the time he made Breathless. Most of it he acquired at the Conservatoire, the French equivalent of Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Bebel got experience of all kinds there. "In spite of my mug, it would be stupid to deny that I've always had a certain success with girls," he says...