Robert Redford

With his all-American good looks, Robert Redford (1936-2025) was one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1970s. Last Tuesday, 16 September, he passed away in his sleep at his home in Provo, Utah, USA. In classics such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), and All the President's Men (1976), Redford portrayed the intelligent, reliable, and sometimes sardonic good guy. He received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In 2010, the actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in France. Robert Redford was 89.


Canadian postcard by Fan Club, no. PC8.


American postcard by Fan Club Post Cards, New York, N.Y., no. PC 22. Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969).


French postcard in the Collection 'Portraits de Cinema' by Editions Admira, Aix-en-Provence, Serie 6, no. 1 / no. PHN 863. Photo: SNAP Photo / Cosmos. Robert Redford in The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973).


British postcard by Star-Graphics, London, no. S 90. Sent by mail in 1997. Robert Redford in The Electric Horseman (Sydney Pollack, 1979).


French postcard by Media Comm +, no. F.K. 34. Robert Redford in The Natural (Barry Levinson, 1984).


Italian postcard by Vitorius Roma, no. VR 499. Robert Redford in Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985).


Vintage postcard. Photo: Universal / UIP. Robert Redford in Legal Eagles (Ivan Reitman, 1986).

Jane Fonda's stuffy newlywed husband

Charles Robert Redford Jr. was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1936. His parents were Martha W. (Hart) and Charles Robert Redford, Sr., a milkman who later worked as an accountant for an oil company. Redford's family moved to Van Nuys, California, while his father worked in El Segundo. He attended Van Nuys High School and was interested in art and sports. In 1954, Redford graduated from Van Nuys High School. But his mother died in 1955 from septicemia, and a deeply grieving Redford felt lost emotionally.

Redford won a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, but he did not distinguish himself as an athlete there. Instead, "I became the campus drunk and blew out before I could ever get going," he told People magazine in a 1998 interview. After one and a half years, he decided to become an artist and moved to Europe. His time travelling through Europe was an eye-opening experience for the young Redford, who lived the life of a bohemian. When he returned to America a year and a half later, he was much more focused on my country culturally and politically. He decided on a career as a theatrical designer in New York City, but enrolled at the Pratt Institute and then the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, switching from design to acting.

In 1959, Redford's acting career began on stage, making his Broadway debut with a small role in the comedy 'Tall Story'. It was followed by parts in 'The Highest Tree' (1959) and 'Sunday in New York' (1961). On TV, he appeared as a guest star on numerous programs, including Maverick (1960), Perry Mason (1960), The Twilight Zone (1962), and The Untouchables (1963). Redford earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (Robert Ellis Miller, 1962), starring Bradford Dillman.

Redford made his screen debut in War Hunt (Denis Sanders, 1962), set during the last days of the Korean War. This film also marked the acting debut of director Sydney Pollack, with whom Redford would collaborate on seven films. His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simon's 'Barefoot in the Park' (1963), directed by Mike Nichols. After this smash hit, he was cast in larger film roles. In the war comedy Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious (Gottfried Reinhardt, 1965) with Alec Guinness, he played a soldier who had to spend years of his life hiding behind enemy lines.

In Inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan, 1965), he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood. It won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. A success was This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966), again with Natalie Wood. The same year, he co-starred with Jane Fonda in The Chase (Arthur Penn, 1966), also with Marlon Brando. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the film version of Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967) and were again co-stars much later in The Electric Horseman (Sydney Pollack, 1979).


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 633. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967).


French postcard by Editions F. Nugeron, no. Stars 69. Photo: J. Ritchie.


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin.


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin.


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 491. Photo: Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack, 1973).


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin.

Against the stereotype of the blond 'All American'

After this initial success, Robert Redford became concerned about his stereotype image of the blond 'All American'. At the age of 32, he found the property he was looking for in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969), scripted by William Goldman. For the first time, he was teamed with Paul Newman. In the film, he played the outlaw known as the Sundance Kid while Newman portrayed Butch Cassidy. The two proved to be a dynamic duo onscreen and forged a lasting friendship, with the film enjoying both critical and commercial success. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made him a major bankable star.

Redford sought out more challenging fare and avoided trading on his sex appeal. Critical and box office hits were Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack, 1972), the hugely popular period drama The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack, 1973) with Barbra Streisand, and the blockbuster crime caper The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973), the biggest hit of his career, for which Redford received his first Oscar nomination.

Between 1974 and 1976, exhibitors voted Redford as Hollywood's top box-office name with such hits as The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton, 1974) and the CIA thriller Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack, 1975) with Faye Dunaway.

The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976), scripted once again by William Goldman, was a landmark film for Redford. He and Dustin Hoffman played reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in an acclaimed drama about the Watergate scandal. He was also the executive producer, and the film's serious subject matter and its attempt to create a realistic portrayal of journalism reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes.

Redford also appeared in the war film A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, 1977) before starring in the prison drama Brubaker (Stuart Rosenberg, 1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system, and the baseball drama The Natural (Barry Levinson, 1984). With his enormous salary, he acquired Utah property, which he transformed into a ranch and the Sundance ski resort. In 1980, he established the Sundance Institute for aspiring filmmakers. Its annual film festival has now become one of the world's most influential.


French postcard by INPI. Photo: Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969).


British postcard in the Film & Music Personalities series by Pyramid, Leicester, no. PC 2038. Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969).


German postcard by AGI, Staufenberg, no. CP 751. Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969).


American postcard, no. MPC 903-50. Photo: Robert Redford in The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973).


Canadian postcard by Canadian Postcard, no. A 228. Mia Farrow and Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton, 1974).


British postcard by Heroes, London, no. PC 593. Photo: Robert Redford in All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976).


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 43080. Photo: Robert Redford in All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976).

A newfound focus on directing

Robert Redford continued his involvement in mainstream Hollywood movies, though with a newfound focus on directing. The first film he directed was Ordinary People (1980), which starred Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, and Timothy Hutton. The film followed the disintegration of an upper-class American family after the death of a son and was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade. It won several Oscars, including the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, Redford's first Oscar. His follow-up directorial project, The Milagro Beanfield War (1987), failed to generate the same level of attention. Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985), with Redford and Meryl Streep, became an enormous critical and box office success and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. It was Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful film together.

Redford continued as a major star throughout the 1990s and 2000s. His third film as a director, A River Runs Through It (1992), with the young Brad Pitt, was a mainstream success. Then, he starred in Indecent Proposal (Adrian Lyne, 1993) as a millionaire businessman who tests a couple's (Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson) morals. It became one of the year's biggest hits. His film Quiz Show (Robert Redford, 1994), starring Ralph Fiennes and Rob Morrow, explored the real-life corruption of the 1950s game shows. It earned him another Oscar nomination for Best Director. He co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance Up Close & Personal (Jon Avnet, 1996), and with Kristin Scott Thomas in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed and produced.

Redford continued to work in films with political contexts, such as Havana (Sydney Pollack, 1990), playing Jack Weil, a professional gambler in 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as the caper Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson, 1992), with River Phoenix. He reteamed with Brad Pitt for Spy Game (Tony Scott, 2001). Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, and his friend Alberto Granado. He reteamed with Meryl Streep 22 years after they starred in Out of Africa, for his personal project, the political drama Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford, 2007), which also starred Tom Cruise. The film was a commercial and critical disappointment.

Redford gave an impressive performance in All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor, 2013) as a man caught in dire, life-threatening circumstances, alone sailing at sea. He received very high acclaim for his role in the film, in which he is the only cast member and has almost no dialogue. Next, he appeared in the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, 2014) playing Alexander Pierce. More recently, he appeared in A Walk in the Woods (Ken Kwapis, 2015) with Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson, and Truth (James Vanderbilt, 2015) as real-world TV journalist Dan Rather and 60 Minutes' controversial coverage of George W. Bush's military service. Since then, he played in The Discovery (Charlie McDowell, 2017) with Mary Steenburgen, and Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, 2019) with Robert Downey Jr.

In 2018, Redford announced that his starring role in the upcoming crime comedy The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery, 2018) would bring his long and distinguished acting career to a close. The film is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. The Little Songbird at IMDb: "Redford piles on the likeability and charm with effortless ease, really terrific work in a performance that dominates in a good way the film, and some of his best in years." Between 1958 and 1985, Robert Redford was married to Lola Van Wagenen. The couple had four children: Scott Anthony (1959 - he died of sudden infant death syndrome, aged 2½ months), painter Shauna Jean Redford (1960), writer and producer David 'Jamie' James (1962), and director and producer Amy Hart Redford (1970). Redford had seven grandchildren. In 2009, Redford married his long-time partner, German painter Sibylle Szaggars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognised his contributions to the medium in 2001 with an honorary award for serving as an "inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere." In 2011, Alfred A. Knopf published 'Robert Redford: The Biography' by Michael Feeney Callan, written over fifteen years with Redford's input, and drawn from his personal papers and diaries. In 2016, Redford was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin. Photo: Robert Redford in The Electric Horseman (Sydney Pollack, 1979).


French postcard by Ébullitions, no. 15. Robert Redford in Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985).


Vintage photo. Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985).


Dutch collectors card, 1987. Photo: Robert Redford in Legal Eagles (Ivan Reitman, 1986).


Italian postcard by Photocards Edizioni Beatrice D'Este / Arti Grafiche Riccordi S.p.A, Milano, no. 20166.


American postcard by Coral-Lee, Rancho Cordova, CA, no. CL/Personality # 119.

Sources: Gustaf Molin (IMDb), The Little Songbird (IMDb), Biography.com, Wikipedia, and IMDb.

Nat King Cole

American singer and pianist Nat 'King' Cole (1919-1965) with his typical raspy voice received 28 golden records for such classic hits as 'Mona Lisa' (1949), 'Too Young' (the #1 song in 1951), his signature tune 'Unforgettable' (1951) and 'Ramblin' Rose' (1962). He also appeared in several films, including St. Louis Blues (1958) and Cat Ballou (1965).


British postcard in the Greetings series. Photo: General Artists Cooperation.


Dutch postcard by Editions Altona / Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, no. 5152. Photo: Capitol Records.


Dutch postcard by Editions Altona, no. 5172. Photo: Capitol Records.

Too black to marry

Nat King Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1919. When he was four or five (the sources differ), his family moved to Chicago. There, his father, Edward James Coles, was a minister at the True Light Baptist Church and later the Pastor of the First Baptist Church.

Nat received music lessons from his mother. He learned jazz and gospel music, but also Western classical music. At 12, he was playing the church organ, and at 14, he formed a 14-piece band called the Royal Dukes. His three brothers, Ike Cole, Eddie Cole, and Frankie Cole, also played the piano and later sang professionally.

In 1939, Nat formed the King Cole Trio after his publicist put a silver tin-foiled crown on his head and proclaimed him King. He became known as a leading jazz pianist and soon became noted for his soft, baritone voice. His recordings of 'Straighten Up And Fly Right' (1943), which sold over 500,000 copies, and '(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66' (1946) would become classics and influenced several Rock and roll singers of the 1950s.

Nat King Cole met his second wife, Maria (a big-band singer), at the Zanzibar nightclub in Los Angeles through the Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson show. Her parents protested her decision to marry Cole, claiming he was "too black". However, they were married in 1948 and had five children, including singer Natalie Cole.

When he and his family moved to the upscale Hancock Park area of Los Angeles in the late 1940s, they were met with considerable opposition from the residents of the previously all-white neighbourhood. When the neighbours finally realised - after several attempts, including legal action - that the Coles were not going to be intimidated, they accepted defeat and, ultimately, the Coles as well.


Dutch postcard by Uitg. Takken, Utrecht, no. AX 2002.


Dutch postcard by Uitg. Takken, Utrecht, no. 3559.


German postcard by Rüdel-Verlag, Hamburg-Bergedorf, no. 3119. Photo: Electrola / Capitol.

Unforgettable

In the mid-1950s, Nat King Cole had several mainstream Rock and Roll hits including 'Send For Me', 'With You On My Mind', 'When Rock and Roll Comes To Trinidad', and 'Looking Back'. He often toured Europe and made a command performance before Queen Elizabeth II.

He was the first African-American to have his own TV show - the highly-rated The Nat King Cole Show (1954). Cole cancelled the show because no company was willing to sponsor the show. In 1956, during a concert in Birmingham, Alabama, Cole was attacked by six white men from a white supremacist group called the White Citizens Council. He sustained minor injuries to his back.

Nat King Cole appeared in several films. Uncredited, he made his film debut in Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) as a pianist in El Rancho. He performed songs in musicals like Here Comes Elmer (Joseph Santley, 1943), Pin-Up Girl (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1944) starring Betty Grable, and Breakfast in Hollywood (Harold D. Schuster, 1946).

During the 1950s, both the films and his parts became bigger, such as in Fritz Lang's Film Noir The Blue Gardenia (1953), Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955), and the war drama China Gate (Samuel Fuller, 1957) with Angie Dickinson. He played the lead role in St. Louis Blues (Allen Reisner, 1958), a biopic of turn-of-the-century blues composer W. C. Handy. Cole also worked in the European cinema and appeared in the Schlager film Schlager-Raketen / Schlager Missiles (Erik Ode, 1960). His last film was the comic Western Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein, 1965), starring Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda.

Nat King Cole was also a composer, and his song 'Straighten Up and Fly Right' was sold for $50,000. A heavy smoker, he died of lung cancer in 1965 in Santa Monica. He was only 45. In 1991, his song 'Unforgettable' was made famous again by Cole's daughter Natalie when modern recording technology was used to reunite father and daughter in a duet. The duet version rose to the top of the pop charts, almost forty years after its original popularity.


French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 726. Photo: Paramount, 1956.


German postcard by Benedikt Taschen Verlag GMBH, Köln, 1997. Photo: William Claxton. Caption: Nat King Cole, San Francisco, 1957, from the book 'William Claxton's Jazz Photography'.

Source: Mike McKinley (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

Jacques Charrier (1936-2025)

French actor and film producer Jacques Charrier (1936) passed away on 3 September 2025 in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer in France. He played a young existentialist rebel in the massive box office hit Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters (1958) and appeared in other French films of the late 1950s and 1960s. He gained notoriety when he married Brigitte Bardot. Their brief, tumultuous marriage was punctuated by his personal problems. He later worked as a film producer and as an artist in painting and ceramics. Charrier was 88.


Dutch postcard by Uitg. Takken, Utrecht, no. AX 4069. Photo: NV Standaardfilms, Amsterdam. Jacques Charrier and Pascale Petit in Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters (Marcel Carné, 1958).


German postcard by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft (UFA), Berlin-Tempelhof, no. CK-264. Photo: UFA.


Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers, Amsterdam, no. 3500. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.


French Postcard by E.D.U.G. (Editions du Globe), no. 25. Photo: Sam Lévin.

Diary of Anne Frank

Jacques Joseph Henri Charrier was born into a family of military men in Metz, France, in 1936. Growing up with six siblings, he was supposed to pursue a military career like his father.

Jacques broke with the family tradition to become an artist. At the age of 17, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg, where he tried ceramics.

In 1956, a teacher at the Conservatoire de Montpellier offered him a role in a local film, L'Arlésienne, based on a novel by Alphonse Daudet. This success stimulated him to try his luck in Paris.

As a 20-year-old, he entered the ENSATT (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre), where he studied with the actress Berthe Bovy.

In 1958, after some odd jobs, he became an extra at the famous Comédie-Française. Then Marguerite Chamois chose him to play one of the leading roles in the play 'Le Journal d'Anne Frank' (The Diary of Anne Frank) with Pascale Audret at the Théâtre Montparnasse.


Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, no. 4519. Photo: Paul Apoteker / Unifrance Film / Ufa.


Dutch postcard by Uitg. Takken, Utrecht, nro AX 4072. Photo: NV Standaardfilms. Publicity still for Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters (Marcel Carné, 1958).


Dutch postcard by Uitg. Takken, Utrecht, no. AX 4071. Photo: NV Standaardfilms. Publicity still for Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters (Marcel Carné, 1958).

The cheaters

There, the famous film director Marcel Carné saw Jacques Charrier and offered him his first film role, Bob Letellier, a good-looking, rich kid who studies science, in Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters (Marcel Carné, 1958) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Pascale Petit.

Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters is a study of the rebellious, existentialist youth of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Latin Quarter of Paris.

The film was harshly judged by young French critics upon release, but became a massive box office hit in France, with admissions of 4,953,600. Overnight, Jacques Charrier became a star.

Next, he played a lead role in the drama Les dragueurs / The Chasers (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1959). He and Charles Aznavour played two young men, Freddy and Joseph, who go out looking for girls one night, hoping to find the right girl.

Then he acted in the comedy-drama La main chaude / The Itchy Palm (Gérard Oury, 1960), and the thriller L'oeil du malin / The Third Lover (Claude Chabrol, 1961) with Stéphane Audran.


French Postcard by E.D.U.G. (Editions du Globe), no. 27. Photo: Sam Lévin.


French Postcard by E.D.U.G. (Editions du Globe), no. 71. Photo: Sam Lévin.


French Postcard by E.D.U.G. (Editions du Globe), no. 66. Photo: Sam Lévin.

BB

Brigitte Bardot chose Jacques Charrier as her leading man in the comedy Babette s'en va-t-en guerre / Babette Goes to War (Christian-Jacque, 1959).

During the shooting of the film, Brigitte and Jacques fell madly in love. Immediately after the production was finished, they married under massive media attention.

At the time, Jacques was just 23 years old, and a year later, he became the father of their son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier (1960). BB’s baby was again a media event.

Charrier made headlines when he made several suicide attempts and when he withdrew from the National Service on health grounds.

In 1962, Jacques Charrier and Brigitte Bardot divorced and from then on, he took care of their son Nicholas.


Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, no. 4518. Photo: Paul Apoteker / Unifrance Film / Ufa. Publicity still for Babette s'en va-t-en guerre / Babette Goes to War (1959) with Brigitte Bardot.


East German postcard by VEB Progress Filmvertrieb.


German postcard by Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 2.625. Retail price: 0,20 MDN. Photo: Progress. Still from La Vie Conjugale / Anatomy of a Marriage (1963) with Marie-José Nat.

Anatomy of a marriage

Jacques Charrier continued acting in films like the comedy À cause, à cause d'une femme / Because of a Woman (Michel Deville, 1962) opposite Mylène Demongeot, and Carmen 63 / Carmen di Trastevere (Carmine Gallone, 1963).

Unique was the experiment Françoise ou la vie conjugale / Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise and Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale / Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc (André Cayatte, both 1964). The two films tell the same story, but the first one was made from the wife's point of view, and the second from the husband's.

In 1969, Jacques Charrier, along with Jean-Claude Brialy, founded the film company Les Films Marquise to produce low-budget films.

He produced and starred in films like Sirokkó / Winter Wind (Miklos Jancso, 1969) with Marina Vlady, Eglantine (Jean-Claude Brialy, 1971), and Les volets clos / Closed Shutters (Jean-Claude Brialy, 1973) with Marie Bell.

The financial failure of Il pleut sur Santiago / It's Raining on Santiago (Helvio Soto, 1975), a feature film about the 1973 coup d'état in Chile, led him to leave the world of cinema. The title is a code word the Chilean military had broadcast to signal the start of the coup.


French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 960. Presented by Les Carbones Korès 'Carboplane'. Photo: Lucienne Chevert.


German Postcard by Rüdel-Verlag, Hamburg-Bergedorf, no. 2744. Photo: Silver / Cinetel / Gloria-Film. Publicity still for Les tricheurs/The Cheaters (1958).


German Postcard by Kolibri-Verlag no. 824. Photo: Deutsche Cosmopol Film. Publicity still for Les dragueurs/The Dredgers (1959).

A damning riposte

In the 1980s, Jacques Charrier returned to the École des Beaux-Arts to study painting. His work is marked by references to his two passions: travel and antiquity, and would be exhibited in Paris, Genève and San Francisco.

In 1996, he found himself back in the media spotlight once more when Brigitte Bardot's best-selling memoir, 'Initiales BB', was published. She described her former husband as "a violent, alcoholic macho". To her pregnancy, she referred to as a 'tumour' growing inside her.

Charrier and their son, Nicolas Charrier, both successfully sued her for "violation of privacy". Bardot and her publisher were ordered to pay 250,000 francs to Jacques and Nicholas. In 1997, Jacques also published 'Ma réponse à Brigitte Bardot' (My Answer to Brigitte Bardot), a damning riposte to his ex-wife.

After his marriage to Bardot, Charrier married three more times. In 1964, he wed France Louis-Dreyfus, of the Louis-Dreyfus family, with whom he had two daughters, Sophie and Marie, before divorcing in 1967. In 1982, he met his third wife, Linda, with whom he had one daughter, Rosalie. In 2009, he married Japanese artist and photographer Makiko Kumano. In 2008, Charrier exhibited a number of his paintings at the Espace Cardin in Paris and in 2012, he exhibited at the Yves Klein Archives in Paris.

Charrier died on 3 September 2025, at the age of 88, in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, where he had lived for 13 years. His death was announced by his family in a simple obituary in the newspaper 'Ouest France': "We are saddened to announce the death of Mr Jacques Charrier on Wednesday 3 September 2025, at the age of 88." The message was signed by Makiko, his Japanese wife, Nicolas, Marie, Sophie and Rosalie, his children, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as all his family and friends. A final tribute was paid to him in a private family ceremony.


French postcard by Editions P.I., no. FK 120A, offered by Les Carbones Korès 'Carboplane'. Photo: Ufa.


Scene from Les Tricheurs (1958). Source: Le canard en rut (Daily Motion).

Sources: I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Sandra Brennan (AllMovie - Page now defunct), Paris-Match (French), Wikipedia (French and English) and IMDb.