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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2013 record photo, French histrion Jean-Paul Belmondo poses for photographers arsenic helium arrives astatine the opening ceremonial of the 5th variation of the Lumiere Festival, successful Lyon, cardinal France. French New Wave histrion Jean-Paul Belmondo has died, according to his lawyers bureau connected Monday Sept. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

PARIS – Jean-Paul Belmondo, prima of the iconic French New Wave movie “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s chemoreceptor and rakish grin went connected to marque him 1 of the country’s astir recognizable starring men, has died. He was 88.

His decease was confirmed by the bureau of his lawyer, Michel Godest Monday.

Belmondo’s vocation spanned 50 years. Belmondo, who embodied successful the 1960s a caller benignant of antheral prima characterized by axenic virility alternatively than their classical bully looks, went connected to look successful much than 80 films and worked with a assortment of large French directors, from Francois Truffaut to Claude Lelouch.

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