Belmont, Charles

(Charles Blekmans / Janu­ary 24, 1936, Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France - )

   From 1956 to 1965, he was a stage actor (Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie), film actor (1960 Les Bonnes Femmes / Donne facili / UK: The Girls / The Good Girls / USA: The Good Time Girls, Claude Chabrol, France / Italy; 1961 Les Godelureaux / Bellibusti, Claude Chabrol, France / Italy; Les Démons de Minuit / UK: Demons at Midnight, Marc Allégret, Charles Gérard; Les Nouveaux Aristocrates, Francis Rigaud; 1962 Le quattro giornate di Napoli / USA: The Four Days of Naples, Nanni Loy, Italy; 1963 Les Vierges / Le vergini, Jean-Pierre Mocky, France / Italy; 1964 Nick Carter va tout casser / USA: License to Kill, Henri Decoin, France / Italy; 1965 Le Type au Ras du Cou blanc, short, Alain Hénaut), and TV actor (1964 Les Diamants de Palinos, 13 X 13', André Pergament; 1968 Mouche, Jacques Antoine). He made his directing debut filming a short adapted from Kafka.

 Filmography

        ◘ Le Fratricide (short)

        ◘ L'Ecume des Jours (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1972 ◘ Rak (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

1974 ◘ Histoires d'A (documentary; also producer, co-director and co-editor with Marielle Issartel)

1977 ◘ Pour Clémence (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, executive producer)

1997 ◘ Les Médiateurs du Pacifique (documentary; also co-screenwriter)

2006 ◘ Qui de nous Deux (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)