Chiffre, Yvan

(March 3, 1936, Rousson, Gard, France - )

   A former dancer with Georges Reich's Ballets Ho, he became one of the busiest stuntmen of French cinema and played small parts in most of the swash­buckler and spy movies of the 1960s and 1970s (from 1961 Le Miracle des Loups / La congiura dei potenti / USA: Blood on His Sword / The Miracle of the Wolves, André Hunebelle, France / Italy, to 1975 Zorro, Duccio Tessari, Italy / France). In 1984, he did his last contribution as stunt coordinator for a director other than himself (Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers, Tommy Chong, USA). Besides the 400 films and TV movies he collaborated on, he directed and performed many medieval shows since the 1970s with a group of stuntmen including Alain Grellier and Lionel Vitrant. He authored an autobi­ography (1992 A l'Ombre des Stars—30 Ans d'action dans le Cinéma, Denoël).

 Filmography

1975 ◘ Bons Baisers de Hong-Kong (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Le Fou du Roi (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)

        ◘ L'Homme de l'Histoire (short)

1989 ◘ President's Target / The Man from Nowhere (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer; France / Portugal)