Clémenti, Pierre

(September 28, 1942, Paris, France - December 28, 1999, Paris, France)

   He dropped out of school very young to attend act­ing courses at the Vieux Colombier while earning a living as a hotel bellboy. A stage, TV, and film actor (about eighty movies from 1960 Chien de Pique, Yves Allégret, to Hideous Kinky / Marrakech Express, Gilles MacKinnon, UK / France), he notably co-starred in Il Gattopardo / Le Guépard / UK and USA: The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, Italy / France, 1963), Belle de Jour / Bella di giorno (Luis Bunuel, France / Italy, 1967), Benja­min ou Les Mémoires d'un Puceau / USA: The Diary of an Innocent Boy (Michel Deville, 1967), Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy, 1968), La Voie lactée / La via lattea / La via lactea / UK and USA: The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel, France / Italy / Spain, 1969), Porcile / Porcherie / UK: Pigsty / USA: Pigpen (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy / France), and Il conformista / Le Conformiste / UK and USA: The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci; Italy / France). From 1968 to 1989, he shot about ten experimental mov­ies. He died of liver cancer at age fifty-seven.

 Filmography

        ◘ La Révolution n'est qu'un Début Continuons (short)

        ◘ Art de Vie = Carte de Voeux (short; also actor)

        ◘ Esmeralda (short; also actor)

        ◘ L'Ange et le Démon (short; also actor)

1976 ◘ Visa de Censure (medium-length; also screenwriter; shot in 1967)

1979 ◘ New Old (medium-length; also screenwriter, producer, actor, cinematographer, editor)

1981 ◘ Check Point Charlie (unreleased)

1986 ◘ A l'Ombre de la Canaille bleue (also screenwriter)

1989 ◘ Soleil (short; also actor)