Serge Reggiani
Acting
Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight. For many years, he struggled with alcoholism, caused in part by the 1980 suicide of his son Stephan. After acting school (Conservatoire des arts cinématographiques) he was discovered by Jean Cocteau and appeared in a wartime production of Les Parents terribles ("The Terrible Parents"). During World War II, he left Paris to join the French resistance. His first feature film came in 1946 with his role in Les portes de la nuit ("The Doors of the Night"). He later went on to perform in 80 films including Casque d'or, Les Misérables (1958),Tutti a casa, Le Doulos, Il Gattopardo, La terrazza, The Pianist (1998). In spite of never quite reaching the peak with his acting career, he did triumph in the theatre in 1959 with his performance in Jean-Paul Sartre’s play Les Séquestrés d'Altona. In the meantime, though, in 1965 he began a second career, that of a singer (at the age of 43), with the help of Simone Signoret and her husband Yves Montand and later with great assistance of the French diva Barbara. Reggiani became one of the most acclaimed performers of French "Chanson" ("song") and although he was in his 40s, his bad-boy rugged image made him popular with both young and older listeners. His best known songs include Les loups sont entrés dans Paris ("The Wolves Have Entered Paris") and Sarah (La femme qui est dans mon lit) ("The Woman Who Is In My Bed"), the latter written by Georges Moustaki. However, one of his regular songwriters throughout his career was Boris Vian (Le Déserteur, Arthur où t'as mis le corps, La Java des bombes atomiques). His new young fans identified with his left-wing ideals and antimilitarism, most notably during the 1968 student revolts in France. With age he became more and more acclaimed as one of the best interpreters of the French chanson also bringing the poetry of Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Prévert closer to his audience. In 1995, he made a comeback to the singing stage, giving a few concerts despite his deteriorated health and personal distress, the last one being held as late as in the year of his death, in spring of 2004. In later life he became a painter and gave a number of exhibitions of his artwork. Serge Reggiani died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 82, one day after the death of another well known French singer Sacha Distel. He is interred in Montparnasse Cemetery.
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Self (archive footage)
They Saw Inferno
Self
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Marcel (archive footage)
The Pianist
Rossell mayor
Heroines
monsieur Montgolfier
Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
The Little Boy
Germain
Serge Reggiani - Palais des congrès
Self
Rosen-Emil
Dr. Levy
De force avec d'autres
Sergio
I Hired a Contract Killer
Vic
Plein fer
Emilio
There Were Days... and Moons
Le père de Sophie
Coupe franche
Mathieu
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Le Stéphanois
L'écho
Marius
Mauvais Sang
Charlie
The Beekeeper
Sick Man
Fantastica
Euclide Brown
The Imprint of Giants
Fouldroule
The Terrace
Sergio Stifler
Solemn Communion
Le récitant chanteur (voice)
Violette & Francois
M. Levene
Une fille cousue de fil blanc
Jérôme
The Good and the Bad
le chef de la résistance
Cat and Mouse
Lechat
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Paul, écrivain, journaliste
Don't Touch the White Woman!
The Mad Indian
The Big Shots
Thia
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Pierrot
36, le grand tournant
Narrator (voice)
Countdown to Vengeance
François Nolan
Army of Shadows
Hairdresser
France, Song
Himself
The Day of the Owl
Parrinieddu
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Ferrari, antifascista in carcere
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
The 25th Hour
Trajan Koruga
The Last Adventure
the pilot
The Threatening Sky
Narrator
Bestiary of Love
Narrator (voice)
The Blue Panther
Ivanov
The Leopard
Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo
Le Doulos
Maurice Faugel
Warriors Five
Libero
Cuba, a People Armed
Narrator
Pueblo en armas
Narrator (voice)
Paris Blues
Michel 'Gypsy' Devigne
Mad Years
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Everybody Go Home!
Geniere Assunto Ceccarelli
Marie-Octobre
Antoine Rougier
The Stowaway
Alfred Mougins
Les Misérables
Enjolras
Not Delivered
Bastien Sassey
The Seine Meets Paris
Speaker
Élisa
Bernard Voisin
The Doll that Took the Town
Mario Grimaldi
The Wicked Go to Hell
Rudel
Napoleon
Lucien Bonaparte
Act of Love
Claude Lacaud
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Chimney Sweep (voice)
Storms
Sergio Parnell
The World Condemns Them
André
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Lantini
Casque d'Or
Georges
Secret People
Louis Balan
Good Enough to Eat
Jean-Loup aka 'Loup'
On the Set of 'Casque D'Or'
Self (Archive Footage)
La Ronde
Franz, le soldat
The Elders of Saint-Loup
Abbot Paul Forestier
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Joseph "Rouletabille"
The Sinners
Pierre
Return to Life
Louis (segment "Le retour de Louis")
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Joseph Rouletabille
Manon
Léon Lescaut
The Lovers of Verona
Angelo (Romeo)
Le Dessous des cartes
Manu
Coïncidences
Jean Ménétrier
Gates of the Night
Guy Sénéchal
Star Without Light
Gaston Lansac
François Villon
François Villon
Children of Chaos
Joris
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Bob Éloi
Night in December
(uncredited)
Saturnin de Marseille
Boys' School
Un élève