Gérard Barray
Gérard Barray (born 2 November 1931 in Toulouse) is a French actor.
Barray's parents split up quickly and his mother, who came from Montauban decided to return to her hometown with her little boy. Around the age of 15, he discovered a passion for jazz; he participated in a few shows in nightclubs while pursuing his studies and obtained a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Toulouse. Camille Ricard, an actress and teacher at the Conservatory of Toulouse, who advised him to go to Paris with a letter of recommendation for a friend, Noel Roquevert. Barray enrolled at the Cours Simon, a drama school in Paris. Four years later, Gérard Barray won the Jury It will then excel in the roles of knights with a big heart. He starred as D'Artagnan, Pardaillan, Surcouf and Scaramouche. In total there practice gender in a dozen feature films, most of which are box-office success, widely known abroad. Besides films swashbuckling as Pardaillan and Scaramouche and adventure films like Surcouf, Barray turned police commissioner in two San Antonio movies. In 1969, he starred beside young actress Claude Jade in "The Witness". He played Van Britten, a mysterious museum curator who seduces a young English teacher. It was his last major role.
For Claude Berri he played in Le Cinéma de papa (1970) as Richard, a super star and rather temperamental actor. His comeback in 1997 was in Alejandro Amenabar's "Abre los ojos" as Devernois, a TV man.
Gérard Barray was appointed an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.465 |
Birthday | 1931-11-02 |
Place of Birth | Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France |
Also Known As | G. Barray, Gerard Barray, Жерар Баррэ, Gérard Marcel Louis Baraillé, |
1997
Open Your Eyes
7.44/1003
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigur...
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Open Your Eyes
1969
The Witness
0/0
Cécile teaches English at the Collegium in Bruges. She has a boyfriend, Thomas, a student at the Beaux-Arts. Cécile lives with Mrs. Hanka, who reads h...
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The Witness
1961
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
6.722/27
To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Milady de Winter kidnaps both D'Artagnan and Constance...
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Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
1961
Captain Fracasse
5.574/27
A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isa...
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Captain Fracasse
1963
The Adventures of Scaramouche
5.8/8
Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly hav...
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The Adventures of Scaramouche
1964
The Spy
3/1
The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped off Gibraltar. The Admiralty calls in the Intelligence...
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The Spy
1967
Tender Sharks
0/0
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
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Tender Sharks
1965
Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
5.767/30
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupat...
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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
1965
Pyramid of the Sun God
5.517/29
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his frie...
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Pyramid of the Sun God
1972
Summertime Killer
5.7/10
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Summertime Killer
1961
The Fighting Musketeers
6.8/34
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The Fighting Musketeers
1966
Sale temps pour les mouches
5.7/11
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Sale temps pour les mouches
1962
Clash of Steel
6.7/5
In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues an...
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Clash of Steel
1968
Beru and These Women
3.2/2
Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious...
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Beru and These Women
1961
The Corsican Brothers
5.5/2
The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.
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The Corsican Brothers
1964
The Gallant Musketeer
5.7/6
Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vie...
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The Gallant Musketeer
1963
Scheherazade
10/2
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certa...
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Scheherazade
1966
The Big Hit of Surcouf
5.5/8
The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.
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The Big Hit of Surcouf
1966
The Sea Pirate
6/12
A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.
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The Sea Pirate
1960
A Game for Six Lovers
4.7/19
Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists...
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A Game for Six Lovers
1968
Adriatic Sea of Fire
5.8/4
The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a mut...
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Adriatic Sea of Fire
1982
Black Commando
2.7/3
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio...
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Black Commando
1974
Madame Sans-Gêne
0/0
Catherine Hubscher, laundress, saves the life of an Austrian nobleman with the complicity of her fiancé, Sergeant Lefebvre, the day when royalty colla...
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Madame Sans-Gêne
1971
Le Cinema de Papa
6.3/12
Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially, Claude's...
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Le Cinema de Papa
1970
Neurosis
10/1
Inspired by the French classic Les diaboliques (1955), this psycho-thriller copies that film rather closely. In Barcelona, a couple falls apart and...
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Neurosis
1966
Agent X-77 Orders to Kill
6/1
A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-rocket-fuel.
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Agent X-77 Orders to Kill
1972
The Little Triangle
3.3/3
Lázaro and Sabino, employees of a large furniture store, fall in love with Laura, a new young and naive employee, who accepts their love. The trio liv...
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The Little Triangle
2001
Sexy Beast
6.97/743
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shat...
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Sexy Beast
2003
The Galíndez File
4.3/10
On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working...
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The Galíndez File
2001
El paraíso ya no es lo que era
3.3/3
Mercedes (Neus Asensi) Mariángeles (Ana Risueño) and Carmen (Miriam Diaz Aroca) need to escape something: the stress of the job, a divorce or a gray a...
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2001
No te fallaré
3.1/7
"FRIENDS...THREE YEARS LATER" School is finally out. Valle and Quimi, a couple since childhood, decide to celebrate with their gang on a trip to the c...
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No te fallaré
1955
Série noire
2/1
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns....
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