Laurent Malet
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Laurent Marie Guespin-Malet (born 3 September 1955, in Bayonne) is a French actor, and the twin brother of actor Pierre Malet.
Life[]
Malet's stage debut came in La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu as Troilus alongside Claude Jade in 1975. In 1978 he was made famous by his Andrew alongside Donald Sutherland and Stéphane Audran in Les Liens de sang by Claude Chabrol. That same year, gave him the lead role in . En 1979, he starred alongside Yves Montand in by Joseph Losey and played Lino Ventura's son in Jigsaw (L'Homme en colère). He also played Roger Bataille in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle (after Jean Genet), and starred alongside Sandrine Bonnaire in 1984's , directed by . In 1995 he played Arthur Rimbaud in Marc Rivière's .
Highly attached to his brother and mother, he feels asked by the latter (in the terminal stages of a brain tumour) to put an end to her sufferings. He writes of this in his 2006 book En attendant la suite, in which he calls on the candidates in the presidential election to bring the state to legislate on euthanasia.[citation needed]
Filmography[]
- (1978), by
- Les Liens de sang (1978), by Claude Chabrol
- (1978), by Joseph Losey
- Comme un boomerang (1976), by José Giovanni
- (1979), by
- (1980), by
- La Légion saute sur Kolwezi (1980), by Raoul Coutard
- Querelle (1982), by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Invitation au voyage (1982), by Peter Del Monte
- (1983), by Jean-Pierre Mocky
- (1984), by
- Viva la vie (1984), by Claude Lelouch
- Parking (1985), by Jacques Demy
- La Puritaine (1986), by Jacques Doillon
- (1987), by
- Les Possédés (1988), by Andrzej Wajda
- (1995), by Marc Rivière
- (1999), by Marcel Bluwal
- Ce jour-là (2003), by Raoul Ruiz
TV[]
- 1976: Le siècle des lumières by
- 1977: La foire by
- 1981: Les avocats du diable d'André Cayatte
- 1981: Confusion of Feelings
- 1982: Pleine lune by Jean-Pierre Richard
- 1984: Cuore by Luigi Comencini
- 1985: La part de l'autre by Jeanne Labrune
- 1986: Sword of Gideon by Michael Anderson
- 1991: The First Circle by
- 1993: Monsieur Ripois by Luc Béraud
- 1994: Le feu follet by
- 1995: L'homme aux semelles de vent by Marc Rivière
- 1997: Marion du Faouët by
- 2001: Des croix sur la mer by Luc Béraud
- 2001: Le Prix de la vérité by Joël Santoni
- 2004: Les amants du bagne by
- 2005: Galilée ou l'amour de Dieu by
Réalisateur/Scénariste[]
- 1993 : (short)
External links[]
- 1955 births
- Living people
- People from Bayonne
- French male film actors
- French male television actors