If Jean-Paul Belmondo had gotten his way, he would have been a stage actor. He applied to the Conservatoire de Paris three times before the illustrious drama school accepted him and spent the 1950s ...
The former boxer was a standout in New Wave classics and then an action star and box office draw in the 1980s. By Jordan Mintzer, Duane Byrge Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged French actor who swept to ...