The actress Geneviève Grad, famous for her role in the film “Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez” with Louis de Funès, died at the age of 80, on the night of Thursday November 7 to Friday November 8, according to Midi-Libre.
She made a name for herself by performing the famous Douliou douliou Saint-Tropezin the film The policeman of Saint-Tropez with Louis de Funès. Geneviève Grad died at the age of 80, according to her husband, taken over by Midi-Free. The actress diedat the end of a courageous fight against cancer”explained her husband.
Geneviève Grad made herself known in the “Gendarmes” film series: The policeman of Saint-Tropez (1964), The Constable in New York (1965), The policeman gets married (1968). Before this fame, the actress began as a dancer at the Paris Opera, then she toured for Jean Marais in Captain Fracasse in 1961. She gradually disappeared from the big screen, before definitively turning her back on the cinema in the 80s.
Production assistant
The actress then began a new career behind the cameras, as a production assistant, on the television show Time of the Bogdanoff brothers. She also had a son with one of the two twins, Igor. Geneviève Grad would later meet her husband, Jean-Guillaume, with whom she remained married for around thirty years.
published on November 8 at 4:21 p.m., Martin Pereira, 6Medias
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