Jean-Marie Patrick Bourdeau
Date of birth: 26.01.1947 Date of death: 16.07.1982
Patrick Devaer is one of the most popular actors of French cinema, was born in January 1947 in Brittany, in the north of France, in the small town of Saint-Breck in a large family of hereditary actors: his mother is a famous theater actress, his father is a tenor. The latter circumstance played a decisive role in the fact that young Patrick was on the stage. 1968 was perhaps the most significant year of his life. Devaer
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Jean-Marie Patrick Bourdeau
Date of birth: 26.01.1947 Date of death: 16.07.1982
Patrick Devaer is one of the most popular actors of French cinema, was born in January 1947 in Brittany, in the north of France, in the small town of Saint-Breck in a large family of hereditary actors: his mother is a famous theater actress, his father is a tenor. The latter circumstance played a decisive role in the fact that young Patrick was on the stage. 1968 was perhaps the most significant year of his life. Devaer gets acquainted with Gerard Depardieu, Miu-Miou, Coluche, young and by this time, as well as he, still almost unknown theater actors. Young people founded their own theater, called Café de la Gar. Here they have to be simultaneously the authors of performances, directors and performers of roles. The “blueboners”, as they were lovingly called by Parisians, were forced to speak about themselves in a full voice. A huge success came to Patrick Devaer when, selected from 50 candidates, he starred in the picture of the young director Bertrand Blier “Waltzing”. In a duet with Gerard Depardieu, they played, according to Devaer, “two friends who do not want to vegetate in life, but want to take something from it, which, however, involves a little circumvention of the law.” We had to play two guys from the street - truthfully, without affectations and acting play. In his latest film “Paradise for All”, Alain Jessua Patrick Devaer played the role of an insurance agent who once, in a moment of despair, tried to commit suicide. The next job was to be the role of Marcel Cerdan in Claude Lelusch's film Edith and Marcel. At the end of July 1982, when preparations for the film were in full swing, the news of the tragic death of Patrick Devaer came. The passing of Patrick Devaer shocked many. Curly and funny, with the face of a faun that came from under the hand of Jean Cocteau, Devaer at first glance least resembled a loser, disappointed in life. However, only for the first ... Friends and people close to the actor now remember how often he talked about death, how anxious and unstable his attitude was. Six years later in his book, in a chapter on Patrick Devaer, Gerard Depardieu wrote: Like Romy Schneider, you have confused life with the craft of an actor. You didn't tolerate the hard reality of the art world. You were too sensitive, defenseless, and found death beautiful. It was predetermined: you had to explode, melt.” After passing away in one year, less than two months apart, Patrick Devaer and Romy Schneider left behind a deep human memory. They are now named after two Césars, awarded annually to the best young actors in France.