French actor Gérard Depardieu was involved in a famous row with American feminists because he mistakenly said he " assisted " a rape in his tumultuous teenage years, while what he really meant was that he had " witnessed " one such event.

After starring in the sequel film La boum 2 ( 1982 ), Marceau focused on more dramatic roles, including Fort Saganne in 1984 with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, Joyeuses Pâques ( Happy Easter ) in 1984, L ' amour braque and Police in 1985, and Descente aux enfers ( Descent Into Hell ) in 1986.

Brontë Mitchell ( MacDowell ), a horticulturalist and an environmentalist takes part in a sham marriage with Georges Fauré ( Depardieu ), an illegal alien from France, to allow him to obtain a Green Card.

" Time Out London stated " Weir's first romantic comedy boasts a central relationship which is tentative and hopeful, a mood beautifully realised by Depardieu ( venturing into new territory with a major English-speaking role ).

Weir chose French screen icon Gérard Depardieu in the lead — Depardieu's first English-language role — and paired him with American actress Andie MacDowell.

His mother did not want more children and told Depardieu that she had tried to abort him with knitting needles.

Depardieu with Carole Bouquet at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2010 Depardieu signed a contract with Bank Zachodni WBK, a Polish bank, to appear in its commercials.

In 1970, Depardieu married Élisabeth Guignot, with whom he had two children, actor Guillaume ( 1971 – 2008 ) and actress Julie ( 1973 ).

Since 2005, Depardieu has lived with a Harvard-educated novelist, Clémentine Igou.

Bertolucci increased his fame with his next few films, from Novecento ( 1976 ), an epic depiction of the struggles of farmers in Emilia-Romagna from the beginning of the 20th century up to World War II with an impressive international cast ( Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda ) to La Luna, set in Rome and in Emilia-Romagna, in which Bertolucci deals with the thorny issue of drugs and incest, and finally La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo ( 1981 ), with Ugo Tognazzi.

The play has been adapted for cinema several times, most recently in 1990 with Gerard Depardieu in the title role.

Uranus is a 1990 French comedy-drama film with Gérard Depardieu about post-World War II recovery in a small French village, as the controlling French Communist Party tries to dispose of Pétain loyalists.

* 1998: The Man in the Iron Mask-British / American film directed by Randall Wallace, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu and Gabriel Byrne

Wallace made his directorial debut with his own screenplay in The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Irons and Gérard Depardieu.

He appeared in the 1996 film Bogus, alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu and the 1998 made-for-TV movie The Lake, as well as I'll Remember April ( 1999 ), with future The Sixth Sense co-star Trevor Morgan.

Her subsequent feature films included three with director André Téchiné: French Provincial ( Souvenirs en France, 1975 ); The Bronte Sisters ( Les Sœurs Brontë, 1979 ), in which she portrayed Charlotte ; and Barocco ( 1976 ), for which she won a second César for her performance alongside Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu.

* The Wonderful Crook ( Pas si Méchant que ça ) ( 1975 ), with Gérard Depardieu.

During her short career, Laffin appeared with many of France's rising young stars, including Gérard Depardieu, Juliette Binoche and Miou-Miou as well as established stars such as Yves Montand.

She developed a close working relationship with rising film star, Gérard Depardieu and his wife Élisabeth, collaborating on songs for film and records.

She co-wrote the music for the stage play " Lily Passion " with Luc Plamondon in which she co-starred with Gérard Depardieu.

He has starred in 2009 as Etienne Balsan in Coco avant Chanel by Anne Fontain, with Audrey Tautou ; as Jean-René in 2010 with Isabelle Carré in a charming comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris Émotifs anonymes about two extremely shy persons who fall in love, and also as August Maquet in L ' autre Dumas by Safy Nebbou, alongside Gérard Depardieu and Dominique Blanc, a movie about the creative ghostwriter, Maquet, whose played a crucial role in the production of French writer Alexandre Dumas ' Three Musketeers.

Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by Peter Weir and starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell.

* Gérard Depardieu as Jean Cadoret / " Jean de Florette ": Jean is a city man with a romantic idea of the countryside, yet obstinate and hard-working.

Onscreen from 1971 in various bit parts, Dewaere made the breakthrough with his first major role in Bertrand Blier's anarchic comedy Les Valseuses ( 1974 ) where he and Depardieu starred as two young delinquents.

He teamed up again with Depardieu in Blier's Oscar-winning comedy Préparez vos mouchoirs ( 1978 ).

* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

Mr. Depardieu, in the role that gets him into a New York Yankees cap, proves that he is nothing if not a sport ...

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (; born 27 December 1948 ) is a French actor and filmmaker.

He is one of five children of Anne Jeanne Josèphe " la Liette " ( née Marillier ) and René Maxime Lionel " le Dédé " Depardieu, a metal worker and volunteer fireman.

Depardieu is a well known Anglophile, and has been known to criticise and even insult his home country of France.

Maîtresse is a 1976 French film directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Bulle Ogier and Gérard Depardieu in an early role.

Olivier ( Depardieu ) is a small-time crook.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has been hosted at the National Theater, with screenings at the Open-air theater Metalac and the Bosnian Cultural Center, all located in downtown Sarajevo and has been attended by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Steve Buscemi, Jeremy Irons, Bono Vox ( Bono holds dual Bosnian and Irish citizenship and is an honorary citizen of Sarajevo ), Nick Cave, Coolio, Stephen Frears, Michael Moore, Gérard Depardieu, Darren Aronofsky, Sophie Okonedo, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Spacey, Eric Cantona, Victoria Abril, James Floyd and many others.

The role of Marin Marais is played by Gérard Depardieu as an old man and by Guillaume Depardieu as a young man.

1492: Conquest of Paradise ( French: 1492: Christophe Colomb ) is an epic 1992 European adventure / drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Roselyne Bosch, which tells the story of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus ( Gérard Depardieu ) and the effect this had on the indigenous people.

Les Chiens is also the title of a 1979 film featuring Gérard Depardieu.

* Élisabeth Depardieu as Aimée Cadoret: Jean's beautiful wife is a former opera singer, who has named her daughter after her favourite role, Manon Lescaut.

The story introduces André ( Gérard Depardieu ), a Frenchman who is divorced from his wife.

Crime Spree is a 2003 Canadian-British film written and directed by Brad Mirman starring Gérard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel, as well as French singers Johnny Hallyday and Renaud.

Daniel Foray ( Gérard Depardieu ) is the leader of an unusual group of burglars in Paris.

Élisa is a French film directed by Jean Becker and starring Gérard Depardieu, Vanessa Paradis and Firmine Richard.

Richard is considered by many, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest and most talented French comedians in the last 50 years.

Vidocq ( North American DVD title: Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq ) is a 2001 mystery film, directed by Pitof, starring Gérard Depardieu as historical figure Eugène François Vidocq pursuing a supernatural serial killer.