Gérard Barray

Gérard Barray

Born: November 2, 1931
Died: February 14, 2024
in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
Gérard Barray (born 2 November 1931 in Toulouse) is a French actor.

Barray's parents split up quickly and his mother, who came from Montauban decided to return to her hometown with her little boy. Around the age of 15, he discovered a passion for jazz; he participated in a few shows in nightclubs while pursuing his studies and obtained a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Toulouse. Camille Ricard, an actress and teacher at the Conservatory of Toulouse, who advised him to go to Paris with a letter of recommendation for a friend, Noel Roquevert. Barray enrolled at the Cours Simon, a drama school in Paris. Four years later, Gérard Barray won the Jury It will then excel in the roles of knights with a big heart. He starred as D'Artagnan, Pardaillan, Surcouf and Scaramouche. In total there practice gender in a dozen feature films, most of which are box-office success, widely known abroad. Besides films swashbuckling as Pardaillan and Scaramouche and adventure films like Surcouf, Barray turned police commissioner in two San Antonio movies. In 1969, he starred beside young actress Claude Jade in "The Witness". He played Van Britten, a mysterious museum curator who seduces a young English teacher. It was his last major role.

For Claude Berri he played in Le Cinéma de papa (1970) as Richard, a super star and rather temperamental actor. His comeback in 1997 was in Alejandro Amenabar's "Abre los ojos" as Devernois, a TV man.

Gérard Barray was appointed an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010.

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The Galíndez File
Title: The Galíndez File
Character: Jorge Uria
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: Movie
On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working with the FBI and was about to publish a book critical of Dominican strongman, Trujillo. In 1988, a graduate student, Muriel Colber, wants to make Galíndez the subject of her dissertation. She's in Spain doing research; finding little, she goes to Santo Domingo. At every turn, the CIA, in the person of agent Robards, tries to thwart her; and, at each turn, as she considers abandoning the project, someone offers new information, often contradictory. She wants the truth behind the Galíndez mystery; will she find it?
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El paraíso ya no es lo que era
Title: El paraíso ya no es lo que era
Character: Raúl
Released: May 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Mercedes (Neus Asensi) Mariángeles (Ana Risueño) and Carmen (Miriam Diaz Aroca) need to escape something: the stress of the job, a divorce or a gray and boring existence. And all three are looking for something: a love affair in an exotic country. The destination is Tunisia, land of contrasts, from the deserts and beaches. But far from land into a paradise unprecedented journey undertaken with a group of quirky characters.
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No te fallaré
Title: No te fallaré
Character: Leo Barthel
Released: March 2, 2001
Type: Movie
"FRIENDS...THREE YEARS LATER" School is finally out. Valle and Quimi, a couple since childhood, decide to celebrate with their gang on a trip to the coast. They feel free and swear that they will always be together. But three years later, everything is quite different. A party at the high school unites them all again. They haven't seen each other for years and the tension is thick. Something unexpected changed the course of their lives. Valle is a dancer at a club and attracted to Ray, the owner, who is also an art dealer under pressure to use his nightspot to peddle drugs.
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Sexy Beast
Title: Sexy Beast
Character: Spanish Official
Released: January 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.
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Open Your Eyes
Title: Open Your Eyes
Character: Duvernois
Released: December 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
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Title: Goya
Released: May 13, 1985
Type: TV
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Black Commando
Title: Black Commando
Character: Ludovic Stafford
Released: November 15, 1982
Type: Movie
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Title: Madame Sans-Gêne
Character: Neiperg
Released: December 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Catherine Hubscher, laundress, saves the life of an Austrian nobleman with the complicity of her fiancé, Sergeant Lefebvre, the day when royalty collapses. And then the years pass ... Become Marshal of the Empire and Duke of Danzig, ex Sergeant Lefebvre always has for wife Catherine, the ex laundress; and this, in spite of the efforts made by the Emperor Napoleon to have him divorced, the Emperor blamed him strongly for the lack of distinction of Catherine. Faced with the Marshal's refusal, Catherine was summoned to the Emperor's house and the dialogue between them lacked heat to say the least, until the former lieutenant Bonaparte recognized in Maréchale Lefebvre, Catherine the laundress, who once , gave him credit for his laundering debts.
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Summertime Killer
Title: Summertime Killer
Character: Tania's teacher
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps the man's daughter and goes to a hideout. In the meantime, an ex-cop has been tracking them down.
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The Little Triangle
Title: The Little Triangle
Character: Sabino Pérez
Released: June 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Lázaro and Sabino, employees of a large furniture store, fall in love with Laura, a new young and naive employee, who accepts their love. The trio lives a happy engagement. In the big store is planned a sensational advertising campaign with the bed "Eternal happiness," to be launched on New Year's Day. Lázaro and Sabino have to give the last touches on New Year's Eve. When they leave, they enter the exhibition truck and lie down on the bed. When they wake up in the morning, they are surrounded by a crowd and a scandal is organized.
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Title: Le Manège de Port-Barcarès
Character: Bruno Fontan
Released: March 27, 1972
Type: TV
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Le Cinema de Papa
Title: Le Cinema de Papa
Character: Richard
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially, Claude's father hopes his son will take over the fur shop, but he later gives in to Claude's desire to become involved in filmmaking.
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Neurosis
Title: Neurosis
Character: Carlos Ferrer
Released: April 2, 1970
Type: Movie
Inspired by the French classic Les diaboliques (1955), this psycho-thriller copies that film rather closely. In Barcelona, ​​a couple falls apart and the husband falls in love with his wife's cousin. To hide the former‘s accidental death, the cousin takes her identity. But one evening the husband thinks he recognizes his wife in the street...
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The Witness
Title: The Witness
Character: Van Britten
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Cécile teaches English at the Collegium in Bruges. She has a boyfriend, Thomas, a student at the Beaux-Arts. Cécile lives with Mrs. Hanka, who reads horoscopes and surrounds herself with natal charts. She says she's known a lot about people for 30 years.
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Beru and These Women
Title: Beru and These Women
Character: Commissaire San Antonio
Released: October 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Béru calls Commissaire San Antonio to the rescue, and the two men discover that Laurenzi's hotel is home to a "brothel" whose director, Madame Albertine, soon reveals to the two policemen that Laurenzi was having an ongoing relationship with Helga, one of the boarders, and Mr. Max, a regular guest of the house.
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Adriatic Sea of Fire
Title: Adriatic Sea of Fire
Character: Michel Masic
Released: October 8, 1968
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a mutiny to keep fighting when the commander is ordered to surrender.
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Tender Sharks
Title: Tender Sharks
Character: Gregory
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
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Sale temps pour les mouches
Title: Sale temps pour les mouches
Character: Commisaire San-Antonio
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Renowned atomic scientists are kidnapped on French soil. Inspector San-Antonio and his loyal deputy Bérurier infiltrate a gang suspected of involvement in the case, in order to trace the trail.
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The Big Hit of Surcouf
Title: The Big Hit of Surcouf
Character: Captain Robert Surcouf
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.
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The Sea Pirate
Title: The Sea Pirate
Character: Captain Robert Surcouf
Released: January 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.
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Agent X-77 Orders to Kill
Title: Agent X-77 Orders to Kill
Character: Serge Vadile, agent X 13
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-rocket-fuel.
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Pyramid of the Sun God
Title: Pyramid of the Sun God
Character: Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Title: Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Character: Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla
Released: March 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
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The Spy
Title: The Spy
Character: Frank Jackson
Released: February 27, 1964
Type: Movie
The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped off Gibraltar. The Admiralty calls in the Intelligence Service to find out the cause of the destruction before new units arrive. Lieutenant Jackson, of the Marine Infantry Regiment stationed in Gibraltar, spends all his duty time in Tangier, where he is attracted by his love of poker and a beautiful dancer, Lola. Despite the objurgations of his general and the tender friendship of Cathie, his general's daughter, he can't stop playing and loses a very large sum one evening.
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The Gallant Musketeer
Title: The Gallant Musketeer
Character: Le chevalier Jean de Pardaillan
Released: February 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vied for the the throne, these new adventures of Pardaillan have the gallant musketeer defend the rightful king Henri III.Jean gives his full to thwart the Duke of Guise's attempts to have the king assassinated. A heartthrob more than ever, Pardaillan will awake serious interest in many a girl, at times becoming their prey like with Bianca Farnese, De Guise's agent.
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The Adventures of Scaramouche
Title: The Adventures of Scaramouche
Character: Robert Lafleur alias Scaramouche
Released: September 23, 1963
Type: Movie
Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
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Scheherazade
Title: Scheherazade
Character: Renaud de Villecroix
Released: May 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
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Clash of Steel
Title: Clash of Steel
Character: Le chevalier Jean de Pardaillan
Released: October 18, 1962
Type: Movie
In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues and prey of his sworn enemy, the Duke Henri de Guise. Pardaillan and Isabelle fall in love, and the valiant chevalier will not rest until the advent of King Henri IV.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Character: Giovanni Sagona
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.
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Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Title: Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Character: D'Artagnan
Released: October 25, 1961
Type: Movie
To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Milady de Winter kidnaps both D'Artagnan and Constance, in order to spur a war between the French and the English, as per the Cardinal's wish.
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The Fighting Musketeers
Title: The Fighting Musketeers
Character: D'Artagnan
Released: October 4, 1961
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he was ready to attack France to deliver Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan ends up arrested and thrown into prison. Musketeers wonder how to rescue their friend.
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Captain Fracasse
Title: Captain Fracasse
Character: Duc de Vallombreuse
Released: April 21, 1961
Type: Movie
A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.
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A Game for Six Lovers
Title: A Game for Six Lovers
Character: Miguel
Released: January 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age. However Robert, who had been living with Fifine in an open relationship, arrives and impersonates Jean-Paul. Robert falls for Fifine's cousin Miléna while Fifine has designs on Miguel. In the meantime, the butler César is focusing his lecherous intentions on Prudence, the maid he had just hired.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Série noire
Title: Série noire
Character: Un homme du 'Corse'
Released: March 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns. The day Léo leaves prison, the criminal entrusts him with a letter to deliver to his estranged wife. He finds her, and she falls under his spell. The problem is that he, too, has fallen in love with her.