Olga Georges-Picot

Olga Georges-Picot

Born: January 6, 1940
Died: June 19, 1997
in Shanghai, China
Olga Georges-Picot (6 January 1940 – 19 June 1997) was a French actress. She was a great-niece of François Georges-Picot.

Born in Shanghai, in Japanese-occupied China, she was the daughter of Guillaume Georges-Picot, the French Ambassador to China, and a Russian mother, Anastasia Mironovich. She attended the International School in Geneva in the early fifties with her sister. She also attended the Lycée français de New York (Class of 1958). She studied acting at the Actors Studio in Paris.

Her acting career included roles in French and English films, and on television. She was featured in Playboy Magazine’s "Sex in Cinema" column, and also on the front cover of the periodical Adam.

She appeared in three mainstream films: Denise, the OAS mole, in The Day of the Jackal (1973); Countess Alexandrovna in Woody Allen’s Love and Death (1975); and Julie Anderson in Basil Dearden’s The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970). Her break-through role in the movies was as Catrine in the Alain Resnais’s film Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968). Earlier that year, she had appeared in the French television movie Thibaud the Crusader (1968).

On Thursday 19 June 1997, she jumped to her death from the 5th floor of an apartment building in Paris, France.

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Title: Le Paria
Character: Chantal
Released: October 11, 1985
Type: TV
Julien Mauriès, the youngest of a perfumer's family was forced to go into exile after having an unfortunate experience in the estate business. He spent 20 years in Venezuela and made fortune in the perfume business. Now, Julien has decided to come back in France in order to start again and to cleanse his honour.
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Rebelote
Title: Rebelote
Character: Suzanne Chauveau, the mother
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
Rémi Chauveau, ten years old, lives in a broken home. He first experiences an austere boarding school and then an authoritarian and abusive nanny. Teenager, he works as butcher in Paris. On Saturday, he made “silly little things” that sometimes lead to prison.
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Vice Squad
Title: Vice Squad
Released: July 30, 1978
Type: Movie
A young woman is found dead, nude and drugged with tropanyme (a powerful aphrodisiac). Inspector Corentin from the vice squad will go after this new drug and prostitution ring.
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Emmanuelle 3
Title: Emmanuelle 3
Character: Florence
Released: October 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Cécile Vierne
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Love and Death
Title: Love and Death
Character: Countess Alexandrovna
Released: June 10, 1975
Type: Movie
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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Children of Rage
Title: Children of Rage
Character: Leylah Saleh
Released: May 28, 1975
Type: Movie
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
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Title: Hardness 10
Character: Nadine Mercier
Released: December 14, 1974
Type: TV
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Persecution
Title: Persecution
Character: Monique Kalfon
Released: November 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Title: Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Character: Nora/The Lawyer
Released: March 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
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Féminin-féminin
Title: Féminin-féminin
Character: Marie-Hélène
Released: September 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Marie-Hélène lives in a manor with her husband George, but is not happy. She feels stifled and trapped by the constant presence of Cécile, her intrusive mother-in-law. One day, Jacques and a beautiful woman, Françoise, comes to visit. Marie-Hélène feels attracted to Françoise. To such an extent that the two women fall in love and run away to the city.
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Les Confidences érotiques d'un lit trop accueillant
Title: Les Confidences érotiques d'un lit trop accueillant
Character: Dominique
Released: September 13, 1973
Type: Movie
A stripper takes an old lover back to her apartment and tells him the sordid history of her own bed.
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Hot Lips
Title: Hot Lips
Character: Christine Benoît
Released: July 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Drama about the determined efforts of the wife of a sex researcher to reveal her husband's hypocrisy and get revenge for his humiliating behavior to her.
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Denise
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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A Free Man
Title: A Free Man
Character: Nicole Lefèvre
Released: May 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Henri's wife has divorced him. While Henri is not excessively upset about the divorce, he is sad, hates to be alone, and dislikes the sorts of wrenching changes that are being forced on him. Indeed, his ex-wife cannot get him to leave their shared quarters by the court deadline without having a terrific row with him. When he finally leaves, he leans a great deal on his 10-year-old daughter for company, comfort and support. She gets used to that and has to make adjustments when Henri gets a new woman in his life.
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Title: Le premier juré
Character: Michèle Florin
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: TV
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Sex Is Beautiful
Title: Sex Is Beautiful
Character: Claire
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Married with two kids, beautiful Claire has everything to be happy. But her husband, a businesman, is often absent. When her kids go on a ski holiday Claire finds herself alone. Distraught, she goes out one evening with her friend Gisèle and meets a fashion designer, named Michel. Spark fly and Claire winds up getting seduced by him. Fallen in the trap of adultery: will the young woman be able to accept all her lover's fantasies?
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The Man Who Quit Smoking
Title: The Man Who Quit Smoking
Character: Gunhild
Released: December 16, 1972
Type: Movie
The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead. Dante has a living hell while trying to quit, and hires a private detective agency called Little Secret Service who he gives free hands to stop him from smoking, While his uncle, who has taken up smoking himself, also does everything he can to make Dante smoke again.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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On the Lam
Title: On the Lam
Character: Nadine
Released: September 29, 1971
Type: Movie
A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
Title: The Man Who Haunted Himself
Character: Julia Anderson
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
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Connecting Rooms
Title: Connecting Rooms
Character: Claudia
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.
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Catherine
Title: Catherine
Character: Catherine
Released: August 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Paris, 1418. The city is occupied by the Armagnacs, besieged by Philip of Burgundy. Caboche, a butcher's guild member and supporter of the Burgundians, wants to marry a young woman. To do so, he denounces his father, who is soon after murdered. The Grand Conétable of Burgundy also has his eye on Catherine, but will not be able to take her because Duke Philippe has fallen in love with her.
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Summit
Title: Summit
Released: October 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conference, a summit meeting, the 'summit' of hope. He subordinates all his interests - work, the newspaper, friends - to the urgent task of winning back Annie, with whom he had previously had an affair.
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Sleep is Lovely
Title: Sleep is Lovely
Character: Elsa
Released: September 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Peter can't get over his ex-girlfriend Elsa even though they broke up over a year ago. He spends all his time on a barge owned by his friend John and John's younger brother Colin. One morning Peter, John and Colin see a middle aged man, Clive, fall out of a motor cruiser into the water. They rescue him and decide to ransom him for £1,000. Peter and Elsa are-reunited but Elsa then commences an affair with Colin. Clive turns out to be Elsa's father.
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Farewell, Friend
Title: Farewell, Friend
Character: Isabelle Moreau
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Title: Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Character: Catherine
Released: April 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
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Two for the Road
Title: Two for the Road
Character: Joanna's Touring Friend (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1967
Type: Movie
On the way to a party, a British couple dissatisfied with their marriage recall the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV
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Tales of Paris
Title: Tales of Paris
Released: January 17, 1962
Type: Movie
A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.