Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/20/1921
Place of Birth
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Also Known As
Louis Robert Gendre
Louis Jourdan
Biography
Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production Count Dracula.
Known For
Madame Bovary
as Rodolphe Boulanger
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
as Cardinal Acquaviva
Count Dracula
as Count Dracula
Can-Can
as Philipe Forrestier
Mathias Sandorf
as Le comte Mathias Sandorf
Decameron Nights
as Giovanni Boccaccio / Paganino / Guilio / Don Bertando
Swamp Thing
as Dr. Anton Arcane
The Swan
as Dr. Nicholas Agi
Disorder
as Tom
Octopussy
as Kamal Khan
The Best of Everything
as David Savage
Year of the Comet
as Philippe
The Count of Monte-Cristo
as Villefort
The Great American Beauty Contest
as Ralph Dupree
Anne of the Indies
as Captaine Pierre François LaRochelle
The Paradine Case
as Andre Latour
Dangerous Exile
as Duke Philippe de Beauvais
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self
Silver Bears
as Prince di Siracusa
The Man in the Iron Mask
as D'Artagnan