Trivia: Father of Vincent Cassel and Cecile Cassel.
Father-in-law of Monica Belluci.
Tall, sandy-haired,wry-faced French leading man wo began as a dancer, and started his film career in Hollywood film partly shot in his native Paris. His Gallic good looks faded rather early, but he remained in demand for character role in both continental and international films until the early 1980s. In style and looks, something of a throwback to the melancholy heroes in French cinema of the 1930s.
Biography information on Jean-Pierre Cassel was taken from
… More Quinlan's Film Stars book copyright 1991.
