Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight. For many years, he struggled with alcoholism, caused in part by the 1980 suicide of his son Stephan.After acting school (Conservatoire des arts cinématographiques) he was discovered by Jean Cocteau and appeared in a wartime production of Les Parents terribles (The Terrible Parents). During World War II, he left Paris to join the French resistance.His first feature film came in 1946 with his role in Les portes de la nuit (The Doors of the Night). He later went on to perform in 80 films including Casque dor, Les Misérables (1958),Tutti a casa, Le Doulos, Il Gattopardo, La terrazza, The Pianist (1998).In spite of never quite reaching the peak with his acting career, he did triumph in the theatre in 1959 with his performance in Jean-Paul Sartre’s play Les Séquestrés dAltona. In the meantime, though, in 1965 he began a second career, that of a singer (at the age of 43), with the help of Simone Signoret and her husband Yves Montand and later with great assistance of the French diva Barbara. Reggiani became one of the most acclaimed performers of French Chanson (song) and although he was in his 40s, his bad-boy rugged image made him popular with both young and older listeners.His best known songs include Les loups sont entrés dans Paris (The Wolves Have Entered Paris) and Sarah (La femme qui est dans mon lit) (The Woman Who Is In My Bed), the latter written by Georges Moustaki. However, one of his regular songwriters throughout his career was Boris Vian (Le Déserteur, Arthur où tas mis le corps, La Java des bombes atomiques). His new young fans identified with his left-wing ideals and antimilitarism, most notably during the 1968 student revolts in France. With age he became more and more acclaimed as one of the best interpreters of the French chanson also bringing the poetry of Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Prévert closer to his audience. In 1995, he made a comeback to the singing stage, giving a few concerts despite his deteriorated health and personal distress, the last one being held as late as in the year of his death, in spring of 2004.In later life he became a painter and gave a number of exhibitions of his artwork.Serge Reggiani died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 82, one day after the death of another well known French singer Sacha Distel. He is interred in Montparnasse Cemetery.
Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo
Film 1963
Enjolras
Film 1958
le chef de la résistance
Film 1976
Maurice Faugel
Film 1962
the pilot
Film 1967
Michel 'Gypsy' Devigne
Film 1961
Marcel (archive footage)
Film 2009
Paul, écrivain, journaliste
Film 1974
Guy Sénéchal
Film 1946
Hairdresser
Film 1969
Le récitant chanteur (voice)
Film 1977
Film 2014
Louis (segment "Le retour de Louis")
Film 1949
Sergio
Film 1993
Charlie
Film 1986
Geniere Assunto Ceccarelli
Film 1960
Sick Man
Film 1986
Trajan Koruga
Film 1967
Angelo (Romeo)
Film 1949
Georges
Film 1952
Franz, le soldat
Film 1950
le père de Sophie
Film 1990
The Mad Indian
Film 1974
Film 1941
Ivanov
Film 1965
(uncredited)
Film 1941
Antoine Rougier
Film 1959
Lechat
Film 1975
Film 1947
Self (archive footage)
Film 2011
Jean-Loup aka 'Loup'
Film 1951
Film 1970
Sergio Parnell
Film 1953
Gaston Lansac
Film 1946
Léon Lescaut
Film 1949
Pierre
Film 1949
Dr. Levy
Film 1993
Emilio
Film 1990
Claude Lacaud
Film 1953
Joseph Rouletabille
Film 1949
Joseph "Rouletabille"
Film 1949
Rudel
Film 1955
Euclide Brown
Film 1980
Abbot Paul Forestier
Film 1950
Bastien Sassey
Film 1958
Joris
Film 1944
Bob Éloi
Film 1943
Alfred Mougins
Film 1958
Chimney Sweep (voice)
Film 1953
Père de François
Film 1977
Lantini
Film 1952
monsieur Montgolfier
Film 1997
André
Film 1953
Libero
Film 1962
Bernard Voisin
Film 1957
Jérôme
Film 1977
Film
Self (archive footage)
Film 2022
Film 1988
Speaker
Film 1957
Thia
Film 1972
Vic
Film 1990
Un élève
Film 1938
Manu
Film 1948
Le Stéphanois
Film 1988
Film 1993
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Film 1960
Mario Grimaldi
Film 1957
Pierrot
Film 1972
Lucien Bonaparte
Film 1955
Rossell mayor
Film 1998
Parrinieddu
Film 1968
Fouldroule
Film 1980
François Nolan
Film 1970
Ferrari, antifascista in carcere
Film 1968
François Villon
Film 1945
Narrator
Film 1966
Film 1995
Self
Film 2010
Germain
Film 1995
Film 1965
Self
Tv 1985
Self
Tv 1972
Self
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1968
Self
Tv 1975
Self - Host
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1972
Self
Tv 1982
Self
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1984
Self
Tv 1987
Self
Tv 1998
Self
Tv 1959
Le commissaire Prévôt
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1976
Self
Tv 1971