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英语文摘:Son of renowned French actor Depardieu dies at 37

Source:  Onion  2008-10-14   English BBS   Favorite  
BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhuanet)-- Actor Guillaume Depardieu, the often-troubled son of iconic French movie star Gerard Depardieu, died of pneumonia Monday, hospital officials said as quoted by media reports. He was 37.

    Guillaume died at Raymond-Poincare hospital in Garches, west of Paris, from complications related to a sudden case of pneumonia, the hospital's authority said.

    He had been filming the movie "L'Enfance d'Icare" in Romania on the weekend when he suddenly fell ill.

    The French actor, who is also famous for his tumultuous life, won the prize in 1996 as the most promising young actor at the Cesar awards -the French version of an Oscar - for his role in the film "Les Apprentis" (The Apprentices).

French actor Guillaume Depardieu poses during a photocall at the 57th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin in this February 15, 2007 file picture.

French actor Guillaume Depardieu poses during a photocall at the 57th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin in this Feb. 15, 2007 file picture.

    "He was very sensitive. That's what gave him that slightly James Dean-style personality. A man tortured by his youth, by the relations he had with his father," director Jean-Pierre Mocky, with whom he filmed in 1997, told RTL radio.

    As a teenager and young adult, he led an eventful life and faced problems with drugs, alcohol and violence.

    He served his first prison sentence at the age of 17 and returned to jail when he was 22 for heroin trafficking. He later said he had been a male prostitute as part of a revolt against his father.

    He had a public falling-out with his father in 2003. That year he had his right leg amputated to end years of pain from a bacterial infection following a motorcycle accident in 1996.

    Also in 2003, he was fined and handed a nine-month suspended prison sentence for threatening a man with a gun.

    In June, he was jailed for two months for driving under the influence.


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