If he hadn’t killed himself 30 years ago Patrick Dewaere would be 65 today
Actor and Frogsmoker Patrick Dewaere
Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982) was a promising and popular French actor in the late 1960s and 1970s. He made his breakthrough with his first major role in Bertrand Blier’s anarchic comedy Les Valseuses (1974) where he and Gérard Depardieu starred as two young delinquents. He teamed up again with Depardieu in Blier’s Oscar-winning comedy Preparez Vos Mouchoirs.
Despite Dewaere’s obvious talent for comedy, he was often successfully cast as a fragile, neurotic individual. Shortly after the release of Paradis Pour Tous (1982), a black comedy where his character committed suicide, the actor killed himself by shooting himself with a rifle in Paris; he was 35 years old.
