Jacqueline Sassard

Acting

Jacqueline Sassard

Born March 13, 1940 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Procence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Died July 17, 2021 · aged 81

Jacqueline Sassard (March 13, 1940 – July 17, 2021) was a French actress best known for appearing in classic Italian films, including Guendalina (1957) and Violent Summer (1959). Her most iconic role was an Austrian princess in the British drama Accident (1967). Her career was short-lived and lasted barely a decade when she left the film industry in 1969 on her marriage to Gianni Lancia.

Known For

GuendalinaGuendalina · 1957
Guendalina
6.51957
MovieComedy
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of her home life, Guendalina creates a dream world of her own, casting Oberdan as her personal Prince Charming. Despite parental objections, girl and boy fall in love. Interestingly enough, the relationship between Guendalina and Oberdan remains pure and chaste throughout their film, which is more than can be said for their parents. their respective parents behave with marked laciviousness.
Les BichesLes Biches · 1968
Les Biches
6.01968
MovieDramaRomance
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
AccidentAccident · 1967
Accident
6.41967
MovieRomanceDrama
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
Violent SummerViolent Summer · 1959
Violent Summer
7.21959
MovieDramaRomance
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?
Ferdinand I King of NaplesFerdinand I King of Naples · 1959
Ferdinand I King of Naples
6.71959
MovieComedy
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
Women Are WeakWomen Are Weak · 1959
Women Are Weak
5.61959
MovieComedy
A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.
White VoicesWhite Voices · 1964
White Voices
4.81964
MovieComedy
In 18th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.
My Son, the HeroMy Son, the Hero · 1962
My Son, the Hero
5.91962
MovieAdventureFantasy
Krios, the youngest of the Titans, may be the least strong of the seven brothers whose strength comes from their mother, earth-goddess Gaia, but is by far the smartest, and thus their natural leader. He arrives on Crete, the kingdom of the mighty king Minos, impresses him as gladiator, gains his trust, falls in love with a mortal girl and discovers both Minos's human sacrifice-cult and a foreign conspiracy to seize power with a hidden army.

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