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Jean-Paul Rappeneau Dies: 'Cyrano De Bergerac' Director Was 94

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French director and screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau, who was best known internationally for the 1990 Oscar-nominated drama Cyrano de Bergerac, died on September 2 his family has announced. He was 94. Born on April 8, 1932 in the town of Auxerre in central France, Rappeneau’s career spanned more than 50 years of French cinema history. His early screenwriting credits include Louis Malle’s Zazie in the Metro ((1960)and A Very Private Affair (196…

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At the age of ninety-four, the successful French director and screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau died. His death was reported by AFP. Rappeneau shot several pictures with Jean-Paul Belmond as well as on the Oscar-nominated Cyran of Bergerac.

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With "Cyrano von Bergerac" and "The Husar on the roof", Jean-Paul Rappeneau coined the French cinema. Now the master of the elegant entertainment cinema died at the age of 94.

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With "Cyrano von Bergerac" and "The Husar on the roof", Jean-Paul Rappeneau coined the French cinema. Now the master of the elegant entertainment cinema died at the age of 94.

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The director Jean-Paul Rappeneau died on Tuesday in Paris. He left eight feature films shot with the greatest French actors as a legacyThe filmmaker Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a Césarized director of eight feature films including "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1990), died on Tuesday in Paris at the age of 94, announced at AFP one of his sons. Jean-Paul Rappeneau, one of the deans of hexagonal cinema, shot with the greatest French actors, from Yves Montand ("Le…

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The French filmmaker and screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappno, who created the legendary film "Sirano de Bergerac", left his life in '95. The French filmmaker lost his life on Tuesday, 1 September, transmitting Parisien's publication with reference to France Press. "Jan-Paul Rappno... died on Tuesday, 1 September, at the age of 94," says a publication. The most famous work of the artist was the filming of the play "Sirano de Bergerak", which appeared o…

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Paris, 2 Sep (EFE).- French filmmaker Jean-Paul Rappeneau, director of ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, one of the great classics of contemporary French cinema, died Tuesday at age 94, with a short filmography and a work marked by humor and taste for the great show. Rappeneau shot only eight films in between [...] La entrada Diere Jean-Paul Rappeneau, the director of Cyrano de Bergerac was first published in HolaNews.

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Liberation broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
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