Louis Jourdan

Trivia

• He is retired and lives with his wife of over 60 years, Berthe Frederique "Quique" Jourdan, in Beverly Hills, CA.
• In 1983, he was cast as the villainous Kamal Khan in the James Bond film Octopussy. In 1984, he played the role of Pierre de Coubertin in The First Olympics: Athens 1896, a TV series about the 1896 Summer Olympics.
• During the 1970s, he recorded a series of spoken-word albums of the Babar books that were released by Caedmon Records.
• In later years Jourdan also appeared on television, such as 1977's Count Dracula for the BBC and the 1978 episode Columbo: Murder Under Glass. He later played Anton Arcane in the 1982 film Swamp Thing and its 1989 sequel The Return of Swamp Thing.
• However, he may be best remembered as the romantic lead opposite Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier in the film version of the Colette novella, Gigi (1958). The film earned nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
• During the 1950s Jourdan made several international films, taking the male lead in The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) with Brigitte Bardot.
• He returned to Broadway for a short run in 1955 and that year made his U.S. television debut as Inspector Beaumont in the series Paris Precinct.
• After a number of American films, most notably the romantic drama Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), he made his Broadway debut in the lead role in Billy Rose' drama, The Immoralist.
• In 1947, Jourdan accepted an offer to appear in The Paradine Case, an Alfred Hitchcock drama starring Gregory Peck. In Hollywood he became friends with several stars who shared his love of croquet.
• He is known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case (1947), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), and Octopussy (1983).