Mireille Darc
Date of birth: 1938-05-15
Place of birth: Toulon, Var, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Мирей Дарк
Biography
Mireille Darc (15 May 1938 – 28 August 2017) was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit. Alain Delon was her longtime co-star and companion. Born Mireille Christiane Gabrielle Aimée Aigroz in Toulon, she attended the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Toulon and moved to Paris in 1959. Darc's debuted in Claude Barma's television drama Du côté de l'enfer (aka, La Grande Brétèche, 1960). Her first leading role came in another production for French television, Jean Prat's Hauteclaire (1961). She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Weekend (Week-end, 1967) as Corinne, her highest profile role for international critics; as Christine in The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, 1972) and The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le retour du grand blond, 1974) and alongside Alain Delon and Louis de Funès in several films: Pouic-Pouic (1963), High Lifers (How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965), Jeff (1969), Borsalino (uncredited, 1970), The Love Mates (Madly, 1970), Icy Breasts (Les Seins de glace, 1974), Death of a Corrupt Man (Mort d'un pourri, 1977), Man in a Hurry (L'Homme pressé, 1977), and the television series Frank Riva (2003). Darc had a heart condition from childhood, which required open-heart surgery in 1980. She was seriously injured in a car accident on July 7, 1983, in a tunnel in the Aosta Valley, Italy, suffering a fractured spine and other injuries that required three months of immobilization in a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland. Although they had recently separated about two weeks prior to the accident after a fifteen-year relationship, Delon rushed to Aosta when he heard about the accident, and left separately for Geneva by automobile during the night. She quit her film career, but she returned to television in the 1990s. In 2006, French President Jacques Chirac awarded Darc the Legion of Honour. In 2013, Darc underwent further open heart surgery, and during 2016 she suffered several hemorrhages. She died on 28 August 2017 in Paris in a coma at the age of 79. Source: Article "Mireille Darc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Movie Credits
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974-11-12
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy,"
Male Hunt
1964-09-18
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien,
Hauteclaire
1961-06-13
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and
The Great Spy Chase
1964-12-10
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies
Weekend
1967-12-29
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972-12-06
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret serv
Sapho
1997-01-21
The tumultuous affair between a young man and a woman twenty-five years his senior.
Let's Not Get Angry
1966-04-20
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He recei
Monsieur
1964-04-22
Left heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he le
Squeak-squeak
1963-11-20
Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless o
People in Luck
1963-04-26
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969-04-28
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally fro
Please, Not Now!
1961-04-19
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
Sorrel Flower
1967-09-22
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster come
Fantasia Among the Squares
1971-01-15
Sagamore Noonan lives in seclusion on a farm in Alabama, where he distills moonshine during Prohibit
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970-04-17
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Death of a Corrupt Man
1977-12-07
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with dist
There Once Was a Cop
1972-02-11
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an
Man in the Trunk
1973-10-12
Bloch, an Israeli secret agent, seeks refuge in the French embassy in Libya to escape being killed.
Troubleshooters
1971-04-07
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse ass
The Big Grasshopper
1967-01-11
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost
The Upper Hand
1966-03-02
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then th
The Probability Factor
1976-04-07
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of
Mireille Darc, blessures intimes
2013-11-27
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965-10-28
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes
The Love Mates
1970-12-18
Julien and Agatha appear to be a great couple, loving, caring and seem to feel complete with each ot
Dandelions by the Roots
1964-05-06
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962-09-14
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more
Icy Breasts
1974-08-28
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to
The Pink Telephone
1975-10-15
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an Am
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005-12-07
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre
Galia
1966-01-26
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whi
La grande bretèche
1960-10-14
Transposed to the 1960s, this short story by Balzac tells the story of a jealous husband who hears a
New Year's Eve At Bob's
1984-12-12
On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each f
The Small Timers
1978-09-27
A gang of small time crooks, prosecuted by an stubborn police inspector, is unfairly accused of a br
The Blonde from Peking
1967-08-25
Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac
Trapped by Fear
1960-11-04
Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapi
Where There's Smoke
1973-05-16
An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife
The Hurried Man
1977-08-10
Art collector Pierre Niox rushes through life, lives a frantic life, does everything in full speed -
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019-05-07
A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug i
L'Été en hiver
1964-01-04
Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married
Jeff
1969-04-25
Jeff is a gangster who's disappeared with a million dollars, and Laurent is looking for him to catch
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
2019-05-04
Balearic Caper
1966-03-10
A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for v
Summit
1968-10-16
Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conferen
The Passengers
1977-03-09
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck
À belles dents
1966-07-05
An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is disco
L'ami de mon fils
1997-06-03
Louise has been a widow for years and teaches literature in a high school. She divides all her time
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017-09-01
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970
Hard Boiled Ones
1964-06-10
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
Jamais avant le mariage
1982-09-01
Bernard accompanies his friend Roger on a circuit. They witness a serious accident. Roger rushes in
Tell Me You Love Me
1974-12-12
Two couples, undermined by frequent scenes, fall apart: the men, Richard and Bertrand, directors of
To Die of Love
1961-08-30
Michel, a writer of detective novels, is married to Pat, a pretty woman he's been neglecting. One da
Love Lies
1983-03-19
After a harrowing breakup, Marcel returns to his favorite hotel to find his room occupied by a journ
Vagabond Humor
1972-07-05
Benoît, a young provincial, arrives in the capital. He has left his family (mother, wife and child)
Reporters
1981-06-10
The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photog
4XD
1964-01-14
In 1964, on the request of UniFrance, writer and director Philippe Labro filmed four young actresses
Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
2015-10-11
With his popular culture, prolific imagination, and verbal alchemy, Michel Audiard revolutionized ci
OK Patron
1974-06-01
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to f
The New Aristrocrats
1961-12-13
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do pare
Ni vue ni connue
1997-05-16
Directed by Pierre Lary. With Mireille Darc, Christophe Odent, Jean-Marie Winling, Hugues Boucher.
Virginie
1962-10-17
Two friends, a journalist and a scientist, plan to sail to Argentina for an expedition of discovery,
¿Pena de muerte?
1961-01-01
Pedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous lawye
The Great Restaurant II
2011-04-30
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
2018-08-24
On August 28, 2017, Mireille Darc passed away at the age of 79. She was Audiard and Lautner's favori
Casino Royale
1967-04-13
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin
Borsalino
1970-05-19
In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
2012-08-14
Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
2015-01-01
Borsalino and Co.
1974-10-23
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no lon
For a Cop's Hide
1981-09-09
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.
Le Terminus des prétentieux
2020-10-14
This year, Michel Audiard would have turned 100. To celebrate the life and work of the French screen
La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes
1998-10-05
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013-01-01
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002-09-01
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with a