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Jean Gabin
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| Known for: | The Grand Illusion, Port of Shadows, Pépé le Moko |
| Birth name: | Jean-Alexis Moncorgé |
| Birthday: | 17 May 1904, Paris, France |
| Height: | 5' 8½" 1.74 m |
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Trivia
Children from marriage with Dominique Fournier: Florence Moncorgé-Gabin (1950), Valérie Moncorgé (1952) and Mathias Moncorgé (1956).
He didn't want his daughter Florence to become an actress and tried in every way to prevent her to do. When she married a jockey against his will he didn't go to the wedding ceremony but sent a friend, the actor Lino Ventura.
Male winner of 1953 Lemon Prize, awarded by French journalists to the nastiest French actors.
Portrayed on a postage stamp issued on Oct. 3, 1998 by the French Post Office.
Was Sergio Leone's favorite actor.
Following the German occupation of France, he emigrated to Hollywood At that time, he began a romance with Marlene Dietrich and lived there until 1943.
He enlisted as a tank commander in the 2nd free French armored division an he fought in France and in Germany until the end of the war.
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