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Louis Jourdan
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| Known for: | Octopussy, Gigi, Swamp Thing |
| Birth name: | Louis Gendre |
| Birthday: | 19 June 1919, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France |
| Height: | 6' 1" (1.85 m) |
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Trivia
His son, Louis Henry, committed suicide by drug overdose in 1981.
Part of his French Resistance work was to help publish and distribute newspapers for the Underground.
He moved back to France after his career in Hollywood.
Brother of director Pierre Jourdan.
It was he who found the body of his only child, Louis Henry, 29, in his Beverly Hills home. His son had suffered from depression and had apparently taken an overdose of drugs. The police labeled it a suicide, even though it may have been an accidental overdose.
He grew up in the south of France with 2 brothers. Parents Yvonne Jourdan and Henry Gendre managed a string of hotels in Cannes, Nice, and Marseilles. He perfected his English by speaking to tourists.
According to an 1985 news article, he reads Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
Only son, Louis Henry George Jourdan, was born October 6, 1951.
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