Made debut as a stage actor at the age of 16. In 1947 became assistant to Marc Allegret, occasionally working on scripts, before getting his first credits as co-writer of two British films directed by Allegret.


Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956): $5,000

Born at 9 p.m. UT. Father of Vanessa Vadim with Jane Fonda. Brother-in-law of Peter Fonda, son-in-law of Henry Fonda. In attendance at his funeral were Marie-Christine Barrault, Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda, Annette Vadim and Catherine Schneider. Contrary to popular belief, he's not actually French--he's Ukrainian. His parents fled the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and settled in Paris, where he was born Vladimir Pemiannikov, but since French law required that a person born on French soil have a French first name, he was given the first name of Roger.