Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan is one of those names that, for me, carries the whole texture of mid-century Hollywood glamour. Born in Marseille, he became cinema's idea of the suave Frenchman, gliding through Gigi, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and even turning up as a Bond villain in Octopussy. But the detail I keep returning to is that before the screen polish, he was a French Resistance fighter, which adds a gravity the matinee-idol image never quite suggests. France honored him with the Legion of Honour in 2009, late but fitting. A long, elegant life, and I find that wartime chapter the most quietly heroic part.

Name (English)

Louis Jourdan

Name (Japanese)

ルイ・ジュールダン

Reading

るい・じゅーるだん

Born

June 19, 1921 – February 14, 2015

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

Origin

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / French resistance fighter / television actor / actor

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Knight of the Legion of Honour
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Donaldson Awards

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.monsieur.louisjourdan.net/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Bouches-du-Rhône
• stage actor
• film actor
• French resistance fighter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.