JeanRoger Milo whose real name is Salah Eldine Saoud in Arabic صلاح الدين سعود is a French actor of Algerian origin born June 5 1957 in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and died October 12 2023 in the 15th district of the same city At the end of the 1970s he was 18 years old and already quite drifting in Créteil at the MJC he became acquainted with cinema A 16 mm Beaulieu camera black and white film galore and its an adventure One day he heard actor Sacha Pitoëff on the radio explaining that his course was open to everyone He calls her and arrives at the Campagne Première theater I probably needed another identity For me Pitoëff was a teacher but also a father A man Through his contact the applicant confronts the great texts and plays Pepel in Les BasFonds He discovered a passion for the acting profession First jobs as extras He does what he can with his build He telephones Bertrand Tavernier We had a coffee together and we discussed cinema that brought me a lot I did the same thing with Bertrand Blier who gave me books to read The young actor searches for himself launches into poetry reads Pierre de Ronsard Victor Hugo Stéphane Mallarmé Tristan Corbière Max Jacob and writes I wrote sonnets two quatrains and two tercets I took my time No more than three in the year I also wrote short stories in prose In my opinion In the early 1980s JeanRoger Milo appeared in films such as Tir Groupé and Un Dimanche De Flic In LAs Des As he is part of the sports team alongside JeanPaul Belmondo Confined to the employment of the villain the experience is painful Playing is always an act against ones nature Even those whose faces give off a hint of madness sometimes dream of a fireside role Cast in the film Rue Barbare in 1984 he was injured in a fight while protecting a child before the start of filming and had to be replaced this incident wrongly earned him a bad reputation in cinema circles and slowed down his career JeanRoger Milo then reappears in the cinema in roles of varying importance In Sarraounia in 1986 he played Paul Voulet He played colorful roles in L627 1992 by Bertrand Tavernier and in 1993 he lost thirty kilos to play Chaval in Germinal by Claude Berri His performance earned him a César nomination for Best Supporting Actor He toured again under the direction of Berri in 1997 in Lucie Aubrac where he played Maurice David a character closer to him He will also play in popular films like Le Pari 1997 by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan and Astérix et Obélix contre César 1999 by Claude Zidi where he will lend his features to the blacksmith Cétautomatix In 1999 he played one of the main roles in the television films Prison à Domicile and Les Sagards 1999 by Dominique Ladoge JeanRoger Milo then retired from cinema to live in the mountains Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine tried to get him back on the screens in 2014 by giving him the main role in the film Near Death Experience but their contacts were unsuccessful JeanRoger Milo died on October 12 2023 in Paris 15th at the age of 66