Gilles Béhat

Gilles Marc Béhat 3 September 1949 is a French filmmaker and actor Gilles Béhat Béat by birth was born in Lille The confusion around the h in his last name stems from an error in the credits of the first film he participated in as an actor LHercule sur la place As a teenager he played guitar with a rock band He attended the Conservatoire dArt Dramatique taking acting classes He launching his career as an actor by taking roles in television series such as that of Pierre Vignard in LHercule sur la place and Charles IV le Bel in Les Rois maudits 1972 as well as in the cinema in films like Gérard Piress 1970 film Elle court elle court la banlieue Jean Yannes 1972 film Chobizenesse and Bernard Pauls 1975 film Beau Masque As a director he made a series of feature films including many detective and action films He gained attention after the released of his 1984 gangster film Rue barbare Several of his subsequent films including Dancing Machine starring Alain Delon were relative commercial failures He then turned to television where he directed series for TF1 France 2 and Canal in the 1990s In 2008 he returned to cinema directing Diamant 13 a noir starring Gérard Depardieu Olivier Marchal and Asia Argento Source Article Gilles Béhat from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30