JeanLouis Xavier Trintignant 11 December 1930 17 June 2022 was a French actor He made his theatrical debut in 1951 and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the postwar era He starred in many classic films of European cinema and worked with many prominent auteur directors including Roger Vadim CostaGavras Claude Lelouch Claude Chabrol Bernardo Bertolucci Éric Rohmer François Truffaut Krzysztof Kieślowski and Michael Haneke He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman 1956 followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman 1966 and The Great Silence 1968 He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for CostaGavrass Z Trintignants other notable films include My Night at Mauds 1969 The Conformist 1970 Three Colours Red 1994 and The City of Lost Children 1995 He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Hanekes Amour Description above from the Wikipedia article JeanLouis Trintignant licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia