JeanPierre Bacri is a French actor screenwriter and playwright born May 24 1951 in Bou Ismaïl formerly Castiglione in Algeria and died January 18 2021 in Paris 6th In 2005 he sponsored the Devoirs de Mémoires collective JeanPierre Sauveur Bacri was born in Algeria into a Sephardic Jewish family from Algeria When Algeria gained independence in 1962 the family arrived in Cannes At 23 he left his position at Société Générale went to Paris and trained as an actor at the Simon course and the Jean Périmony course while writing plays including Le Doux Visage De LAmour for which he received the Fondation de la vocation prize in 1979 The same year he played his first role in the cinema in Le Toubib His performance as a pimp in Le Grand Pardon by Alexandre Arcady in 1982 made him known to the public He then multiplied supporting roles with several directors Diane Kurys Claude Lelouch Claude Pinoteau Luc Besson JeanMichel Ribes Tony Gatlif Gérard Krawczyk JeanPierre Mocky Pierre Tchernia JeanMarie Poiré Yves Boisset and Yves Robert In 1986 his name began to appear at the top of the bill for Mort Un Dimanche De Pluie by Joël Santoni then LÉté En Pente Douce by Gérard Krawczyk in 1987 He played the same year in the play LAnniversaire directed by JeanMichel Ribes alongside his future colleague and companion Agnès Jaoui In 1993 he starred in the comedy Cuisine Et Dépendances for which he also wrote the script Then he cowrote the screenplay with Agnès Jaoui of Smoking No Smoking by Alain Resnais César for best original screenplay 1994 In 1996 the duo exploded onto the general public with Un Air De Famille directed by Cédric Klapisch César for best original screenplay 1997 The same year JeanPierre Bacri was in the comedy Didier by Alain Chabat Then in On Connaît La Chanson by Alain Resnais for which Bacri cosigned the screenplay César for best original screenplay and César for best supporting actor In 1998 he appeared with Catherine Deneuve in Place Vendôme by Nicole Garcia In 1999 in Kennedy Et Moi by Sam Karmann In 2000 he played in the film Le Goût Des Autres directed by Agnès Jaoui César for best screenplay He participated in the script of Asterix and Obelix Mission Cleopatra by Alain Chabat and narrated the film He continued his films with A Maid by Claude Berri In 2003 in Les Sentiments by Noémie Lvovsky In 2004 in Comme Une Image by Agnès Jaoui Screenplay Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival This will be followed in 2006 According to Charlie by Nicole Garcia in 2008 Speak to Me About the Rain by Agnès Jaoui In 2009 Farewell Gary by Nassim Amaouche In 2011 Before Dawn by Raphaël Jacoulot In 2012 he played in Chercher Hortense by Pascal Bonitzer In 2013 he reunited with Agnès Jaoui for a sixth feature film Au Bout Du Conte In 2015 he was in The Very Private Life of Monsieur Sim by Michel Leclerc In 2016 in Tout De Immediate Now by Pascal Bonitzer The following year he headlined Grand Froid and Le Sens De La Fête He also makes an appearance in Santa et Cie by Alain Chabat In 2018 in Place Publique by Agnès Jaoui then he played in Photo De Famille JeanPierre Bacri died of cancer on January 18 2021 in Paris 6th at the age of 69