Cassel, Jean-pierre

Cassel was a bit player in movies, television, and on the stage when the American actor and dancer Gene Kelly discovered him for The Happy Road (1956). Later Cassel, a tall man with an expressive, mobile face, was well received as the comic protagonist of Les Jeux de l'amour (1960; “The Games of Love”), L'Amant de cinq jours (1961; “The Five-Day