- Jean-Claude Brialy, S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die), France-West Germany, 1990. French casting king-turned-agent Dominique Besnehard hadn’t seen his teenage crush from Napoleon II: L’Aiglon, since seeing the film in 1961. He found him as a producer of Sophie Marceau’s Pacific Palisades in 1989. “He’d grown huge, a sort of Orson Welles.” Besnehard suggested him for for the cock-fights organiser but director Claire Denis preferred his other client, Brialy. Undaunted, Besnehard simply relaunched Verley in his director client Xavier Beauvois’ Nord, 1990 – his first movie role for a decade. And then got them both in Patrice Chereau’s bloody La Reine Margot, 1993.
Birth year: Death year: Other name: Casting Calls: 1