
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/20/1921
Place of Birth
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Also Known As
Louis Robert Gendre
Louis Jourdan
Biography
Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production Count Dracula.
Known For

Double Deal
as Peter Sterling

Swamp Thing
as Dr. Anton Arcane

The Swan
as Dr. Nicholas Agi

Octopussy
as Kamal Khan

Counterforce
as Kassar

The Count of Monte-Cristo
as Villefort

Bayou Romance
as Self

Julie
as Lyle Benton

Count Dracula
as Count Dracula

Dangerous Exile
as Duke Philippe de Beauvais

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
as Cardinal Acquaviva

The Sultans
as Laurent

Escapade
as Frank Raphaël

Eloise
as Himself

Can-Can
as Philipe Forrestier

L'Arlésienne
as Frédéri

Decameron Nights
as Giovanni Boccaccio / Paganino / Guilio / Don Bertando

Madame Bovary
as Rodolphe Boulanger

Mathias Sandorf
as Le comte Mathias Sandorf

The Count of Monte Cristo
as Edmond Dantès