Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1936-03-03
Day of Death
2016-09-27
Place of Birth
Rousson, Gard, France
Yvan Chiffre
Biography
Yvan Chiffre (3 March 1936 – 27 September 2016) was a French director, producer, and stunt coordinator. He is the father of Philippe Chiffre, Romain Chiffre and the grand father of César Chiffre. He was the stunt coordinator of Thunderball and Triple Cross by Terence Young, Is Paris Burning? by René Clément, Z by Costa Gavras, Hotel Paradiso by Peter Glenville. He was also the official stunt double of Jean Marais and Alain Delon, was stunt man on the Longest Day, and stunt double of Cary Grant in Charade, Sterling Hayden in Poppies Are Also Flowers, Eddie Constantine in Lucky Jo and many others... He also contributed to major French films like Zorro by Duccio Tessari, La Grande Vadrouille by Gérard Oury, Le Cercle Rouge by Jean-Pierre Melville, and more than 200 others. In 1992, he published an autobiography A l'ombre des stars, about his stuntman life. In 2014, he received in Paris the UNESCO prize. In 2017, the Academy Award, Oscars In Memoriam honors Yvan Chiffre for his life achievement. Source: Article "Yvan Chiffre" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography (33)
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
1984
Le fou du roi
1984Die 1000 Tode des Yvan Chiffre
1976
Borsalino and Co.
1974
Défense de savoir
1973
The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
1971
Easy Down There!
1971
Le Cercle Rouge
1970
Borsalino
1970
Time of the Wolves
1970
The Sicilian Clan
1969
Two Weeks in September
1967
Sale temps pour les mouches
1966
The Lone One Takes the Offensive
1966
