French actor and comedian Jean-Pierre Cassel (born Jean-Pierre Crochon), a tall man with an expressive, mobile face, achieved fame in the early 1960s as the comic protagonist in a series of films directed by Philippe de Broca which included The Love Game, The Joker and The Five Day Lover. Cassel also appeared in many international productions, among them Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Three Musketeers (1973), and Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
