![]() ![]() During the 1960s Barray excelled in roles of knights with a big heart such as D'Artagnan, and other classic heroes such as Scaramouche and Surcouf. Gerard Barray is excellent as D'Artagnan and Mylene Demongeot is not only one of the most beautiful screen Milady de Winters rivalling that of Lana Turner but also excellent in the part as well.” Les trois mousquetaires became the sixth biggest French box office in 1961. Reviewer jrjcat at IMDb: “This is a wonderful faithful version of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers. ![]() The film and Barray’s supporting role were a success and next he played the lead in another prestigious historical adventure, Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (Bernard Borderie, 1961), a film adaption of the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. His first major film role was as the duke of Vallombreuse in the historical adventure film Le Capitaine Fracasse/Captain Fracasse (Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 1961), starring Jean Marais and based on a novel by Théophile Gautier. In 1955, he played his first small film roles as a gigolo in Chantage/Blackmail (Guy Lefranc, 1955) and as a gangster in the Film Noir Série noire/The Infiltrator (Pierre Foucaud, 1955) with Henri Vidal and Erich von Stroheim. Four years later, Gérard Barray won the Jury Prize. Barray enrolled at the Cours Simon, a drama school in Paris. She gave him a letter of recommendation for a friend, actor Noel Roquevert. Camille Ricard, an actress and teacher at the Conservatory of Toulouse, advised him to go to Paris. Barray participated in a few shows in nightclubs while pursuing his studies and obtained a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Toulouse. Around the age of 15, he discovered a passion for jazz. Barray's parents split up quickly and his mother, who came from Montauban decided to return to her hometown with her little boy. Gérard Barray was born Gérard Marcel Louis Baraillé in Toulouse, France, in 1931. During the 1960s, he starred as D’Artagnan and Scaramouche, but also in many Eurospy films. Photo: Gérard Barray in Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (Bernard Borderie, 1961).įrench comedian and film and television actor Gérard Barray (1931) was one of the swashbuckling heroes of the French cinema. Gérard Barray in Les trois mousquetaires (1961) ![]()
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