Jacques Sernas

Actor: Jacques Sernas

Born: Jul 30, 1925 in Kaunas, Lithuania
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'70s
Major Genres: Drama, Adventure
Career Highlights: Il Mulino Del Po, Helen of Troy, La Barriera della legge
First Major Screen Credit: Gioventu Perduta (1948)

Biography

As a child, Lithuanian-born Jacques Sernas was brought to Paris, where he received his formal education. Active in the French Resistance during the war, Sernas was captured by the Nazis, then endured a harrowing year as an inmate at Buchenwald. After the war, Sernas pursued a career as a journalist (after dropping plans to enter medicine), but was sidetracked into film acting. He made his first film, Miroir, in 1946, and quickly rose to leading-man status. Efforts in the mid-'50s to convert him into an assembly line Hollywood movie star resulted in such lukewarm efforts as Helen of Troy (1955) and Jump into Hell (1956). He returned to Europe, where his mastery of four languages enabled him to thrive as a much in-demand character actor. His career peaked with his performance as a has-been film idol in La Dolce Vita (1961). Jacques Sernas has spent the last three decades living and working in Rome. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Jacques Sernas

Born	Jacques Sernas 30 July 1925 (1925-07-30) (age 84) Kaunas, Lithuania
Other name(s)	Jack Sernas

Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian: Jurgis Šernas sometimes billed as Jack Sernas, born 30 July 1925, in Kaunas, Lithuania is a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career, first as a leading man and later as a character actor, perhaps best-known for his role as Paris in Helen of Troy.

Sernas was the son of Jokūbas Šernas, a signatory of the Act of Independence of Lithuania, who died when Jacques was a year old. His mother took him to Paris where he received his formal education. He joined the French Resistance and was captured and interned at Buchenwald.

His most recent appearances have been as a Cardinal in a TV film biopic of Pope John XXIII, Papa Giovanni (2002) and in Regina dei fiori (2005).

References

[1]. Jacques Sernas. New York Times.

External links

Jacques Sernas at the Internet Movie Database

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NAME	Sernas, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sernas, Jacques
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1925-7-30
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaunas, Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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