Biographies: Frank Villard - Actor

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A French actor, born in Saint-Jean, d'Angle, Charente, Maritimes, France, as Francois Drouineau. His credits include Gigi (1949), Apocalypse Now (1979), and L'ennemi sans visage (1946). Frank Villard initially studied to become a painter and interior designer, but he took the path of art, and he was a representative of the mustachioed French character. He did not present any of his works without his mustache. During the fifties and sixties, he appeared in many joint films with Britain, Italy, and Spain. He made his first French film in the early forties, which was The Last One of the Six (1941). Villard appeared in two Hollywood films, the first was Gigot (1962), which was filmed in France, and the second was Apocalypse Now (1979), which is a war film filmed in the Philippines. In 1979, he participated on French television for the first time in 4 series, then stopped to die the following year in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 19, 1980.

• 8 January 2024
• Toqa Hesham