Jean-Pierre Rassam (14 October 1941 – 28 January 1985) was a French film producer of the 1970s. He was found dead, age 43, in his suite at the Plaza Athénée,[1][2] the cause of death being barbiturate overdose, in 1985.[1]
Career
editWith his brother-in-law, Claude Berri, they played a role in the production of Miloš Forman's The Firemen's Ball (1967) and bought international rights.[3]
Rassam worked as an assistant to Jean-Luc Godard and then went on to produce Godard's 1972 film Tout va bien which was also co-directed by Jean-Pierre Gorin.[3]
As well as his film production credits, he also made contributions to The Mother and the Whore (1973) and Tess (1979).[1][3]
He was critical of Gaumont Film Company and unsuccessfully tried to buy them in 1974.[3]
He stopped his involvement in film for several years before returning to help on Good King Dagobert (1984).[3]
Personal life
editBorn in Beirut, to Thomas Joseph Rassam, a diplomat from a bourgeois family of Syrian Christian origin.[4][5][6]
He was in a relationship with actress Carole Bouquet, with whom he has one son, film producer Dimitri Rassam. Bouquet has called him the love of her life.[1]
His brother Paul was an executive for French distributor AMLF who distributed films for Berri in the early 1970s.[3]
Partial filmography
edit- Don't Touch The White Woman! (1974)
- Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
- Chinese in Paris (1974)
- Blood for Dracula (1973)
- Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
- La Grande Bouffe (1973)[1]
- Tout va bien (1972)
- We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Chalmers, Robert. "Bond girl Carole Bouquet on drugs, demons and her doomed affair". The Independent (UK). Archived from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
- ^ Rubin, Mathias (21 November 2007). Rassam le magnifique. FLAMMARION. ISBN 978-2080687951.
- ^ a b c d e f "Obituaries". Variety. 6 February 1985. p. 134.
- ^ "Jean-Pierre Rassam, le nabab du Plaza". www.telerama.fr (in French). 13 July 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Azoury, Philippe. "Rassam, in memoriam". Libération (in French). Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Universalis, Encyclopædia. "JEAN-PIERRE RASSAM (1942-1985)". Encyclopædia Universalis (in French). Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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