Jacqueline Sassard
Acting
Biography
Jacqueline Sassard (March 13, 1940 – July 17, 2021) was a French actress best known for appearing in classic Italian films, including Guendalina (1957) and Violent Summer (1959). Her most iconic role was an Austrian princess in the British drama Accident (1967). Her career was short-lived and lasted barely a decade when she left the film industry in 1969 on her marriage to Gianni Lancia.
Born: March 13, 1940
Place of Birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Procence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Known For
Violent Summer
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?
Ferdinand I King of Naples
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
Guendalina
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of her home life, Guendalina creates a dream world of her own, casting Oberdan as her personal Prince Charming. Despite parental objections, girl and boy fall in love. Interestingly enough, the relationship between Guendalina and Oberdan remains pure and chaste throughout their film, which is more than can be said for their parents. their respective parents behave with marked laciviousness.
Accident
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
The Magistrate
Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her henpecked husband Luigi, and her daughter Carla. Circumstances ultimately lead to the courtroom and an aloof judge in the persona of Andrea Morandi.
I soliti rapinatori a Milano
Les Biches
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
My Son, the Hero
Krios, the youngest of the Titans, may be the least strong of the seven brothers whose strength comes from their mother, earth-goddess Gaia, but is by far the smartest, and thus their natural leader. He arrives on Crete, the kingdom of the mighty king Minos, impresses him as gladiator, gains his trust, falls in love with a mortal girl and discovers both Minos's human sacrifice-cult and a foreign conspiracy to seize power with a hidden army.
Women Are Weak
A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.
Everyone's in Love
Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.
Filmography
as Why
as Anna
as Elena
as Princess Hada
as Eugenia
as Antiope
as Anna Maria
as Cordelia
as Rosanna
as Carla Bonelli
as Allegra Barberio
as Helene
as Francesca
as Guendalina Redaelli