Actor Jacques Perrin, the legendary Salvatore Di Vita from the movie ‘Cinema Paradiso’, dies

The one from little Salvatore He may be the most endearing character in movie history. It is impossible to prevent the tear from loosening in this beautiful and legendary film whose fans are in mourning, since the actor has died Jacques Perrinwho performed in cinema Paradiso to the adult Salvatore who encouraged the whole world to love cinema.

Perrin has died this Thursday at the age of 80 in Paris (France), according to the Italian network RAI. In addition to his leading role in cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988), the actor became one of the great performers of European cinema by participating in other great international successes such as The choir boys, directed by Christophe Barratier. Perrin was born in Paris in 1941 and began his professional career on the big screen in 1960 with the film The girl with the suitcase, directed by Valerio Zurlini. Under the orders of the Italian he was also in the film family chroniclein which he starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni.

The actor also stood out for his facet as a film producerwhen he founded his own production company, Reggane Films, in 1968, which was behind films like Zby the Franco-Greek film director Konstantinos Gavras, or Le Crabe-Tambour, directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer and that won the oscar for the best foreign language film in 1969.