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Jean Seberg (Nov 13 1938 - September 8 1979). Born Marshalltown Iowa. Discovered by Otto Preminger who directed her in her first two films. Her first film was Saint Joan. Her most famous role was as Patricia in the new wave classic Breathless or A Bout de Souffle by Jean Luc-Godard in 1960. Seberg's favourite film of her career was the film 'Lilith' by Robert Rossen, where she plays a schizophrenic patient. Committed suicide by overdose in Paris 1979.

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Jean Seberg - what members say

Breathless review by Hurdlemagurdle from Scotland

The Coolest Film Ever Made........ 2 June 2004
...coolest and best films ever made. If you watch this and don't want to be either Jean Seberg or Jean-Paul Belmondo then you're dead.... Read customer review

Bonjour Tristesse review by A customer from Whitley Bay

Soapy Stuff from Seberg 25 August 2005
... this film, but it's well worth seeing , if only for the central performance of Jean Seberg. She plays a spoilt brat teenager who is holidaying on the French Riviera with ... Read customer review

Lilith review by A customer from London, UK

Flawed but interesting 29 August 2006
... but its melodramatic style is lifted by sensitive performances from the tragic Jean Seberg and a less cocky than usual Warren Beatty. Director Robert Rossen, who also wro... Read customer review

Jean Seberg - filmography

The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2... on DVD (2003)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniele Gegauff
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Francois (Benoit Magimel), the handsome young son, returns home from a 3-year stay in Chicago, and quickly rekindles a fiery romance with his cousin, Michele (Melanie Doutey). Meanwhile, his mother Anne (Natalie Baye) is running for public office, and has stirred up more than a bit of controversy. ..read more »

69% from 110 members

The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2... on DVD (1985)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniele Gegauff
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Based on a novel by Dominique Roulet, introduces the character of Inspecteur Lavardin, a loner detective whose affable exterior hides a man willing to go to any lengths to find the truth, though his tactics are sometimes questionable. A small French town experiences a spate of murders, and Lavardin ..read more »

68% from 117 members

Passion (1982)
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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A film director becomes involved with a married hotel owner.

59% from 380 members
Not currently released

The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2... on DVD (1975)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniele Gegauff
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Phillipe and Esther live an apparently idyllic life with their daughter, Elise. In an attempt to preserve this bliss, Phillipe decides that he and Esther should each have affairs, being sure to tell each other openly about them. The plan backfires with tragic results as Phillipe becomes engulfed in ..read more »

63% from 126 members

The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2... on DVD (1975)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniele Gegauff
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Beautiful Julie Wormser (Schneider) is unhappily married to rich, drunk slob Louis (Steiger), so plans to kill him with the help of her panicky young lover Jeff Marle (Giusti). However, when the deed appears to be done, Jeff scarpers, leaving Julie to face the fallout.

69% from 178 members

Paint Your Wagon on DVD (1971)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston
Director: Joshua Logan
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Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin break out of their traditional screen personas in this offbeat western musical comedy with a memorable Lerner and Loewe score. Pardner (Eastwood) and Ben Rumson (Marvin) are two buddies who share everything, including their wife Elizabeth (Jean Seberg), whom they ..read more »

68% from 2,362 members

The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2... on DVD (1970)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniele Gegauff
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Includes the Claude Chabrol films The Road To Corinth (1967), The Breach (1970), Pleasure Party (1975), Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975), Cop au Vin (1985) and The Flower of Evil (2003).

68% from 105 members

The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2... on DVD (1967)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniele Gegauff
Director: Claude Chabrol
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The wife of an undercover NATO officer comes under suspicion when he is murdered. Determined to clear her name, Shanny (Jean Seberg), sets out to uncover the truth and clear her name.

61% from 83 members

Made in USA (1966)
Starring: Anna Karina, jean-Pierre Leaud, Laszlo Szabo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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A woman is investigating the death of her lover Richard, at an undisclosed point in the future. She encounters a series of shady gangsters, and leaves behind a lot of corpses.

58% from 566 members
Not currently released

Alphaville (1965)
Starring: Laszlo Szabo, Eddie Constantine, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Suddenly the word is Alphaville... and a secret agent is in a breathless race against the Masters of the Future.

64% from 1,635 member
Not currently released

Lilith on DVD (1964)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Peter Fonda, Gene Hackman
Director: Robert Rossen
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Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is an idealistic young war veteran who has just begun working as a therapist in a mental institution in his Maryland hometown. His first patient is a sex-obsessed schizophrenic named Lilith (Jean Seberg), who quickly becomes smitten with him. At first, Vincent ..read more »

59% from 115 members

Breathless (1960)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism ..read more »

67% from 8,418 members
Not currently released

Breathless - Blu-ray (1959)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism ..read more »

70% from 297 members

The Mouse That Roared on DVD (1959)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff
Director: Jack Arnold
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The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled wine. Crafty prime minister Count Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) comes up with a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United ..read more »

65% from 1,069 member

Bonjour Tristesse on DVD (1958)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg
Director: Otto Preminger
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Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg. Seberg tolerates most of her father's mistresses, but doesn't know what to make of the prudish ..read more »

60% from 635 members

Saint Joan (1957)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, John Gieldgud
Director: Otto Preminger
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Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.

52% from 12 members
Currently unavailable

The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 (6 discs) on DVD
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniele Gegauff
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Includes the Claude Chabrol films The Road To Corinth (1967), The Breach (1970), Pleasure Party (1975), Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975), Cop au Vin (1985) and The Flower of Evil (2003).

61% from 91 members

Airport: Terminal Pack (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg
Director: George Seaton, Jack Smight, Jerry Jameson
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Four features: 'Airport' based on a best seller by Arthur Hailey, tells of the manager of a glamorous international airport who must juggle personal crisis with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard torn facility open to rescue a bomb damaged jetliner. Also includes '..read more »

64% from 197 members

Jean-Luc Godard Collection Vol.1 (4 discs)
Starring: Laszlo Szabo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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One of the founders of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard has been responsible for creating some of the most innovative and daring films during the past four decades. This set features four of his best known films - ALPHAVILLE, PASSION, A BOUT DE SOUFFLE and MADE IN THE USA.

67% from 1,803 member
Not currently released

Jean Seberg facts

5 most recent films

The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 - The Flower Of Evil - 3.5 stars
The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 - Cop Au Vin - 3.5 stars
Passion - 3.0 stars
The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 - Pleasure Party - 3.0 stars
The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 - Innocents With Dirty Hands - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Breathless - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 - Innocents With Dirty Hands - 3.5 stars
The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 - The Flower Of Evil - 3.5 stars
The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 - Cop Au Vin - 3.5 stars
Paint Your Wagon - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Saint Joan - 2.5 stars
Made in USA - 3.0 stars
Lilith - 3.0 stars
Passion - 3.0 stars
Bonjour Tristesse - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Maurice Ronet - 9 times - show films
Stephane Audran - 8 times - show films
Jean-Pierre Cassel - 8 times - show films
Romy Schneider - 8 times - show films
Paul Gegauff - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Claude Chabrol - 9 times - show films
Jean-Luc Godard - 7 times - show films
Otto Preminger - 2 times - show films
George Seaton - 1 times - show films
Davi - 1 times - show films