Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 29, 1932
Died
Sep 26, 2019
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
64 titles
Jacques Chirac
Biography
Jacques Chirac, born November 29, 1932 in Paris and died September 26, 2019 in the same city, was a senior French civil servant and statesman. He was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1976, then again from 1986 to 1988, and President of the Republic from 1995 to 2007. After studying at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), he joined the office of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou in 1962 as a special adviser. He was elected Member of Parliament for Corrèze within the Gaullist majority and appointed Secretary of State four times and Minister four times, starting in 1967. Chirac was subsequently chosen as Prime Minister by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1974. Two years later, having had poor relations with Giscard, he resigned from Prime Minister's office and launched the Rally for the Republic (RPR), a political party claiming to be Gaullist. While continuing his career as an elected official in Corrèze, he became Mayor of Paris in 1977 and ran in the 1981 presidential election. After the right-wing victory in the 1986 legislative elections, he was appointed by Socialist President François Mitterrand to serve as Prime Minister once again. He was thus the first head of government under a cohabitation regime under the Fifth Republic and, at the same time, the only politician to have served as Prime Minister twice under the same regime. He was defeated in the second round of the 1988 presidential election by the incumbent president, then became leader of the opposition, despite subsequently facing the growing popularity of Édouard Balladur. In 1995, he was elected Head of State with 52.6% of the vote in the second round, defeating Socialist Lionel Jospin. He initially governed with the right-wing majority he acquired in 1993. The beginning of his first term was marked by a pension and social security reform that was massively contested and partially abandoned, and by the recognition of the French state's responsibility for the persecution and deportation of Jews during the Occupation. Following the dissolution of the National Assembly in 1997, he lost his majority in Parliament and was forced into cohabitation with Lionel Jospin, during which a referendum was held establishing the five-year presidential term: Jacques Chirac was thus the last president of the Fifth Republic to have served a seven-year term. In the 2002 presidential election, he was re-elected for a five-year term with 82.2% of the vote in the second round, benefiting from a "republican front" against the National Front candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen. During his second term, after launching the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), he led the international opposition to the Iraq War launched by US President George W. Bush in 2003 and campaigned for a "yes" vote in the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution, which resulted in a "no" victory. At the end of his presidency in 2007, faced with low popularity and a succession of electoral defeats, and weakened by a stroke in 2005, he decided not to seek a third term. On June 9, 2008, the "Chirac Foundation" for sustainable development and intercultural dialogue was launched. Jacques Chirac died in Paris on September 26, 2019.
Known For
Filmography
America Who Are You? A History of the American Mindset
Self (archive footage)
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
Himself (Archival Footage)
The Relentless Patriot
Self
Au cœur du Papotin
Self
Trois mille milliards : les secrets d'un État en faillite
Jacques Chirac
The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac
Self (archive footage)
Unveiling Arafat
Self (archive footage)
The Rise of Wagner
Self (archive footage)
La Malédiction de la Grande Arche
Self (archive) - Prime Minister (1986-1988)
Mohammed VI - The Limits of Power
Self (archive footage)
In France with Madonna
Self (archive footage)
Cent jours
Self
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?
Self (archive footage)
Mitterrand et la télé
Self (archive footage)
Lebanon in Crisis
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Nicotine - A Drug with a Future
Self (archive footage)
Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi
Self (archive footage)
30 Years of Democracy
Self (archive footage)
1974, l'alternance Giscard
Self (archive footage)
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français
Self (archive footage)
Mon Chirac
Self (archive footage)
The Perfect Day
Self
Balladur-Chirac, mensonges et trahisons
Self (archive footage)
Mr & Mme Adelman
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Chirac, l'homme qui ne voulait pas être président
Jacques Chirac
King of Morocco, the secret reign
Self (archive footage)
Sanctuary
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Le Clan Chirac
Self
Pierre Mazeaud, la vie en face(s)
Self (archive footage)
Bernadette Chirac - Un jour, un destin
Self (archive footage)
The New Watchdogs
Self
Sarah's Key
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Modern Life
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
10 mai Africaphonie
Self
The Case of the Grinning Cat
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chirac
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Chirac, du jeune loup au vieux lion
Jacques Chirac
Being Jacques Chirac
Self (archive footage)
Breaking Point: Canada/Quebec - The 1995 Referendum
Himself
French Kiss
Self
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
Athens 2004: Olympic Opening Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad)
Self - President of the French Republic
One of Many
Self
Fogh bag facaden
Self
Comme un coup de tonnerre
Self (archive footage)
1974, une partie de campagne
Self
L'Invité
Self
Taxi 2
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)