Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 13, 1938
Died
Aug 30, 1979
Place of Birth
Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
Credits
51 titles
Jean Seberg
Biography
Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress who lived half her life in France. She appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples. She was also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death where he publicly blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.
Known For
Filmography
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Mike Wallace Is Here
Self (archive footage)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Self (archive footage)
Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste
archive footage
Jean Seberg: American Actress
Self (archive footage)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
The Blue of the Origins
The Wild Duck
Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
The Big Delirium
Emily
White Horses of Summer
Lea Kingsburg
Les Hautes solitudes
Ballad for Billy the Kid
The Star
Mousey
Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
The Corruption of Chris Miller
Ruth Miller
The Assassination
Edith Lemoine
Camorra
Luisa
This Kind of Love
Giovanna
Kill!
Emily Hamilton
Macho Callahan
Alexandra Mountford
Dead of Summer
Joyce Grasse
Airport
Tanya Livingston
Paint Your Wagon
Elizabeth Woodling
Pendulum
Adele Matthews
No Name City
Self
Birds in Peru
Adriana
The Road to Corinth
Shanny
The Looters
Colleen O'Hara
A Fine Madness
Lydia West
Line of Demarcation
Mary de Damville
Moment to Moment
Kay Stanton
Diamonds Are Brittle
Bettina Ralton
Lilith
Lilith Arthur
Backfire
Olga Celan
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Le Grand Escroc
Patricia
Die Drehscheibe
Self
In the French Style
Christina James
Eruption
Annette
Five Day Lover
Claire
Playtime
Kate Hoover
Time Out for Love
Ann
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Barbara Holloway
Breathless
Patricia Franchini
The Mouse That Roared
Helen Kokintz
Bonjour Tristesse
Cecile
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
Saint Joan
St. Joan of Arc
Cinépanorama
Self