The famous French actor Gerard Barray He has died at the age of 92 in the Malaga town of Marbella, where he lived since the late 1970s with his wife, the Sevillian actress and dancer Teresa Lorca, their son, Julian Barray, reported this Friday.
Barray’s death occurred this Thursday in the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbellaand the last farewell will be given this Sunday at twelve noon in the San Bernabé cemetery in this town in Malaga.
Gérard Barray and Teresa Lorca met during the filming of a film in what was then Czechoslovakia and moved there from 1979 a Marbellawhere they acquired premises in the Puente Romano hotel, explained Julian Barray.
In those places, his father opened a piano bar where he played this instrument, since before his acting career he was a pianist in Paris, where he became friends with the trumpeter Louis Armstrong and received other great jazz musicians of the time, his son added.
High society of the Costa del Sol
That piano-bar in Marbella run by Barray was frequented by regular figures from the high society of the Costa del Sol in those years and by great international stars such as Alain Delon o Sean Conneryamong others.
He also visited the establishment Lola Floresa friend especially of her mother, who had worked assiduously in the tablaos of the area with Rocío Jurado, according to Julian Barray.
Gérard Barray initially achieved fame in his country thanks to his performance in the play ‘The Two-Headed Eagle’ by Jean Cocteau, and later participated as a swordsman in several action films of the swashbuckling genre.
Another of the most notable roles of his career was that of Inspector San Antonio, a crime genre title from 1966. He also participated in Alejandro Amenábar’s film ‘Abre los ojos’ (1997).
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2024-02-16 19:02:38
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