Eddy Mitchell

Claude Monk said Eddy Mitchell, born July 3, 1942 in Paris (Belleville area), is a singer,songwriter and actor French. The lead singer of the first rock band French, The black Socks, he knows the success since 1961. In 1962, he began a solo career, during which he alternated between rock and roll, ballads, country, moving to the end of the 1970s to a more style crooner, without, however, turning back to rock music and country he loves. Fort fifty-year career, Eddy Mitchell gives, on the stage of the Olympia, September 5, 2011, the last performance of his tour My last workout, in a nod to one of sestubes but also to the television programme that he presented during seventeen years, making his farewell to the stage. The acting career of Eddy Mitchell, there are two periods, before and after 1980. Until I will crack it only makes brief appearances, often in his own role, or embodying a character that looks like the singer he is in life. It finds its place in French cinema as an actor of composition from the telefilm Gaston Lapouge and especially Coup de torchon, in which he played Nono, a simple-minded. An interpretation which earned him to be nominated in the category best actor in a supporting role, at the 7th ceremony of Caesar. About the role, he evokes in a television interview a discussion with Bertrand Tavernier, director of the film : "I warn you, it will be necessary that you incarnes a fool. - Well this is perfect, it will pretend to say that it is the role of composition ! ". He plays regularly until 2003, sometimes in several films per year. After a slowdown of pace in the mid-2000s, he goes to new roles, including that of Frederick Selman in Bastard, on t'aime Claude Lelouch alongside Johnny Hallyday, Sandrine Bonnaire, Irène Jacob, Valérie Kaprisky, or even Rufus.