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Lino Ventura in Le Deuxième Souffle

Lino Ventura   (1919 - 1987)

Film Deaths[]

  • Don't Touch the Loot (Touchez pas au grisbi) (1954) [Angelo Fraisier]: Killed in an explosion (off-camera) with his own hand grenade after being machine-gunned in the chest by Paul Frankeur, while trying to throw his hand grenade to Jean Gabin and Paul at night.
  • Raid on Drugs (Razzia sur la chnouf) (1955) [Roger le Catalan]: Machine-gunned in the chest by a cop in shoot-out in a abandoned house.
  • Speaking of Murder (Le rouge est mis) (1957) [Pepito] Shot by Jean Gabin who he also happens to kill.  
  • A Witness in the City (Un témoin dans la villle) (1959) [Ancelin]: Machine-gunned in the chest by police while trying to point his gun at them, after being wounded by Robert Dalban towards the end of movie.
  • Classe Tous Risques (1960) [Abel Davos] Revealed in the films ending narration that he was caught and executed.
  • Weeping for a Bandit (Llanto por un bandido) (1964) [El Lutus] Clubbed in the head by Francisco Rabal.
  • Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)[Gustave Minda a.k.a "Gu"]: Shot to death by Jean-Claude Bercq after being shot by Denis Manuel. He dies saying his last word to Paul Meurisse.
  • Army of Shadows (L' Armee des ombres; The Shadow Army) (1969) [Philippe Gerbier]: Dies off-screen in 1944 machine-gunned by the German. We are told he died in the text at the end of the film, which simply states that he decided to not run this time.  
  • The Valachi Papers (1972) [Vito Genovese]: Dies off-screen of a heart attack. We are simply informed of his death via the text at the end of the film. 
  • Escape to Nowhere (Le silencieux) (1973) [Anton Haliakov / Clément Tibère] Show his dead body for false by cerebral hemorragy to foolish a Russian delagation on the beginning of the movie. Even if nobody doesn't know what exactly happen to him at the end, It seems that he could be alive somewhere after a changing of prisoner between french and Russians.
  • Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti; The Context) (1976) [Inspector Amerigo Rogas]: Shot in the head while in a museum.
  • Butterfly on the Shoulder (Un papillon sur l'épaule) (1978) [Roland Fériaudk] Sniped as he is walking out of a train station in the films final minute.
  • Les Misérables ( 1981) (Jean Valjean) : Dies in old age by an heart attack in the arm of Christiane Jean.
  • Rise Up Spy (Espion lève-toi) (1982) [Sébastien Grenier] Shot numerous times in the back.
  • One Hundred Days in Palermo (Cento giorni a Palermo) (1984) [Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa] Machine gunned while in his car as the film ends.

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