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Biography
Laurent Marie Guespin-Malet (born 3 September 1955 in Bayonne) is a French actor, and the twin brother of actor Pierre Malet.
Life
Malet's stage debut came in La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu as Troilus alongside Claude Jade in 1975. In 1978 he was made famous by his Andrew alongside Donald Sutherland and Stéphane Audran in Les Liens de sang by Claude Chabrol. That same year, Gilles Béhat gave him the lead role in Haro. En 1979, he starred alongside Yves Montand in Les Routes du sud by Joseph Losey and played Lino Ventura's son in L'Homme en colère. He also played Roger Bataille in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle (after Jean Genet), and starred alongside Sandrine Bonnaire in 1984's Tir à vue, directed by Marc Angelo. In 1995 he played Arthur Rimbaud in Marc Rivière's L'Homme aux semelles de vent.
Highly attached to his brother and mother, he feels asked by the latter (in the terminal stages of a brain tumour) to put an end to her sufferings. He writes of this in his 2006 book En attendant la suite, in which he calls on the candidates in the presidential election to bring the state to legislate on euthanasia.
Filmography
- Ce jour-là (2003), by Raoul Ruiz
- Le Plus beau pays du monde (1999), by Marcel Bluwal
- Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent (1995), by Marc Rivière
- Les Possédés (1988), by Andrzej Wajda
- Charlie Dingo (1987), by Gilles Béhat
- La Puritaine (1986), by Jacques Doillon
- Parking (1985), by Jacques Demy
- Tir à vue (1984), by Marc Angelo
- Viva la vie (1984), by Claude Lelouch
- A mort l'arbitre ! (1983), by Jean-Pierre Mocky
- Querelle (1982), by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Invitation au voyage (1982), by Peter Del Monte
- Le Cœur à l'envers (1980), by Franck Apprédéris
- La Légion saute sur Kolwezi (1980), by Raoul Coutard
- Bobo Jacco (1979), by Walter Bal
- Haro (1978), by Gilles Béhat
- Les Liens de sang (1978), by Claude Chabrol
- Les Routes du Sud (1978), by Joseph Losey
- Comme un boomerang (1976), by José Giovanni
TV
- 2005 : Galilée ou l'amour de Dieu by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
- 2004 : Les amants du bagne by Thierry Binisti
- 2001 : Des croix sur la mer by Luc Béraud
- 2001 : Le Prix de la vérité by Joël Santoni
- 1997 : Marion du Faouët by Michel Favart
- 1995 : L'homme aux semelles de vent by Marc Rivière
- 1994 : Le feu follet by Gérard Vergez
- 1993 : Monsieur Ripois by Luc Béraud
- 1991 : The First Circle by Sheldon Larry
- 1986 : Sword of Gideon by Michael Anderson
- 1985 : La part de l'autre by Jeanne Labrune
- 1984 : Cuore by Luigi Comencini
- 1982 : Pleine lune by Jean-Pierre Richard
- 1981: Confusion of Feelings
- 1981 : Les avocats du diable d'André Cayatte
- 1977 : La foire by Roland Vincent
- 1976 : Le siècle des lumières by Claude Brulé
Réalisateur/Scénariste
- 1993 : Au nom d'un chien (short)