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Romain Gary

Romain Gary

Writer

Romain Gary (21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg. Gary was born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: רומן קצב‎ Roman Katsev, Russian: Рома́н Ле́йбович Ка́цев, Roman Leibovich Katsev) in Vilnius (at that time in the Russian Empire). In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his parents' origins, ancestry, occupation and his own childhood. His mother, Mina Owczyńska (1879—1941), was a Jewish actress from Švenčionys (Svintsyán) and his father was a businessman named Arieh-Leib Kacew (1883—1942) from Trakai (Trok), also a Lithuanian Jew. The couple broke in 1925 and Arieh-Leib remarried. Gary later claimed that his actual father was the celebrated actor and film star Ivan Mosjoukine, with whom his actress mother had worked and to whom he bore a striking resemblance. Mosjoukine appears in his memoir Promise at Dawn. Deported to central Russia in 1915, they stayed in Moscow until 1920. They later returned to Vilnius, then moved on to Warsaw. When Gary was fourteen, he and his mother emigrated illegally to Nice, France. Converted to Catholicism by his mother, Gary studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then in Paris. He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon-de-Provence and in Avord Air Base, near Bourges. ... Source: Article "Romain Gary" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Born: May 21, 1914 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Died: December 2, 1980 (Age 66)

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Romain Gary  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.9
ActorSelf (archive footage)2015
Movie
5.7
Actor1936
Movie
ActorHimself (archive)2022
TV Show
6.9
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1972-1975
TV Show
6.8
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1975-1990
Movie
4.6
DirectingDirector, Writer, Dialogue, Short Story, Screenplay1968
Movie
6.6
WritingNovel1994
Movie
4.5
DirectingDirector, Writer1971
Movie
5.3
WritingNovel1965
Movie
4.8
WritingNovel1994
Movie
7
WritingNovel1977
Movie
6.1
WritingNovel1970
Movie
7.3
WritingNovel2017
Movie
7.9
WritingWriter, Script Supervisor1962
Movie
4.2
WritingNovel1959
Movie
6.1
WritingNovel, Screenplay1958
Movie
4.5
WritingNovel1971
Movie
7.1
WritingStory1982
Movie
6.2
WritingNovel1979
Movie
4.3
WritingNovel1981
Movie
7
WritingNovel2020
Movie
5.8
WritingNovel2022
Movie
5.9
WritingNovel2010
Movie
7.2
WritingNovel2007
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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