Jean-Pierre Cassel (October 27, 1932 – April 19, 2007) shot to fame as the star of a series of comedies directed by Philippe de Broca in the early 1960s. He revealed a new depth and range playing a Resistance fighter in Jean-Pierre Melville’s L’Armée des ombres (1969), a private detective in Claude Chabrol’s La Rupture (1970), and one of the frustrated diners in Luis Bunuel’s surreal classic The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).