Jacques Bergerac

Who was Jacques Bergerac?

Jacques Bergerac was a French actor with a brief Hollywood film career.

Bergerac met and married Ginger Rogers, with whom he appeared in Twist of Fate. He then went on to appear as Armand Duval in a television production of Camille for Kraft Television Theatre, opposite Signe Hasso. He played the Comte de Provence in Jean Delannoy's film Marie Antoinette Queen of France with Michèle Morgan. In Strange Intruder, he shared the screen with Edmund Purdom and Ida Lupino, and in Les Girls, he played the second male lead. He also appeared in Gigi, Thunder in the Sun, the cult horror film The Hypnotic Eye, and A Global Affair.

In 1957, he received the Golden Globe Award for Foreign Newcomer.

He divorced Rogers in 1957 and, in 1959, married Dorothy Malone, with whom he had two children. The marriage ended in divorce in 1964. That year he appeared on Perry Mason as murder victim Armand Rovel in "The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman." He appeared in a few more films and on television, including Batman, 77 Sunset Strip, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Lucy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show and hosted "Paris ala Mode".